Eight logo concepts, plus brand & design guidelines
Produced for the startupsummit.io exhibit. Every colour, radius and type stack is taken from the live site's v0.12 :root tokens — nothing invented. Each concept is drawn from something the product does (an interval, a boundary, an index, a countersignature) rather than decoration, and is shown at the sizes that actually decide whether a mark works: as a lockup on both grounds, as an app icon, knocked out with no container, in a UI bar, and at 24/20/16px.
Logo concepts
Pick a direction here.
Each sheet below shows the same mark as a lockup, an app icon, a knockout on dark, and at 16px — the sizes that actually decide whether a logo works.
Concept chooser — all eight marksMain.dc.html
RiskMandate · brand exploration
Eight marks. One decision.
Each concept is built from something the product actually does — an interval, a boundary, an index, a countersignature — not decoration. Pick a direction; the full sheet for each sits to the right.
for
startupsummit.io
A
RM Refined
The mark you already have, tightened. Lowest risk, least distinctive.
B
Interval
Brackets around a part-elapsed bar. Acceptance has an expiry.
C
Aperture
A window closing. The acceptance window is open, then it isn't.
D
Index
Five ascending levels — RAMM, and a ratings-agency posture.
E
Seal
An underwriter's stamp. Most institutional, least software-native.
F
Containment
Blast radius, bounded. Strong idea; risks reading as generic tech.
G
Countersign
Someone signs. Warmest option; hardest to hold at 16px.
H
Record
The receipt an acceptance leaves behind. Quiet, very ownable.
RECOMMENDATION
B (Interval) or D (Index) — both survive at 16px, both say something no competitor's mark says. A is the safe keep-what-we-have option.
Concept A — RM RefinedConceptA.dc.html
Concept A
RM Refined
The existing monogram, optically tightened.
Lockup · document surface
RiskMandate
App icon
Small-size test
24
20
16
Lockup · hero surface
RiskMandate
Knockout · no container
In a UI bar
RiskMandate
IndexRAMMPricing
Why
Nothing to re-learn. Every asset you already have stays valid, and the mono letterforms carry the product’s record-keeping feel.
Watch-out
It is a two-letter box — the least ownable shape in software. It will not be remembered from across a summit hall.
Concept B — IntervalConceptB.dc.html
Concept B
Interval
Brackets around a part-elapsed bar.
Lockup · document surface
RiskMandate
App icon
Small-size test
24
20
16
Lockup · hero surface
RiskMandate
Knockout · no container
In a UI bar
RiskMandate
IndexRAMMPricing
Why
This is the product in one glyph: acceptance is bracketed and it expires. The brackets also echo the mono voice used throughout the site.
Watch-out
Brackets are common in developer tooling; the meaning needs the tagline beside it the first few times.
Concept C — ApertureConceptC.dc.html
Concept C
Aperture
Two blades closing on a window.
Lockup · document surface
RiskMandate
App icon
Small-size test
24
20
16
Lockup · hero surface
RiskMandate
Knockout · no container
In a UI bar
RiskMandate
IndexRAMMPricing
Why
Motion built in — the acceptance window is closing. Reads at any size and animates naturally for the site and booth loop.
Watch-out
Converging chevrons can read as “compress” or “merge”. Directionally ambiguous without context.
Concept D — IndexConceptD.dc.html
Concept D
Index
Five ascending levels.
Lockup · document surface
RiskMandate
App icon
Small-size test
24
20
16
Lockup · hero surface
RiskMandate
Knockout · no container
In a UI bar
RiskMandate
IndexRAMMPricing
Why
Maps directly onto RAMM’s five levels and the Insurability Index. It borrows the posture of a ratings agency, which is exactly the category you are claiming.
Watch-out
Ascending bars are the most common chart-shape in the sector. Distinctiveness has to come from the exact rhythm and the two-tone cut.
Concept E — SealConceptE.dc.html
Concept E
Seal
An underwriter’s stamp.
Lockup · document surface
RiskMandate
App icon
Small-size test
24
20
16
Lockup · hero surface
RiskMandate
Knockout · no container
In a UI bar
RiskMandate
IndexRAMMPricing
Why
The most institutional option. It signals counter-signature and provenance immediately to a GRC or insurance audience.
Watch-out
Detail dies below 24px, and seals skew traditional — it can make a young company look like a compliance vendor.
