Partner
EKCS
EKCS partners with CHILI publish to help brands unlock the power of Smart Templates and visual content automation. EKCS provides Smart Template creation and support packages for organizations adopting CHILI GraFx, combining deep production expertise with template design that prepares assets for multichannel, data-driven output.
Integration with CHILI GraFx
EKCS specializes in Smart Template creation for customers using CHILI GraFx as their visual content automation platform. Its template services are designed to align with CHILI GraFx best practices and enable clients to benefit from automated, headless production and smoother creative operations.
What EKCS brings to CHILI GraFx projects:
- Smart Template creation – Design templates with variables, layout intents, anchoring, and multi-page structures so templates are GraFx Studio-ready.
- Complexity-based packages – Simple, Advanced, Complex, and Custom tiers to match project needs and budgets.
- Multichannel preparation – Templates configured for digital, print, animation, and video outputs to support CHILI GraFx multichannel output.
- Localization and adaptation – Size adaptation, legal adaptation, and localization-ready templates that support high-volume, localized production.
- Preflight and production readiness – Templates built with production constraints in mind to reduce rework and speed time to market.
- Cross-channel content production – Ability to scale content production across video, digital, and print channels with EKCS’ 600+ staff and managed production capabilities.
By combining EKCS’ global production scale and round-the-clock resources with CHILI GraFx Smart Templates, brands can move faster from creative design to automated, on-brand asset delivery.
With CHILI GraFx, we can translate complex creative requirements into Smart Templates that are ready for multichannel output. The result is faster campaigns, lower costs, and stronger creative control for global brands.
Key Benefits for EKCS Customers
Brands adopting CHILI GraFx Smart Templates through EKCS gain immediate advantages:
- Efficiency – Templates reduce repetitive work and shorten production cycles, freeing creative teams to focus on strategy and design.
- Scalability – Support for high-volume output and localization lets teams meet seasonal peaks and regional variation demands.
- Brand consistency – Smart Templates enforce brand rules across assets and channels, improving quality control.
- Faster time to market – Ready-to-deploy templates cut handoffs and accelerate campaign launches.
- Flexible resourcing – EKCS’ 24/7 production model and on-demand creative staffing scale with campaign needs while controlling costs.
- AI-ready workflows – Templates prepared for CHILI GraFx features such as GraFx Genie and data-driven automation support smarter, automated production.
EKCS’ approach ensures customers adopting CHILI GraFx receive professionally built Smart Templates that are production-ready and designed for automated, data-driven, headless output.
At EKCS, we’ve always believed in blending creativity with efficiency. CHILI GraFx helps us bring this vision to life, making it easier for brands to scale content production, move faster to market, and keep their stories consistent across every channel using Smart Templates.
Collaborative Vision
EKCS and CHILI publish share a vision to make high-volume, on-brand content creation faster, smarter and more accessible. Future collaboration aims to deepen technical integration and expand template services so customers can combine EKCS’ cross-channel production expertise with CHILI GraFx automation, enabling higher operational efficiency, richer personalization, and expanded self-serve capabilities for marketing teams.
We serviced 2027 stores and sent out 4,536,519 mailings, reaching over 4 million households. Every single mailer was uniquely tailored to each household. While this might seem like a production nightmare, it wasn't.
I think localization is a great use case, enabling your regional teams to grab their Smart Templates and then use the same images and data, translating it into the correct language. You can then efficiently distribute all of that content. It's an amazing use case, in my opinion.
