Conversation Too photoreal — we want flat minimal Refine·Improve·Decide reach

Improve the design — then decide how far it reaches

The same conversational loop that fixes a brand fact also refines creative work — and keeps the style guide living. When you improve a candidate mid-creation, the copilot offers a ladder of increasing permanence. You pick the rung; nothing graduates into the guide silently. The style guide — the canvas — updates live on the right.

Refine Improve 3 Decide reach Image · product shot
You
This candidate is too photoreal — we always want flat minimal illustration for product shots. Fix it, and make it our standard.
Assistant
Got it — refining this one to flat minimal illustration, no photoreal. Here are four fresh takes on the same subject in that style. Pick the one to carry forward:
Flat · clean geometry
Flat · soft palette
Flat · line-forward
Flat · high contrast
Same product, no photographic lighting — flat shapes, minimal detail, indigo + pink accents on cream.
Refined candidate selected
The first one. Now make it our standard.
"Make it standard" can mean a few different things — each more permanent than the last. How far should this reach? Pick the rung and I'll do the rest.
1
Just this candidate "fix only this one"
Refine this image, remember nothing. The next product shot starts photoreal again.
one-off
2
Remember as a rule "always flat minimal for product shots"
A scoped brand-learning (surface: image), injected into every future image generation. Reversible.
reversible
3
Pin as a look variant "make this our product-image look"
Pins this candidate as the image · flat-minimal look variant — future gens re-point to it instantly, no re-derive.
recommended
4
Update the style guide "this is our brand style now"
Edits the style-kit tokens (imagery direction) and recompiles the prompt block — the most canonical, applies everywhere the kit is read.
canonical
Higher rungs include the lower ones — a look-pin also remembers the rule. Reversible up to rung 3; rung 4 edits the guide itself.
Pinning bumps the kit revision (v3 → v4). 3 in-flight productions read the old pin — they'll show a re-sync option. They won't change until you re-sync each one.
Kit is unlocked — no unlock needed If the kit were locked, pinning or a guide edit would require an explicit unlock-confirm first.
Rung 3 — pin it as our product-image look.
Pinned. The style guide on the right now carries image · flat-minimal as the product-image look, and the rule is remembered underneath it.
Look variant pinned · kit v4 Rule remembered · surface image 3 productions offered re-sync
Compare against the old look Re-sync the 3 productions Promote to the style guide (rung 4)
Refining a candidate is free; picking a rung is one action. Rungs 1–3 are reversible; rung 4 edits the guide — always your explicit choice, never automatic.
Same substrate as the brand-fix loop — only the capability pack changed (image.refineCandidate + style.pinAsLook). Understand → improve → decide reach → apply → (remember). One conversational engine refines the work and keeps the style guide living, bidirectionally — see the brand-fix loop and the memory & learnings surface.