NexDoc AI · Brand Guidelines BG-01 · 2025
V 1.0The NexDoc brand system

Build what matters next.

NexDoc AI turns complex, research-heavy knowledge work into exceptional drafts that teams can trust, refine, and act on. This guide defines the brand system for a company that pairs the discipline of expert work with the momentum of modern AI.

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DocumentScope NexDoc AI Brand Guide — identity, messaging, and design system
EditionStatus Version 1.0 · 2025 · Approved for internal and partner use
AudienceApplies to Product, marketing, sales, and design teams; agency and partner collaborators
NexDoc AI · Brand Guide Section 01
01The brand core

The brand core

Everything NexDoc says and makes begins here: a purpose, a promise, and one idea that keeps the work honest.

Purpose

Make high-stakes knowledge work easier to start, stronger to trust, and faster to finish.

Promise

Move from a complex requirement to an exceptional draft with clarity, evidence, and control.

Brand idea

Codify your expertise and automate excellence.

Principles

Built on substance

Signal research depth, verification, and operational usefulness in everything we ship and say.

Confident, never loud

Earn authority through clarity, not spectacle. Precision is the volume control.

Human expertise stays central

Accelerate judgment without removing accountability. People remain the source of trust.

Complexity becomes navigable

Make difficult work feel structured, legible, and possible — never simplified away.

NexDoc AI · Brand Guide Section 02
02Who we are for

Who we are for

NexDoc speaks to strategic leaders, high-stakes specialists, and expert teams expected to turn fragmented information into decisions, documents, and next moves.

The people behind the work

Audience What they carry
Strategic leaders Set direction under uncertainty and need decisions they can defend.
High-stakes specialists Own domain expertise where precision, sources, and standards are non-negotiable.
Expert teams Turn fragmented information into shared documents, evidence, and next moves.

The feeling we create

Oriented, not overwhelmed

Every surface shows where you are and what comes next.

Respected, not replaced

The work amplifies expert judgment; it never stands in for it.

Clear about the next step

Momentum with control — one obvious action, always in reach.

Design consequence

If a layout makes an expert feel replaced, it is off-brand — no matter how polished it looks.

NexDoc AI · Brand Guide Section 03
03Messaging

Messaging

One platform message, four supporting proofs. Use the rows below as the standing vocabulary across site, deck, and product copy.

Message layerSay it like this
Core message Spend your time building, not prompting.
Platform An agentic workspace for complex knowledge work.
Proof Ground every draft in the context, sources, and standards that matter to your organization.
Capability Start with an exceptional draft, then refine it together in Fabric.
Enterprise Your proprietary knowledge remains controlled, protected, and never used to train public models.
Voice

Use active, precise, outcome-first language. Lead with what changes, then show the credible workflow and proof behind it.

Lead with the change

Open on the outcome the reader gets, not on the technology doing the work.

Then show the proof

Follow with the workflow, sources, and safeguards that make the claim credible to an expert.

NexDoc AI · Brand Guide Section 04
04Visual identity · Color

Clarity with a sense of lift

The visual language is intentionally restrained: abundant white space and deep navy establish confidence; vivid blue brings momentum. Soft blue fields and gentle gradients suggest movement from raw information toward focused output.

The color system

Nexdoc Navy
#10244A
Headlines, structure, authority. The ink of the brand.
Nexdoc Blue
#4BA7F5
Graphic accent: marks, fills, gradients. Momentum, not decoration.
Signal Blue
#1668B8
Accessible variant of Nexdoc Blue for small text, labels, and actions.
Blueprint Sky
#EAF6FF
Fields, callouts, and lift. The air around the work.
Ink
#101828
Body copy and data. Neutral, highly legible.
Slate
#475467
Secondary copy, captions, and quiet metadata.

Nexdoc Blue tint ramp

10%
25%
50%
100%
SIGNAL
NAVY

Proportion on a canvas

WHITE 60
SKY 25
NAVY 10
5

Blue guides attention rather than decorating it. If every element is blue, nothing is. Reserve Nexdoc Blue for the one thing that should move next.

NexDoc AI · Brand Guide Section 04
04Visual identity · Typography

Typography

A confident modern sans serif carries headlines; a highly readable humanist sans serif carries body copy. Headlines are decisive, short, and spacious. Body copy is calm, direct, and easy to scan.

Aa
Schibsted Grotesk — Display & Headlines
ABCDEFGHIJKLM abcdefghijklm 0123456789 — Decisive, short, spacious.
Public Sans — Body & Interface
Calm, direct, and easy to scan. Humanist letterforms keep long expert documents effortless at reading sizes.
IBM Plex Mono — Data, hex, page furniture

Type scale

RoleFaceSize / leadingWeightUsage
DisplaySchibsted Grotesk40–48 / 1.05800 Cover and hero statements only.
HeadlineSchibsted Grotesk24–30 / 1.12700 Page and section titles.
Section labelPublic Sans9 / caps700 · +22% tracking All-caps blue labels that orient each page.
BodyPublic Sans9.5–11.5 / 1.65400–500 Copy, cards, and tables.
Data & metaIBM Plex Mono7.5–8.5 / 1.5400–500 Hex values, page numbers, running heads.

Headlines do

Stay short and declarative. One idea per line. Generous space above and below.

Body copy does

Read calmly at length. Never set body copy in the display face, and never underline.

NexDoc AI · Brand Guide Section 05
05Design system

Design system

One repeatable rhythm carries every page and screen from orientation to action.

Layout rhythm

STEP 1

Orient

A small category label tells the reader where they are.

STEP 2

Clarify

One repeatable benefit, stated plainly.

STEP 3

Ground

Proof, workflow clarity, or a source-led detail.

STEP 4

Move

One obvious next step, in Signal Blue.

Actions

Request a demo Explore Blueprints

Primary actions use the accessible Signal Blue with white text; secondary actions are white with a subtle blue keyline. Always use specific verbs.

Request a demoExplore BlueprintsSee the workflowTalk to an expert

Imagery

Show work becoming clearer

Structured documents, diagrams, readable research artifacts, and human-in-the-loop moments.

Avoid

Generic AI stock imagery, decorative complexity, and anything that competes with the content it illustrates.

NexDoc AI · Brand Guide Section 06
06Applications

Applications

The system flexes by channel, but the opening move is always the same: lead with a concrete outcome, keep the visual story clean, and make one decisive action obvious.

ChannelLead with
Website A concrete outcome, a clean visual story, one decisive action, and immediate proof.
Sales deck The business problem, then a structured before-and-after workflow, evidence, and operational credibility.
Product A calm, editable workspace that makes AI assistance understandable and controllable.
Customer story Expertise unlocked, work saved, quality increased, and decisions made with confidence.
Trust content Control and transparency in plain language, with visible safeguards.
Across every channel

Orient, clarify, ground, move — in that order, on every page and every screen.

NexDoc AI · Brand Guide Closing
—The final check

The final check

Before anything ships, it answers to four questions.

Is the outcome specific?

If the reader can’t name what changes for them, sharpen it.

Is the language credible to an expert?

Precision earns trust; hype spends it.

Does the design reduce friction?

Every element either moves the work forward or gets removed.

Is blue guiding attention rather than decorating?

One blue moment per view — the thing that should move next.

Closing

Codify your expertise
and automate excellence.

NexDoc AI · Brand Guide · Version 1.0 · 2025. For internal and partner use.