Clara Fairbanks

I design products by building them.

  • LayerV
  • AbodeMine
  • MyPlace
Notes · Agent wallet
The best experience for letting an agent operate autonomously with your money is…
  • –Fund it once, set a cap, forget it
  • –See what it did, not every transaction
  • –Revoke in one tap
  • –A setup prompt I can paste into any agent
  • –Custom: a runs view, nothing in the system yet
Layers
Portal / Agent
clara
Claude Code · Portal
Deployed · portal.arc.io
  1. ThinkFirst principles
  2. DesignTaste and craft
  3. CodeThe experience
  4. ShipThe product

01

Circle

A big year at Circle. I lead design on developer tooling, agentic workflows, and consumer surfaces. I often design in code and ship directly to our repos. It's a riot (in a good way!)

Jul 2025 – now

02

Experian

Led design for Partner Solutions: a self-serve platform where banks and fintechs integrate Experian APIs and manage products themselves, and the consumer credit experience they white-label.

2022 – 2025

03

Startup consulting

Fractional design leadership for early-stage teams, separate from and orthogonal to my employed work.

04

Earlier

2015 – 2022

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Building something? Let's talk.

I like comparing notes on prototyping, design engineering, and developer products.

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