Introducing Brand Kits: DeepResearch Reports in Your Brand

A research report rarely ends at the person who asked for it. It becomes a memo for the investment committee, a presentation for a client, or a briefing for the board. Those documents already carry your brand: a logo on the cover, particular fonts, familiar chart colours, and a way of explaining the work.

Brand Kits brings your brand into Valyu DeepResearch. Save your organisation's visual identity once, then apply it to the reports and files you produce.

TL;DR

A Brand Kit is a reusable set of logos, colours, fonts, templates and writing guidance. DeepResearch applies it to the PDF report and to PowerPoint, Word and Excel deliverables. Start from your existing documents, a website, a Claude design system export, or a palette you enter by hand. An organisation admin reviews and saves the kit, and anyone in the organisation can then choose it for a task or use it as the default. Brand Kits is on the Comfortably Pro, Serious Business and Enterprise plans, and a kit adds no charge to a task.

If you're a human: Open the Valyu platform and choose Brand kits. You need an organisation admin to create or edit a kit.

If you're an agent: Set up Valyu, then follow the Brand Kits guide. Use a ready kit's ID as brand_collection_id in a DeepResearch request. An organisation admin sets up the kit on the platform; don't invent a kit ID or assume a public kit-creation API exists.

Where it saves the most time:

• Consultancies: research and slides in the client's brand style, with no reformatting before the pitch.
• Investment teams: diligence memos and models in the firm's own Word and Excel format.
• Founders and operators: market updates that drop straight into the board pack, with one kit per company.

Start from the files you already have

In the platform, open Brand kits → New brand kit and choose Import documents, or Import from your documents on an existing kit. Upload a branded PowerPoint deck, Word document, Excel workbook, PDF brand book or letterhead, and your logo files.

Example: Valyu's own files

We built a Valyu kit from our brand book and our slide and Word templates. Valyu read the plum and citron palette and the Source Serif 4 and Schibsted Grotesk fonts, downloaded the font files from Google Fonts, and wrote a first brand guide.

Then we asked DeepResearch for a discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation of NVIDIA, with a PDF report and an Excel model. The report has a plum cover with the Valyu mark and a citron accent, Source Serif 4 headings with plum section numbers, and the brand fonts embedded.

The NVIDIA DCF report in the Valyu style: the plum cover in front, with the revenue build and free cash flow pages behind.

Close-ups from the Valyu-styled report: the cover title with its citron rule, and the revenue build table.

The Excel model has linked sheets for assumptions, revenue, free cash flow, WACC, valuation and sensitivity. The kit sets its number formats, header rows and fonts, and puts the Valyu logo on the summary sheet.

Two sheets from the DeepResearch DCF workbook made with the Valyu brand kit: the revenue build by segment and the free cash flow projection, with plum header rows.

The Revenue Build and Free Cash Flow sheets from the DCF workbook. The examples in this article show formatting; we did not check the research or the model's figures.

Or start with a website

Under Start with a website, enter the URL and choose Find brand. Valyu finds the site's logo, colours and fonts and shows them beside a live report preview. Change anything you like before you create the kit.

We tried two sites with distinct looks: turbopuffer and Linear. Neither company is a Valyu customer or partner, and neither endorses the example reports. For production work, use your own assets or assets you have permission to use.

turbopuffer

turbopuffer's homepage pairs a dark navy field with monospaced lettering, diagram-like line work, a puffer mascot and warm orange buttons.

The turbopuffer homepage: a dark navy header with monospaced type, an architecture diagram and orange sign-up buttons.

The import found the puffer logo, the navy #0F172A and JetBrains Mono. We added the orange #FDBA74 from the sign-up buttons as the accent, kept a light page background for the PDF, and uploaded turbopuffer's dark-background logo for the navy cover.

A DeepResearch report made with the turbopuffer brand kit: the navy cover with the full-colour puffer in front, with the contents and cost-table pages behind.

The navy cover with its slate pattern carries into the interior: JetBrains Mono throughout and the puffer in every page header.

Close-ups from the turbopuffer-styled report: the cover title in JetBrains Mono, and a storage pricing table.

