Brand Identity System

Product.ai
Brand Guidelines

The visual and verbal identity for the truth layer of AI-mediated commerce. We verify. We tell you what's actually true.

"Shopping advice that tells you the truth, including no."

Color System

Axi Violet + Zinc Foundation

Perceptually uniform OKLCH color ramps. Axi Violet signals intelligence and verification. Zinc provides a true neutral foundation with zero color bias.

Axi Violet — Brand Primary

Intelligence + Analysis + Truth + Verification

25
oklch(0.98 0.02 292)
50
oklch(0.96 0.03 292)
100
oklch(0.94 0.05 292)
200
oklch(0.89 0.08 292)
300
oklch(0.82 0.12 290)
400
oklch(0.74 0.16 289)
PRIMARY
500
oklch(0.60 0.24 288)
600
oklch(0.52 0.26 287)
700
oklch(0.45 0.25 286)
800
oklch(0.38 0.22 286)
900
oklch(0.32 0.18 285)
1000
oklch(0.24 0.14 285)

Zinc — Neutral Foundation

Text + Borders + Backgrounds + Surfaces

white
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void

Semantic Signals

Functional color is semantic, not decorative. Every color encodes state.

Signal Teal
System / Active / AI Layer
oklch(0.75 0.15 195)
Signal Green
Success / Verified / Confident Yes
oklch(0.72 0.19 145)
Signal Amber
Warning / Conditional
oklch(0.75 0.18 75)
Signal Red
Error / Kill Shot / Confident No
oklch(0.63 0.24 25)
Typography

DM Sans + DM Mono

A superfamily pairing with matched skeletal structure and x-height. Sans for human-readable content, Mono for system/AI layer identifiers. The split makes the two-layer architecture visible.

Display / DM Sans Medium
The Omniscient Friend
Heading / DM Sans Medium
Shopping advice that tells you the truth, including no.
Body / DM Sans Regular
AI is trained to agree with you. That's great for engagement, terrible for decisions. We built a verification layer that pressure-tests every claim until only the defensible ones survive.
System / DM Mono Medium
AX-SM-L2-SAM-001 | confidence: 0.91 | axioms_forged: 7

Wordmark Typography Specification

Product.ai
  • "Product" — DM Sans Medium 500, White
  • "." — DM Mono Medium 500, Axi-400
  • "ai" — DM Mono Medium 500, Axi-400, lowercase

Equal visual weight encodes equal partnership. The AI methodology IS the value proposition, not incidental infrastructure.

Distinct treatment makes the two-layer system visible: human insight layer (Product) and machine logic layer (.ai).

Brand Voice

The Omniscient Friend

50% Genius (IQ), 50% Best Friend (EQ). System 2 thinking — we slow the user down to prevent mistakes. The Home Inspector, not the Realtor.

Warm

We're on your side. Approachable and friendly, never cold or robotic. We celebrate your wins and support you through uncertainty.

Protective

We're the Home Inspector, not the Realtor. We find flaws because we care about your outcome, not the transaction.

Direct

We don't hedge or qualify unnecessarily. When we say "don't buy this," we mean it — and we show you why.

Trustworthy

We're conflict-transparent, not conflict-free. We disclose how we make money and let you decide if that matters.

Core Messaging

10 Seconds
"Product.ai tells you when NOT to buy something. That's how you know it's telling the truth."
30 Seconds
"AI is trained to agree with you. That's great for engagement, terrible for decisions. We built a verification layer that pressure-tests every claim until only the defensible ones survive. Product.ai gives you shopping advice you can actually trust — including telling you no."
The Kill Shot
Our differentiator is the confident "no" backed by evidence. The highest-value action is preventing a bad purchase, not enabling any purchase.
Brand Axioms

Foundational Principles

The immutable truths that govern everything we build and communicate.

Axiom 1

The Beige Singularity Defense

We fight the epistemic death spiral where LLMs train on polluted content (SEO spam, marketing hallucinations, affiliate corruption) and output consensus around falsehood. We're building epistemic infrastructure.

Axiom 2

Adjudication, Not Search

Search returns options (High Entropy). Adjudication returns a Verdict (Low Entropy). Success is measured by regret prevented, not clicks generated.

Axiom 3

The Kinetic Refinery

We burn GPU cycles once to forge verified knowledge. Runtime agents retrieve pre-computed wisdom at O(1) cost instead of re-deriving at O(N) cost. We sell "Cached Genius."

Axiom 4

Status Gravity Inversion

Trust flows from Selector to Selected. Merchants earn inclusion through product quality — they don't buy placement.

Axiom 5

Radical Explainability

We sell "Proofs," not "Answers." Evidence trace must be visible. Revenue disclosure: "Partner" vs. "Verified" tagging.

Axiom 6

Aligned Monetization

We win only when merchants and consumers win. Consumer confusion = abandoned cart = zero revenue. We're conflict-transparent, not conflict-free.

Axiom 7

Privacy-First Economics

We're never an ad company. User data is never the product. When you purchase through Product.ai, you fund the trust layer mission.