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Sample Packs

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Sample Packs

Sample Packs are sets of professionally written content that Aldus uses to demonstrate all sixteen personalities without needing the AI model or your own content.

Each pack is themed around a specific industry or content type. When you load a pack, Aldus instantly generates layouts for all sixteen personalities using that pack's copy, images, and structure.


How to use a pack

  1. Open the Pack Previews panel in the block sidebar, or click Try a sample in the empty block state
  2. Choose a pack from the list
  3. Aldus generates all sixteen personality layouts using that pack's content — no model download needed
  4. Browse the results, expand cards, and explore how each personality handles the same content differently

Using a pack as a starting point: If you find a personality layout you love in a pack preview, click Try with my content to switch to your own content with that personality pinned. You can also click Use this one directly from a pack preview to insert the pack's content as real blocks — useful for mockups or inspiration.


The nine packs

Roast — Specialty Coffee Brand

Warm, sensory, lifestyle-oriented content for a specialty coffee brand. Copy emphasizes origin, craft, and the ritual of brewing. Palette tones are amber, brown, and warm cream.

Ideal for exploring: Broadside, Nocturne, Stratum, Overture


Meridian — Developer Tools & SaaS

Clean, confident, technical content for a developer tools or SaaS product. Copy is precise and benefit-driven. Palette tones are deep navy, slate, and bright blue.

Ideal for exploring: Tribune, Broadsheet, Solstice, Ledger


Hearth — Nonprofit & Community

Earnest, mission-driven content for a nonprofit or community organization. Copy focuses on impact, people, and collective action. Palette tones are deep forest green and warm earth tones.

Ideal for exploring: Manifesto, Codex, Overture, Stratum


Plume — Travel & Culture Editorial

Wanderlust-driven editorial content for a travel or culture publication. Copy is evocative and literary. Palette tones are deep espresso, warm sand, and dusty rose.

Ideal for exploring: Folio, Dusk, Nocturne, Mirage


Grove — Sustainable Food & Farm-to-Table

Earthy, seasonal content for a sustainable food brand or farm-to-table restaurant. Copy emphasizes ingredients, provenance, and seasonal rhythm. Palette tones are deep forest, sage, and warm stone.

Ideal for exploring: Stratum, Broadside, Codex, Solstice


Loot — Indie Board Game & TTRPG Shop

Enthusiastic, nerdy, and deeply specific content for a hobby game store. Copy leans into community, opinion, and love of the hobby. Palette tones are deep purple, warm violet, and vivid orange-red.

Ideal for exploring: Tribune, Broadsheet, Manifesto, Dispatch


Signal — Privacy-First Email App

Dry, principled, sardonic content for a privacy-focused software product. Copy is confident and pointed about what the product doesn't do. Palette tones are near-black, dark charcoal, and sharp green.

Ideal for exploring: Codex, Solstice, Manifesto, Broadside


Forge — Handmade Industrial Craft

Warm, uncompromising content for a blacksmithing or maker brand. Copy is direct about process, lead times, and the refusal to cut corners. Palette tones are deep charcoal, warm steel, ember orange, and pale cream.

Ideal for exploring: Stratum, Broadside, Dispatch, Codex


Slim — Minimal Input Pack

The minimal pack. Five content items — just enough for every personality to show you what it does with lean input. One headline, one paragraph, one image, one quote, one CTA. Monochrome palette so the layout shape is the only variable.

Use this one to: see which personalities thrive on sparse content and which ones want more to work with. The differences become stark when there's nothing to hide behind.


What packs include

Each pack provides content for every token type Aldus can use:

  • Multiple headline and subheading variants
  • Two or three paragraph variants (so repeated paragraph tokens get different copy)
  • Quote variants
  • A button label and URL
  • Image placeholders (two-tone SVG gradients in the pack's color palette)
  • List items
  • Where appropriate: video URL, table data, gallery images

The multiple variants per type are important — when a personality uses two media-text panels or two column groups, each gets different copy rather than repeating the same text.


Tips for using packs

  • Compare personalities side by side using the same pack. The differences become clear when the content is held constant.
  • Try Slim last. It has the fewest items — just enough to see each personality's point of view. Which ones thrive on lean input? Which ones clearly want a table or a gallery? Slim makes that visible.
  • Switch packs without regenerating. Selecting a different pack immediately updates all sixteen preview cards with the new pack's content.