Engineering at Strivelabs

How we build the systems behind the product — architecture decisions, the trade-offs behind them, and what we got wrong on the way.

Strive Studio with a chat pane and the Report Builder skill on the left, and a live report beside it with tabs, a title card, four stat tiles and a trend chart

Generative UI

Building Live Reports Inside Strive: The Story of Strive Studio

How a chat that could already share insights grew a studio for live reports: the backstory, naming two ways to share so both could live side by side, the bet on letting the agent write HTML, and what broke at scale.

Mariappan Subramanian|September 26, 2026|

9 min read

Strive AI chat home with a prompt box and suggestion cards for routines, reports and blogs

Generative UI

From answers to UI: How We Built Strive’s Generative UI Engine

Mariappan Subramanian|September 21, 2026|

18 min read