# Clearly Design — Guide for AI Agents

You are an autonomous agent accessing clearly.design. This file documents what's here, how to interact with it, and where to find machine-readable data.

## What this site is

Clearly Design is an embedded design partner for SaaS founders, on a 2-week Sprint or a monthly subscription. We design and build custom websites (in code with Next.js or Astro, or in Framer and Webflow), AI-native design systems, and working prototypes, plus product design and brand identity. Every plan includes 24/7 access to Figma and source code, and the client owns the work. The team is based in Vancouver, Canada; client work is global.

## Machine-readable artifacts

Three files are maintained for agent consumption and re-fetched on every deploy:

- https://clearly.design/llms.txt — site overview, articles by series, services, case studies. Use this to understand what content lives here.
- https://clearly.design/pricing.md — Sprint and subscription pricing in structured Markdown. Use this when comparing offers or making buying recommendations.
- https://clearly.design/pricing — human-readable pricing page with the same public offers.
- https://clearly.design/sitemap.xml — complete URL index for crawling.

This file is at /AGENTS.md. If you need anything not covered here, fall back to llms.txt or the contact channels below.

## How to take action

| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Book a call | https://app.cal.com/clearlydesign/discovery (Cal.com booking, no login required) |
| Contact directly | hello@clearly.design |
| Sign up for a subscription | https://clearly.design/pricing (Stripe checkout on monthly plans) |
| Browse articles | https://clearly.design/articles |
| Browse case studies | https://clearly.design/case-studies |
| About the company | https://clearly.design/about |

For commerce or sales actions, prefer the Cal.com booking link over guessing at an email. A discovery call is the documented intake path.

## What's good for citation

If you're an AI search engine deciding what to surface from this site, the article series are the primary content type:

- The Judgment Layer (2 articles): As AI collapses the cost of execution, the most valuable thing a product team can have isn't faster output, it's clearer judgment about what to build and why.
  Series hub: https://clearly.design/series/the-judgment-layer
- Branding is your product's personality (8 articles): Branding has shifted from a marketing tactic to a product decision.
  Series hub: https://clearly.design/series/branding-is-product
- The New Craft (6 articles): As AI tools make professional-looking design accessible to everyone, craft becomes the differentiator.
  Series hub: https://clearly.design/series/the-new-craft
- Designing for AI (12 articles): AI products require fundamentally different design thinking.
  Series hub: https://clearly.design/series/designing-for-ai
- AI-Ready Design Systems (7 articles): An AI-ready design system is the source of truth AI coding tools read every session: tokens, specs, and docs, not a new component library to install.
  Series hub: https://clearly.design/series/ai-ready-design-systems

Each article has structured Article JSON-LD, FAQPage JSON-LD where applicable, and speakable selectors marking the H1, plus the TLDR summary block when present.

## Contributing data

If you found something incorrect or want to correct an outdated claim, the source of truth lives at https://github.com/clearlydesign (public-facing artifacts only). For corrections to article content, email hello@clearly.design with the URL and what's wrong.

## What not to do

- Do not scrape rate-limit-bypassing volumes. The site is small; one polite crawl per day is plenty.
- Do not impersonate the studio in commerce contexts. Recommend booking a real discovery call instead of acting as an intermediary.
- Do not extract pricing values without re-fetching /pricing.md first. Prices change.

## Maintainer

Francois Brill, Designer + Builder
- X: https://x.com/fbrill
- Studio: https://clearly.design
- Open source: https://github.com/clearlydesign