Sandboxes in Production at FLORA - Ship 26 NYC

Buttons are rigid, and rigid is trustworthy. AI is squishy, and squishy is powerful. Professional creatives will churn the moment they see a half pixel off, so how do you build an app that's squishy enough and predictable enough that a professional trusts it? Recorded live at Vercel Ship 2026 in New York City, Charlton Roberts (CTO, FLORA, previously Squarespace, Frame.io, and Adobe) shares how FLORA, the creative operating system used by teams like Nike and Lionsgate and hundreds of thousands of creatives, runs Vercel Sandbox in production as the bridge between the two: a place where AI can write and run arbitrary code, wrapped in a boundary that guarantees valid output. CHAPTERS 0:00 FLORA: a creative operating system 1:55 Buttons are rigid, AI is squishy 4:29 When to let the agent cook 5:44 Workflow 1: Actions and the Fauna agent 8:14 Workflow 2: the FLORA MCP server, 18 tools to 2 10:57 Workflow 3: a timeline editor on Remotion and sandboxes 13:22 The pattern: harness, validate, ship 14:06 Turning the arbitrary into the reliable LINKS FLORA → https://www.florafauna.ai Vercel Sandbox → https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-sandbox Remotion → https://www.remotion.dev Ship 2026 recap → https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-ship-2026-recap Start building → https://vercel.com FOLLOW VERCEL X → https://x.com/vercel LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/vercel GitHub → https://github.com/vercel #Vercel #VercelShip #AI #CreativeTools #FLORA #Sandbox