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Chapter 03 — The Receipts · Spring 2026

The receipts your retainer clients keep asking for

Timestamped approvals, signed webhook audit trails, exportable review logs — so when the retainer comes up for renewal you can prove every piece shipped with sign-off.

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Issue 01 · Plate 001
Live Compliance score

The Dossier · Three complaints

Everything wrong with how your team approves content today.

  1. 01

    Approved?

    Retainer clients challenge deliverables at renewal and you can't produce the approval chain

  2. 02

    By whom?

    Legal asks for a review log at SOC-2 audit time and you send them screenshots of Slack

  3. 03

    Where?

    Your 'what did we ship and when' answer is a stitched-together story, not a document

The Method · Three movements

Every client. Every brand kit.
One queue. One audit log.

Three movements. One queue per agency, one workspace per client. Every draft scored against the right brand kit, every approval timestamped, every shipped piece exportable as proof.

  1. Risograph-style illustration of three client workspaces flowing into a single agency queue.
    Plate 002
    Unlimited clients
    01

    Workspace per client

    One brand kit per client. One queue for all of them.

    Spin up a workspace for every client you retain — their colors, fonts, voice, logo, and guidelines URL. Your account managers see all of them in one queue; your creatives see only the clients they work on. No more scattered Slack channels and no more 'FINAL_v7' hunts.

  2. Risograph staircase of three score tiles — green, amber, red — with an expandable breakdown row underneath each.
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    <5 sec per asset
    02

    Score

    Catch the client's brand-guide rejections — before you send.

    Every draft is scored against that specific client's brand kit in under five seconds. Colour match, logo detection, voice alignment — explainable and auditable. Catch the three things the client's brand lead always catches, in round one, so you stop billing revisions you can't invoice for.

  3. Risograph hourglass tipped slightly, with an acid lime sweep tracing the staged approval path from draft to approved.
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    Exportable
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    Approve

    Ship with receipts your client can't dispute.

    Draft → brand review → client sign-off → approved. Every stage timestamped, attributable, exportable. When renewal comes up or legal asks 'what did you ship and when,' the retainer defence document is already written. One click exports the full log per client, per period.

Side by side · The same post, two review cycles

Forwarded PDFs lose the brief.
A client queue keeps the receipts.

Exhibit A · The client forward chain

#client-x-social23#client-x-brand7#client-x-legaldms (4)
#client-x-social-review@3
127 msgs
account mgrmon 10:14@creative @brand @legal

sending v2 FINAL v3 — client says urgent, can we turn by EOD?

📎 v2_FINAL.pdf📎 v3_FINAL_v2.pdf
client brandmon 11:47

sent one small note, check your email (the long thread)

↳ 14 replies · 2 unread →
client mdtue 09:02edited

looks great 👍 (but CFO wants to see it before it ships)

👍 4 🎉 2 🤔 3 🙏 1 👀 2 🔥 1
creativetue 11:38

which notes got merged? @account pls confirm ↻

legaltue 15:41

can someone re-send the signed version? I only have v1

account mgrwed 08:123 unread

going live in 20 — which thread had the final copy?

designer is typing…
+ 127 more msgs · 7 dm threads · 9 forwarded emails
· 3 lost pdfs · 2 muted channels · 1 revoked drive link
  • Drafts forwarded across 4 channels — nobody finds v7 on Friday
  • Brand lead's edits lost to a forwarded email the AM never saw
  • Renewal meeting arrives — no record of what the client approved

“Same retainer.
Different renewal conversation.”

Exhibit B · The OnBrand client queue

Client X · Q3 launch · round 1

Same retainer. Different renewal.

94
/100

Draftclient palette 98 · logo · voice

Mon 10:14

agency creative

Brand review

Mon 11:02

Maya K. · CD

Client sign-off

Mon 14:11

Client X brand lead

Approved

pending

  • One workspace per client, one queue per agency
  • Compliance score on the client's brand kit before round 1 ships
  • Exportable retainer log — per client, per period, 1 click

The Proof · Why this works

SOC-2-ready data model with HMAC-signed inbound webhooks. Every post carries its own audit row: who approved, at which stage, when, with what compliance score.

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— The OnBrand.ai team

From the editors' notebook

Metric 01

100%

Of stage transitions — intake, brand review, client sign-off, approved — captured with timestamp, actor, and compliance score.

Metric 02

1-click

Exportable audit log per client per retainer period. HMAC-signed webhooks in. SOC-2-ready data out. Legal and renewal conversations stop.

The Subscription · Three tiers

Priced per agency.
Scaled per client roster.

Every tier includes compliance scoring and an exportable audit log. Pick based on how many client workspaces you need and whether your clients review inside OnBrand.

Tier 01

Studio

For boutique studios running 1-3 retainer clients.

$299/ month
  • Up to 3 client workspaces, each with its own brand kit
  • Compliance scoring on every imported asset
  • Upload + URL ingest
  • Single-stage brand review + 🟢/🟡/🔴 badge
  • 3 agency seats — creatives, AMs, PMs

Tier 02

Agency

For agencies running client workflows end-to-end.

$599/ month
  • Up to 10 client workspaces, each with its own brand kit
  • Multi-stage approval (draft → brand → client → approved)
  • External client-reviewer seats (magic-link access)
  • Signed inbound webhooks (Zapier, Make, Adobe CC, custom)
  • Auto-reformat for IG, LinkedIn, X, TikTok aspect ratios
  • 10 agency seats + unlimited external client reviewers
  • Full timestamped audit trail · exportable per client, per period
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Tier 03

Enterprise

For agencies at scale with SOC-2, SSO, and retainer renewals. Pricing calibrated to your client roster.

Custom
  • Unlimited client workspaces and brand kits
  • SSO / SAML + role-based stage permissions
  • White-labelled client review portal
  • 1-click retainer audit-log export (PDF + CSV)
  • Dedicated onboarding + SLA
  • Priority Zapier / Make / custom integration support

See the agency dashboard with sample client workspaces — no credit card, no trial commitment. We only charge once the product is ready and you ask us to turn it on.

The Close · Your move

See the audit log in action.

Renewal conversations coming up next quarter. The clients asking 'can you show me what we approved' are the clients you're about to lose.

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