We Brand Logo
Use Cases
Platform
Services
Resources
We Brand: The Brand Enablement PlatformSolving the conflict between brand compliance and content adaptation.

Turn your InDesign files into Self-Service Brand Templates

Transform complex InDesign layouts into smart templates that anyone can customize, without design skills or brand compliance risk.
Oracle logo
Techstars logo
Hudson logo
Keller Williams logo
Emerson logo
Oracle logo
Techstars logo
Hudson logo
Keller Williams logo
Emerson logo
Universal file compatibility

The InDesign challenge: Brilliant layouts, locked away

Your design team creates incredible work in Figma. Beautiful brand assets, campaign materials, social templates, presentation decks - all locked in design files that only designers can edit.Meanwhile, your regional teams, sales reps, and partners need customized materials today.They submit requests. Designers become bottlenecks. Deadlines slip. Or worse - teams give up and create off-brand materials themselves.
InDesign files stay locked behind specialist tools
Every small change becomes another designer request
Teams bypass the process and create risky off-brand versions

The result?

Your best design work sits unused while your brand becomes inconsistent.

We Brand: Transform InDesign files into production-ready Templates

Keep InDesign as your creative powerhouse for sophisticated layout design. We Brand adds the distribution layer that turns those layouts into customizable, brand-protected templates your entire organization can use.
Export directly from InDesign
Our dedicated plugin integrates into your InDesign workflow. Export multi-page documents with one click - complete with master pages, paragraph styles, and print specifications. Everything translates automatically with complete design fidelity.
Maintain 100% layout fidelity. Every font & style preserved.
Export once, reuse everywhere as editable brand templates.
Template magic
Configure template intelligence
Define what's flexible and what's fixed: Lock your master pages and layout grids. Designate which text frames can be edited. Mark image areas as swappable placeholders. Set region-specific permissions (EMEA can edit pricing, but not product specs). Build your brand guardrails once.
Control what’s editable and what’s locked.
Automate regional editing rules.
Template magic
Distribute through Branded Portals
Your teams access templates through self-serve white-labeled portals, no InDesign installation required. Regional managers log in to update product catalogs. Sales reps customize proposals for specific clients. Distributors localize materials for their markets.
Teams get only the templates they need.
Create and localize content without InDesign.
Go to Self-service Brand Portals
Template magic
Maintain design integrity automatically
Your layouts are mathematically locked. Master page elements can't be moved. Typography stays consistent. Color palettes remain fixed. Teams work within the creative framework you've established, eliminating review cycles because compliance is automatic, not enforced.
Layouts, fonts, and colors stay consistent by default.
Compliance is automatic — no reviews needed.
Template magic

Why InDesign plus We Brand makes sense

Production RequirementInDesign AloneInDesign + We Brand
Sophisticated multi-page layout creation
Industry-leading
Same powerful creation environment
Distributed team access to layouts
Requires full InDesign licensing
Browser-based access, no software needed
Master page protection
Relies on user discipline
Mathematically locked, impossible to override
Multi-language production workflows
Manual file management
Integrated translation workflow with layout protection
Regional customization at scale
Requires designer for each variation
Template-driven regional production
Print specification management
Excellent
Automatically preserved with every output
Production audit trails
File-level tracking only
Complete template usage analytics
Partner/distributor access
Complex licensing and training barriers
Simple portal access with role-based permissions

How First Dollar uses We Brand’s InDesign plugin to scale team materials fast

Oracle Banner
First Dollar turns their InDesign playbooks, worksheets, and partner decks into editable, on-brand templates their teams can update instantly — without breaking layouts or relying on designers.
Convert InDesign files into reusable, brand-controlled templates.
Let teams update content safely while design stays locked.
Produce playbooks, worksheets, and sales materials in minutes.
Oracle Banner

Free your designers. Empower your teams. Protect your brand.