Linear

Linear's homepage is near-black (#08090A) with off-white Inter type, and its brand indigo, #5E6AD2, runs through the product.

The Linear homepage: a near-black page with off-white Inter headings and a product window.

Linear's logo and near-black came through on the first pass. Once we added the indigo accent, the link colour #828FFF from Linear's CSS and Inter for both fonts, the preview turned indigo.

The Linear kit: accent #5E6AD2, secondary #828FFF, text #08090A and Inter for headings and body, with indigo accents in the preview.

We asked for a briefing on how AI coding agents change the way software teams plan and ship work, with a PDF report and a short slide deck. The report has a near-black cover with an indigo glow, the white Linear mark and an indigo rule. The deck has a black title slide, the Linear mark on every slide, stat cards, numbered findings and a comparison table.

A DeepResearch report made with the Linear brand kit: the near-black cover in front, with the executive summary and measured-effects pages behind.

Close-ups from the Linear-styled report: the cover title in Inter, and a section heading with its indigo number above a study table.

Slides from the PowerPoint deck that DeepResearch made in the same task, with the Linear kit.

Two more ways to start

A Claude design system. Import the .zip export of your Claude design system, or its folder. Valyu brings its colours, typography, logos and writing guidance into one kit, and supported slide designs become editable PowerPoint layouts.

Build your own. If you already know the approved values, choose Or build your own, enter the palette and font names, and upload the logo.

What goes into a kit

The kit editor has sections for Logos, Colours and type, Tables and structure, Fonts, Templates, Brand guide and Reports, so you can change any of them after the first import.

Logos: add a light version too, and DeepResearch uses it on dark covers and slides.

Tables and structure: set how data tables look in decks and documents: the header fill, lines, shaded rows, alignment, thousands separators and whether negative figures show as -1,234 or (1,234). You can also set the sections a deck or document must have, in order, such as title, executive summary, evidence, caveats and sources. DeepResearch checks the finished file and rebuilds it if a section is missing or out of order.

Fonts: upload TTF or OTF files, one per weight and style, and reports embed the exact typeface.

Templates: add the approved PowerPoint, Word or PDF letterhead. A template controls layout far more than a palette can.

Brand guide: BRAND.md holds the audience, terminology and writing rules. DeepResearch reads the first 8,000 characters, so put the important rules first. Design rules imported from your documents (DESIGN.md) sit alongside it and shape slides and documents. For example, a brand guide might say:

Use British spelling. Start with an executive summary. Separate observed facts from assumptions. State dates explicitly. Avoid promotional language. End with open questions for the team.

Reports: set the tagline, chart colours and footer notices. With a PDF letterhead, you can also set the page margins and the height of the cover art.

Use the kit in DeepResearch

Once the kit is Ready, choose Use in DeepResearch, or select it in the Brand field in DeepResearch. Then ask for the report and files you need:

Prepare a competitor landscape briefing for our next board meeting. Cover positioning, recent product changes, key risks and open questions. Produce a cited report and a short presentation using the selected company kit. Distinguish confirmed developments from interpretation.

Set a default kit for recurring work, or pick a kit per client or company. A task keeps the kit version it started with, so editing a kit doesn't restyle old reports.

From the API

Pass the kit ID from the platform as brand_collection_id:

curl https://api.valyu.ai/v1/deepresearch/tasks \
  -H "x-api-key: $VALYU_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "Prepare a sourced market briefing and a short presentation for the board.",
    "mode": "standard",
    "output_formats": ["markdown", "pdf"],
    "deliverables": [{"type": "pptx", "description": "A short board presentation"}],
    "tools": {"code_execution": {"enabled": true}},
    "brand_collection_id": "YOUR_KIT_ID"
  }'

If you leave the field out, the organisation's default kit applies when it's ready. Send "none" to turn branding off. The kit must belong to the organisation that makes the request. The same field works on workflow runs. See the DeepResearch API reference and the Brand Kits guide for SDK examples.

Before you share

Check the exported pages as well as the preview: the logo, colours, fonts and template. Then check the sources and figures as you would for any research.

Make the next report yours

Import what you already have, review it, and save a kit everyone can reuse.

Open Brand kits in the Valyu platform, or read the setup guide.