A small studio for indie audit tools.
Hewnpath builds deterministic design audit plugins. HewnFrame for Figma, HewnFlow for Webflow. No LLM in the audit loop, no per-user API costs, stable check IDs you can rely on between releases.
Why deterministic
Every other linter in the design space is starting to sprinkle LLM "suggestions" everywhere. Suggestions vary run-to-run, can't be muted reliably, and cost the publisher per inference. They're also not auditable — you can't reason about why one finding showed up and not another.
We took the opposite path. Every check in HewnFrame and HewnFlow is a rule over a static graph: the Figma node tree, the Webflow element tree, the variable table. Same input, same output, every time. If you mute a rule by ID, it stays muted. If a customer reports a false positive, we can reproduce it from a fixture and ship a fix in a tagged release.
Voice
Direct, mildly dry. No hype, no emoji, no marketing fluff. The
plugin UI is small on purpose. Severity labels are
critical, warn, info — not
"Error / Warning / Notice". Check IDs are lowercase
(a-001, never A001). We treat designers
and developers like the smart, busy people they are.
Brand mark
A frame with one corner hewn away — the "hewn" in Hewnpath. In HewnFrame the corner is chiseled (stone-mason metaphor). In HewnFlow the corner flows out as a quarter-arc (motion). Same family, two products. The terracotta accent is deliberate, anti to every other design tool that defaults to SaaS blue.