Imprint

The design phase of a project, in one place

From the first questionnaire to a signed-off design — the brief, the site visit, the sourcing, the presentation and the approval, without leaving one workspace.

Sign in

For designers at Lotus Design Partners. Clients never sign in.

It replaces the patchwork, not one tool

A residential project currently lives across Designfiles, a Google Doc for the brief, a spreadsheet for the budget and a pile of browser bookmarks for the sourcing. Nothing is wrong with any of them individually. The cost is in the seams — the same measurement typed three times, the client’s answers in one place and the brief they shaped in another, and no single screen that says what is waiting on you this morning.

How a project moves

  1. 1

    Intake

    Questionnaire and what came back

  2. 2

    Creative brief

    Direction, images, client feedback

  3. 3

    Site visit

    Measurements, photos, floor plan

  4. 4

    Build the design

    Sourcing, mood board, budget

  5. 5

    Presentation

    Assemble and share with the client

  6. 6

    Edits & approval

    Feedback rounds, then sign-off

  7. 7

    Implementation

    Orders and deliveries — Phase 2

Ordering, deliveries and payments are Stage 7, and Imprint does not do them yet. They are listed rather than hidden, so it is clear where the boundary sits.

What it will not do

Invent a photograph

Every image in a brief or a presentation is a real, sourced, attributed photograph. Imprint generates none, and never will — a generated room is a promise no supplier can fill, and showing one to a client is a debt that comes due at the order stage.

Decide anything

The AI proposes; the designer disposes. Every output is editable and nothing is ever committed to a final state on her behalf. A tool that quietly overrules the person whose name is on the work is worth less than no tool.

Email your client

Imprint mints links; you send them, in your own words. Your client opens Imprint three times in a whole project — the questionnaire, the brief, and the presentation — and every time it wears your studio’s name, not ours.

Forget what you rejected

Every image you keep and every one you throw away is recorded. Over a few projects that becomes the firm’s own library, searched before the open web — cheaper every time, and more like you.