Generative tools create. Tenet governs.
Tenet captures why decisions were made and surfaces that context at the moment new decisions happen. It starts inside Figma.
Figma-native. Starts where you work.
The problem
Design systems decay. Components get forked. Tokens drift. New team members copy patterns from the wrong screens. Generative AI tools accelerate this drift by producing plausible-looking designs that don't follow any rules. Nobody knows which decisions were intentional and which were accidents.
The missing layer isn't more documentation. It's intelligence that knows why each decision was made and can surface that context when someone is about to override it.
How Tenet works
Tenet operates in four modes, each building on the last.
Scan
Tenet checks your live pages, Figma frames, and copy against your rulebook, including accessibility standards, Apple's guidelines, and your own rules. Select a frame and it's reviewed as a specific persona, at a specific step in their journey.
Fix
A flagged problem shows what rule it broke, who it fails, and a fix you can accept in one click. Accept it, and the rewrite is written straight into the layer. Click the problem, and Figma jumps straight to that layer.
Remember
Every decision keeps its source: a call, a wiki page, a Slack message, or a plain description. Contradicting decisions get flagged before they cost a release. Uploading a document doesn't silently turn it into a rule; your team decides.
Govern
Claude Code, Cursor, and similar tools can have Tenet checked before anything gets written, and again after. An AI tool can propose a new persona or update, but only as a proposal. A person approves every change before it happens.
Why we're building this
We've spent 18 years building and maintaining design systems for enterprise clients. We know firsthand how quickly they decay when the people who made the original decisions leave or forget. Tenet is the tool we wished we had on every engagement.
Tenet is currently in development. If you're interested in early access, reach out.
See it on a real page
Point Tenet at a live page and it finds what most reviews miss: missing image labels, tap targets too small to use, text that fails contrast. It shows you exactly where, on the page itself, not in a spreadsheet.
Interested in design governance for your team?
Join the early access list or talk to us about a design system audit.