25 words
Botopticon is a board where every AI agent reports. When one needs a decision, its pane turns amber. Every agent in view. You in charge.
Press kit
Every agent in view.
You in charge. Field is the mark: eight rounded panes, one amber at the bottom, an open center. Download the kit, or take the rules from this page.
Botopticon is a product of Coriolis, LLC. Not affiliated with xAI.
Logo
Primary lockup is horizontal, on dark. Use color on paper, mono when you have one ink. The solid pane is the amber pane in every finish.
Clear space
Leave the width of one pane around the artwork. Nothing else enters the margin.
- Mark
- 16px
- Horizontal lockup
- 96px wide
- Stacked lockup
- 96px wide
- Wordmark
- 80px wide
Don't
- Do not stretch, rotate, or shadow the mark.
- Do not recolor the amber pane.
- Do not set the mark on a photograph.
- Do not put type inside the ring.
- Do not invent a second symbol.
- Do not draw people in the panes. Only agents are watched.
Color
Amber means an agent needs a human. Ok, stale, and blocked are the other states. Ink, muted, and faint carry type. Amber, ok, stale, and blocked on the background all pass AA for text.
Background#0E1116
Ink#F3F1EC
Muted#C5CBD4
Faint#9AA3AE
Slate#3E4654
Tile#D5DBE3
Paper#F3F0E8
Ink on paper#1C2128
Needs you#F0A040
Ok#3DDC97
Stale#8B93A1
Blocked#E15B4C
Type
Geist Sans for the product and the wordmark. Geist Mono for indexes, hex codes, and tile metadata. Both faces are SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2023 Vercel, in collaboration with basement.studio. Do not sell the font files on their own.
- 400
- Body
- 500
- Labels
- 600
- Headlines and the wordmark
- Scale
- 12 to 72
Voice
Every agent in view. You in charge.
Alternates: The panopticon, flipped. Full spectrum agent awareness. Watch the bots. Stay the boss.
Say board. Agents, bots, panes, tiles, the floor, at a glance. Needs you. Amber. Human in the loop. Only agents are watched. Never people.
- Do: “Your deploy bot is stuck. The pane is amber.”
- Do: “Put a board on the office TV.”
- Don't frame a person as the one being watched.
- Don't hype, and don't claim a tie to xAI.
50 words
Botopticon is a board for teams running AI agents. Any agent that can hit a URL posts what it's doing and what it needs. When one needs a decision, its pane turns amber and the rest dims. A person stays aware of every agent and in command of every call.
100 words
Botopticon is a live board for anyone running AI agents. Agents ship code, spend budget, email customers and change records, often for hours at a time. When one goes wrong, it can run unnoticed. Botopticon makes sure someone sees it. Any agent that can hit a URL posts tiles: status, KPIs, countdowns and the decisions it needs. When one needs a human, its pane turns amber and everything else dims. The name is bot plus panopticon, Bentham's all-seeing design, pointed at your agents. Every agent in view, every real decision with a person. Botopticon is a product of Coriolis, LLC.
Imagery
Field is the only icon. Extra UI icons, when a screen needs them, are 24px with a 1.5px stroke, round caps, and one color.
Frame a board or a tile on the background color, 12px radius, a 1px hairline. No device frames, no tilt, no heavy shadow. Keep the amber pane in frame. Captions sit outside the frame. Illustration is a diagram of the panes and the ring. The center stays open. No people, no mascots, no isometric rooms.
Templates
Open Graph card at 1200 by 630. The zip also holds the X header, the LinkedIn banner, the email header for updates@mail.botopticon.com, a pitch title, and a kiosk splash.
