design.md
Flowlabz
The system this site runs on: three colours and one accent, two typefaces tracked tight, hairlines instead of fills, and a scale that follows the window.
- Google Sans
- Sometype Mono
Coming soon
Every check between an AI-built site and a launch that holds up. Each item says how to verify it, not just what to check. Most of it written while shipping this site.
the checklist
Everything to check before an AI-built site goes public, in 67 checks: search engines, being readable by the AI models people now ask instead of Google, performance, accessibility, privacy, and the week after launch.
Work top to bottom. The 9 checks under Blocking will cost you traffic, money or trust on day one if you miss them; everything else can follow in the first week. Every item says how to check it, not just what to check, because a checklist you can’t verify is a wish list.
It also covers the part most checklists still skip: being readable by AI. Many AI crawlers run no JavaScript at all, and AI tools default to rendering content in the browser, so an AI-built site can look empty to them. The checklist shows how to test that with one command, and what to put in robots.txt and llms.txt.
Free to use, share and adapt. If it saves you a bad launch, that’s the point.
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if you only have an hour
The five that break launches.
robots.txtstill saysDisallow: /.The content isn’t in the HTML, so AI crawlers see an empty page.
The form posts nowhere.
Both
wwwand bare domain serve the site, splitting every signal.The hero image is 4MB.
what’s inside
67 checks in seven sections.
- 9 checks
Blocking
What costs traffic, money or trust on day one: a site that’s actually reachable, a robots.txt that lets crawlers in, no stray noindex, one hostname on HTTPS, forms that deliver, and nothing secret in the deploy.
- 15 checks
Search engines
Indexability, titles and descriptions written to earn the click, and structured data that says exactly what the page says.
- 8 checks
Being readable by AI
Your words in the HTML, a URL for every page, robots.txt rules for each AI crawler, an llms.txt, and facts stated plainly enough to quote.
- 11 checks
Performance
LCP, CLS and INP, measured on production, and how to get there: images, fonts, JavaScript, video, caching and compression.
- 12 checks
Accessibility
Keyboard, focus, contrast, alt text, labels, headings, landmarks, reduced motion and zoom, then what automated audits can’t check.
- 6 checks
Analytics, privacy and the legal bits
Analytics that leaves out your own visits, goals on what matters, a privacy policy that matches what you collect, and consent done properly.
- 6 checks
The day after
Search Console and Bing, the coverage report, a week of watching 404s, uptime monitoring, and asking a model what it says about you.
design.md files
More design.md files.
design.md
SaaS style
The modern software look: a white ground, near-black type, one confident accent, a clean sans with a mono for the numbers, quiet borders and generous space.
- Geist
- Geist Mono
Coming soon
design.md
Apple style
Calm, bright and exact: an off-white ground, near-black type, one blue for everything you can press, big quiet headlines and a lot of room around them.
- SF Pro Display
- SF Pro Text
Coming soon
Or have it built for you.
A template gets you most of the way there. If you’d rather the whole thing were designed and built around what you actually do, that’s the day job, and it starts with a conversation.
