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550 documents. One new brand.
11 minutes.

Every rebrand has a hidden line item nobody budgets for: the hundreds of documents still wearing the old logo. Here's what that job really costs by hand - and how we automated it.

By PM Project Change · 6 min read · 5 July 2026

550

templates in one batch

11 min

to rebrand them all

$7,000+

manual cost per 100 docs

1 hour

until your files are deleted

The job that lands on the person with the least time

You know the moment. The new brand launches - new logo, new colours, real excitement. The website flips over in a day, the email signatures update themselves, and then it arrives: the org-wide internal groan as everyone realises someone has to update every template.

Policies, procedures, training packs, proposals. Hundreds of Word files and PDFs, every one of them wearing the old colours, the old fonts, the old logo on the header of every page. We've watched this play out on real projects across government, higher education, and corporate delivery - the job never gets a budget line because "it's just find-and-replace", and then it quietly consumes weeks of somebody's working life.

The same pain shows up in two other places: buying a template kit that arrives in someone else's brand, and adopting a framework or policy set that needs to look like it belongs to your organisation. Different trigger, identical grind.

What the manual version actually costs

Conservative numbers. Real jobs run worse.

100

documents in a modest library

× 2 hrs

each, once you hit the fiddly ones

$7,000

at $35/hr - and a month of work

Scale that to a realistic enterprise library of 500+ documents and you're into serious money, delivered slowly, with human error sprinkled through the output. And it's not anyone's real job - it's displacement work. The admin isn't doing their actual role, the marketing coordinator isn't doing theirs, and six weeks later documents in the old brand are still turning up in meetings.

So we automated it

BrandSwitch came out of watching that grind one too many times. It does one thing: batch document rebranding. Upload your Word documents and PDFs, set your brand once, download the lot as editable Word files with the new brand applied to every page - headers, footers, tables, body text, the logo on page 47 of the policy nobody reads.

Under the hood it's deterministic document processing - no AI touches your content, nothing is sent to a language model, and files are automatically deleted from our servers within an hour. Upload, transform, download, gone.

1

Upload

PDF or Word. One file or five hundred.

2

Set your brand

Colours, font, logo. Once.

3

Download

Editable Word files. Every page, your brand.

550 PDF and Word templates. Brand switched in 11 minutes.

The manual version of that job is weeks of somebody's life.

Who this is for

Your org rebranded

Every template, policy and procedure updated in one batch instead of one month.

You bought a template kit

Make it yours - your colours, your logo - before your team ever sees it.

You're adopting a framework

Policy sets and compliance frameworks that look like they belong to your organisation.

Watch it happen

A real document getting a new brand - no cuts, no speed-up on the single-file run.

Quick answers

How long does it take to rebrand documents with BrandSwitch?

Minutes, not weeks. Our benchmark run rebranded 550 PDF and Word templates in 11 minutes - every page, including headers, footers, tables and logos. A single document typically processes in about a second.

What does BrandSwitch cost?

During validation, BrandSwitch Founders' Lifetime is $67 AUD as a one-time payment - no subscription, no per-page charges, lifetime access under fair use, with a 30-day no-questions refund.

Does AI read my documents?

No. BrandSwitch uses deterministic document processing - no AI model touches your content and nothing is sent to a language model. Files are automatically deleted from our servers within an hour of processing.

What file types does BrandSwitch support?

Word documents (.docx) and PDFs as input, with editable Word files as output. Single documents or entire batches - upload hundreds at once and download the lot as a ZIP.

The honest pricing bit

We're validating BrandSwitch in public, the bootstrapped way. While we do, it's $67 AUD once - Founders' Lifetime, no subscription, 30-day no-questions refund. When validation is done, lifetime access goes away and subscription pricing takes its place. Founders keep lifetime access.

Not ready to buy? There's a free guide on the product page - Automating Enterprise & Agency Rebrands - covering the cost model and the automation approach in detail.

PM

PM Project Change · Sydney, Australia

A practising consultancy in data governance, AI strategy and transformation delivery across financial services, government and higher education. BrandSwitch was built from direct delivery experience - watching document rebranding consume project budgets one too many times. MBA · PMBOK · DAMA-DMBOK credentials behind every product.

Stop rebranding documents by hand

Watch the run, grab the free guide, or get lifetime access while founders' pricing lasts.

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