What it is

Stylus integration lets you connect a Stylus style guide to Austen so your existing brand rules are applied to what you produce. You link Stylus once at team level, then choose which guide applies to each project. A project for one brand follows that brand's guide, and a project for another follows its own.

If your team has already done the work of writing down how your brand should sound and look, this is how that work carries into the content Austen makes, rather than living in a document nobody opens.

How it helps you

A style guide only helps if people actually follow it. In practice, guides sit in shared drives while the day to day writing drifts away from them. The bigger the team, the wider the gap, and the more time editors spend pulling work back in line.

Connecting Stylus closes that gap by making the guide part of the output rather than a reference people are meant to remember. Brand rules are applied as content is created, so your published work reflects your guidelines without anyone policing every draft by hand.

A few concrete benefits:

Your existing Stylus guide is put to work instead of being filed away.
Per project selection, so multi-brand teams keep each guide where it belongs.
Fewer corrections, because guidelines are applied up front.
One source of truth for brand rules that the whole team relies on.

Who it's for

Stylus integration is built for teams who already use Stylus and want their guidelines reflected in everything they ship. It suits marketing departments with documented standards, and it suits agencies running several client brands who need each project locked to the right guide.

If you maintain a Stylus guide but still see output that ignores it, this is the part that connects the two.

How it fits the rest of Austen

Stylus integration works with the brand foundations already in Austen. Where Brand voice learns tone from your sample writing, a connected Stylus guide brings your documented standards alongside it, so both your written rules and your learned voice shape the result.

Because you pick the guide per project, it pairs naturally with Austen's team and project structure. Each project carries the right brand settings, so a writer working in one project automatically gets the guide that fits.

Common questions

Where do I connect Stylus? You connect it once at team level. After that, you assign a guide to each project, so different projects can follow different guides.

Can different projects use different guides? Yes. That is the point of per project selection. It keeps multi-brand work cleanly separated.

Do I still need Austen's other brand settings? They complement each other. A Stylus guide brings your documented standards, while Austen's voice and visual settings cover tone and imagery, and the two work together on every piece you produce.

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