Tom Sanee

Tom SaneeAI native, generalist designer. I love making complex tech simple.

Tom Sanee — AI-native, generalist designer

Rialo Nova

Crypto super-app

2025-26 Product Design Lead

Co-led product strategy, unifying onchain trading, automated portfolio management, and neobanking into one experience.

Ran 20+ user interviews, developed brand and design system and coordinated across a browser extension and mobile build.

Case study available

Neobanking
Portfolio
Trading view
AI chat

Pulse

Trading terminal

2025-26 Designer and Developer

Built for serious traders, Pulse unifies portfolio tracking across equities and options, live data with AI signals, a research engine that turns RSS, email, YouTube and podcasts into briefs, and a mobile assistant for alerts and questions.

I designed and developed the platform solo with AI.

Case study available

Dashboard
Research watchlist
Performance
Asset data

PXL Labs

Web3 design agency

2024-25 Product Design Lead

Product lead, delivering for eight-plus DeFi protocol clients across mobile and desktop.

I led the kickoffs, locking scope, requirements, and timeline with the client. Then the design work itself, sometimes solo, sometimes directing illustrators and UI designers depending on what the project needed.

Client work
Consumer crypto
Alt investing
Launchpad

Paladin

Ethereum DeFi products

2021-23 Founding Designer

Over several years the role grew well past design: I did the brand, helped conceive products, shaped strategy, and worked day to day with the founders, engineers, and marketing to run the roadmap.

Also led research across interviews, split tests, and analytics. I took multiple products from concept to market. Paladin grew past $30M TVL; the marketplaces did $16M in combined volume.

Case study available

Money market
Token loans
Quest marketplace
Vault

Spacebar

Brand and product agency

Since 2018 Agency Founder

Strategy, brand identity, and digital products for more than 25 startups across e-commerce, fintech, consumer, and DeFi.

Full lifecycle: product strategy, user research, prototyping, stakeholder alignment, design systems, and iterative delivery.

Brand identity
Landing page
Prototype
Framer build
Brand identity
Spacebar
Tom Sanee

Hey I’m Tom, a Toronto-based designer with seven-plus years taking products from zero to market.

A lot of that has been in Crypto/Fintech: grew a DeFi protocol to $30M+ in assets with $16M+ in volume.

I gravitate towards early-stage companies and prefer working with small, ambitious teams.

Because of these high stakes environments, I naturally embraced AI agents, which have gone on to totally transform how I work.

What hasn’t changed is the effort and care that goes into making something wonderful.