01
Critique capacity on a calendar
Hours for one team, and the week you will refuse instead of quietly lowering the bar.
Quality, Systems, and Accountability
We can refuse a week of output without lowering the bar.
Leadership
US$300 once
Three courses
Output is already ahead of the hours you have to review it, and a synthetic user is one sentence away from the roadmap. You leave with a capacity plan, a system rule, a research line, the questions for counsel, and the note you sign.
The three leadership courses are sold together for US$300. Designer membership does not include them, and this purchase does not open the designer courses.
- Modules
- 5 modules
- Total time
- ≈3h 45m
- Last updated
- 2026-10-10
- Your progress
- 0/5 modules completed
Already in the building
The volume rose. The right to say no did not.
Critique hours are a number on a calendar. Agent output is not. If the team produces more than it can review, the bar falls without a meeting. The work still ships. It ships unreviewed.
The design system is now the instruction an agent follows, including the parts nobody meant to publish: a local copy, a component that only looks right, a token that was never approved. A second team is about to point agents at it.
Desk research got faster. That part is useful. The failure is the next sentence, the one that treats a synthetic user as a participant. The roadmap cannot tell the difference unless you wrote the line.
The page you sign when volume rises
US$300 once for all three leadership courses. Designer membership does not include them, and this purchase does not open the designer courses.
The pages you leave with
What US$300 buys.
You pay once. You leave with pages you can use on Monday. These are the pages this course produces.
This course is ≈3h 45m of reading, across 5 modules. Stop when the page you need is drafted.
02
The system rule
What must be true of the design system before a second team turns agents on, and what the system owner can decline when a component only looks plausible.
03
The research line
Desk research an agent may speed, written apart from evidence only a participant can give. A synthetic user stays out of the roadmap sentence.
04
Questions for counsel, with a date
Client material, generative media, authorship, and computer use. A list you take to counsel. Not a legal opinion.
05
The note you sign
Owners, the quality bar, the permission list, and what happens when a gate fails.
The same payment opens the operating-model course — the job, the classes, the gates, and the page for the CEO — and the short CEO course: the judgement budget, the systems in bounds, and the human who answers.
US$300 once for all three leadership courses. Designer membership does not include them, and this purchase does not open the designer courses.
Why buy now
Why this quarter.
The volume of agent output is already here. A generic certificate will not name the design organisation's decisions on this page.
01
Critique hours are not multiplying with the output
The extra screens are already in the queue. A capacity plan you postpone is a week of work that ships because nobody had a number to refuse against.
02
A synthetic user is one sentence away from the roadmap
Faster desk research is already in use. Without a written line, a confident persona becomes a finding. That sentence does not wait for a research-ops hire.
03
A governance chapter is not a page with your name on it
A general certificate can teach governance as a topic. It does not give you owners, a quality bar, a permission list, and an incident path written for this organisation.
Who it is for
A specific seat.
Design managers and heads of design who own the quality bar, the design system, research ethics, and what the organisation is allowed to ship. Counsel and security are partners in the permission module, not the students.
This is for you if
- You own the quality bar, and you can already see the volume outrunning critique.
- You own the design system, and a second team is about to point agents at it.
- You are the person who will refuse work, including agent work, with your name on the refusal.
This is not for you if
- You want to learn how to facilitate a critique. That craft stays in Design Review and Critique with Agents.
- You want a legal opinion, a law-firm template, or a certificate.
- You want designer membership to stand in for the page you sign. It will not.
Each module is a result
After this module you can…
The promise under each title is what you can do in your own organisation. Opening a lesson requires the US$300 purchase. A designer membership does not open it.
01
The Review Bottleneck
After this module you can put critique hours on a calendar for one team, and refuse a full week instead of quietly lowering the bar.
02
The System as the Control Plane
After this module you can say what must be true of the design system before a second team turns agents on, and decline a component that only looks plausible.
03
Research Agents Must Not Fake
After this module you can separate desk research an agent may speed from evidence only a participant can give, and keep a synthetic user out of a roadmap sentence.
04
Permission, Brand, and IP
After this module you can take counsel a dated list — client material, generative media, authorship, computer use — without treating the lesson as a legal opinion.
05
The Page You Sign
After this module you can sign one note: owners, the quality bar, the permission list, and what happens when a gate fails.
US$300 once for all three leadership courses. Designer membership does not include them, and this purchase does not open the designer courses.
If the company pays
Buy the seat that can refuse the work.
Ask the company to pay the US$300 this quarter for the person who owns the bar. What the company keeps is a signed note: who can refuse, what must be true before work ships, which questions go to counsel, and the path when a gate fails.
Output is already ahead of review. A second team pointing agents at the system does not need a new fiscal year. Counsel and security are partners in the permission module. They are not the students.
A certificate names the student. This note names the owners. The company can file the note. It cannot file a credential in place of a refusal.
A different product
A certificate names you. These pages name the decision.
