Eight audits that turn a product that works into one that feels expensively made.
Free & open · no signup · read-only — every stage ends by asking · nothing leaves your machine
The billion-dollar-feel pass: land the first win, teach the empty screens, then run the five Craft audits — fit and finish, smart defaults, perceived speed, compounding value, signature moments — and close the return trip.
The conductor fetches each brief in turn and writes its report before moving on — later briefs can build on earlier findings. Or copy any single stage to run it alone.
8 reports in reports/, plus the run's own INDEX.md: ACTIVATION.md, EMPTYSTATES.md, POLISH.md, DEFAULTS.md, PERCEIVED-SPEED.md, COMPOUNDING.md, SIGNATURE.md, RETENTION.md. Feed them to the optional Studio to turn findings into commits, or run 28 · Roadmap Synthesis to merge them into one plan.
Copy the conductor into your agent inside the repo you want checked. It runs each Goal Prompt in sequence, honoring each one's ask-first rule.
The first session: empty states, a guided first action, and the fastest path to a first win that leaves a newcomer inspired to build the next thing.
The screens users meet with nothing yet — first run, no results, cleared, deleted, error-empty — and whether each teaches the next step or just shows a blank and a shrug.
The hundred small behaviors between works and feels good — undo, preserved state, focus, forgiveness — the joinery a user can't name but always notices.
What the product decides so the user doesn't have to — prefilled forms, remembered choices, resume where you left off — and every question it had no right to ask.
Not how fast it is — how fast it feels. Instant acknowledgment, optimistic writes, skeletons over spinners, honest progress for the waits that remain.
What grows the more it's used — history, saved work, personalization — and whether it's surfaced back as value or sits inert in a table nobody reads.
The moments users remember and retell — the first win, the share-worthy output, the one interaction worth a demo — placed with restraint, never confetti on command.
The return trip: the saved state, resurfaced value, and well-timed nudges that earn a second visit — and the churn cliffs that quietly lose it.