A solo founder built a fashion brand with AI as her only engineer
Former product leader Yana Welinder is running Yana Bana, an AI-native fashion label, with no engineers: ChatGPT Image 2.0 turns her design specs into garments, and Codex plus computer use drives the unfamiliar 3D CAD and delivers a Stripe-connected storefront. A concrete case study in what solo, AI-first founding now enables.