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Sun Life had a sun with rays and a globe. Sunlife now has a yellow circle. A brand literally named after light just removed the light. The rays were the warmth. The globe was the story. Simplify the shape, never the soul. Every big rebrand now optimizes for the favicon and forgets the feeling. The excuse is always "optimized for digital." Screens render character just fine. We choose not to. When every logo is built to survive a favicon, none of them survive in your memory. Simplify the shape, never the soul. Are brands designing for people or for app icons?

AI produces the average of everything it has seen. Average is now instantly available, so average stops being worth paying for.

Everyone's building products for AI agents now. Almost nobody is designing for them. An agent can't squint at a vague number or guess what a broken command meant. It just fails, and your user blames you. @meow just raised a $31.6M Series B led by @Stifel with @archetypevc to build a bank for agents. @brandon, I went through the site and the agent flow. 8 fixes. WEBSITE 1. "By the numbers" has no numbers Now: "Meow Technologies by the numbers", then "$ Billions", "$ Billions", "Thousands". That's the whole section. Why it hurts: in banking, a word where a figure should be reads as hiding something. Fix: if the exact figure can't go public, round down to a floor you can defend. Saw this at Real Vision 2.0: people trusted one real number over a big vague word. Any digit beats a word. 2. The yield line hedges twice Now: the hero says "Earn up to" a range (3.73 to 3.97% today). The $100,000 minimum that decides if you qualify sits in 11px fine print under the button. Why it hurts: "up to" plus a range is two hedges, and the condition is the smallest text on the screen. Fix: one number with the condition in the same line, like "3.97% on balances over $100k". At Methlab the condition sat right next to the yield, never under it. 3. Three card issuers, no explanation Now: the hero says the Meow Card is issued by Cross River Bank. Lower on the homepage the Meow Commercial Card is issued by Community Federal Savings Bank. /cards says Lead Bank. Why it hurts: these may be three real products, but nothing says which card is which, so on a bank site it reads as a mistake. Fix: one small card table with card name, issuer and who it's for. At HumanAPI all trust copy came from one source, so it never contradicted itself. 4. The treasury fee is written two ways Now: /treasury says "1 basis point per month annualized". The FAQ on the same page says "0.01% per month". Why it hurts: a reader can't tell if that is 0.01% or 0.12% a year, and fees are where a money product earns or loses trust. Fix: state the yearly number once, the same way in both places, then say how it's billed. At Real Vision 2.0 every price went out in one format across the product. 5. On mobile the legal block outweighs the pitch Now: on a 390px phone the pitch under the headline is 5 lines. Under the only button sits a 14 line block of 11px legal text, the first of 6 "not a bank" lines on the homepage. Why it hurts: the screen where someone decides reads like a warning label. Fix: one plain line by the button with the full disclosure a tap away. At Eclipse we kept the one required line near the action and moved the rest behind a link. PRODUCT 6. The agent onboarding breaks on step one Now: /mcp has you paste a prompt that sends your agent to meow.com/skills.md. That file says "Start with meow start". On the published CLI (@joinmeow/cli 0.0.26, checked today) meow start returns "error: unknown command 'start'". The real entry is meow onboarding start. Why it hurts: this is the feature on the homepage banner and in the raise story. An agent that errors on the first step either guesses or gives up. Fix: change the line, then run every command in skills.md against the latest CLI on each release. At HumanAPI the first step of onboarding got more testing than any screen after it. 7. The skill describes a CLI that doesn't exist Now: the skills.md table lists pay, card, invoice, upload and confirm. In the CLI, meow pay just prints the general help; the real tools are create-ach-transfer, create-wire-transfer, create-card, create-invoice. The create-card help also gives two caps for the same limit field: $1,000 per card, and a few lines later $25,000. Why it hurts: agents follow the doc literally. A wrong command name or a wrong cap turns into a failed payment or a confused founder. Fix: generate skills.md from the CLI's own command list so the two can't drift, and pick one cap per context in plain words. 8. Two ways in for one account Now: skills.md says "No passwords are used", sign in is an email code. app.meow.com/signup asks for an email and a password. And its Sign up button is blue while every Get Started on meow.com is orange. Why it hurts: someone who starts in Claude and later opens the web app doesn't know which way in is theirs, and the jump from site to app feels like a different company. Fix: one sign in method on both surfaces (email code, Google as the option) and the same orange button from site to app. None of this needs a rebrand. Most of it is copy, one table and one release check. Happy to share the full notes.

2/ Never open on a closed market. My first mobile screen said "Entries are closed for this round. Play again next round." On desktop the featured market had 1 entry on each side, then locked. Feature the next open market with a countdown. Don't make no the first answer.

1/ Say what CRSH is before the stream plays. New visitors get a live Madden stream and "Will Q1 reach over 12.5 total points?" Nothing says pick, win coins, redeem. "WATCH. PICK. WIN." sits 1,493px down. Mobile has no How it Works at all. Put that line on the stream.

2/ Give developers a door. The only hero button is "Get in Touch", a sales form. "Read the docs" sits 4,800px down the page. Put it next to the main button. Devs pick the API. Make them hunt and they leave.

1/ Say the edge in the hero. It reads "Global Money Movement Infrastructure". Your own meta description says "stablecoin-powered". Try: "Move money in 180+ countries on stablecoin rails." Clear beats clever.