Brand Guidelines

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A brand book written for AI to read, so every asset and every draft comes out on brand without a review cycle.
Category
Context & Identity
Return
~1 hr / week
Stack
Brand book · AI tools

The Problem

Most brands live in someone's head. The colors sit in one file, the tagline in another, and every new asset triggers the same conversation about what we sound like and how the logo works. When AI joins the workflow, it inherits none of that, and the drafts show it.

The Solution

A brand book structured for AI to read. Voice, message, colors, typography, image style and the rules for using them, all in one document your tools consult before producing anything. Assets come out on brand on the first pass.

How It Works

  1. We collect the brand as it exists today: visuals, messaging, examples of things that felt right and things that didn't.
  2. The pieces become one structured document with verbal identity, visual identity and usage rules.
  3. Do and don't examples anchor each rule, because AI follows examples better than adjectives.
  4. The document installs alongside your Personality Definition, so brand and voice travel together into every tool.
  5. New assets get checked against the book, and the book evolves as the brand does.

Built With

  • A structured brand document covering verbal and visual identity
  • Do and don't examples for each rule
  • Installation across your AI tools next to the Personality Definition
It works hand in hand with the Personality Definition, which covers you as a person, while this covers the brand as an entity. The Content Plan reads both before drafting.

What You Get

  • One source of truth for how the brand looks and sounds
  • AI drafts and assets that arrive on brand instead of needing a correction pass
  • A document you can hand to a designer, a contractor or a new tool

The Numbers

1–2

Days to build

~1

Hour back every week

~2

Weeks to pay for itself
One to two days to build from existing materials. It returns about an hour a week of correction and clarification, and the consistency it buys shows up everywhere the brand does.