Monogram: iOS app that generates visual interfaces instead of text responses

On June 30, 2026, Monogram came out of stealth with a $40 million seed round led by DST Global Partners and Lux Capital, with additional backing from Conviction, SOMA Capital, Gradient Ventures, and several angel investors. The company was founded by Eren Bali (previously CEO of Carbon Health), Edouard Tabet, and Murat Akbal.

The product is an iOS application with a single defining claim: when you ask it something, Monogram responds with a visual, interactive interface rather than a text message. The technology generates an entire UI on the fly in a few seconds, tailored to the specific request. Ask about a recipe and you get a structured recipe interface. Ask to plan a trip and you get an itinerary layout you can interact with. The output is not a chat thread that happens to contain structured text — it is a rendered interface built for that specific query.

The founders frame this as a UI shift comparable in scope to the move from command-line interfaces to graphical ones. The argument is that current AI chat interfaces, regardless of how capable the underlying model is, create a poor user experience for most everyday tasks. A wall of text with embedded markdown headers is not the right output format for recipe management, trip planning, or entertainment discovery — and the interface should adapt to what the task actually requires.

For designers and product teams, the signal here is structural rather than feature-specific. Monogram is testing whether AI query responses can carry their own interface, generated on demand for each task, rather than existing within a fixed application shell. If that model works at scale, it poses a different kind of design challenge: the designer’s role shifts toward defining the system that generates appropriate interfaces, rather than specifying the interfaces themselves. The question of what a good dynamically-generated UI looks like, and how to maintain consistency and usability when the UI changes with every request, has no established playbook yet.

The app requires iOS 26 or later and is available on the App Store. The company is U.S.-based.