Produce a creative brief grounded in live reference sites and deliberately distinct from existing demos, for any new brand build. Composes with brand-archetype-system and creative-direction. Use this skill at the start of any brand or microsite build when the result needs to land in a specific aesthetic position and not drift into a default house style. Triggers on creative brief, design brief, build brief, brand direction, where should this brand sit, what should this site look like, reference sites for, archetype for, distinct from our other brands, divergence from prior, not the same as. Also triggers when prior builds have come out as siblings and a systematic divergence approach is needed.
Compose pages and sites that read as their vertical: ecommerce-catalog storefronts that look like storefronts, hospitality-food sites that look like restaurants, b2b-manufacturer sites that look industrial. Use this skill whenever the user wants to build a site that looks like the vertical it serves, fix a build that reads as generic or off-vertical, build to an experience bar produced by competitor-experience-audit, or compose pages with the merchandising, density, and layout conventions a credible site in the category is expected to carry. Triggers on vertical conventions, storefront layout, ecommerce layout, retail conventions, merchandising layout, category page composition, site composition, build to the experience bar, make it look like the vertical, off-vertical, looks generic, build conventions for a vertical, site grammar. Also triggers when a build that is technically clean reads wrong for its category, and the cause is composition, not visual taste.
Audit the brand, UX, and site design of the leading sites in a vertical as a set of observable cross-site patterns, producing the experience bar a new build must meet or beat. Use this skill whenever the user wants to assess the competitive design field, capture vertical conventions, identify the design and UX bar of a category, or set the experience standard before a build. Triggers on competitor experience audit, UX audit, site design audit, brand audit, design conventions, what makes these sites good, vertical conventions, storefront patterns, merchandising patterns, layout density, primary task, design bar, category conventions, retail vs marketing register, what does the field do. Also triggers when an audit of the competitive field has captured technical signals (SEO, accessibility) but never named the brand, UX, or design conventions, and the build downstream will read as off-vertical without that bar.
Design and write email campaigns and sequences including onboarding flows, lifecycle campaigns, transactional emails, newsletters, broadcast sends, and launch and announcement emails. Use this skill whenever the user wants to write email copy, plan an email sequence, design an onboarding drip, or set up lifecycle email campaigns. Triggers on email sequence, drip campaign, onboarding email, lifecycle email, welcome email, transactional email, newsletter, email broadcast, launch email, announcement email, nurture sequence, abandoned cart, re-engagement, win-back. Also triggers when planning email automation flows or writing email subject lines for campaigns.
Apply pre-composed aesthetic archetype defaults to jumpstart brand design work covering color, typography, layout, voice, and imagery direction. Use this skill whenever the user wants a starting point for brand visual and verbal direction, references a brand they want to design near (for example 'something like Stripe' or 'editorial like Linear'), needs to converge faster from many directions to one, or wants known-good defaults for a specific industry vertical. Triggers on archetype, design archetype, brand archetype, near to (brand), in the style of, similar aesthetic, design starting point, brand template, vertical-typical, industry-typical. Also triggers when the user has a brief and wants to map it to a known aesthetic family rather than design from first principles.
Generate logo variants for a brand or organization, producing multiple production-grade marks across different architectures (wordmark, lockup, symbol-only, letterform-as-symbol, monogram) with rationale, application specs, and decision-ready presentation. Distinct from `brand-identity`, which produces a complete identity system covering logo plus color plus type plus voice plus applications. This skill goes deep on the logo specifically: typographic register selection, symbol approach taxonomy, application context discipline (16px favicon, embroidery, signage, motion), production specs (SVG-ready, single-color reproducibility, reverse versions). Triggers on logo design, design a logo, logo for X, brand mark, wordmark, logotype, monogram, lockup, mark variants, logo iterations, redesign the logo, refine the logo, logo refresh, letterform-as-symbol. Also triggers when the user has an established brand and wants to explore mark variants or when iterating on existing logo work for production. Does NOT fire when
Run upstream brand discovery covering audience research, competitive landscape, category dynamics, problem space, and positioning territory exploration. Use this skill at the very start of a brand or website project when the user needs to understand who they're for, who they compete with, what the audience actually needs, and where the brand could plausibly stand. Triggers on brand discovery, audience research, market research, competitive scan, category research, customer research, who is this for, who are we, positioning research, intake, kickoff. Also triggers when a creative brief is requested but the upstream inputs (audience, competitors, problem space) are not yet clear.
Run a competitive SEO analysis comparing the user's site to chosen competitors across SERP overlap, content depth, backlink profiles, technical posture, and brand presence. Use this skill whenever the user wants to analyze competitors, find content gaps, identify backlink opportunities, understand why competitors outrank them, or benchmark against the rest of their category. Triggers on competitor analysis, competitive analysis, SERP analysis, content gap, backlink gap, why is X ranking, who is winning the SERP, beat my competitor, benchmark, market positioning. Also triggers when planning a content strategy and the question 'what are competitors doing' is implicit.