Concept F — ContainmentConceptF.dc.html
Concept F
Containment
A core, its reach, and a hard boundary.
Lockup · document surface
RiskMandate
App icon
Small-size test
24
20
16
Lockup · hero surface
RiskMandate
Knockout · no container
In a UI bar
RiskMandate
IndexRAMMPricing
Why
Blast radius made visible: the agent acts, and the mandate bounds it. Strong at every size and easy to extend into diagrams.
Watch-out
Concentric circles are heavily used in security branding — the closest to generic of the eight.
Concept G — CountersignConceptG.dc.html
Concept G
Countersign
A signature over a rule.
Lockup · document surface
RiskMandate
App icon
Small-size test
24
20
16
Lockup · hero surface
RiskMandate
Knockout · no container
In a UI bar
RiskMandate
IndexRAMMPricing
Why
The only option with a human in it. Someone accepts, someone signs, someone owns it — the emotional core of the pitch.
Watch-out
The most fragile at small sizes and the least reproducible in one colour or embroidery. Needs a simplified 16px variant.
Concept H — RecordConceptH.dc.html
Concept H
Record
The receipt an acceptance leaves behind.
Lockup · document surface
RiskMandate
App icon
Small-size test
24
20
16
Lockup · hero surface
RiskMandate
Knockout · no container
In a UI bar
RiskMandate
IndexRAMMPricing
Why
Quiet and very ownable. It says the output of the product is an auditable record, and it sits naturally beside the mono type.
Watch-out
Abstract without the name attached; it earns meaning over time rather than on first sight.
Brand guidelines
These pages use concept B as a stand-in so the system is complete.
Every rule holds whichever mark wins — swap the glyph and nothing else changes.
Guidelines 01 — Logo usageLogoUsage.dc.html
Brand guidelines · 01
Logo usage
Shown with concept B. Swap the glyph once a direction is chosen — every rule below holds for any of the eight.
Clear space = ½ the mark's height, all sides
RiskMandate
A 38px mark takes 19px of clear space. Nothing — type, rules, photography, badge edges — enters that band.
Minimum sizes
RiskMandate
LOCKUP · 120px wide min
MARK · 16px min
Below 16px the mark drops the container and renders as the green glyph alone.
One word, two capitals
RiskMandate
Risk Mandate · riskmandate · RISKMANDATE
Misuse
RiskMandate
Never skew, rotate or stretch.
RiskMandate
Never recolour. Ink and green only.
RiskMandate
Never on a busy or mid-tone ground.
RiskMandate
Never re-set the wordmark. 700, never italic.
One-colour fallback
For embroidery, etching and single-colour print: the glyph in solid ink on light, or solid #F7F6F2 on dark. No tints, no container.
Guidelines 02 — ColourPalette.dc.html
Brand guidelines · 02
Colour
Two grounds carry the brand: ink is where you make the argument, off-white is where you show the record. Green is the only accent that means "accepted".
Grounds
Canvas
#0A0A09
The hero surface. Full-bleed sections, booth panels, the deck.
Ink
#0D0D0C
Cards and the mark's container on dark. Also body type on light.
Document
#F7F6F2
The reading surface — long copy, guidelines, one-pagers.
Document alt
#EFEDE7
Banded sections that need separation without a border.
Accent — use sparingly and only with meaning
Green
#1A7F5A
Primary. Accepted, owned, in-mandate. Buttons and the mark.
Green bright
#22c55e
On ink only, where #1A7F5A is too quiet. Never as a fill on light.
Green wash
#EBF5F0
Tag and callout grounds on the document surface.
Card
#FFFFFF
Raised surfaces on the document ground.
Status — semantic, never decorative
Gold
#B45309
Expiring. A window about to close.
Red
#C0392B
Catastrophic interval, or a breach of policy.
Blue
#1D4ED8
Reference and provenance links only.
Border
#E2DFD8
Hairlines on the document surface.
Type on ink
Primary #F7F6F2
Secondary 55%
Tertiary 32%
hairline · rgba(247,246,242,.10)
Type on document
Primary #1A1917
Muted #4A4845
Faint #8A8780
hairline · #E2DFD8
Guidelines 03 — TypographyTypography.dc.html
Brand guidelines · 03
Typography
System sans for argument, mono for evidence. The mono face is the brand's signature — it is what makes the product read as a record rather than a pitch.
Scale
Make your agents insurable.
