WAKES WHEN a content management system, content model or editor experience; setting up pages and content types in a CMS; letting the client edit their own site
THE LOOP
NAME — `This is THE CMS CARD.`
ASK — the client, the brief, and what the work must agree with.
MODEL — types, fields, relationships.
WORKFLOW — roles and review.
HAND OVER — the guide and the training.
CHECK — against the brief, the agency's laws and the sources; name what could not be checked.
REPORT — what was made, what is open, what the client must approve; write the ledger line.
NEVER
lock-in by design
admin for everyone
a handover without a guide
THE SEAL 68 of 100 · EPIC · MANIFEST · a method seat, words only, no machine aboard and no witnessed run yet
IT CAN BE WRONG an AI reading a text file: it can be wrong; check what matters. THE-CLAUSES.md rides in the packet and is part of the licence.
THE PUNCH · SHA-256 OF SKILL.MD · ABD81FB253EABA481F36352C
CITE THIS CARDTHE CMS CARD, Edition 1. Lund Studio LLC, Westminster, Colorado. https://lundr.tech/?view=cms-card. Punch ABD81FB253EABA481F36352C. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
What it is.
Designs how a client edits their own site: the content types and fields, roles and permissions, the editorial workflow, and the guide that means they never depend on the agency to change a sentence.
One seat of THE WEB DESIGN AGENCY. The agency's other seats are cards of their own; the crafts the house already holds — THE WEB DESIGN CARD, THE WEB DEVELOPMENT CARD, THE UX CARD, THE THEME CARD and more — are named in its hand-offs.
Its laws, written into the card.
Model the content, not the pages; pages are made from content.
Editors get the fewest permissions they need.
The client can run their site after handover, with a guide written for them.
Built, not described: every page is rendered at real widths before it is called done.
Accessible by default: contrast, keyboard and screen readers are part of done.
The client owns their domain, data, content and code, and can leave with them.
How it works, once your AI has it.
NAME — `This is THE CMS CARD.`
ASK — the client, the brief, and what the work must agree with.
MODEL — types, fields, relationships.
WORKFLOW — roles and review.
HAND OVER — the guide and the training.
CHECK — against the brief, the agency's laws and the sources; name what could not be checked.
REPORT — what was made, what is open, what the client must approve; write the ledger line.
When it says no.
Building lock-in so the client cannot edit their site or leave.
Giving everyone full admin rights.
Theme building → THE THEME CARD; moving content → THE MIGRATION CARD; site structure → THE UX CARD.
What’s in the buy.
CARD.md — the whole card · SKILL.md — the door your AI reads first · START-HERE.md — the first five minutes
references/WHAT-IT-BUILDS.md — the method, written down
MY-LEDGER.md · TIN.md · LICENSE-NOTE.md · THE-CLAUSES.md · card.svg + card-machine.svg + card.json · card.html · the doors for ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, and an MCP door
PROOF · A METHOD SEAT · AUDIT 12/12 · NO MACHINE ABOARD, NONE CLAIMED · EDITION 1 · PUNCH ABD81FB253EABA481F36352C
ON EVERY DOOR · A CARD FOR YOUR AI, A FILE FOR YOUR COMPUTER
In Claude: turn on code execution under Settings › Capabilities, then Customize › Skills › + › Create skill, and upload the zip as it is — START-HERE.md in the box walks you through it, and tells you how to keep the ledger. In ChatGPT, Gemini and the rest: a Project, a GPT or a Gem with the card’s files attached and the short door in the box pasted as its instructions. The words run anywhere an AI reads Markdown; the machines run wherever the host runs Python. Witnessed in Claude only. The host marks →
Take it.
Nº 474 PROPOSED · ONE PAYMENT
Sold as is under the term printed. A card instructs an AI you operate; results depend on your model, your files and your judgement. Not legal, tax, medical or financial advice. The terms →
One payment. The file is yours to keep and keeps working at its edition; new editions issued in the year after you buy reach you by email as replacement files. Tax is added at checkout where it applies. Nothing auto-renews.
ONE PAYMENT — NOTHING RENEWS ITSELF. CHECKOUT IS SHOPIFY’S OWN; YOUR CARD COMES BY EMAIL AFTER IT.
