# How FLORA shipped a creative agent on Vercel's AI stack

DevFeed: [How FLORA shipped a creative agent on Vercel's AI stack](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-flora-shipped-a-creative-agent-on-vercel-s-ai-stack-740.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://vercel.com/blog/how-flora-shipped-a-creative-agent-on-vercels-ai-stack>)

Author: Eric Dodds

Published: 2026-03-31T04:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Vercel News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/vercel-news.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Vercel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vercel.md>), [Canvas](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/canvas.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [applied-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applied-ai.md>), [concurrent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrent.md>), [generation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generation.md>), [image](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/image.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [vercel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vercel.md>)

## AI overview

FLORA built FAUNA, a creative AI agent that helps designers explore campaign visuals, moodboards, and lookbook directions. FAUNA selects references and models, generates variations, and supports long-running, highly parallel visual workflows. FLORA explored Vercel to reduce infrastructure configuration and ship the agent faster.

## Source excerpt

FLORA on Vercel 2x faster to production with their generation system Zero infrastructure debates after migration 50+ image models orchestrated A seasonal fashion launch is a story, not a single frame. Crafting that story is a process of exploration: It's the same piece, worn by different models. The same pose, with different lighting and angles. The same set, with a background that shifts from glossy to gritty. FLORA was built to make that kind of visual iteration available to anyone through a digital canvas. Their new creative agent FAUNA acts like a design partner, turning ideas into a map of creative directions. From FLORA to FAUNA: a creative agent Flora started as a node-based creative workflow canvas. For advanced users, that canvas is powerful: you can create steps and branches, adding detailed prompts at each stage to hone every detail of the images. But the canvas also came with a tradeoff: it asked every creative to think like a workflow designer. You had to configure each state of an exploration with prompts and model choices, interrupting the creative process. That's why they built FAUNA. The agent removes the setup burden, but keeps the full power of AI. Instead of starting with a blank canvas and a pile of example images, designers can start with their ideas. Users tell FAUNA what they want to create, like a campaign visuals, moodboards, or a lookbook direction, and the agent will pull references, choose models, and automatically generate variations to explore and refine. Under the hood, FAUNA is a long-running, highly parallel agent. Alec Jo, Head of Applied AI at FLORA, leads the effort. As Alec and his team were building it, they faced the same pain as their early canvas users, spending too much time configuring AI tech instead of iterating on the agent itself. That's when they started exploring Vercel. Infrastructure makes the agent If you use AI mainly for text-based tasks, it's easy to underestimate the additional demands of visual workflows for