Designer first.Engineer by necessity.

Five production sites live today: Next.js and React where the site earns it, plain HTML, CSS and JS where that was the right size. Every brand ships with a written kit the code reads first: tokens, type with PostScript names, logo rules, page furniture.

This page: fluid clamp() type scale, 12-column panel grid, gradient wordmark through a CSS mask, film grain overlay, reduced-motion fallbacks. Across client sites: age gates, auto-scrolling galleries, native share sheets on photo tiles, sticky mobile calls to action, navs that flip colour over dark and light sections, map-based store locators.

A headless commerce platform behind a live store: products modeled in the platform, storefront rendered in Next.js. Typed content layers drive the rest: one data file renders a set of artist pages in the artists' own words, another renders events and galleries, a third renders a document library. Notion databases run studio operations as a CMS through MCP: task boards and a client hub that a skill populates from a discovery call. Straight talk: no Sanity or Contentful in production yet.

Designer and engineer in one seat, so nothing gets lost in the handoff. Brand decks, style locks and UI direction docs go to code with the same hands that helped shape them. When a client team supplied the design and copy, it became two landing-page variants in a day, with a review mode that outlines every block and notes where its copy came from.

Eighteen custom Claude skills in daily use, among them a task manager that routes work to three Notion boards, a file organizer that enforces one brand folder standard, an Illustrator template builder that turns SVG plus a spec.json into editable catalogs, labels and decks, and brand-locked image pipelines. Shell and Python tools where they fit: a photo prep script that processed 274 event photos in about 17 minutes and prints the data block to paste, a batch content pipeline with a caption agent, scoring and Slack notify, and signup pipelines (site form to Apps Script to Sheet) on three sites.

Migrated a client's static site to a Next.js storefront on the same repo: one deployment per branch, a one-minute rollback, redirects flipped from temporary to permanent after cutover, and a runbook written for the next person. Carved a trimmed version of a site for a third-party review without deleting anything. Cherry Pi v4: removed 7,200 lines and three heavy dependencies.

Wedding site: designed, built, RSVP pipeline wired to a spreadsheet and verified end to end, deployed, in one session. A client brand site planned on a Thursday and live for a trade show six days later. Two landing pages in a day, packaged for the client's CMS the next. Cherry Pi v4: spec July 4, approved and merged July 6.

Every repo ships a README written for the next person, including the three build failures that actually happened and their fixes. The studio runs on a CLAUDE.md workspace with a memory layer, a decision log and a brand folder standard that any session loads. A skills registry in Notion stays in sync with what is installed.

Claude Code is the daily editor. MCP servers for Notion, Higgsfield, Figma, Adobe and Google Workspace; eighteen custom skills; scheduled tasks; multi-agent review panels; a memory-backed workspace. Non-trivial work gets a written plan with a checkpoint per stage, and every claim is labeled verified or plausible before it ships.

Illustrator files generated from SVG and a spec file: a catalog rebuilt from a menu JSON, label batches, an eleven-artboard sales deck. A worksheet design system in ReportLab. Brand-locked Higgsfield generation with reusable prompt blocks and composite scripts, under one rule: brand art is placed exact, never regenerated.

Not yet. Closer to the typed content layers already in daily use than it looks, and a defined scope she would take on gladly.