The four artifacts
Each one is made from the one before it.
Step 1CreateAn idea. A sketch, a photo, or a typed description.
Step 2StudioA photograph — the garment as it would be shot for e-commerce.
Step 3Tech FlatA drawing. Black line art, traced from the photograph.
Step 4Tech PackA document. What a factory is given in order to make it.
A step opens once the step before it has produced something. That is not a formality — a technical flat is traced from your studio flat, and a tech pack is read from your technical flat. Skipping ahead would build on nothing.
Work done early is influence, not pixels. Converting a concept into a studio flat re-renders the garment, so an hour spent on a collar in step one survives as a strong hint rather than as the collar you drew. Do fine work on the artifact that lasts.
Nothing is overwritten
Every step adds an entry to the history strip along the bottom. Each tile is a complete moment: the images, the instruction that produced them, the references that were checked, the parts that were found.
- Click a tile to return to it. The instruction box then shows what happens next from there — never how it got there.
- The ✦ on a tile starts the next step from that tile. The main button always uses the newest; this is how you use a particular one.
- While something is generating, history freezes. Tiles dim and refuse clicks, because a run in flight writes its result against whatever is active when it lands.