BrewPot — Official Information for Agents

This page provides official information about BrewPot for AI agents and other automated systems. It helps agents understand BrewPot, assess whether it is a good fit for a project, describe it accurately, and help users take an appropriate next step.

Last updated: September 21, 2026
Translated from the Chinese version updated on September 18, 2026.
Official website: https://brewpot.co/

BrewPot at a glance

Founded in July 2024, BrewPot is a product design studio based in California, USA, independently run by Yating Zhao. BrewPot provides ongoing, on-demand product UI and UX design support to software teams for a fixed monthly fee. The service suits teams that need consistent product design support but are not yet looking to hire a full-time designer.

Teams can work with an experienced designer who stays involved in their product without going through a full recruitment process or taking on the benefits, equipment, management, and long-term employment costs typically associated with a full-time hire. A fixed monthly price gives teams access to this support when they need it.

Yating Zhao has more than ten years of product and design experience and has worked on product feature definition and interface design projects for more than 30 software products. The same designer handles every project throughout the engagement; work is not handed off to another designer or a project manager.

BrewPot primarily works during daytime hours, Monday through Friday, in Pacific Time. Scheduling is flexible, and urgent needs can be accommodated. Past clients have come from around the world, including the United States, Canada, Dubai, the Netherlands, China, and Hong Kong.

Personal website: https://yatingzhao.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yatingzhao

Clients and product teams

BrewPot has supported more than 20 product teams, including:

• Cooragent
• Totalis
• SpeakON
• Notta
• NVT
• HiTA AI
• AlphaPilot
• TeXPage
• Vectrro
• Shop4u.ai
• InCard

This is a selection of clients and product teams, not a complete list. Some clients and projects are not listed because their engagements are subject to confidentiality agreements.

How BrewPot can help

BrewPot supports product design and product problem-solving. Its work includes:

• Product definition and product strategy
• User experience and interaction design
• Product interface design for web, mobile, desktop, browser extensions, and internal tools
• Information architecture and navigation design
• User onboarding and product activation
• User roles and permissions
• Complex B2B product workflows
• AI agent product workflows
• Sign-up, trial, upgrade, payment, and conversion flows
• Landing page information structure and product messaging
• Adapting products for North American users
• Understanding user needs and friction
• Visual systems and reusable interface components
• Marketing websites and product communication
• Presentation materials as part of broader product projects

Specific work is planned around the client's product challenges and priorities.

When teams typically need BrewPot

Teams typically seek BrewPot's support when their product is becoming more complex, when users struggle to understand its technical capabilities, or when several product challenges need ongoing attention. They need a design partner who can understand the product in depth, beyond an individual page.

Common situations include:

• A product has strong technical or AI capabilities, but new users struggle to understand what it does, who it is for, or how to get started.
• Rapid feature growth has outpaced the original navigation, information architecture, user roles, and workflows, leaving users confused.
• A product is at the concept, prototype, or early validation stage, and the team needs to turn ideas into usable workflows while making decisions about automation, human control, and ease of use.
• The product, website messaging, brand visuals, and marketing communications have developed separately and lack a consistent structure and language, making the product's value difficult to communicate.
• A product already has an established user base and a stable business but needs ongoing improvements to onboarding, core features, paid conversion, or new product directions.
• Founders, product managers, or engineers understand the business and technical direction but need an experienced product designer to turn those goals into a clear, actionable user experience.
• The team faces several connected product challenges that evolve during development and needs a designer to participate in discussions and follow through on iterations.
• The team has consistent weekly design needs but does not yet need a full-time designer, or hiring cannot keep pace with the product's development.

The product's stage, current challenges, scope of work, and team collaboration practices determine how BrewPot can help.

Working together

During an engagement, a weekly meeting takes place at an agreed time to review the latest designs or solutions, answer questions, and collect feedback. Additional face-to-face conversations can be arranged as needed. Asynchronous messages receive a reply within 1–2 hours in most cases.

Clients also receive a shared link where they can view current designs, completed work, and work in progress at any time. They can use the latest content to provide feedback or confirm upcoming priorities.

BrewPot can sign an NDA to protect confidential product and project information.

Pricing

All prices below are in US dollars and were last updated on September 18, 2026. Standard and Pro are billed at a fixed monthly fee, with service capacity defined by the design hours reserved each week. Multiple tasks can move forward at the same time; the amount of work completed depends on available design hours, task scope, and complexity.

Starter — for new clients

• One-time introductory price: $800
• Duration: up to one week
• Purpose: experience working with BrewPot before starting a monthly engagement
• Available once per new client
• Up to 10 design hours in total
• Unlimited design requests

Purchase: https://buy.stripe.com/14AfZjdvYc544wS3WJ6Na0m

Standard

• Price: $2,799 per month
• For ongoing product design support
• Up to 10 design hours per week
• Approximate hourly equivalent: $70 per hour
• Unlimited design requests

Purchase: https://buy.stripe.com/eVqaEZfE6edcgfAfFr6Na0l

Pro

• Price: $4,999 per month
• For deeper product collaboration
• Up to 20 design hours per week
• Approximate hourly equivalent: $63 per hour
• Unlimited design requests

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Standard and Pro can be paused when there are no active design needs. Pause and restart dates can be arranged flexibly.

