Design Partner Diaries: Screening 50 K Images a Day (and the Weird Stuff We Found)
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Who Joined the Closed Beta
- Global ad agency (70 k creative assets/month)
- Digital-first newspaper (real-time UGC moderation)
- E-commerce CMS vendor (white-label integration)
3 Unexpected Findings
| Surprise | What Happened | Fix Implemented |
|---|---|---|
| JPEG 75 ≠ JPEG 75 | Vendor A’s encoder obliterated Stability marks. | Adaptive SSIM ∆ tuned for 0.95 threshold. |
| Mid-journey Overlays Are Evolving Weekly | New “—style v6” tag hid the watermark. | nightly crawl → model retrain pipeline. |
| Latency Matters Less Than Deploy Time | Agencies wanted turnkey compliance before Super Bowl campaigns. | Introduced a “no-code” Zapier connector. |
Metrics After 60 Days
- Detection recall: 98.3 % on 2 M live assets.
- False positives: 0.4 %, mainly old memes with heavy artifacts.
- Engineering hours saved: 160+ per design partner (self-reported).
Roadmap Adjustments
- Continuous Telemetry Loop – Auto-cluster failed detections → weekly retrain.
- Vendor API Aggregation – Google SynthID wrapper ships next sprint; Adobe Inspect API after that.
- Granular Receipts – Per-layer diff analysis for deepfakes.
Call to Action
Want early access and direct influence on the roadmap? Apply to the Design Partner Program—limited seats before GA.