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The PointSav design system is a self-hosted, customer-owned substrate for managing design tokens, components, and design-decision research. It addresses four structural gaps in the 2026 design-system landscape — the absence of machine-readable design rationale, enterprise-tier pricing that excludes small and medium businesses (SMBs), editor lock-in, and insufficient AI-consumable structure — through three architectural inversions of the dominant platform model.

## Why the substrate exists

The substrate is a self-hosted, customer-owned design-system engine running at `design.pointsav.com` and at every SMB customer site that forks it. Its existence is a direct response to four structural gaps in the 2026 design-system landscape:
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- JS-framework-locked components (HTML+CSS+ARIA recipes are the canonical form).
- Container packaging (per [[zero-container-runtime]]).
- Editor lock-in (single-editor-only features rejected).
- Marketing vocabulary in research files (per workspace §6).
- Marketing vocabulary in research files (research files describe structural rationale, not product positioning).

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