Why Altik exists

The tedious half of design isn't designing.

Before an idea can ship, it has to become a system. Every token named, every variable wired, every component and state built by hand. It's hours of mechanical setup that pull you off the actual craft, and you pay it again on every new project, client, and exploration.

Altik exists to take that off your plate. You design, and it kickstarts your design system from what you drew, so your time goes where only you can add value.

The gap

AI made shipping fast. System setup is still slow.

AI workflows have compressed how long it takes to ship a product, and design is expected to keep that pace. But every new project still starts the same slow way: hand-assigning values to variables and tokens before you can really design. That's the gap. Altik closes it by inferring the structure straight from your design.

EXTRACTION What every tool already gives you

A flat dump of hex values, pixel numbers, and layer names. No roles, no hierarchy, no intent. Your design system, stripped of the very decisions that make it a system.

INFERENCE What Altik adds on top

Structure inferred from the design itself: which color is an action, which spacing is a rhythm, how components relate. It's emitted as portable, standard tokens your whole stack can trust.

How it works

Design the frame. Altik builds the system.

Start where designers actually start: a frame, an idea, an exploration, with none of the setup first. Altik reads what you drew and hands back the structure and the variables, so your time goes to the craft, not the scaffolding.

Design freely

Start with a frame. A rough idea, a client concept, an exploration. Just design it. No variables, no components, no system to wire up first.

Scan & infer

Point Altik at the frame. It reads what you drew and infers the structure underneath: roles, hierarchy, and tokens. You stay on your craft.

Kickstart your system

Altik turns that structure into a head start on your Figma variables and component properties, so the manual setup that used to eat hours is mostly done.

Portable by design

Tokens your whole stack can trust.

Not another format to adopt. Altik emits to the open standard and layers meaning on top, so agents, pipelines, and humans finally share one source of truth.

tokens.dtcg.jsonone source → every output

// DTCG tokens, inferred from your frame
"color.action.primary": {
  "$value": "#3E29FA",
  "$type": "color",
  "$extensions": {
    "role": "action",
    "usage": "primary-cta",
    "onColor": "#FFFFFF"
  }
},
"space.stack.md": {
  "$value": "16px",
  "$type": "dimension",
  "$extensions": { "role": "rhythm", "scale": "base" }▍
}

/* Style Dictionary build → CSS variables */
:root {
  --color-action-primary: #3E29FA;  /* role: action */
  --color-action-on:      #FFFFFF;
  --space-stack-md:       16px;      /* role: rhythm */
  --radius-control:       10px;
}

.btn-primary {
  background: var(--color-action-primary);
  color:      var(--color-action-on);
  padding:    var(--space-stack-md);▍
}

// Tokens Studio for Figma, imported as-is
{
  "color": {
    "action": {
      "primary": { "value": "#3E29FA", "type": "color" },
      "on":      { "value": "#FFFFFF", "type": "color" }
    }
  },
  "space": {
    "stack": { "md": { "value": "16", "type": "spacing" } }
  }▍
}

// context handed to your coding agent
{
  "component": "Button / primary",
  "tokens": {
    "background": "color.action.primary",
    "text":       "color.action.on",
    "padding":    "space.stack.md"
  },
  "intent":     "primary call-to-action",
  "confidence": "high"▍
}

// one DTCG source of truth · every tool consumes it · complement, never competitor

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Is Altik another AI tool that redesigns my work?

No. Altik doesn't generate, restyle, or touch your design. It reads what you already made and infers the structure underneath: roles, hierarchy, tokens. You stay the author, and Altik just makes your intent explicit.

Do I need components or variables set up first?

No, that's the point. Start with a plain frame. Altik infers the structure and kickstarts your Figma variables and component properties from it, so the setup you'd normally do by hand is mostly done for you.

Can I trust what it infers, or is it a black box?

You're always in the loop. Altik shows its work, and you review and confirm every inference before anything is applied or exported. Nothing leaves that you didn't approve.

What does it output, and will it lock me in?

DTCG-compliant tokens, the W3C design-token standard, with semantic extensions layered on top. They drop straight into Style Dictionary, Token Studio, your codebase, and your AI pipeline. Open standard, no proprietary format, no lock-in.

Is it free? What's the catch?

The core is free while Altik is in early access. Scan a frame, get structured tokens back, kickstart your variables, no paywall. A Pro tier will come later for unlimited runs and the heavier production features. Reading your design and getting your structure back is the part that stays free.

Just design. Altik builds the system.