Make your brand work with AI. Without losing control of it.

Give your team the brand guidance, assets and templates they need to create with AI. Keep creative direction and approval with your people.

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AI is changing how teams create. Brand governance needs to keep up.

As teams use AI to produce content, it becomes harder to keep outputs aligned with brand standards. Guidelines written for people don't always translate into instructions AI tools can follow. The Brand AI Toolkit bridges that gap, helping teams work faster while keeping brand decisions clear and reviewable.

From brand guidelines to on-brand AI: review your brand guidelines, connect or build your design system, create your AI-ready toolkit, then create on-brand output.

Built through real brand system work at Defaqto.

I developed the toolkit through work on Defaqto’s brand system, turning its visual guidance and design rules into instructions AI tools can use.

The brand hub brings guidance, assets and reusable templates together. A Submission Hub gives teams a place to send work for review, while an Approval Hub keeps approved and rejected submissions separate. People make the decisions.

See the toolkit at work

Practical demonstrations of brand guidance, templates and instructions supporting AI-assisted creative work. People review and refine the results.

Create social assets

Turn a campaign brief into social assets using your brand’s colours, typography and layout rules.

Build an email

Create an email from a brief, using approved styles and a reusable template.

Make a presentation

Turn an outline into a presentation with consistent typography, layouts and charts.

Built for teams introducing AI into their creative workflows.

In-house brand and marketing teams

Give your existing team and incoming hires a usable framework for applying brand guidance to campaigns and everyday communications.

Creative directors

Set clear creative standards and reusable starting points, while keeping judgement, direction and review with your people.

Regulated businesses

Support fintech, financial services, insurance and other teams that need clear brand guidance and human checks. Brand guidance works alongside your own compliance and approval requirements.

Boutique brand agencies

Extend brand services with a toolkit clients can use after handover. Bring guidance, assets and templates into their workflows, alongside their existing creative team.

Give your teams creative freedom. Keep your brand consistent.

The same brand guidance

Give people and AI tools the same rules for colour, typography, imagery and tone of voice.

A useful starting point

Use instructions, templates and examples to create social assets, emails and presentations with your brand already in place.

Submission and approval

Send work through the Submission Hub. Review it in the Approval Hub, keeping approved and rejected submissions separate and decisions with your team.

Room to grow

Update your guidance, assets and templates as your brand changes. Your team decides what becomes part of the shared toolkit.

Frequently asked questions

Can the toolkit change as our brand evolves?

Yes. Your guidance, assets, templates and instructions can be updated as your brand develops, keeping the toolkit useful as your needs change.

Can we still use our own prompts?

Yes. Describe what you need, who it’s for and what you want to achieve. The toolkit provides the brand context, and you can ask for changes or explore different approaches.

How much flexibility does it allow?

You can adapt the work for different audiences, channels and campaigns. The brand rules provide a consistent foundation, while your brief shapes the result.

How does it help keep AI on brand?

The toolkit gives AI clear rules, approved examples and instructions for checking its work. These provide a reference point as you create and refine, helping keep the output aligned with your brand.

Does it stop AI making things up?

AI can still make mistakes. The toolkit helps by providing approved information and instructions to flag gaps or ask for clarification. Facts, claims and finished work still need checking before use.

Does it learn from everyone who uses it?

Individual conversations don’t become approved brand guidance. Changes to the shared toolkit are made deliberately. Memory and data use depend on the AI platform and your account settings.

What is the brand hub for?

The brand hub brings your guidelines, approved assets, templates and examples together in one place. Your team can use it to find resources, understand the brand and support the work they create with AI.

Do we need existing brand guidelines?

Existing guidelines are a useful starting point. We can review what you have, identify gaps and bring your guidance and resources together into a practical toolkit.

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