Off-brand becomes impossible
Logo safe-zones, type scales, colour tokens and clear-space are locked into the panel. A teammate can move fast and still can't break the brand — the guardrail snaps it back.
Only 2 Rescue Week slots / month
Your templates are locked. Your backlog is cleared. By Friday.
BrandLock is a one-week engagement for brand teams drowning in on-brand variant requests. We ship you a locked InDesign/Illustrator guardrail panel — so off-brand becomes impossible — and a batch of on-brand variants that clears the backlog. Five days, fixed scope.
50% deposit to hold a slot
Frozen headcount? No new hire needed
You keep the locked panel
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On-brand · locked
Exporting on-brand variants
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EN · 1080×1080
FR · A4
DE · Story
ES · Banner
+12 sizes
Every variant is generated from the locked master — same logo safe-zone, type and colour rules — and validated before it lands in the backlog folder. Illustrative batch.
Built for in-house brand & creative-ops teams
InDesign UXP
Illustrator UXP
Your brand book
No new headcount
Why a week beats another hire
Three things change the moment the panel is locked.
You don't get a tool to learn or a contractor to manage. You get guardrails that make off-brand impossible and a backlog that's already cleared when we hand over.
The backlog clears in the same week
We don't just hand you a panel and leave. Inside the five days we batch-produce the on-brand variants stacked in your queue, so Friday's status is "cleared", not "in progress".
No new headcount required
Built for frozen org charts. The panel lets your existing team self-serve compliant variants, and the optional retainer absorbs overflow — without a req, an agency or a contractor to babysit.
The variant trap
Every "can you just resize this on-brand?" lands on the same desk.
01 / UNCAPPED DEMAND
Requests scale, the team doesn't
More channels, more markets, more sizes — every one is "just a quick on-brand version." The queue grows faster than anyone can clear it.
02 / BRAND POLICE
You're the bottleneck and the cop
Either you make every variant yourself, or you spend the day catching off-brand logos, wrong fonts and stretched lockups in other people's files.
03 / FROZEN HEADCOUNT
No req is coming to save you
The obvious fix — hire — is off the table. So the backlog becomes permanent and the brand quietly drifts at the edges where nobody had time to check.
BrandLock doesn't sell magic — it removes the two jobs eating your week (make every variant, police every file) by locking the rules into the tool and clearing the queue once.
The week, at a glance
Five days. One locked panel. A cleared queue.
Fixed scope, fixed timeline. Here's the shape of a Rescue Week — the full breakdown lives on the how-it-works page.
MON
Lock the rules
We capture your brand book as machine-checkable rules: safe-zones, type, colour, clear-space.
TUE
Build the panel
The guardrail UXP panel is wired into InDesign/Illustrator and tested against your worst files.
WED–THU
Clear the backlog
We batch-produce the on-brand variants in your queue from the locked master, validated as we go.
FRI
Hand over
You get the locked panel, the cleared variant batch and a 30-minute team walkthrough.
AFTER
Stay clear
Keep seats on the panel and an optional retainer so the queue never piles up again.
Pricing
Start with the week. Stay clear with the panel.
One fixed-fee week to lock the brand and clear the queue, then a low per-seat panel and an optional retainer so it stays cleared.
Rescue Week
$4,500
One week. The locked guardrail panel + your variant backlog cleared. 50% deposit holds a slot.
- Locked InDesign/Illustrator panel
- Backlog batch cleared by Friday
- Team walkthrough + handover
BrandLock Panel
$90 / seat / mo
Keep the guardrail panel live for your team. Minimum 5 seats.
- Self-serve on-brand variants
- Rule updates as the brand evolves
- Min 5 seats
Variant Retainer
$2,500 / mo
We absorb ongoing variant production so the backlog never returns. +$1,500 / overflow batch.
- Ongoing on-brand production
- Predictable monthly throughput
- +$1,500 overflow batch on demand
Hold a slot — talk first
Two slots a month. Tell us about your backlog.
Not ready to deposit? Send us the shape of your variant backlog and we'll confirm whether a Rescue Week fits — and which of the next two slots is open. No pressure, no obligation.
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Common questions
The short version.
What does "locked" actually mean?
Your brand rules — logo safe-zone and minimum size, the approved type scale, colour tokens, and clear-space — are built into a UXP panel inside InDesign/Illustrator. When someone nudges the logo off-brand, the panel flags it and can snap it back to a compliant state. The creative freedom stays; the brand-breaking part is fenced off.
Is the backlog really cleared in one week?
We scope the backlog with you before the week starts and agree exactly which variant set is in scope for the five days. Because the variants are generated from one locked master rather than hand-built one by one, a large batch is realistic. If your queue is bigger than a single week, we'll tell you up front and size it as a Rescue Week plus an overflow batch — never an open-ended promise.
Do we need to buy new software or hire anyone?
No. The panel runs inside the Adobe apps your team already uses, via Adobe's UXP plug-in system. It's designed for frozen-headcount teams: existing people self-serve compliant variants, and the optional retainer absorbs overflow — no req, no agency.
What happens after the week?
You keep the locked panel. To keep it live for your team and get rule updates as the brand evolves, seats are $90/seat/mo (minimum 5). If you'd rather we keep producing variants, the retainer is $2,500/mo with $1,500 overflow batches. Both are optional — the week stands on its own.