Thanor AI
Pre-launch
Art direction for AI-built websites

The model canbuild it. Someonehas to direct it.

Thanor gives your model the direction it was never given: a type scale, motion curves with real durations, and a section by section structure. Same model as everyone else. Output that survives a client presentation.

Claim a founding place
4 of 100 founding places left

Two ways in. One idea underneath.

Both hand the model art direction it does not have on its own. One is written. One is read off a page you already admire.

The prompt library

01

Each build prompt carries a full art direction: palette with hex values, a type scale, motion with named curves and durations, and a section by section structure. Paste it whole.

// excerpt
hero.reveal: mask, 1100ms
ease: cubic-bezier(.16,1,.3,1)
scale: 14 / 20 / 34 / 92
ambient: flow field, 60fps cap_
  • Scroll choreography
  • WebGL
  • Real time 3D

The cloning tool

02

Point it at a page you admire. It reads the live page and hands back its art direction as a brief: structure, rhythm, spacing, colour values, motion timing. How it works, not its code.

urlhttps://|
grid: 12 col / 96px gutter
rhythm: 160 / 96 / 48
accent: #F5A524, #38D6E0
motion: 1200ms, cubic-bezier(.16,1,.3,1)
Idle

Direction out, not markup

What a membership carries

Six things, and none of them is a template gallery.

Nothing here has shipped yet. The column on the right says when each one lands, and founding members get the first of everything.

01

UI design prompts

At launch

The library itself. Each prompt is a full art direction: palette with hex values, a type scale, motion with named curves and real durations, and a section by section structure. Written to be pasted whole.

02

Section library

At launch

Prompts scoped to one part of a page rather than a whole site. Headers, footers, heroes, pricing tables, testimonial rows, contact blocks. For when the site exists and one section lets it down.

03

Templates for Lovable and Bolt

At launch

The same directions packaged for the two builders people actually start in, so the first generation lands close instead of needing four rounds of correction.

04

The cloning tool

At launch

Point it at a page you admire. It reads the live page and hands back its art direction as a brief: structure, rhythm, spacing steps, colour values and motion timing. Direction, not markup.

05

MCP server

After launch

The library connected straight into the assistant you already work in, so a prompt arrives in context instead of through a clipboard.

06

Priority support, on every plan

Every plan

A ticket from a paying account goes to the front of the queue, on all three plans and for as long as the plan runs. It was written here as a founding-member perk, which it is not: the pricing page ticks it on every rung, and one of the two pages had to stop being true.

The MCP server will connect to
ClaudeChatGPTCursorWindsurfCopilotGemini

Any client that speaks the Model Context Protocol. These are the ones we are testing against first.

Founding access

One hundred places in the first batch. One email when it opens, and nothing else.

4/100
Places remaining

Join the waitlist: three months at half price at launch, plus ten one-month-free coupons drawn among subscribers.

4 of 100 founding codes remaining · no card required · one email when we open

Opening in the coming weeks

Who is building it
Matteo Manco and Matteo Barini in the Thanor studio
Matteo Manco and Matteo Barini  ·  the studio the prompts are written in

Two founders, one bar for the work.

Thanor is built by two people who between them cover the two halves this product needs: how a site should look, and how it is actually built.

Matteo Manco

Founder

Fifteen years building software, working vertically on SaaS, applications, automation and AI systems. Five startups launched and running.

Matteo Barini

Founder

Twelve years in design and art direction, on the side of the work that decides whether a site reads as expensive. Three startups launched and running.

The point

Every AI site looks the same because every AI gets the same instruction.

Slop is not a model problem. The models are already good enough. What they are missing is direction, and the direction they usually get is one sentence typed by someone who has never had to defend a layout to a client who is paying for it.

Thanor is the other input. Every prompt in the library is written by people who have spent over a decade making these calls on real budgets: where the eye lands first, what a section is actually for, why 1100ms reads as expensive and 300ms reads as cheap.

Prompt engineering on its own produces fluent slop. Design judgement on its own does not scale. The work is holding the two together, and keeping them together as the models keep moving.

Opening after launch

The designer programme

Thanor will open to working designers who want their direction in the library. You bring the judgement. We do the engineering that makes it survive contact with a model, and keep it working as they change.

Your taste reaches people who would never have hired you, and it stays credited to you. Terms and the opening date go to the waitlist first.

Questions

End of September. Founding places are released in one batch, and the waitlist is the only way into it.

No. There is no editor, no drag and drop, no template gallery. Thanor is the direction you give the model. You keep the tool you already build in.

Any assistant that writes front end code from a pasted brief. The prompts are written for Claude, Cursor, Lovable, Bolt and v0, and they carry the same direction into each one.

A brief. Section structure, vertical rhythm, spacing steps, colour values and motion timing, written so a model can build from it. It reads how a page works, not what it is made of.

It sits on the waitlist until launch, then you get one message. No newsletter, no resale, and you can ask for it to be deleted at any point.