Why Spektral

Design systems should not live in the terminal.

Claude Code helps developers change code. Spektral helps the whole product team define, generate, review, and govern a design system: designers, engineers, accessibility reviewers, product stakeholders, and leaders working from one shared contract — in one shared, cloud-synced workspace.

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Team intent

Designer asks for a destructive Button with loading and AA contrast.

Shared contract

Spec captures API, states, keyboard, accessibility, and decisions.

Reviewable output

Code, tokens, stories, docs, audit log, and platform conformance.

Spec-bound · reviewed · ready to ship
Democratized design systems

Claude Code is a coding agent. Spektral is a design-system workspace.

The point is not to replace engineers. The point is to stop making the terminal the only place where design-system decisions can happen.

Design

Shape intent without translating it into tickets

Designers can work from their own Figma variables and frames — tokens, variants, states, and stories — instead of handing off static screenshots.
Product

Review behavior and tradeoffs before code review

Stakeholders can see the component contract, states, docs, and Storybook output in language they can evaluate — and every proposed change arrives summarised in plain English.
Accessibility

Audit rules stay in the workflow

Keyboard behavior, roles, contrast, and axe checks become part of generation instead of a late-stage correction pass.
Engineering

Review governed implementation, not a mystery diff

Engineers still own quality, but they review code generated against specs, tokens, platform rules, and conformance metadata.
Multiplayer

A shared contract needs a shared workspace.

A design system on one laptop

Everything routes through one person

  • Onboarding means repo access, a clone, and a setup afternoon.
  • Token edits queue behind whoever owns the branch.
  • Two people touching the same component means merge markers.
  • "Which version are we on?" has no reliable answer.
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The system lives in the cloud, and so does the team

  • A teammate checks out a ready-to-run project from the welcome screen — no repo, no clone.
  • Tokens merge conflict-free; different tokens never collide, and there's no dialog to dismiss.
  • Components are versioned whole and never silently overwritten — conflicts get rebased by the agent, re-applying your intent onto their version.
  • Branches, change requests, and browser-based review put a boundary around main when you want one.
  • Every change request opens with a plain-English summary of what changed — written separately for developers and designers — so approving doesn't require reading a diff.
  • Immutable, semver'd releases give products something to pin.
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Personas and scenarios

Different roles. One system contract.

Spektral gives every contributor a useful surface: visual intent, specs, tokens, stories, audits, code, and conformance all stay connected.

Designer

Turns design intent into a component brief

A designer selects a frame in Figma with the Spektral plugin running and asks for variants, states, and tokenized styling.
Spektral captures the spec, maps tokens, and creates Storybook examples the designer can review.
Developer

Reviews governed code instead of starting from scratch

An engineer needs production platform code that follows local conventions, typed APIs, token-only styling, and the shared spec.
Spektral writes the implementation, runs checks, and leaves a focused diff against a visible contract.
Design systems lead

Keeps teams aligned as the system grows

A lead needs to know which platforms match the current spec and where teams have accepted real deviations.
Spektral tracks conformance metadata and makes drift visible instead of hiding it in implementation details.
Accessibility reviewer

Moves accessibility earlier in the workflow

A reviewer wants keyboard behavior, roles, contrast, and focus states handled before the component reaches final review.
Spektral records accessibility requirements in the spec and runs audits against rendered stories.
Product stakeholder

Signs off on behavior without reading a diff

A PM needs to confirm loading, empty, disabled, and error states before the component ships into a product flow.
Spektral produces reviewable stories and docs, and opens every change request with a plain-English summary of what changed — so behavior can be discussed outside the terminal.
Choose the right tool

Claude Code edits software. Spektral operates the design system.

General coding agent

Best when a developer is already in the repo

  • Explore unfamiliar repos and ask broad questions.
  • Refactor across files when the correct boundary is unknown.
  • Collaborate in the terminal when the artifact can change shape.
Spektral

Best when the whole team needs a governed artifact

  • Turn team intent into a durable design-system contract.
  • Ship tokens, stories, docs, accessibility, and code together.
  • Track conformance across platforms so decisions stay visible.
  • Keep the system in the cloud so the whole team edits it live.
  • Branch, review, and cut versioned releases products can pin.
The difference

The spec is the meeting point.

Spektral gives every participant a common artifact to inspect: the spec. Code is one implementation of that contract, alongside tokens, stories, docs, accessibility, and platform conformance.

01

Turnkey by default

The app, token build, platform config, Storybook conventions, audits, and approval gates are already wired.
02

Spec before implementation

The contract captures behavior, accessibility, variants, and decisions before framework details pull the work off course.
03

Shared review surface

Specs, stories, docs, and audit results make design-system work visible beyond the engineering team.
04

Governed output

Work orders, metadata, and audits make generation reviewable after the agent is done.
Spec-first workflow

From team intent to governed implementation.

01Intent

Team asks

Describe the component, or import variables and frames from Figma.

02Spec

Contract forms

Capture the shared agreement before code.

03Generate

System builds

Write platform code, CSS, stories, and tokens.

04Audit

Quality gates run

Check accessibility, tokens, and custom rules.

05Conform

Decision records

Mark the platform against the current spec.

Give the whole team
a way into the system.

Use Spektral when the artifact needs a shared contract, not just a clever diff.

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