Consulting Generative Post

Current brand

Recoup/Consulting/Business work defaults to Recoup Sky. Read brand/GUIDE.md and the workspace DESIGN.md; explicit client/artist branding or a fidelity-only migration wins. Stage local resources: node <installed-skill>/brand/materialize.mjs <output-directory>. Use its CSS, actual DM Sans/IBM Plex Mono fonts, exact outlined SVG logo, and brand/finals.json reference IDs. No recurring brand setup question. Save editable source and brand.lock.json with reference IDs/expression beside the output. Marketing owns the authored identity; the bundled snapshot works without another checkout.

Workspace: use the selected project and its AGENTS.md; keep existing entity folders and Reality headings. Business paths below are relative to that project. Bundled resources are relative to this installed skill; sibling capabilities resolve by their installed names. Never search another private checkout for missing inputs. Use workspace identity, audience, pricing, and DESIGN.md fonts. Local _work adapters and evals are optional workspace tools, not bundled dependencies. Check presence and current help first; otherwise use an available connector for the same scoped operation. If neither exists, report that step incomplete. For missing scorers, perform the stated checks and label the result manual/unscored; never invent a numeric score or successful provider action.

The power move: generate imagery neither HTML nor a stock library can give you (Higgsfield), then lay pixel-perfect on-brand type over it (recoup-internal-consulting-graphics). Each tool does the half it's best at — AI makes the photoreal/cinematic field; HTML makes legible, on-brand text. Neither alone produces this.

This skill locks the WORKFLOW; the DESIGN is a living layer. The steps below are stable. The visual treatment — scrim recipe, type placement, which template, composition — is intentionally kept malleable: it lives in references/overlay-shell.html and defers to recoup-internal-consulting-tasteful-design (DESIGN.md). Iterate the look there without touching the process here.

Prerequisites

• recoup-internal-consulting-higgsfield usable (CLI authed — higgsfield account status shows credits).
• recoup-internal-consulting-graphics rendering path available (npx playwright screenshot).
• Brand canon: DESIGN.md (via recoup-internal-consulting-tasteful-design); voice via recoup-internal-consulting-copy-writer.

Workflow (stable)

1. Pick the canvas. Default LinkedIn feed 1080×1350 (4:5); use 1:1, 9:16, or 1.91:1 (OG) per the destination. Sizes/safe-zones → recoup-internal-consulting-graphics (references/dimensions.md).
2. Generate the background with recoup-internal-consulting-higgsfield. Encode the brand mood/palette from DESIGN.md into the prompt; reserve negative space where the headline will sit (e.g. "generous empty space, upper-left"); demand no text/words in the image. Preview cost, generate, and land the raw file in integrations/higgsfield/_work/.
3. Inspect the actual result — don't trust the prompt. Open the generated image and find the real clearest region; AI rarely honors "negative space on the left" exactly. That region is where the text goes, and the focal element (a streak, a subject) is what the text must not collide with.
4. Compose the overlay with recoup-internal-consulting-graphics. Start from references/overlay-shell.html (or a recoup-internal-consulting-graphics template like statement): swap the template's CSS color field for the generated image (background-size:cover) and add a directional legibility scrim lightening or darkening only the text side (keep the focal element visible). Brand tokens from DESIGN.md; never bake text into the AI image — that's the whole point of overlaying it here.
5. Render + review. npx playwright screenshot --viewport-size="W,H" "file:///…/overlay.html" "…/out.png". Then look at the PNG: does the headline read at thumbnail scale, clear of the focal element, exact company mark present where appropriate, readable contrast? Iterate the overlay (not the workflow) until clean.
6. Promote + hand off. Move the keeper into content/ (raw stays gitignored in _work/). For LinkedIn, pass the final asset + caption to recoup-internal-consulting-linkedin-publisher — drafts only, never auto-send.

The overlay technique (what's new vs. recoup-internal-consulting-graphics)

recoup-internal-consulting-graphics templates sit on a CSS color field; here the field is a photo + scrim:

• background-size:cover; background-position:center fits a square generation into a 4:5 / 9:16 canvas.
• Scrim = a light or forest wash behind the text, selected after inspecting the actual image. The shell defaults to ink text on light; its dark class switches to white type and the white logo.
• Reuse a recoup-internal-consulting-graphics template's type treatment (e.g. statement: DM Sans headline + limited lime emphasis); only the field changes.

Cost discipline (inherits recoup-internal-consulting-higgsfield)

Preview every generation (higgsfield generate cost …) and cite the actual credits after. The overlay render is free (local Playwright). Gate video/Soul backgrounds behind explicit go-ahead.

Don't

• Don't bake headline/marketing text into the AI image — overlay it.
• Don't commit raw media — _work/ is gitignored; promote only keepers to content/.
• Don't invent Higgsfield model names — higgsfield model list is the source of truth.
• Don't auto-publish — confirm the final creative + caption first.