> AI Docs: LLM Design System Case Study | Whitney Shay
Collage of angled AI Docs screens: template gallery, document gallery, and a generated meeting prep brief

AI Docs

ZoomInfo built its name on data. GTM Workspace put that data to work inside AI applications, and every document the LLM generated had to look like ZoomInfo. I designed the component system the LLM builds from, the chat-to-document flow, and the galleries where sellers find what they made. Lead designer, alongside three PMs, one engineer, and a design partner.

Client
ZoomInfo, 2026
Scope
Token-Based Design System, User Research, IA, AI Doc Templates
Keywords
B2B SaaS, AI-Generated Content, AI Experience Design

GTM Workspace is ZoomInfo's unified AI platform for enterprise sales teams. It pulls the signals sellers normally chase across tools (CRM records, call transcripts, intent data, and intelligence on 100M+ companies) into one place. Sellers then work in natural language: find accounts like my best customers, prep me for this meeting. Most of what comes back is AI-generated. Busy sellers need to scan it in seconds. That created the need for AI-generated documents (previously known as Artifacts within our product), and the system built here to define them.

AI was moving fast. Product managers were spinning up new agents and "artifacts" daily, each one unlocking and customizing ZoomInfo's data for its users. Speed came at a cost. With so many hands creating on tight timelines, consistency was the first thing to go: color and layout fractured across doc types. We needed a lightweight AI design system. It had to inherit the React-based branding, color, and typography of GTM Workspace, yet stay flexible enough to flip to Muze, our archival Angular system, if we ever needed it.

Visual Teardown: AI Docs Without a Consistent Design System

Visual teardown of pre-system AI Docs showing inconsistent design across all documents

Two audiences had to build with this system: the developers who coded the product, and the LLM that assembles each document in real time. I partnered with a second designer on the token architecture and the instruction set. I owned the styling for all 24 components and the AI Doc templates, then pressure-tested them in our chat tool alongside a developer and our product manager. That combination let the LLM make fast, consistent design choices our users could trust. Click the tabs to explore it live.

Interactive Prototype: AI Docs Design System

Static previews shown at this screen size. The interactive AI Docs Design System prototype is available on desktop.

Design System: Tokens

CSS variables define the entire visual language: colors, radius, type. Change a token once and every artifact updates, instead of hunting through 24 components.

Design Tokens reference page: base styles and the primary color palette defined as CSS variables

Design System: Blocks

24 reusable component classes in one stylesheet: every doc type draws from the same building blocks instead of reinventing layout.

Building Blocks page with an index of all 24 reusable component classes

Design System: LLM Instructions

The instruction set locks the LLM to CSS variables and component classes only, no inline styles, so generated docs can’t drift from the system.

LLM Instructions page: usage rules and quick examples that keep generated docs on tokens and component classes

Design System: AI Docs

10 templated documents built entirely from tokens and blocks, then populated with real customer data to confirm the design held up once actual content filled it.

AI Docs gallery of 10 fully styled templates built from tokens and blocks

AI Docs shipped into GTM Workspace in Q2 2026, a premium early-access launch with 40 customers onboarded. None of them ever saw the fractured pre-system documents. Every doc sellers generated was on brand from day one, and the gallery gave them one place to find and share it. The system reached the codebase through ZoomInfo's org-wide no-code agent builder, tested against live data in the chat agent. Product managers kept their speed. Every new doc type landed on the same tokens and blocks.

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Building block components governing every AI-generated document, with each field mapped to real data
Robust contact card component from the design system Completed meeting card component from the design system
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Templated documents shipped into GTM Workspace; new types inherit the system with no new design work
Generated Meeting Prep document
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Quick-start preview images that help sellers see at a glance the types of documents they can generate
Meeting prep quick-start preview image At-risk deals quick-start preview image

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