Axon Labs
AXON Labs is our internal AI prototyping environment. If you've never heard of it, this page is a good place to start. You can also jump straight into the environment here:
Open Axon Labs: https://axonlabs.instinctvet.com/
What is AXON Labs?
AXON Labs is essentially Lovable, but built on top of our actual design system. That means it uses real Axon tokens, real component naming conventions, and real page layouts, so what you see in the environment looks and feels like the actual product, not a rough approximation of it.
It was built with Cursor and Claude Code and is hosted on Vercel. Each feature branch gets its own URL, which makes it easy to share specific prototypes with teammates or even customers.
The documentation for our design system, components, and patterns lives separately in Notion and is kept in sync automatically. AXON Labs is the prototyping environment; this documentation site is where you go to understand how and why things are built the way they are.
Why does it matter?
Static mockups have a ceiling. You can't realistically simulate panel interactions, layout reflow, AI conversations, or complex multi-state flows in Figma without spending hours building and maintaining prototypes that still require you to coach people through what they can and can't click.
AXON Labs removes that ceiling. Because it runs in a browser and behaves like a real product, feedback from teammates and customers is more grounded and useful. We don't have to say "imagine this works." It just works.
We've already used it on real projects, including Calendar layout explorations (stack view, appointment card sizing, provider columns) and the WVC conference demo for our Record Review feature powered by Scribble. In both cases it let us explore interactions and edge cases that would have taken significantly longer to communicate through Figma alone.
Where we are
AXON Labs is roughly 50-60% complete. Most of the admin pages are built out, the component library is underway, and a handful of feature prototypes already exist. It is not production code and is not meant to replace Figma. It is a tool for faster, more believable iteration before anything gets handed off to engineering.
There is still a lot to build, including more components, more pages, and expanded LLM-friendly style guides so that anyone on the team can prompt inside the environment and get good results.
Presentation and recording
In March 2026, the design team presented AXON Labs to engineering and PM leads in a brown bag session. The deck and recording are linked below if you want the full walkthrough.
🎬 Recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YzHtBPjo6KSDwPA3r10gStCRkY5tepW8/view
🔗 Slide deck: https://www.figma.com/slides/lP2yrGlSaEFQPv02Hp3gt4/AXON-Labs-Brown-Bag
💡 Tip for Notion: Paste the Figma slides link on its own line and Notion will offer to embed it as a preview.
Get involved
Follow along or ask questions in #axon-ds on Slack. As we build out more components and pages, we'll be posting updates there regularly.