The design legitimacy standard
AI makes execution free.We make execution yours.
Score any site against a real design contract. 40 checks. One grade. No vibe-tax.
Legitimacy Audit Engine
Enter any public website URL above — no https:// needed. We fetch its CSS, extract design tokens, and evaluate 40 verification checks against the Designesy contract v0.4.0. Real-time. No login required.
- Live contract v0.4.0
- 40checks
- No login
- 30of 30 sites scored
- Self-score 100%Aour own contract
- Lowest: 37.9%F
Highest-scoring in the cohort
No login. Real-time. 40 checks against contract v0.4.0. Read the contract →
Why it matters
Brand legitimacy infrastructure.
When execution is free, design coherence becomes the new legitimacy signal. A site that is visually consistent, motion-coherent, and takt-disciplined reads as real. The contract is what makes that verifiable.
Operating principles
Nine principles. Four shown here.
Purpose earns form
Every element should have a job. Remove anything that does not help the design act, communicate, or withstand use.
Economy is intelligence
Prefer fewer, stronger decisions over many weak flourishes. Reduction is valuable when it preserves user power.
Context is part of the object
Design cannot be judged in isolation. Environment, device, culture, ability, and maintenance are part of the design.
Responsibility is a design material
Equity, environment, economy, and social consequence are not externalities. They are design materials.
Now live
Contract, labs, and kit.
Design system contract
The rules behind this site — portable and versioned.
Tokens, motion, components, Poise + Takt + Cadence + Acoustics rules. Human overview plus a machine export agents can cite directly.
Read the contract →Design Review
Turn taste into inspection. Point your agent at any design.
Eight dimensions, a copyable agent prompt, output format, and verification checklist. Human and machine read the same rules.
Open the kit →Talk to the Director
The contract, conversational. Ask about type, motion, spacing — or score any site.
A conversational instance of the Designesy Director. Answers from the designesy.org contract — tokens, principles, and open tensions, not vibes.
Open the chat →Continuity
Design judgment that stays current.
Score, contract, verify — and keep the receipt. Open core stays free. Continuity adds history and drift for work that continues.
Join the waitlist →Surfaces
Public lanes with live cargo.
System state