Design insights, AI product tips, and studio updates from the Sylva team.
YouTube now refuses to pay mass-produced, template-made video, and most Shorts automation advice is written for faceless channel farms. Here's what the rules actually say, what they don't ban, and how a brand builds a Shorts pipeline that stays on the right side of them.
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AI makes each piece of work look better and the whole field look the same. The research is in. Here's why experts should lead AI with their own vision, what to keep and what to hand over, and the loop we use on every project.
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Frontend and backend became full-stack. UI/UX is becoming design engineering. Here are seven roles AI is folding together over the next few years, the one role that sits above them all, and how to get ahead of it.
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An AI-written sales email quoted our own service pages back to us. Here's what AI tools really read on a website, which AI crawlers to let in, what's hype (llms.txt included), and a checklist for making your site AI-ready.
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A custom AI tool has two bills: the build, paid once, and the running cost, paid every month in model fees and hosting. Here's what drives each one, how to estimate yours, and when you shouldn't build at all.
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WordPress doesn't rank pages. Pages rank pages. Here's what actually gets a custom-built site found on Google and in AI answers, and the checklist we run before every launch.
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Most of your visitors are on a phone, often on mobile data. Shrinking the desktop layout doesn't cut it. Here's what we actually check before a site goes live on phones.
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We shipped custom WordPress features for a client without knowing PHP. Here's what AI-assisted coding actually unlocks for studios, and the honest catch nobody mentions.
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The skill isn't picking the best model. It's wiring several together so each does what it's best at, and managing the handoffs where everything actually breaks.
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