Introducing Design Coworker (Beta): Rebrand and Redesign Your Materials Without Touching Every Slide by Hand

A rebrand shouldn't mean opening every deck, course, and document one by one. That's the problem Design Coworker is built to solve, and it's now open for beta.

Design Coworker is the newest member of your team of Smartcat AI Coworkers. You brief it the way you'd brief a human designer: "Take this existing material and redesign it according to our brandbook, keeping the content intact." It reads your brand guidelines, template, checklist, or even plain-language instructions, and returns a redesigned, editable version of your material with nothing lost along the way: your text, your data, your structure, all intact.

• Rebrands and redesigns existing materials (starting with PowerPoint presentations) onto a new template or visual identity, without rebuilding slide by slide.
• Works from what you already have: a brandbook, an approved template, a customer checklist, or natural-language instructions, used independently or together.
• Keeps your content safe: charts, tables, notes, links, and protected assets stay editable and intact. Nothing gets shortened, flattened, or silently swapped out to make a redesign "fit."
• Hands off to independent Layout QA automatically, so every redesigned file gets checked before you see it, giving you a clear before-and-after comparison, a record of exceptions, and a verdict you can trust before you approve.
• Lives right inside your Chief of Staff, so there's no new tool to learn. Just tell your Chief of Staff what you need.

The two examples below use a sample training course, Warehouse Safety · Module 1, opened in Smartcat. In each one, the user briefs Design Coworker in plain language from the chat panel on the left, and it applies the change across the whole course while the content stays exactly as it was.

Kelvara Logistics has a new brand, but its warehouse safety course still carries the look of the old SafeWorks Safety Academy: a teal and orange palette, serif headings and rounded pill buttons. Instead of rebuilding each lesson by hand, the user asks Design Coworker to update the course to the Kelvara brand (logo, Kelvara Blue accents, brand typography and button style) and apply it to every lesson.

Design Coworker makes the changes across all five lessons and the quiz, then lists exactly what it changed and confirms that the text and translations weren't touched. From there, the user can review a before-and-after view, undo, or ask for a next step, like updating the cover image to match.

Before: a warehouse safety course still in the legacy SafeWorks brand, with a teal and orange palette, serif headings and pill-shaped buttons.

After: from a single brief, Design Coworker applies the new Kelvara brand across all five lessons and the quiz: new logo, Kelvara Blue accents, brand typography and square buttons. Text and translations stay untouched.

Translation creates design problems of its own. German text often runs much longer than English, so in the German version of the same course, the title spills over the subtitle, card text runs out of its cards, and button labels get cut off. Layout QA catches these issues automatically and flags each one on the slide (the red markers in the first screenshot below).

The user asks Design Coworker to fix the layout on all slides while keeping the brand and the full translation. It resolves 23 issues across 9 German slides by adjusting title sizes, wrapping long headings, growing cards to fit and resizing buttons to their labels, without removing a single word. Where the German is 45% longer than the English, it points out those slides and offers to suggest shorter wording for the translator to review.

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Before: in the German version of the course, longer translations overflow the title and cards and clip the button labels. Layout QA flags every issue on the slide.

After: Design Coworker fixes 23 layout issues across 9 German slides. Titles are resized and wrapped, cards grow to fit the text, and buttons resize to their labels. Brand colors and fonts stay unchanged, and no words are removed.

Beyond PowerPoint, the roadmap extends this same redesign capability to SCORM courses, PDFs, Figma, and InDesign assets, so brand and content updates can roll out across your entire library, not just one format.

Early beta customers get a direct line to the product team shaping this, hands-on support getting their first materials migrated, and a head start on using Design Coworker before general availability.

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