
Template design software and tool free up valuable time for content professionals by automating repetitive tasks. With automation, businesses can accelerate content creation and distribution processes, allowing teams to focus on creating strategic, high-quality content.
With HIVO’s content automation software, you can:

Empower staff who need self-service capabilities to become content creators while automatically maintaining brand consistency. This all-in-one template design software and tool enables designers and creatives to establish pre-approved components for an asset, facilitating its swift recreation and customization for various organizational uses.
With HIVO’s content automation software, you can:


HIVO empowers all staff to become content creators without compromising on brand control and consistency. Our content automation features enable designers and creatives to set templates with pre-defined layers that can be edited with simple text fields and without altering the quality and integrity of the design itself.

Empower your team to generate polished, on-brand creative assets effortlessly with our Template Editor. Enable select team members to self-serve and produce professional designs across any size or aspect ratio using pre-approved templates that update automatically for the user on request—no design bottlenecks, no delays.

Creating on-brand content in HIVO takes minutes instead of hours. HIVO’s template design features will help your team design and create content quickly and easily while sticking to your design principles and brand guidelines.

Experience seamless creativity with HIVO's integration with InDesign. Effortlessly import your designs from InDesign directly into HIVO templates. Enjoy the freedom for non-designers to edit and refine certain aspects of imported designs in HIVO, while locking other layers to preserve the original design integrity.

HIVO’s template feature allows admin users to lock layers of templates so that light users can only change certain elements (e.g a title or heading). This means your designers can focus on ideation, critical thinking and complex creative work, instead of repetitive design tasks that can now be completed by marketers and down stream users.

Creating social media posts and banners has never been easier.
Every photo in your HIVO library can be cropped, scaled and edited to perfectly match all channel requirements with just a few clicks.
Easily add text to images, straighten frames and adjust colours to get the most out of your content.

With HIVO’s video editing tool you can reduce your reliance on costly and time-consuming professional video editors and production agencies. Simple video edits, changes and channel optimizations can be completed by users with no video editing experience within minutes.

Quickly find the right content canvas size across print, Facebook, Google, Instagram and all other mainstream platforms within HIVO’s template library. Save your own templates unique to your business, or browse the HIVO contributors template library.



Not at all. HIVO is designed to empower “non-creatives” – such as marketing managers, sales reps, or social media coordinators – to produce professional-grade assets. Using our intuitive Template Editor, users can simply swap text and images within pre-approved layouts, so they get the content they need without waiting for a designer’s helps
By moving repetitive tasks (like resizing social banners or updating dates on flyers) away from your creative team or external agencies, you eliminate high hourly design fees and bottleneck delays. HIVO streamlines the entire lifecycle from creation to approval, saving hundreds of hours of manual labor and allowing your expensive creative talent to focus on high-level strategy rather than minor edits.
HIVO supports both. Beyond static photos and PDF layouts, our platform includes a simplified video editing tool. This allows users to make quick edits, adjust aspect ratios for different social channels, and optimise video content for distribution without needing expensive production software or specialized video editing skills.
Yes. HIVO features a seamless InDesign import tool. You can take your professional layouts directly from InDesign and convert them into automated HIVO templates. This bridges the gap between high-end professional design and rapid, scalable automation, allowing your creative team to build once and your marketing team to deploy a thousand times.
HIVO uses a “Locking Layer” system that gives your design team total control. Designers can create a template and lock specific brand elements (like logos, brand colors, and font styles) so they cannot be changed. This allows your team to edit the content they need (like headlines or body text) while the core brand integrity remains perfectly intact.