Repetitive Work

For your design team

Escape the production treadmill
Eliminate 90% of "simple update" requests that don't require design thinking
Redirect design hours from production to strategic creative development
Build templates once, enable thousands of variations without additional design time
"Before We Brand, my team created 12-15 product sheets daily—same layout, different specs. Now we build the template once per quarter. We've reclaimed 30 hours weekly for actual design work."
Design Director,Industrial Equipment Manufacturer
employees-&-partners

For your distributed teams

Professional documents without professional tools
Generate customized, print-ready materials in under 10 minutes.
Zero InDesign expertise required—if they can edit a Google Doc, they can use We Brand.
Access always-updated templates with current brand assets and approved messaging.
"Our 200 distributors across Europe and Asia now produce localized product catalogs themselves. What used to take our team 3 weeks per market happens in hours. They're faster, and we're focused on strategy."
International Marketing Director, B2BTechnology Company
cmo-&-cfo

For your CMO & CFO

Layout Protection Built Into Every Template
Master pages and design grids stay mathematically locked—impossible to break.
Brand elements (logos, colors, typography) protected from modification.
Complete production audit trail showing who created what, when, and from which template.
Quantifiable Efficiency Gains:
  • Reduce InDesign seat licenses
  • Eliminate up to 80% of design costs
  • Typical payback period: 3-4 months

Who relies on InDesign + We Brand integration?

Industrial & manufacturing
The Situation: 500+ SKUs requiring technical specification sheets. Each product has multiple variants for different markets, with region-specific certifications, measurements, and compliance information.
The Implementation: Engineering creates master InDesign spec sheet templates with locked technical diagrams and layouts. Regional teams update product specifications, certifications, and local requirements through designated editable zones.
The Outcome: Spec sheet production time reduced from 4 hours to 4 minutes. Engineering team now focuses on complex technical documentation instead of updating specification fields. Compliance accuracy improved to 100% - no more outdated or incorrect regional certifications.
Template magic
Publishing & catalog production
The Situation: Monthly consumer catalog with 200+ pages, produced in 6 languages across 12 regional markets. Each market needs localized pricing, inventory availability, and market-specific promotional content.
The Solution: Editorial team designs master catalog in InDesign with sophisticated grids and typography. Regional marketing teams access templates to update pricing tables, swap regional product selections, and customize promotional callouts—all within locked layout structures.
The Outcome: Catalog production cycle compressed from 6 weeks to 11 days. Translation costs reduced 45% through in-template localization workflow. Zero layout breaks across all regional versions.
Template magic
Enterprise sales teams
The Situation: 400-person B2B sales organization requiring customized proposals, case studies, ROI analyses, and product documentation for enterprise deals—each prospect needs materials tailored to their industry, use case, and technical requirements.
The Implementation: Marketing creates comprehensive InDesign proposal templates with modular sections. Sales reps select relevant case studies, insert client-specific ROI calculations, and customize technical specifications through guided template interfaces. Complex layouts and professional typography maintained automatically.
The Outcome: Proposal creation time: 8 hours → 45 minutes. Sales team creates 3x more customized materials with same headcount. Win rate increased 18% attributed to more professional, tailored sales materials.
Template magic
Multi-Location Retail & Hospitality
The Situation: 600 franchise locations requiring localized menu boards, promotional posters, seasonal campaigns, and in-store signage - all needing rapid updates for limited-time offers, local pricing, and location-specific information.
The Implementation: Corporate design team creates seasonal campaign templates in InDesign with locked brand elements and flexible content zones. Franchisees access brand portal to customize offers, update hours, insert location information, and generate print-ready files.
The Outcome: Campaign rollout time: 3 weeks → 48 hours. Brand compliance issues: 47% → 0%. Creative team requests reduced by 92%, allowing corporate team to increase campaign frequency from quarterly to monthly.
Template magic

Bring every creative tool into one brand ecosystem

Tagging magic
SharePoint
Connect SharePoint to import assets, manage shared folders, and distribute brand templates instantly across teams and departments.
Flexible filtering
Figma files
Import Figma designs and turn them into editable, brand-controlled templates that every team can customize safely.
Powerful searching
PDF files
Import PDFs and transform them into reusable, on-brand templates ready for any channel.

Frequently Asked Questions

Have more questions?
Contact Us

Transform your InDesign layouts into enterprise assets

Turn sophisticated InDesign documents into production-ready templates that empower your entire organization - without compromising design integrity or brand standards.