THE TRANSFORMATION

Three months.
Different physics.

Same product, same team — executed excellently, from first token to a published, AI-synced design system in three months.

Drag the line.

The same admin dashboard, before canon and after. Both sides are live HTML — no screenshots.

AFTER · CANON 1 teal 4 heights 0 hardcoded
Accelerators Add node Export
Total GPUs
128
↑ 12 this week
Utilization
73%
↑ 4.2%
Active jobs
42
↓ 3
Queue depth
8
↑ 2
GPU computeMemory
WorkloadGPUsUtilStatus
llama-70b-ft1691%RUNNING
embed-batch-cron464%RUNNING
asr-eval-suite8PENDING
sdxl-lora-train288%RUNNING
vision-preproc1FAILED
BEFORE 3 teals height: 37px? !important ×70
accelerators_v2 (final) Add Node Export CSV Refresh
total gpus
128
UTILIZATION
73%
Active Jobs:
42
queue
8
workload_namegpuutil%STATUS
llama-70b-ft1691ok
embed-batch-cron464OK!
asr-eval-suite8nullwait
sdxl-lora-train288ok
vision-preproc1NaNERR
← drag · works with touch · same data, different physics →

THE LEDGER

Numbers don't drift.

teals in the codebase
31
control heights
0
!important on one Select
700
files-to-migrate backlog
919tracked & shrinking
components canonized
00
design tokens
00
iron rules
00
documented waves
00+
idea → prototype
daysminutes

BEYOND PIXELS

What actually changed

BEFOREAFTER
Screenshots-as-handoff — annotate, export, pray.
Handoff to Claude Code. The approved prototype is the spec; implementation starts from real components.
Every dashboard bespoke — each page its own snowflake.
Six templates + brick math. Pages are assembled, not invented.
Docs drift — the README describes last quarter's component.
Four-surface doc contract. Runtime, TOKEN-DOC, TokenMapping story, family overview move together — drift is structurally impossible.
Design QA by eyeball — whoever looked last, decided.
Fresh-context AI verifier grades every build cold, citing rule numbers.
Onboarding took months — knowledge lived in heads.
The brain onboards humans and AI in minutes. One dispatcher, ninety-one rules, zero tribal knowledge.

CLOSING CREDITS

Executed excellently.

Led together by the frontend team — Head of Frontend Engineering — and Mehrshad — Design Lead — with the OI frontend team. Three months. One hundred waves. Zero big bangs.