Mike Bespalov is founder of Refero, a design-reference platform for people and AI agents. His work makes product screens, user journeys and visual styles available as material to study before generating an interface.[1][2]
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Career
Bespalov’s public account identifies him as Refero’s founder and names previous work at Clerk. His first-person product announcement argues for giving an agent examples of real interfaces and flows before asking it to design. The platform connects that research habit with material a developer or coding agent can retrieve during implementation.[1][2]
Contributions
Represent a visual system in text an agent can use
Refero Styles organizes website references into AI-readable DESIGN.md material covering colors, typography, spacing and components. A user can choose a visual direction and bring its rules into a project. The reference makes a style’s decisions explicit, giving the agent more concrete guidance than a broad adjective or a request to imitate a screenshot.[3]
Research the product, screen and journey separately
Refero’s MCP documentation separates discovery of sites and apps from styles, individual screens and complete user flows. Those layers answer different questions: what product to study, how its visual system works, what a particular state contains and how a journey handles decisions or recovery. The remote service returns requested research results to a compatible client. Its documented setup requires a paid Refero plan and authenticated access.[4]
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Refero Stylesstyles.refero.designA browsable library of website style references and AI-readable DESIGN.md guidance.
Open a style and compare its typography, spacing and component rules with the original reference before using its DESIGN.md. No coding is needed to browse; applying the guidance assumes a project or agent that can read the file.
Founder and product developer[1][3]Original source- Refero MCPdoc.refero.design
A remote research interface exposing product references, styles, screens and flows to AI tools.