Color
One ground, one accent. The page is a true cool near-black; the only brand color is an emerald green, used in small doses — drop cap, CTA, pull-quote rule, footnote marks, category labels. Everything else is the ink scale. Vendor tints live only inside the app figures.
Type — two voices, no third
Source Serif 4, italic, is the expressive voice: the thesis, pull quotes, and all marginalia. Manrope is the working voice — body, deks, labels, numbers, and figure timestamps — and its 800 weight is the assertive headline, the declarative counterpart to the serif's intimate one. Two voices, no third. (An earlier Special Elite typewriter cameo has been retired.)
You don't need to become a different person to take on more.
thesis · --type-thesis · opsz 60
A Tuesday in May.
section head · --type-section · opsz 32
The right system shows up, finds the load that's already on you, and quietly takes it.
pull quote · --type-quote
byline / marginalia · opsz 14
Say yes to the work you actually want.
display · Manrope 800 · --type-headline · the assertive headline
A letter for the fractional CFO who has reached the ceiling of what one person can hold.
dek · --type-dek · weight 400
You have run the math. The math says yes. Your week says no. The gap between those two numbers is the shape of a problem productivity advice cannot answer.
body · --type-body · 1.7 leading
number · --type-price · tabular, weight 700
category label · Manrope 600 · uppercase · emerald · the site motif
6:42 AM 8:30 AM 1:34 PM 5:30 PM
Never used for running text. One register, one job.
Editorial components
The page is a letter. These are its parts — each lifted verbatim from the implementation. Compose them in a single reading column (--col), letting figures break out to --col-wide.
May 2026
You don't need to become a different person to take on more.
A letter for the fractional CFO who has reached the ceiling of what one person can hold.
You have run the math. The math says yes. Your week says no. The gap between those two numbers is the shape of a problem productivity advice cannot answer.
What it is. What it isn't.
You do not need more delegation. You need a different shape of help.— Alex Peck, alxpck.com/notes
About five billable hours, at the rates you charge today.
Book a call to begin →Twenty minutes. The call is for getting started, not for being sold.
slot
Alex Peck
Founder, AI Executive Assistants
- Per-customer data isolation. One client's context never enters another's. Built on Anthropic's commercial terms, not the consumer policy.
- Cancel any month. No setup fee. Onboarding is one ninety-minute call plus a week of supervised operation.
Figures — schematic wireframe windows
Product moments are drawn as schematic line-art “windows” — not photographic app mockups. Each is one of six device archetypes so the set reads as many different tools, never one rounded rectangle repeated. The component CSS is assets/wireframes.css; the full collection lives in Workflows, and they hang in the letter's margins in Home.
- Reyes — approve the scope
- Ops hire — confirmed Thu
- Pike — refund credited
Rules of the figure:
- Pure schematic line-art on the dark ground — hairline strokes, one accent, real text only where the narrative needs it.
- Frame color is the variant: gray (default), .wf--white (bright), .wf--emerald (green chrome). Mix them so the set has texture.
- Each archetype sets its own
--wf-wand radius, so ratios differ by tool. - They are frozen illustrations — no live UI, no scroll entrance. In Home they bleed off the page edges as marginalia.
Space, radius & shadow
A rem-based ~1.5× scale. Radius is restrained except the phone. On the dark ground, elevation reads as a hairline ring plus a soft drop — not a glow.
Motion — ambient, never blanking
Everything loads visible. There is no scroll-triggered entrance. The only motion is subtle, in-place ambient loops that imply the assistant is working — and they never hide content. All of it collapses under prefers-reduced-motion.
drafting dots
breathing highlight · --loop-breathe
moved-event pulse · --loop-pulse
checklist glow · --loop-glow
Usage
The rules that keep the system feeling like one brand.
Do
- Use serif italic for the things that feel; Manrope for the things that work.
- Keep emerald rare — a few touches per page.
- Set prose in one column at
--col; break figures out to--col-wide. - Draw figures as schematic wireframe windows; mix gray, white & emerald frames.
- Place a face where credibility is claimed, not as a sign-off.
Don't
- Add a third type family or a mono eyebrow.
- Use gold, navy, or warm-charcoal grounds — the ground is #060b0e.
- Fade content in on scroll, or animate anything to blank.
- Set body in serif — serif is the guest, not the host.
- Tint the dark page with vendor colors; keep figures schematic.