- SAM BRONSON
- Posts
- ARTIFACT // IDENTITY.SYS
ARTIFACT // IDENTITY.SYS
IDENTITY BUILDING SYSTEM
INTRO
// THE CRISIS OF AESTHETIC SAMENESS
We’re surrounded by sameness. Templates. AI slop. Empty visuals. It’s souless.
Founders try to build brands, but most default to what’s easy:
Templates that sterilize uniqueness
Tools too dense for clarity
AI visuals with no anchor in who you are
The current system is backward. It starts with icon first and retrofits meaning after. You end up with a "brand" that’s pretty looking, but dead. Surface polish without coherence.
IDENTITY IS SYSTEMATIC, NOT STYLISTIC
Your identity isn't a logo. It's architecture. A reflection of your internal logic rendered through external symbolism.
IDENTITY.SYS starts where most systems fail: at the root. Meaning precedes visuals. Structure precedes style.
This is identity as protocol --not just a moodboard.
// HOW IT WORKS
IDENTITY.SYS is modular, prompt-driven, and built in markdown. It scales with you. Four structured phases:
Signal Extraction
Surface your aesthetic inputs, principles, and personal design logic.Taste Filtering
Apply curated filters that align with your actual sensibilities.Symbolic Ideation
Use AI only where it assists -- to sketch meaning, not generate noise.Prompt Engineering
Translate symbolic concepts into reproducible visual logic.
Every module is traceable, remixable, and anchored in source code: your own taste.
// WHAT YOU GET
Visual identity rooted in your internal structure
Symbols that reflect your personal or project ethos
Full brand kits: typography, palettes, system logic
AI-assisted outputs governed by system rules, not style trends
A markdown-driven prompt library for adaptation and evolution
This isn’t “branding.” This is identity deployment.
// WHO ITS FOR
Founders who want brand as extension, not accessory
Designers seeking higher signal-to-noise execution
Agencies replacing moodboarding with symbolic logic
Anyone tired of style-first, substance-later workflows
Works across mediums. Personal brands. Digital products. Physical spaces.
DESIGN PHILOSOPHIES // MODERN TOOLS
A study in constraint, reduction, and symbolic deployment
// VIRGIL ABLOH
"Use what’s available to you."
Abloh treated constraint as a design principle. Zip ties, Helvetica, Air Jordans--he remixed the existing into new form. His work wasn’t about creating from scratch. It was about transforming context.
IDENTITY.SYS treats AI the same way. Not as the final designer, but as the modern material. Everyone has access. What matters is how you direct it.
// RICK RUBIN
"Remove everything that isn't the truth."
Rubin’s process was about subtraction. No layering, no noise--just essence. His best work came from cutting away until what remained was real.
IDENTITY.SYS is reductive. It doesn’t decorate. It surfaces signals and strips identity to its symbolic root. You don’t need more. You need structure.
// PAUL RAND
"Design is the silent ambassador of your brand."
Rand designed identities as systems of meaning. A logo wasn’t a mark--it was a message. Every curve, color, and shape encoded intent.
IDENTITY.SYS is built on symbolic logic. Each visual element is traceable to internal context. AI assists in creation, but meaning precedes generation.
This is identity through system, not style.
AI is the tool. You provide the signal.
The output is not a look. It’s a language.
Package Includes
PDF + Markdown documentation
Core aesthetic filters (Brutalism, Cartoon Modernism, more)
Prompt engine with syntax examples
Implementation walkthrough
Upgrades Available
Access to future filter packs and expansions
Priority update access
Your Identity Is a System
Stop outsourcing your taste to templates.
Stop waiting for the logo to “feel right.”
Start building identity like infrastructure.
Deploy IDENTITY.SYS
Change how you’re perceived by changing the system behind your perception.
Right now it’s in early access.
It won’t stay this price forever, so get it while you can.
// USE CODE "EARLYBIRD" AT CHECKOUT TO RECEIVE 25% OFF
*Limited to the first 20 purchases.