Dan Holdsworth and Luke Allen ship brands as a code ready repo.
The handoff includes global CSS, a clip JSON file, an agent file, and a human-readable README. Clients drag and drop it into their codebase and the brand is operable from day one.
They started doing this because clients kept improvising after handoff. A PDF gets opened once and forgotten. A repo stays in the codebase as a source of truth.
The thinking matters. The handoff is the start of the brand's life in production. If the system breaks the first time someone extends it, the design work didn't finish.
They also talked about taking only two projects at a time, catching a logo that sat too close to a Pinterest reference and redoing it the same day, and the difference between cheap and affordable when you raise prices.
AI is an analytical tool it doesn't have tast or creative intelligence or emotional intelligence it will never be better than humans in that because it has no emotions or creativity