An independent studio for
deterministic tools.
Hewnpath builds deterministic tools, one per platform. Basecraft gives Obsidian the pivot tables it never had; HewnFrame, HewnFlow and HewnScan audit Figma files, Webflow sites and Shopify stores. No LLM inside, no per-user API costs, behaviour you can rely on between releases.
Why deterministic
Every other linter in the design space is starting to sprinkle LLM "suggestions" everywhere. Suggestions vary run-to-run, can't be muted reliably, and cost the publisher per inference. They're also not auditable: you can't reason about why one finding showed up and not another.
We took the opposite path. Every check in the auditors is a rule over a static graph: the Figma node tree, the Webflow element tree, the Shopify DOM, the variable table. Same input, same output, every time. If you mute a rule by ID, it stays muted. If a customer reports a false positive, we can reproduce it from a fixture and ship a fix in a tagged release.
Voice
Direct, mildly dry. No hype, no emoji, no marketing fluff. The
plugin UI is minimal on purpose. Severity labels are
critical, warn, info, not
"Error / Warning / Notice". Check IDs are lowercase
(a-001, never A001). We treat designers
and developers like the smart, busy people they are.
Brand mark
A frame with one corner hewn away: the "hewn" in Hewnpath. The corner is either chiseled flat (stone-mason metaphor) or flowed out as a quarter-arc (motion), and every surface carries a single 45 degree cut, never four rounded corners. Terracotta is the studio colour, deliberately anti to every other design tool that defaults to SaaS blue. Each product then takes its own accent on top: indigo for Basecraft, ochre for HewnFrame, teal for HewnFlow, steel blue for HewnScan, so the four read as one family without looking identical.