Type
Brand Strategy, Product Strategy, UX Design, Design Engineering, Content Systems, Local SEO
Industry
Senior Living, Residential Care, Home Care
Client
Arlowe Living
Status
Brand + prototype phase, private extranet
Built With
Next.js, Supabase
Project Overview
Arlowe Living is a family of senior living communities and care services built around the changing needs of older adults: independent and assisted living, smaller residential homes, memory support, in-home care, and family resources. The Arlowe Media Hub gives every one of those teams, corporate, regional, and community-level, one place to pull approved brand content and generate content specific to their own market.
Birdsall.ai developed the full Arlowe brand system, the “seasons of life” concept and the visual identity built on top of it, then designed and built the media hub itself: information architecture, interface, brand-voice rules, and a working AI content engine, end to end in Claude.
The media hub is designed to run as a private extranet for Arlowe’s own location and community teams, so there is no public site to link to yet. Every screen on this page is a real screenshot of the working prototype.
The Challenge
A multi-service senior living organization needs to sound like one brand everywhere it shows up, a corporate blog post, a community's LinkedIn page, a family email, while still speaking to the specific market each community serves. And the subject matter itself is unforgiving: aging is one of the easiest topics in the world to get wrong, clinical, fearful, or quietly condescending, without anyone meaning to.
- Give every community team a way to publish approved, on-brand content without hiring a local marketer.
- Translate a deliberately protective brand voice, warm, direct, never clinical or fear-based, into rules an AI system could apply reliably.
- Surface locally relevant content for each market automatically, instead of manual research.
- Support three different formats, blog, LinkedIn, and email, from a single local topic.
- Build a visual system flexible enough for four seasonal campaigns a year without ever losing the core brand.
The Approach
Started with the brand, not the interface. Built the seasons-of-life identity and voice system first, then used it to drive every product decision that followed, from the color of a status badge to the words an AI model is told never to use.
The seasons-of-life brand system
Life does not get smaller with age, it changes. That idea became Arlowe’s core visual and emotional structure: four seasons, each standing for a different register of the aging journey rather than a literal time of year, expressed through a year-round core palette plus four campaign-only accent palettes, paired with an editorial serif and a highly readable interface sans so the product feels like hospitality, not software.
Reskinning the platform
Rebuilt the navigation, homepage, authentication screens, and every piece of interface copy around Arlowe’s own information architecture, replacing generic labels with names that mean something to a community team: Local Content Studio, Content Library, Brand Center.
The Local Content Studio
Designed and built the platform’s core workflow: a community team enters a ZIP code and picks a format, blog, LinkedIn, or email. A live local-news API surfaces stories genuinely relevant to that market, and the system drafts a complete, on-voice piece of content in seconds, ready to review and publish.
A real CMS behind the prototype
Beyond the Local Content Studio itself, the platform runs on a real login system and a Supabase database, not a static mockup. Every draft a team generates is saved to a content library they can track and download, and a shared brand-voice database keeps language rules consistent across every Arlowe entity and community, rather than living in a style guide nobody opens.
Main page
The Brand System
The mark pairs a leaf with an A. The leaf carries the seasons-of-life concept at the center of the brand, and the A folds it into the shape of the parent company’s own initial, one mark holding both the metaphor and the lineage it belongs to.
Newsreader
Editorial headline serif, quiet and confident
DM Sans
Body copy and interface, clear at every size
Four Seasons, Four Registers of the Journey
Spring
Possibility and new decisions. The season a family first starts exploring what comes next.
Summer
Activity and connection. The season that carries independent and assisted living communities.
Autumn
Depth and perspective. The season of family conversations and Family Resources content.
Winter
Comfort and trust. The season that speaks most directly to Memory Support and Arlowe at Home.
One Brand, Five Kinds of Care
The seasons metaphor only works if it holds together across everything Arlowe actually does, from a companion visiting someone at home to a full assisted living community. Every service line was written to sound like the same brand talking about a different chapter of the same life.
The Platform
A ZIP code in, an on-voice draft out.
A community team member enters their ZIP code and picks a format. The Local Content Studio finds locally relevant aging and senior-living stories for that market, then drafts a complete piece of content in Arlowe’s voice, ready to review, personalize, and publish.
Step 1: ZIP code and format
Step 2: locally relevant stories, drafting
Step 3: the same story, three formats
What Makes It Work
Locally relevant, not generic
A ZIP code, not a dropdown of regions, drives the whole flow, so every suggestion feels like it was written for that specific market.
One voice, every format
The same topic becomes a blog post, a LinkedIn post, or a family email, without the voice ever slipping between them.
A protective voice, systemized
Arlowe’s language rules, what to favor, what to avoid, and why, are written directly into the AI system's instructions, not left to a style guide nobody reads.
Brand first, interface second
Every token in the interface, color, type, radius, spacing, traces back to a decision made in the brand system, not the other way around.
Our Role
Birdsall.ai developed the Arlowe brand system from concept through a working design language, then designed and built the Arlowe Media Hub end to end, information architecture, interface, content rules, and the Local Content Studio's AI logic, entirely in Claude.
The Outcome
Delivered a complete brand system and a working AI content platform prototype that gives every Arlowe community a way to publish in one consistent voice without a dedicated marketer in every location. The seasons-of-life concept gives Arlowe a visual and emotional language flexible enough for four campaigns a year without ever losing its core identity.
For Birdsall.ai, the project is a working example of brand and product built together, strategy, identity, interface, and functioning AI logic, conceived and built in Claude from a blank page to a working prototype.
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