The Design Ghost
I leave. The design function stays.
At the end of every engagement, I deliver a Design Ghost — a set of purpose-built agentic workflows tuned to your product, your design system, and your team's way of working. Your team keeps doing design work at a fraction of the ongoing cost.
The problem it solves
A 3-month engagement creates real design infrastructure. Then it ends. Most startups can't afford to re-engage immediately, and they can't afford a full-time designer. So the design function quietly goes dark — engineers make product decisions, the design system drifts, and the product quality that got them here starts to erode. The Design Ghost bridges that gap.
What's in a Design Ghost
01
Skills
AI agents trained on your specific design system, component patterns, tone of voice, and product conventions. A PM or engineer can generate on-brand concepts, write UX copy, or check visual consistency without a designer present.
These aren't generic AI tools. They know your product.
02
Agents
Automated design-adjacent workflows for recurring tasks: design QA, accessibility checks, copy review, component suggestions, design token audits. Work that used to require a designer's attention on every cycle.
Your team runs these when they need them. They take minutes, not days.
03
Playbooks
Documented processes for recurring design tasks — onboarding a new designer, running a design review, updating the component library, planning a user research study. Written for your team, in your terminology.
The next designer, contractor, or AI tool can pick up exactly where we left off. No ramp-up theater.
How it's built
The Design Ghost isn't a template. It's built during the engagement itself — the skills and agents accumulate as I work, learning your product from the inside. By the end of a quarter, the Ghost reflects how I actually worked with your team: what decisions I made, what patterns I established, what tools I reached for.
Included with every engagement.
The Design Ghost comes standard with the Design Sprint and Embedded Quarter. You don't buy it separately — it's what makes the engagement a lasting investment instead of a one-time cost.