Design Systems · Evaluation
Vercel Geist
Compliance Index score
50.3/100 · F
↓ 4.0 pts since last week (54.3 → 50.3)
Per-category breakdown
Each category is scored independently. The cohort average shows how this site compares to the 30-site cohort in each dimension.
Evaluation
Vercel Geist scores 50.3/F on the Designesy Compliance Index — 7 of 40 checks passed, 3 failed, 21 warned, 6 skipped. The cohort mean is 62.2/D across 30 scored sites. Vercel Geist sits 19% below the cohort mean.
Strongest category: Identity at 75.0%. Weakest scored category: Tokens at 0.0%. The gap between best and worst is the finding — most systems are strong in one dimension and absent in another.
Since last week's score, Vercel Geist dropped by 4.0 points — moving from 54.3 to 50.3.
F-grade means Vercel Geist scores below 60 — the contract's pass threshold. The failing checks are not subjective: they are missing CSS primitives that the contract requires at :root.
This evaluation is deterministic — no LLM, no human judgment, no survey. The same 40-check engine that scored Vercel Geist scores every site on the leaderboard. Re-score geist.dev live to see if anything has changed since 2026-08-03.
Scored 2026-08-03 against contract v0.4.0 (40 checks, 14 weighted categories). Re-scored weekly via GitHub Action.
Compared to Design Systems peers
Vercel Geist ranks #13 of 14 in the Design Systems category.
Cohort context
This site
50.3/100
Cohort mean
62.2/100
Cohort median
62.6/100
Delta from mean
-11.9
Why this site is scored
.md-for-agents pattern (replaced dead geist-ui.com)