Intelligent Automation for Layout-Intensive Workflows
Adobe InDesign remains the gold standard for layout and publishing, but its power is often limited by the burden of manual execution. For organizations managing high-volume production—magazines, catalogs, marketing collateral, technical documentation—the creative bottleneck isn’t strategy or design. It’s repetition.
At HarmonXII, we develop bespoke automation systems that extend InDesign’s capabilities far beyond the interface. By engineering sophisticated workflows powered by scripting and system-level integration, we enable creative teams to produce more, with greater consistency, in less time.
Automation doesn’t replace your design team—it empowers them.
Built for the Demands of Modern Publishing
The publishing landscape has shifted. Design teams are now expected to produce dynamic, responsive content at speed—often across print, digital, and localized variations. The traditional manual workflow simply cannot keep up.
HarmonXII builds automation systems that:
- Auto-populate templates with text and images from external data sources
- Create multi-version documents (e.g., for regions, languages, product lines)
- Standardize typographic treatments and brand elements across hundreds of pages
- Preflight documents and export to PDF, print, EPUB, or proprietary formats
- Automate pagination, style application, and asset placement
- Integrate with Photoshop and Illustrator to pull or update linked content
- Execute scheduled tasks via Apple Shortcuts or script triggers
Our solutions are crafted to mirror your organizational structure and content requirements. The result? Streamlined operations, fewer errors, and faster time-to-publish.
Scripting Meets Strategy
HarmonXII combines design intuition with technical fluency. Using technologies such as JavaScript, AppleScript, macOS’s Open Scripting Architecture, and Apple Shortcuts, we build workflow systems that feel native—even though they operate far beyond InDesign’s out-of-the-box capabilities.
Every solution is custom-built. No generic plugins. No workarounds.
We begin by mapping your creative workflows—where information comes from, how it’s transformed, where it’s delivered. Then we design automated systems that execute those steps with minimal human input, freeing your team to think, design, and lead.
More Time to Create, Less Time Managing Layouts
The cost of repetitive production work is not just measured in time. It drains creative bandwidth, flattens morale, and delays strategic initiatives. Many talented creatives spend their days reflowing copy, reformatting layouts, or chasing linked files—tasks that offer little return on their time or talent.
HarmonXII exists to liberate those creatives.
By automating layout-intensive processes, we help organizations repurpose that time toward high-value output: campaign strategy, brand refinement, conceptual development, and experimentation. Teams operate with more energy, more insight, and more space to grow.
Beyond InDesign: Connected Creative Systems
InDesign does not exist in isolation. It sits within a constellation of tools, assets, and workflows that touch many parts of a creative organization. HarmonXII automation solutions recognize that.
We engineer cross-application and system-level workflows that:
- Pull product information from spreadsheets or databases into InDesign layouts
- Automatically adjust linked assets edited in Photoshop or Illustrator
- Export proofs to network locations and notify stakeholders via Slack or email
- Sync documents to DAMs or version control systems
- Trigger automation sequences from custom UI panels or the macOS Shortcuts app
With HarmonXII, InDesign becomes part of a dynamic creative infrastructure—responsive, intelligent, and tailored to your unique needs.
Who We Serve
Our InDesign automation systems are purpose-built for organizations that operate at volume and value consistency. We serve:
- Ad Agencies
- In-House Marketing Teams
- Media Organizations and Publishers
- TV and Film Studios
- Commercial Printers
- Large Enterprises
If InDesign is a cornerstone of your production, we help you build on it—efficiently and elegantly.
Our Process
- Discovery & Analysis
We conduct a deep-dive into your production environment to understand your workflows, constraints, and opportunities for automation. - Workflow Architecture
We blueprint an automation system tailored to your layout, content, and platform requirements. - Development & Integration
Using industry-standard scripting technologies, we build systems that integrate natively with InDesign and macOS. - Testing & Validation
Our solutions are tested against real documents, production scenarios, and user environments to ensure reliability. - Training & Support
We provide clear documentation, onboarding for creative teams, and support for scaling or evolving the system.
Why HarmonXII
We’re not software developers building for a creative industry—we’re creatives who build automation with firsthand understanding of design workflows. Our systems are not only technically precise, but sensitive to how creative teams think, work, and collaborate.
We believe great automation should feel invisible. When it does, the results are transformative.