Products / 03 · 2026 · Open source

Taste Engine

Teaching AI a specific visual taste from a moodboard, then making it prove it.

github.com/ericseandevlin/taste-engine

Problem

AI can generate a hundred designs. It can't tell you which one is right for you. "Make it good" isn't a spec.

Insight

The real test for AI is holding a point of view. A moodboard is a point of view you can measure: the colors, the spacing, the patterns that repeat, the rules it never breaks. The pipeline pulls those out and holds the machine to them.

Solution

A pipeline that writes the taste down: catalog every reference, measure color, density, and composition, cluster what keeps showing up, and distill a thesis the AI has to follow. Open source on GitHub.

Outcome

AI that can take a moodboard as the spec and reliably generate to your taste. This site is the proof: its design direction came out of the engine.

76
references distilled into 8 channels and 1 thesis
MIT
open source, public method
1:1
This site is built from its output