What compounding looks like
A senior detailer’s window-and-door marking convention — the kind of craft that usually walks out the door — is now a named, vetted skill the whole studio runs. Captured once. Reused on every plan after.
Every plan, a detailer tags the windows and doors that get cut and re-letters their marks room by room. It’s exacting, repeated on every plan, and it lives in the head of whoever’s done it longest. With Treillage, that convention was captured as a reusable skill that encodes the firm’s exact standard — room-number-plus-letter marks, the firm’s own ordering and tag families, leaders off — so the default output follows house style with zero configuration. It runs the same way for everyone, and every change it makes is its own clean undo step. The craft stops being one person’s memory and becomes vetted, reusable structure — and Treillage runs and compounds it. Compound the craft.
Why a captured skill holds up
Run it with no arguments and the output already follows the firm’s convention — room-number-plus-letter marks, the firm’s ordering, the firm’s tag families, leaders off. The standard is baked in, not retyped each time.
Every change Treillage makes lands as its own undo step — back any one of them out with a single Ctrl+Z and the rest stay put. Safe to run on a live sheet: nothing it does is locked in.
The same plan produces the same marks and tags no matter who runs it — a reviewable, repeatable sequence instead of work redone by hand on every plan. It’s not a black box: the skill is there to read, so the firm can see exactly what it does.
A skill clears a review gate before any teammate reuses it — a structure check, a required self-test, an automated check that it runs clean, and an ongoing check that flags a skill when something it relies on has changed or drifted out of date. What you reuse is work you trust, not whatever ran last.
From the firms we work with
Every plan set, the same task: tag the cut windows and exterior doors and re-letter their marks, room by room, in the firm’s reading order. Exacting, repetitive, and dependent on the one person who knew the convention cold.
They captured that convention once as a vetted, shared skill. It encodes the firm’s exact standard, so the default output matches house style with no setup — and because it runs the same way for everyone — and every change it makes is its own reversible step — the next teammate gets an identical result, with nothing locked in they can’t back out. The standard now travels with the skill instead of with one detailer.
The exact high-repetition work a captured skill pays back.
On its first real set, a schedule that took our detailer 3.5 hours by hand took 45 minutes with the skill — about 2.75 hours saved.
Measured on CRAFT, our own architecture firm and first design partner; first production run.