DIGITAL BRAND GUIDELINES edition
A super simple service where we create a digital brand guidelines website for your brand, to share your brand guidelines and logo artwork, for a simple low cost annual subscription fee, and one off setup fee.
We set it up and manage it for you - so it's a turn-key, white-glove service.
No fuss, no muss - it's as easy as can be.
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What it looks like
A design-forward, simple, function-first approach to an always up-to-date single source of truth for your brand identity and brand standards/rules/guidelines.
(Fig: Standard design and domain example from Brandkit Demo account)
(Fig: Custom design and custom domain example from Hamilton City Council)
And plenty of other design options.
Built for Humans, Machines and AI
One of the problems with traditional Brand Guidelines is that they are based on the printed document/book paradigm.
Many companies have spent tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars with a design agency, designing, printing and updating these documents. Today this is silly, and a waste of money.
They are lovely for humans to browse through, and often have pride of place on the company's bookshelf. They feed the ego of the C-suite, and keep design agencies busy.
But these monolithic documents are often hopeless to use as references when you quickly want information - like a specific colour spec or an isolation rule (which is often visual). Out of date copies are often spread all over the place, and they are expensive and time consuming to update. And the worst ones are too big, with too many pages, that are rarely referred to.
The monolithic document/book paradigm makes no sense in a modern world ....and it's worse for AI and machines.
Instead - we create brand guidelines that are born digital and are both readable by human users, updateable in real-time, and have searchable text and components.
This is much faster for people to use, and because we automatically generate plain text data for consumption by AI - better for LLMs, chatbots and agents too.
Win win.
How it works
(1) You send us your existing brand guidelines or style guides and logos (images and design files).
We'll then review and send you an invoice for payment before we start.
(2) We'll setup and configure everything for you at your own Brandkit subdomain (e.g. acme.brandkit.com).
Or if you opt for Digital Brand Guidelines Premium, we'll setup your site at a custom domain (e.g. brandkit.acme.com). In the case of a custom domain we'll ask you for your preferred domain name and send you instructions on how to add a CNAME to your domains DNS records.
(3) You start using and sharing your Brandkit address (URL). e.g. yourbrandname.brandkit.com or brandkit.yourdomainname.com
(4) People visit your Brandkit, find what they want, consult your guidelines, and download your logo artwork (can be configured to require login or not).
FAQs
Q: How much is the setup and design costs?
A: Setup and design costs will vary depending on your brand and requirements. Do you have exisiting Brand Guidelines, Visual Standards, Corporate Identity Standards, etc or do they need to be created from scratch?
We'll quote once we see a copy of your current guidelines, or you brief us on your requirements.
Q: Can I share images and video in the Digital Brand Guidelines Edition?
A: No, the Digital Brand Guidelines Edition is designed for Brand Identity (e.g. logos, icons, etc) and Brand Guidelines only. You'll need to upgrade to Team, Pro or Enterprise Edition for Images, Video and other Asset types.
Q: Can my Digital Brand Guidelines Edition Brand Portal be private or require login to access?
A: Depends. The Digital Brand Guidelines Edition Standard is public access only. It's designed to be the simplest easiest to use Brandkit experience for your users, and your marketing team as well. Digital Brand Guidelines Edition Premium adds the ability to require users to register and login.
Q: Can I make changes to my Brand Guidelines or Downloadable files?
A: Yes. Typically with brand identity, changes are (and should be) few and far between. In Digital Brand Guidelines Edition we setup everything for you (as opposed to self-serve in other Editions) - so you will need to ask Brandkit Support to make those changes for you. If it is a simple change this will be at no additional cost. In some cases there may be a service charge to make that change. The support team will let you know if there will be a service fee once you request a change.
Q: Can I get a free trial?
A: Nope sorry no trials with this plan. Digital Brand Guidelines Edition is a turnkey service where we set everything up for you. Once you commit, and send us your files, we'll set everything up for you, and you'll be good to go.
Q: Can I change my plan?
A: Yes absolutely. You can change your Plan and upgrade to a different plan at any time. You'll want to upgrade in order to start sharing images, video and other asset types or start setting up different users roles, etc. To make a change, contact us
Q: What is Fair Usage?
A: Fair Usage is designed to avoid abuse of our service and is explain here in our Fair Use Policy.
Q: Can I cancel my account?
A: Of course, you can cancel your account at anytime.
Note the following, when you cancel.
- What happens to your content after cancellation: Your account will be made inactive on the termination date. Once the account has been made inactive, we will keep your data and files securely stored for 30 days, before permanently deleting them.
Q: Are Unlimited Users really Unlimited?
A: Yes indeed. The Digital Brand Guidelines edition plan gives you a public facing Brand Portal. Vistors don't have to register or login to download and most won't. Who really wants another password to remember anyway? That said, if you choose the Digital Brand Guidelines Edition Premium - you can require an unlimited number of users to register and login, and/or limit what each user can view and access based on the user's User Role.
Q. Do you offer Not For Profit discounts or discounts for registered charities?
A: Yes we do, but not on the Digital Brand Guidelines Edition which is already heavily discounted. We offer NFP discounts on other Editions. Contact us to ask us about discounted rates for registered charities.
Q: Is A DAM like Brandkit® it worth it?, what sort of ROI will I get?
A: Most customers will save hundreds, if not thousands of hours over a year. Learn more about Brandkit's Return On Investment here.
Q: My question is not answered here, where can I get additional help?
A: Please contact us and we'll happily answer any questions.
