Client handoff, minus the screen-share

The pattern we hear most from agencies isn't "we need AI to design faster." It's "we need our clients to stop emailing us screenshots with red circles on them." A two-person studio we talked to used to hand off finished sites as a Figma file plus a recorded walkthrough, then field weeks of "can you just move this button" requests that never justified opening a new invoice.

What changed

They build the first draft in Zitegen from the client's brief, refine it in the visual canvas during the kickoff call, and invite the client into the same team workspace — not as a spectator, as a member who can drag the button themselves. Small tweaks stop being tickets. The studio's time goes to work that actually needs a designer: the pieces the client can't move on their own.

The part they didn't expect

Because every plan's code editor and file tree stay unlocked, the studio's own developers still work exactly like they did before — real files, real Astro, exportable any time — while the client-facing side stays visual. Nobody had to convince their engineers to trust a black box.

The badge that free-tier sites carry is enforced server-side during the Cloudflare build step, not written into the client's source — so a white-labeled studio plan never leaves "Built with Zitegen" sitting in a file a client might stumble across.