A general executive AI program teaches leaders to plan adoption across a company. That is useful study, and it ends in a credential. This purchase tells a design organisation what to change on Monday.
| Question | This purchase | A general certificate |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is for | The head of design, the design manager in that seat, or the executive who sponsors the function. | Mid-to-senior leaders in any function who want a general AI adoption program. |
| What you leave holding | Pages from your own organisation: an operating model, a governance note, and a ninety-day ask. No certificate is issued. | A certificate of completion. An executive AI program may also offer continuing-education units, or a certificate for each course in a series. |
| What you can take to Monday's meeting | A class that may run, a gate a person holds, or a page someone signs, written from your organisation. | A roadmap, a capstone plan, or an executive pitch about adoption in general. |
| How you study | Written lessons already in the product. No cohort date and no live faculty session. | A scheduled cohort, live sessions, and named faculty. |
| What you pay here | US$300 once for the three leadership courses together. | Tuition is on their page. This school does not copy their price. |
After you pay
What happens when you pay
Written lessons. No cohort date. The same module is the slides, the study guide, and the transcript.
01
Sign in
If you are not signed in, the button takes you to sign-in first, then back to checkout. Use the email the receipt should go to.
02
Pay once
The price is US$300 for the three courses together. Where tax applies, Stripe adds it at checkout. You do not pay again to open the other two.
03
The three courses open
Leading a Design Organization with Agents, Quality, Systems, and Accountability, and Design and Agents: Decisions for the CEO open on that account.
US$300 once for all three leadership courses. Designer membership does not include them, and this purchase does not open the designer courses.
What buyers say
Before the company pays
The lines below are the ones a head of design hears before anyone approves US$300.
01
We already pay for ChatGPT
A shared login is a receipt. The missing decision is which capability class may touch production, what a human still stops, and who answers when the work ships. Keep the tool. Write the page.
02
My designers can learn the tools themselves
They should. The designer track teaches that craft: briefing, prototyping, critique, research packets, the design system, coding agents. This purchase does not open those courses, and those courses do not decide which class may run or who signs the gate. Skill in the team does not name the owner.
03
I'll send the team to a general AI course
Send them if you want a company-wide adoption plan and a credential at the end. A general executive AI program is built for that. It does not write the page your design organisation will use on Monday: the classes, the gates, the quality bar, the ninety-day ask. Buy the certificate for the credential. Buy this for the page.
04
I don't have time for a 4-hour course
The two longer courses are each about four hours of reading, in modules of about forty-five minutes. The CEO course is about two hours. There is no live session and no week you have to clear. Read until the page you need this quarter is drafted, and stop.
05
We already pay for designer membership
That payment opens the designer-track courses. It does not open these three. This US$300 payment does not start a membership and does not open the designer track. The craft and the decisions are different work, so they are different products.
06
Do we pay US$300 three times?
No. One payment of US$300 opens all three: the operating model, the quality bar, and the short course for the CEO.
07
I need a certificate to show my manager
You will not get one here. What you can hand over is a page from your own organisation: the operating model, the governance note, or the ninety-day ask. If the manager needs a credential from a general program, buy that program. If the manager needs the decision named, buy this.
08
This is an engineering problem
Coding agents are one class of capability. Critique capacity, the design system those agents follow, and whether a synthetic user counts as evidence are decisions the design organisation owns. Engineering cannot sign them for you.
09
Is this a legal opinion?
No. The permission module is a dated list of questions design and counsel answer together. It does not tell you what the law is.
US$300 once for all three leadership courses. Designer membership does not include them, and this purchase does not open the designer courses.
Read the argument
The essay, then the course.
The article is the case, and it is public. The course is the sequence that produces the page.
The page you sign when volume rises
Public essay for this course. No sign-in.
Read articleResearch Packets for Agentic Design
A practical editorial system for turning tool changes, reader questions, screenshots, examples, and experiments into durable agentic-design curriculum.
Read articleDesign Systems That Maintain Themselves (Almost): Agents and Token Sync
Design systems decay between redesigns, not during them. This article traces a real accent-token change across CSS variables, components, and prose documentation, shows the review gate that caught a deliberately introduced error, and lays out the standing maintenance loop an agent can run — plus the deprecation, breaking-change, and taste decisions that stay human.
Read articleAnti-Slop Brand Contracts: Encoding Taste as Eval Criteria
A practical method for turning brand taste into fail-closed eval criteria — anti-slop rules, measurable checks, and critique rubrics agents can run before a human ever opens the diff.
Read articleAuthorship, Disclosure, and Studio Governance for Agentic Design
A practical governance kit for design studios and campus programs: when to disclose agent assistance, how to keep critique logs that assign accountability, and why verification rituals matter more than generation speed when work carries a human signature.
Read articleThe Agentic Designer
The operating model for product designers, design leads, and builders who need to understand what changes when agents join design work.
Open Design
A practical field guide to running local-first, agent-native design-as-code workflows without surrendering brand quality or vendor independence.
Buy the group
A note you can sign: owners, the bar, the permissions, the incident path.
US$300 once for all three leadership courses. Designer membership does not include them, and this purchase does not open the designer courses.
Open the first lesson