DISPLAY · 40/44 · 700 · -0.025em
The grant is not the mandate
H2 · 27/32 · 700 · -0.02em
Accept for an interval
H3 · 18/24 · 700
A real risk cannot be denied, only accepted — in a direction, by an owner, for an interval. The interval is the decision; naming it turns a worry into something a board can carry.
BODY · 14/22 · 400 · max 66ch
Secondary copy sits at muted. Use it for the sentence after the claim, never for the claim itself.
SMALL · 12.5/19 · 400 · #4A4845
Eyebrow · mono
EYEBROW · 11 · 0.14em tracking · uppercase · green
System stacks are deliberate: nothing to load, nothing to licence, and the site renders natively on the reviewer's own machine.
Where mono carries meaning
Eyebrows and section tags
InsurabilityRAMM L3
Intervals and severities
1hCatastrophic
30dMaterial
6mDeferred
The record line
RECORD14:25:07 accepted · 30d 14:25:09 owner · head of risk
Rule of thumb: if a reader could audit it, set it in mono. If a reader has to be persuaded by it, set it in sans.
Guidelines 04 — ComponentsComponents.dc.html
Brand guidelines · 04
Components
Radii 10px (surfaces) and 8px (controls). One primary action per view — green is a promise, not a decoration.
Buttons · document surface
Primary · secondary · quiet. Never two primaries in one view.
Tags
In mandateExpiringOut of mandate
Card · document
Insurability Index
Your agents score 62 of 100
Eleven agents hold standing grants with no expiry. Naming an interval on each moves the score to 78.
Buttons · hero surface
Card · hero
No deny button
You cannot refuse a live risk
The grant has been made and the authority is live. Acceptance only makes the implicit explicit — and gives it an expiry.
Acceptance window · the signature control
1hCatastrophic
30dMaterial
6mDeferred
Selected state carries the severity colour; unselected stay neutral. This control appears on the site, in the product and on the booth screen — keep it identical everywhere.
Guidelines 05 — VoiceVoice.dc.html
Brand guidelines · 05
Voice
You are selling to the person who will be asked to sign. Write like an underwriter, not a startup.
Mechanism, not claim
Every assertion names how it works. "A token bypasses the password and the second factor" — never "80% of breaches".
Terse
Short sentences. One idea each. If a sentence needs a comma to survive, it needs a full stop instead.
Defensible
No certification we do not hold, no percentage without a source, no competitor named. A GRC buyer checks.
Say this
Make your agents insurable.
A real risk can't be denied, only accepted — for an interval, by an owner.
The grant is not the mandate.
We begin where security stops.
Not this
Revolutionise your AI security posture.
Eliminate 80% of agent risk.
Block rogue agents instantly.
The leading AI governance platform.
The one-sentence test
Could the Head of Risk repeat this sentence to their board without having to defend it? If not, cut it.
Applications for startupsummit.io. Sizes are indicative — confirm the stand's actual dimensions before print.
Roll-up banner · 850×2000mm
RiskMandate
Make your agents insurable.
A real risk can't be denied — only accepted, for an interval, by an owner.
Get your Insurability Index
riskmandate.ai
Headline sits at eye height. Nothing in the bottom 300mm — it is behind the table.
Booth screen loop · 16:9
The question is never whether
How long will you accept this risk?
1h
30d
6m
riskmandate.ai/scenarios
The live scenarios page is the booth demo — visitors tap an interval and watch their own record build.
Card · 85×55mm
RiskMandate
[NAME]
[ROLE]
[EMAIL] · riskmandate.ai
One-pager header · A4
RiskMandate
Insurability Index
Make your agents insurable.
Who accepts · who funds · who owns · what it can reach. Every autonomous system mapped to a time-boxed, owned acceptance.
Notes for whoever picks this up. The guidelines pages use concept B (Interval) as a stand-in so the system reads as complete — every rule holds for whichever mark wins; swap the glyph and nothing else changes. Deliberate placeholders: [NAME] [ROLE] [EMAIL] on the business card, and collateral dimensions are indicative until the stand's real measurements are confirmed. The marks are plain inline SVG on a 64×64 viewBox — lift them straight out of this file. Source of truth for these designs is .design-work/*.dc.html in the riskmandate.ai repo (branch claude/dev-session-setup-a5wcc5); the concept sheets are generated by gen-concepts.mjs, where the glyph definitions live.