Brand Guideline Compliance Checker

The problem this kills

Creative comes at you from everywhere - agencies, channel partners, the sales team, the intern who "just made a quick flyer." Every piece is supposed to follow the brand guidelines, but in practice you're eyeballing each one against a 40-page PDF you half remember, catching the wrong shade of blue a week after it went out, and finding the legal disclaimer was quietly dropped to make room for a bigger logo.

There's no record of what was checked, no consistent standard between reviewers, and no clean way to tell a partner "here's exactly what's wrong, fix these three things and resubmit." So things slip through, the brand drifts, and you're the one who gets the email when a customer screenshots an off-brand ad.

This tool turns your brand guidelines into an actual checklist a machine can run, flags the things software can catch automatically (exact hex codes, missing required text, wrong tagline), and lines up the judgment calls for a human - so nothing gets the "brand approved" stamp without a real person signing off.

What you'll build

A small, private web app for your brand team:

• A submission screen where anyone can send in a piece of creative - upload the file or paste the specs (colors used, fonts, headline, tagline, footer text) - tagged with a name and version.
• An automatic check against your brand ruleset: approved colors, allowed fonts, logo clear-space rule, correct tagline wording, and required disclaimers - each rule marked pass, fail, or needs-human-eyes.
• A compliance report the brand manager reviews, with a clear approve or return decision and room to write the required fixes.
• An approved-creative record once it's signed off, plus a CSV export of every review for your records and audits.

It works even if you have no fancy design-system API to plug into - you submit specs and text, the tool checks what it can, and a human handles the rest.

What's inside the Implementation Plan

The plan is a single file you paste into an AI coding agent (Claude Code), and it builds the tool with you step by step - no prior coding needed.

The best part: it opens by interviewing you about your brand and your review process. It asks for your real approved colors and hex codes, your font list, your logo rules, your taglines and disclaimers, who reviews what, how you name and version creative, and the weird exceptions (co-branded pieces, seasonal logos, regional disclaimers). Then it reads back a short tailored spec, you give it a thumbs-up, and it builds the tool around your brand - not a generic template.

From there it walks through accounts, the database, the submission form, the rule-checking engine, the human approval gate, email notifications, and the CSV export - each step ending in a ready-to-paste prompt.

The governance it includes (this is the point)

This isn't a toy. Governance is baked in from the start:

• Login so only your team can use the tool.
• Row-level security so each organization only ever sees its own creative and rules.
• A complete audit trail - who submitted, who reviewed, what was decided, and when.
• A hard human approval gate - the tool drafts the compliance report, but nothing is "brand approved" until the brand manager signs off.
• Duplicate guards - the same creative name + version can't be processed twice, so re-reviews are tracked cleanly instead of piling up duplicates.

Who it's for

Brand managers and marketing-ops people who review creative coming from agencies, channel partners, and internal teams - and who are tired of being the human linter for the brand. If you can write a clear checklist of your brand rules, you can build this.

You've got this - paste the first prompt and let the agent interview you.