Claude Code builds.
Lindi is the design.
Most teams will run both: the canvas where the team designs and builds, and the agent that turns the design into your codebase.
In short.
Claude Code is a very capable agent, and it is not blind: it runs your app in its own browser, takes screenshots, inspects the DOM and iterates on what it sees. For engineering work end to end it is the right tool, and nothing here suggests otherwise — most teams running Lindi will connect Claude Code to it.
The difference is what each one starts from. Claude Code starts from a prompt, a screenshot or the code in front of it. Lindi is where the design itself lives — your real screens, extracted from your code — and when a designer pushes, the change can be written by Lindi Code or handed to Claude Code over MCP: the screens, the components, the variables and the design context in your framework. One designs; the other builds from it.
Claude Code and Lindi,
row by row.
| Feature | Claude Code | Lindi |
|---|---|---|
| Who works in it | Developers, in a terminal | Designers, product people and engineers, on one canvas |
| What it starts from | A prompt, a screenshot, or the code in front of it | The design itself: screens, components, variables |
| What it produces | Code, in your codebase | Your screens on a canvas, and pushes into your code |
| How a designer takes part | By describing it, and reading back the result | By designing it on the canvas |
| How they connect | Claude Code, as an MCP client | Lindi, as an MCP server — read-only, a token per file |
| Review | Your pull request flow | Your pull request flow — every push lands as ordinary changes |
| Running both | The agent your engineers already use | The canvas the rest of the team works on |
| Where it belongs | Work that lives in the code | Work with a screen people need to design and see |
Not a replacement.
A different job.
- Where Claude Code fits.
Engineering work end to end — refactors, services, tests, the change with no screen to look at. This is not a page about doing that better.
- Where Lindi fits.
The screens themselves: designed on the real app, pushed into the code, and readable by Claude Code as a design.
Start coding while you design.
Lindi is free for its early users. Tell us about your team and we answer within 48 hours — yes or no.
- 1You connect your project
- 2We open your screens with you, on a call
- 3Your first push lands in your code