Blog

Notes from the studio building Tonioz.

Long form thinking on AI generated websites, commerce structure and the design decisions we ship as defaults.

Craft

Why a brief beats a template

Templates decide your layout before they know your business. A written brief lets the system infer structure from the offer instead of forcing the offer into a grid.

8 min read

Commerce

The anatomy of a storefront that converts

Product pages live or die on hierarchy: one price, one promise, one action. We break down the patterns Tonioz generates by default and why.

6 min read

Product

How credits map to real generation work

A full site build, a section regeneration and a chat refinement cost very different amounts of compute. Here is how we price each one transparently.

5 min read

Design

Restraint as a design system

Near black surfaces, one accent, generous whitespace. The constraints we ship as defaults, and how to bend them without breaking the look.

7 min read

Studio

From client work to product

A decade of agency builds taught us which decisions repeat. Those repetitions became Tonioz's opinionated defaults.

9 min read

Engineering

Publishing to the edge in seconds

Certificates, DNS and cache invalidation, handled behind one button. A look at the publish pipeline and its instant rollback path.

6 min read