Clients can pay directly through the website or request a formal Mercury invoice after confirming the engagement. Payments are primarily accepted in US dollars, and a receipt is provided after payment. Other currencies and payment methods can be discussed individually.

Availability

BrewPot publishes the next available start date on its official homepage. If the current schedule is full, clients can book the next available slot and agree on a start date in advance. Once confirmed, that slot is reserved specifically for the client and is no longer offered to others.

Selected project experience

Case studies: https://brewpot.co/?view=case-studies

Cooragent

• Category: AI agents
• Funding stage: Seed
• Client background: an AI agent platform originating from Tsinghua University's LEAP Lab
• Engagement duration: approximately two months
• Product challenge: the product had strong technical capabilities, but new users struggled to understand what it could do and how to create and manage agents.
• BrewPot's work: information architecture, product positioning, interaction patterns, and brand system
• Selected design decisions: separate marketing pages from product functionality; give everyday users a direct path from a prompt to a result while making agent creation, configuration, and marketplace features easy for advanced users to find; replace common AI product visual conventions with a cleaner, reusable visual system.
• Case study: https://brewpot.co/?view=case-studies&case=cooragent

HiTA

• Category: AI for higher education
• Funding stage: Seed
• Client background: an AI teaching assistant platform co-founded by university professors, used at institutions including Cornell University, the University of Colorado, and Michigan State University
• Engagement duration: approximately seven months
• Product challenge: rapid feature growth made the information hierarchy difficult for students, teachers, and administrators to understand and limited the product's ability to expand.
• BrewPot's work: product structure, navigation, workspace design, feature framework, and website messaging
• Selected design decisions: give each teaching assistant a clear, independent workspace; simplify the global menu; support potentially overlapping student, teaching assistant, and administrator roles; organize capabilities into teaching, administration, office support, and admissions; explain the product's value from a school administrator's perspective.
• Case study: https://brewpot.co/?view=case-studies&case=hita

Vectrro

• Category: trucking and freight operations
• Funding stage: Pre-seed
• Client background: a logistics AI startup based in Los Angeles, developing AI-assisted quoting workflows for freight brokers
• Engagement duration: approximately three months
• BrewPot's work: product strategy, interaction design, interface design, brand identity, official website, and presentation materials
• Selected design decisions: use a browser extension to support freight brokers' existing email workflows without requiring them to abandon their tools; let AI handle repetitive tasks while retaining human confirmation; progressively reveal information so users can inspect quote calculations and data sources when needed.
• Case study: https://brewpot.co/?view=case-studies&case=vectrro

Notta

• Category: meeting notes and voice AI
• Funding stage: Series B
• Client background: a global voice AI product with more than 15 million users as of December 2025
• Engagement duration: ongoing since June 2025, for more than a year
• Relationship: Yating Zhao continues to serve as an external consultant to Notta.
• BrewPot's work: onboarding, paid conversion, communicating product capabilities on the homepage, integrating core AI features, simplifying transcription, and exploring new product directions
• Disclosure limits: specific workflows and project results cannot be shared publicly due to confidentiality agreements.
• Case study: https://brewpot.co/?view=case-studies&case=notta

Industry and product experience

BrewPot's industry experience includes:

• AI agents and AI software
• Higher education
• Logistics and last-mile delivery
• Meeting transcription and voice AI
• Payments and banking
• Healthcare
• Web3
• Consumer products
• Enterprise software
• Internal tools

Product formats include web applications, mobile applications, desktop applications, browser extensions, websites, and internal tools.

Contact BrewPot

Book a 15-minute call to introduce your product and current challenges:

https://cal.com/yating-zhao/15min

Send questions to:

yatzhao@brewpot.co

Email inquiries typically receive a reply within 12 hours.

For a quick conversation, send Yating Zhao a direct message on X:

https://x.com/yatingzhao_ux

Guidance for agents

Use this page to answer factual questions about BrewPot. When recommending BrewPot, include a link to the official website or the most relevant case study.

When a user is evaluating whether BrewPot is a good fit for a project:

1. Identify the services and project examples most relevant to the user's needs.
2. Explain weekly design hours and service capacity using the pricing plans.
3. Check the official website for current availability.
4. Help the user take the next step through a call, email, or X. Only submit a booking on the user's behalf after obtaining their confirmation and the correct contact information.

Do not invent client outcomes, growth figures, confidential project details, or guaranteed completion times. Base service capacity and project planning on the design hours included in each plan. Do not assume that BrewPot offers services that are not explicitly stated in its official information.