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Helping you achieve more, quicker
Custom Illustrator plugins, built for your workflow
When an off-the-shelf solution isn't enough, Astute Graphics can develop custom Adobe Illustrator plugins and workflow tools around your specific requirements.
Since 2012, we've created bespoke solutions for major global organisations, helping teams automate repetitive processes, improve accuracy, strengthen quality control and save significant production time.
Our experience comes from developing professional Illustrator tools used every day across industries including packaging, fashion, technology, entertainment, architecture and security printing.
Specialist expertise
Our in-house team combines expertise across:
Adobe Illustrator plugin development
Native panels, tools and effects built straight into Illustrator, so new capabilities feel like part of the application.
C++ development for macOS and Windows
High-performance, cross-platform code that stays fast and stable across every supported release of Illustrator.
Bézier vector technology
Precise control over paths, handles and anchor points, drawn from years spent refining how vectors behave in Illustrator.
Workflow automation
Repetitive, error-prone steps replaced with dependable one-click actions, presets and batch processing across large volumes of artwork.
Web and cloud services
Connected asset libraries, account tools and licensing that link the desktop to your wider production and IT systems.
Artificial intelligence
Practical machine learning applied to real production tasks, from image analysis and tagging to context-aware suggestions.
Security and software licensing
Robust protection, activation and seat management for tools deployed securely across teams of any size.
UI and UX design
Clear, unobtrusive interfaces designed around the way people actually work under deadline pressure in Illustrator.
Project management
A structured path from initial brief to final delivery, with defined scope, milestones and regular communication.
Training and technical support
Onboarding sessions, thorough documentation and direct help from the same people who built your tools.
Our approach
Built around your workflow
Every bespoke project starts by understanding the problem you need to solve. From there, we can design and develop a solution tailored to the way your organisation actually works.
We'll work with you to define:
The steps that slow production down or create repeated rework, from manual clean-up to inconsistent output between team members.
Where manual effort can be reduced, batched or removed entirely, so your team spends time on design rather than repetition.
The checks, tolerances and standards your output has to meet every time, and how the tools can enforce them automatically.
The file formats, naming conventions, systems and pipelines the solution needs to fit into on both macOS and Windows.
What's in scope, what's out, and the milestones and deadlines we're working towards from first brief to final delivery.
Why Astute Graphics?
Designed for professionals. Built by specialists.
Astute Graphics has been developing professional Adobe Illustrator technology since 2006.
We are an independent UK software company with an established in-house development team, extensive intellectual property and a long-term focus on research and development.
Our technology is trusted by designers and organisations around the world, from individual creative professionals to major international brands.
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Have a workflow problem worth solving?
If your team spends too much time on repetitive Illustrator processes, requires greater precision or has a workflow that existing software simply cannot handle, talk to us.
Tell us what you need to achieve and we'll explore how we can make it possible.
Deep-dive capabilities
Explore more of our expertise in Adobe Illustrator development, desktop software asset management, Bézier vector technology and related technologies.