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Assemble the current brief
You gather the latest brief and add known facts that may only exist in emails, meeting notes, or conversations.
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Check Your Brief Before You Start Concept Design
Also useful for: people in Creative
20 min
Beginner
Creative Planning
Get Something Done
Turn your current brief into a clear readiness checklist covering requirements, constraints, approvals, and the decisions that need attention first.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
You can catch missing requirements before they become design assumptions, redraws, budget conflicts, or late approval problems.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Run the readiness check
You check every required brief category and separate confirmed information from gaps, conflicts, and assumptions.
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Set your concept design boundaries
You decide what can move forward now and what must wait for confirmation.
Make Your Play
Check Your Brief Before You Start Concept Design
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Select where your project stands when you run the check.
Paste your current brief, room list, requirements, or meeting notes. You can attach the source file instead.
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Add known site facts, budget limits, fixed dates, approvals, stakeholder concerns, or unresolved choices that aren't clear in the brief.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Assemble the current brief
You gather the latest brief and add known facts that may only exist in emails, meeting notes, or conversations.
02
Run the readiness check
You check every required brief category and separate confirmed information from gaps, conflicts, and assumptions.
03
Set your concept design boundaries
You decide what can move forward now and what must wait for confirmation.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Paste your brief even if it is rough. Add any facts you know aren’t written in it. Run the prompt, then check every item marked Partial, Missing, or Conflicting. Don’t treat the AI’s code comments as a compliance review.
Advanced instructions
You can run the check separately for each stakeholder brief, then compare the results for conflicting requirements. Add your area schedule, site report, consultant notes, and approval matrix when available.
Use this when
Use this before concept design, after receiving a revised brief, or when your team isn't sure whether it has enough direction to proceed.
You'll need
- Project stage
- Project brief
- Known context and constraints
You'll get
- A status for all 10 brief categories, a ranked list of the five most important gaps, a direct clarification question for each gap, and a documented Ready, Ready with hold points, or Not ready decision.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A status for all 10 brief categories, a ranked list of the five most important gaps, a direct clarification question for each gap, and a documented Ready, Ready with hold points, or Not ready decision.
Examples
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