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Get a fractional specialist working inside your Adobe Express account

You already know what you need built in Adobe Express. The problem is finding consistent time to produce it. Trusty Oak's fractional design specialists work directly inside your account, building templates, maintaining brand kits, and turning out on-brand content at the pace your team actually needs. This is not a hand-it-off-and-hope arrangement. You stay in control of approvals while we handle the production work.

What our team does with Adobe Express

Concrete work our fractional specialists take on inside your Adobe Express account. No vague promises.

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Build and Lock Down Your Brand Kit

We configure your Brand Kit inside Adobe Express with your exact hex codes, approved fonts, and uploaded logo variants. Once locked, every template we create pulls from those brand assets automatically, so off-brand colors and wrong font weights stop appearing in published content. We document the kit structure so any team member can use it without breaking consistency.

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Design a Reusable Template Library

We build a structured library of templates sized and formatted for your recurring content needs, whether that is social posts, email headers, event flyers, or internal presentations. Each template is built with editable text fields and locked background layers so your team can swap copy without accidentally moving design elements. We name and organize templates in your account so they are easy to find and hand off.

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Produce Batch Content from a Single Brief

When you have a campaign, product launch, or event that needs 10 to 30 assets in multiple formats, we take your brief and produce the full batch inside Adobe Express using your approved templates and brand kit. Deliverables are exported in the correct file formats and dimensions for each channel. You review and approve before anything goes out.

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Audit and Rebuild a Disorganized Account

If your Adobe Express account has accumulated templates from multiple contributors, inconsistent naming, or outdated brand assets, we audit the full account, archive what is no longer relevant, and rebuild a clean folder structure. We update any templates that reference old logos or deprecated brand colors and document what was changed and why.

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Resize and Adapt Assets Across Formats

We take approved master designs and use Adobe Express resize tools to adapt them across every required format: square, portrait, landscape, Story, banner, and print dimensions. Each resized version is checked for layout integrity so cropped text and shifted elements do not make it into your export folder. This is especially useful for teams running the same campaign across multiple platforms simultaneously.

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Connect Adobe Express Output to Your Publishing Workflow

We export finished assets in the formats your downstream tools require and place them directly into the folders, project management boards, or shared drives your team uses to schedule and publish content. If you use a social scheduling tool like Buffer or Later, we can drop exports into the correct queues with naming conventions that match your editorial calendar. This removes the manual handoff step between design completion and content publishing.

How Trusty Oak supports Adobe Express workflows

How the Adobe Express handoff works

During onboarding, your Client Success Manager reviews your existing Adobe Express account, if you have one, and identifies what is already working, what needs to be rebuilt, and what is missing entirely. From that audit, we build a prioritized roadmap that matches your content volume and team capacity. Your assigned specialist works directly inside your account using your Brand Kit and templates, and documents every build so nothing lives only in someone's head. You approve deliverables before anything is finalized, and your Client Success Manager stays in the loop to adjust priorities as your needs shift.

Common Adobe Express workflows we build

A few of the most common workflows our team has deployed with Adobe Express.

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Content brief in Notion or Asana → Adobe Express production → exported assets to Google Drive

When a content brief is marked ready in your project management tool, our specialist picks it up, produces the required assets inside Adobe Express using your template library, and exports finished files to the designated Google Drive folder with standardized naming. Your social or marketing team can then pull directly from that folder without chasing files.

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New event or campaign → branded template set built in Adobe Express → shared with internal team

When a new event or campaign is confirmed, we build a dedicated template set inside Adobe Express sized for every required placement, apply your brand kit, and share the template folder with your internal team so they can self-serve on copy updates. This prevents each campaign from starting from scratch or drifting off-brand.

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Monthly social calendar → batch asset production in Adobe Express → scheduled in Buffer or Later

At the start of each content cycle, we receive your editorial calendar, produce all required social graphics inside Adobe Express, and export them directly into your scheduling tool with correct dimensions and file names. Your team reviews the queue and hits publish without touching the design files.

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Brand refresh → Adobe Express Brand Kit update → audit and update of all active templates

When your brand colors, fonts, or logo change, we update the Brand Kit in Adobe Express first, then audit every active template in your account to replace outdated assets and verify that locked layers are still correct. You get a documented list of every template touched and a before-and-after reference for your records.

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Blog post or press release published → supporting social graphics created in Adobe Express → distributed across channels

When a new piece of long-form content goes live, we produce a set of supporting social graphics inside Adobe Express using pull quotes, key stats, or headline copy from the piece, then export and deliver them sized for each platform. This keeps your content repurposing workflow on a consistent cadence without requiring design time from your core team.

What Adobe Express support costs

Drag the sliders to build a monthly plan that fits your workload.

Executive Assistants
~$35/hour
10 hours $350
Specialists
~$50/hour
20 hours $1,000
Fractional Executives
~$95/hour
0 hours $0
Your monthly budget
$1,350

Starting at $1,000/month. One-time $300 onboarding fee includes your Strategic Delegation Plan.

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Frequently asked questions

You control access and can grant or revoke it at any time through Adobe Express sharing settings. Most clients add our specialist as a collaborator with editing access to specific projects or folders rather than full account admin rights. We never store your credentials and we work only inside the scope you define.
After the initial build phase, most clients use their monthly hours for recurring production work: new templates for campaigns, batch asset creation, resizing for new platforms, and periodic brand kit updates. Your Client Success Manager helps you decide how to allocate hours each month based on your content calendar so you are not guessing how much time to reserve.
Adobe Express is a strong fit for teams that need fast, on-brand content production without requiring full Adobe Creative Cloud proficiency. If your work involves complex photo retouching, multi-page print layouts, or motion graphics beyond simple animation, tools like Photoshop, InDesign, or After Effects may be more appropriate. Our specialists can flag during onboarding if your specific use case would be better served by a different tool in the Adobe suite or elsewhere.
Everything we build lives in your Adobe Express account, which you own. Templates, brand kits, exported files, and folder structures all stay in your account when our engagement ends. We also provide documentation of what was built so your team or a future contractor can continue without starting over.
After completing onboarding, which includes a one-time $300 fee and a Strategic Delegation Plan session with your Client Success Manager, your specialist can typically begin active work within the first week. The onboarding call is where we review your existing setup and set priorities, so the specialist starts with a clear scope rather than figuring it out as they go.

Ready to delegate your Adobe Express work?

Book a discovery call and we will audit your current Adobe Express setup, identify what needs to be built or cleaned up, and give you a prioritized roadmap before you commit to anything.