Interface Multimedia

Interface Multimedia

5425 Wisconsin Ave, Suite 600

Chevy Chase, MD 20815

301.585.0068

Innovation Lab

Envoy

A private client portal with a supervised AI assistant, built by Interface for the real estate, architecture, engineering, and construction websites it already runs.

What this is

Envoy gives marketing teams a faster, more direct way to manage their websites. Each team has its own portal, bringing together content updates, reporting, leads, brand assets, and an AI assistant that already understands the firm, its projects and people, and the structure of the website itself.

That last part matters. Adding a project, a new hire, or an insight often means knowing much more than what you want to say. Someone has to know which fields to complete, how content is organized, which collections it belongs to, what information is required, and how it will appear across the site. Envoy already knows those things. Describe what you want to add or change in plain language, and Envoy turns it into properly structured content inside the site’s actual templates. The marketing team can focus on the information and the message rather than the mechanics of the website, and move from idea to review much faster.

How it works

One portal per client, carrying the client's brand

Each client organization gets its own portal at its own address, dressed in the client's logo and color. There are no passwords to manage: a team member enters their email and signs in from the link that arrives. A firm with several sites sees all of them under one roof and switches between them without signing out. The first screen of the day shows what is waiting for review, what was published, which leads arrived, and what deserves attention next.

The Envoy overview screen for a client portal: greeting, monthly statistics, recommendations, and recent activity
The overview: what is waiting, what was published, and what deserves attention, in the client's own colors.

Describe the change, review the finished page

Anyone on the marketing team can tell the assistant what they need in plain language: add a project, fix a bio, announce an award. The assistant asks for whatever is missing, or takes a document the team already has and organizes it into the right fields. It writes only into the parts of the site that team is allowed to edit. The screen splits in two. The conversation runs down the left, and the right side shows a live preview of the page in the site's own template, so the reviewer is looking at the page that would publish. The assistant can also open a page that is already live, read what it says now, and stage a revision while the live version stays as it is. Recent conversations stay listed in the sidebar, and any of them can be picked up where it stopped. For an approver, publishing happens in the same conversation.

The Envoy assistant conversation beside a live preview of a news story in the client site's own page template, with a staged revision and a Publish button
The conversation beside a live preview in the site's own template. Here the assistant has staged a revision to a news story that is already live.

Approval is a permission, not a habit

Writing, approving, and publishing are separate permissions, set per person and per site. A contributor can draft a project page for a regional office without any ability to push it live. An approver publishes their own drafts and their team's. Clients who prefer it can leave the final step with Interface, so every change passes the account team before it reaches the live site. The assistant publishes only when an approver tells it to, and it asks for confirmation before the page goes live. That publish is logged like any other. Contributors cannot publish through the assistant or any other way, so whatever they ask for stays a draft.

An approver asking the Envoy assistant to publish a news story, the assistant asking for confirmation, and a card reporting the story is live, beside a preview of the page
An approver asks the assistant to publish. It asks for confirmation first, then reports that the page is live.

The numbers, and what to do about them

The same portal carries the site's reporting, with no second login. The month opens in a sentence, in plain language, with the numbers and their caveats underneath: where visitors came from, what they did, which search terms are pulling people toward the site, what visitors chose to share, and how the major AI engines answer questions about the firm. Envoy reads that reporting and raises recommendations, each one naming the exact page it concerns and the reason it surfaced. A page that used to pull traffic and quietly stopped gets flagged. So does a search term climbing fast that the site barely answers. Open a recommendation and it becomes a conversation with the assistant, then a draft, and that draft goes through the same approval as everything else.

The Envoy analytics view opening with a plain-language monthly summary above the charts
The month opens in a sentence, not a chart wall.

Where AI engines cite the firm, and where they do not

The portal also shows how the firm reads to AI engines. Interface builds a knowledge base for each client, and the Intelligence view measures two things against it: how much of that record is sourced, and how much of it the outside world repeats back. The lifecycle view follows the firm from experience and expertise through evidence and verification to recognition, trust, and opportunity. Each stage is a stack of blocks, one block per counted item, so a short stack stands out at a glance. Mine the Gap lists the claims that carry the business and ranks them by the distance between what is proven and what an engine can cite. Each claim area links to the page that makes the claim and shows how many tracked prompts name the firm. Proof follows those prompts from scan to scan, separating the answers that recommend the firm from the ones that only mention it. A confirmation queue lists the facts waiting for someone at the firm to check.

The Envoy Intelligence lifecycle view: a ring of stacked blocks for each stage from experience to recognition, beside a bar list of where the firm stands
The lifecycle view, one block per counted item, from experience around to recognition.

