Brief generator
Eight questions about the project - the result is a structured document that can be given to the contractor. Anything you don’t know will go into the “clarify” section rather than being made up for you.
AI answers are free, but limited by the overall site limit. If the limit is reached, come back later: repeated clicks will not speed up the response.
Why the brief is more important than it seems
The contractor evaluates the work based on what he understands. If he got it wrong, the estimate will be incorrect - and this will be revealed in a month, when the money spent, and the result is discussed in terms of “we had something else in mind.”
A brief is a way to get your understanding in writing before you start. Not bureaucracy and insurance for both parties: the customer receives a predictable estimate, the contractor gets the right to say “this was not in the brief.”
Eight questions you can’t start without
- What kind of business is it and how does it earn money? Without this, any channels are selected at random.
- What a task. “We need more applications” is not a task. More by how much and by what date.
- Who is buying? Who makes the decision and what is important to him.
- What do we sell and what is the offer? Product, price or range, what is the difference.
- Who are the competitors? Two or three with websites. “I don’t know” is also an answer, and a useful one.
- Budget and deadlines. Without a range, the contractor will not estimate the amount of work.
- What have you already tried? The most valuable point: it saves you a month of repeating other people’s mistakes.
- By what number we will understand what happened. One metric and its meaning.
About the “clarify” section
The finished brief will contain a separate list of what is missing. This is not a flaw in the tool, and its main function: to see holes before how they will become a dispute.
The most common hole is the criterion for success. The customer knows what he wants, but not knows what number to measure it with. As long as this number does not exist, any result can be declared both a success and a failure.
What to do with a finished brief
Close the “clarify” points, give it to two or three contractors and compare prices, and the questions they will ask in response. The contractor who simply called the amount according to the brief without reading it - he already showed how he would work further.
If you need a more detailed form for a specific task, there are marketing brief, brief for the site, brief for SMM, design brief and brief for the video.