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Kahlil Ballenger

Workstudio

Backlit

The marketing site for Backlit, an AI product built to carry your mental load. Quiet intelligence, clearly illuminated.

Client
Backlit — a CF Studio product
Year
2026
Role
Product design, build
Stack
Astro, TypeScript, Vercel
Backlit — the live site
backlit-v9-dappledgold.vercel.app, captured live2026

Problem

Backlit is an AI product with a promise most AI products don't make: it works so you can live. The site had to feel like that promise — warm, calm, and nothing like a SaaS template.

Approach

A full design system built before the pages: warm light, soft paper tones, serif voice. The landing page shows the product doing what it does — quietly carrying the small things a household mind carries.

Build

An Astro site with its own design-system bundle and component library, plus the content system behind the brand's ongoing series and campaigns.

Taught

This one's ours. Backlit is a Creative Flow Studio product — the range proof that the same hands that ship client sites can ship a product brand end to end.