Leads land in the same place

Every inquiry the site's forms collect arrives in the portal as a named lead, carrying the page and the form it came from. The team marks each one as new, contacted, qualified, or closed, and exports the list for whoever runs business development. Spam is moved out of view and kept, so a legitimate inquiry caught by the filter can still be recovered.

The Envoy leads inbox listing form submissions with their source form and status
Form submissions as named leads, with source and status. Personal details redacted for this screenshot.

Brand assets: the files the brand allows

The portal holds the approved brand imagery: logos, photography, and the files a team actually needs, in folders, searchable, and synced from the same library Interface's design team works from. Open an image and it shows a one-line description and tags, and the search reads both. Pull a logo from Envoy and it is the version the brand allows, not the one attached to an email from two jobs ago.

The Envoy brand assets library with one photograph open, showing its size, a one-line description, tags, and a Download button
One photograph opened: its size, a one-line description, tags, and a download menu.

Brand library: how the brand looks and sounds

The Brand Library is the brand guide, kept as a page in the portal. Colors come first, grouped as primary, secondary, neutral, and supporting, and each card turns over to show its HEX, RGB, CMYK, and CSS values. Click any value to copy it. The typefaces follow with their roles and weights, then a type scale that sets every style, from display headlines down to the footer, in the real font. Button and link styles are drawn in the brand's colors. Voice closes the page. It describes how the firm sounds, places it on scales such as formal to casual and plain to technical, and lists the words it uses and the words it avoids, with guidance and sample lines for the topics it writes about.

The Envoy Brand Library type scale, with each heading and paragraph style set in the brand's fonts beside its size, line height, and weight
The type scale, each style set in the brand's own font with its size, line height, and weight.

Every change, on the record

Drafts collect on one page, split into those that need you and those already published. A draft with empty fields names them on a line that starts with "Missing:", so the reviewer knows what is left before approving. The overview tells each person how many drafts are waiting on them. The Activity page is the log. It records what was created, published, and approved, and every change to who has access.

Support that already has the context

Questions and requests go to the account team from inside the portal. When the assistant meets a request it should not handle on its own, it hands that request to the same queue rather than guessing. Every ticket is logged and lands with the people who designed the site and can already see what was asked and what the draft did with it.

Why it matters

A wave of marketing platforms now sells autonomy: software that writes and publishes on its own, with no one in the loop. That might be fine for a blog nobody reads closely. The website of a firm that wins work by proposal is different. Selection committees read it line by line, and the expensive failure there is an unapproved sentence sitting on a live page. Envoy writes the draft and then waits for a person. Because Interface runs the site underneath it, the assistant also knows where each piece of content belongs on the page.

Use cases

Where it earns its keep

  • +Project page updates from a regional office
  • +Leadership changes and new bios
  • +Award and news announcements
  • +Pursuit-deadline page refreshes
  • +Monthly performance review without a second login
  • +Lead triage for business development
  • +Brand asset distribution to partners and vendors
Common questions

About Envoy

Is Envoy sold on its own?

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No. Envoy comes with the work, for clients whose websites Interface builds and operates. It is shaped around one industry rather than all of them: real estate, architecture, engineering, and construction. The Meet Envoy article explains why that constraint is the point.

Can the assistant publish to our website on its own?

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No. The assistant publishes only when an approver on your team tells it to, and it asks the approver to confirm before anything goes live. That step is logged like any other publish. Contributors can never publish. Whatever they ask the assistant for stays a draft until an approver, or the Interface account team if you prefer, puts it live.

What does the assistant know about our firm?

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It starts from a knowledge base Interface builds and maintains for each client: the projects, the people who lead them, the language the brand has approved, and the body of work already on the site. It sees only the parts of the site your team is allowed to edit, and it confirms which site it is working in before every change.

Who can see our portal and our data?

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Each client organization has its own portal at its own address, and a sign-in reaches one organization only. Interface staff reach client portals as agency administrators, the same people who already operate the site. Drafts, leads, and activity are held in Envoy's own records, separate from every other client.

Which website platforms does Envoy work with?

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Envoy works inside the sites Interface builds and operates. Today that means the Webflow-based sites in Interface's care; the assistant reads and writes the site's own content structure rather than a copy of it.

What is in the Brand Library?

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The brand guide, kept as a page in your portal. It holds the brand colors with their HEX, RGB, CMYK, and CSS values, the typefaces and a type scale, button and link styles, and the writing voice: how the firm sounds, and the words it uses and avoids. Click any value to copy it. Logos and photography sit next door, in Brand Assets.

Who supports it?

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Your account team, from inside the portal. Every request is logged and reaches the people who designed the site, so nobody has to explain the site from the beginning.
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