The locked panel
A UXP guardrail panel installed in your Adobe apps, encoding your brand rules. Yours to keep — seats just keep it updated and live for more of the team.
How it works
One week, fixed scope, no surprises.
A Rescue Week is deliberately small and deliberately finished. We lock your brand rules into a guardrail panel, clear the variant backlog you're carrying, and hand the whole thing over by Friday. Here's the day-by-day.
Mon01
Lock the rules
We sit with you (remote, ~90 min) and turn your brand book into machine-checkable rules: logo safe-zone and minimum size, the approved type scale, colour tokens, grid and clear-space. We also agree the exact variant set that's in scope to clear this week — no scope creep mid-week.
Tue02
Build the guardrail panel
We build the locked BrandLock UXP panel inside InDesign/Illustrator and stress-test it against your worst real files — the stretched logo, the off-palette banner, the broken lockup. By end of day, moving an element off-brand triggers a flag and a one-click snap back to compliant.
Wed–Thu03
Clear the backlog
This is the heavy lift. We batch-produce the on-brand variants in your queue from the locked master — every language, size and channel in scope — and validate each one as it exports. Because they're generated, not hand-built one at a time, the queue drains fast. You get a running count, not a black box.
Fri04
Hand over & walk through
You receive the locked panel, the cleared variant batch (organised and ready to ship), and a short exceptions list of anything that genuinely needed a human call. A 30-minute walkthrough gets your team self-serving on the panel before the weekend.
After05
Keep it clear (optional)
The week stands on its own — but most teams keep the panel live at $90/seat/mo (min 5) so the team self-serves compliant variants, and some add the $2,500/mo retainer so we keep producing. Either way, the backlog doesn't quietly rebuild.
What lands on Friday
Three deliverables. All yours.
The cleared batch
Every in-scope on-brand variant, exported, validated and organised by channel and market — ready to ship, not a pile of source files to finish.
The exceptions list
A short, honest list of anything that needed a human decision rather than a rule — so nothing was silently guessed. Decide them at your pace.
What it is
A finished, fixed-scope week.
- A guardrail panel that makes off-brand hard to ship by accident.
- A one-time clear-out of the backlog you scoped with us.
- A way to stay clear without hiring — panel and/or retainer.
What it isn't
We won't overpromise.
- Not a guarantee we can clear an unbounded queue in five days — we scope it first.
- Not a creative rebrand — we encode the brand you already have, we don't redesign it.
- Not a replacement for human judgement on genuinely novel layouts — those go on the exceptions list.
Two slots a month
Book the week, or triage your backlog first.
See the numbers on your own queue with the triage tool, or hold a slot now with a 50% deposit.