How do I write a good brief for AI?
The same tool produces something excellent one day and something useless the next. The difference is not the tool — it is the brief you gave it. ✍️
Giving work to AI is like giving work to a new employee: the more precisely you say what you want, the more usable the output.
Short answer: a good brief has five parts — role, task, material, format, limits. With all five written, correction time drops noticeably. 🎯
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The five parts
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- Role
- Task
- Material
- Format and limits
All short; together a few lines. 🧱
Role
Who should it write as: an expert who knows your sector, or a salesperson explaining to a customer? Role sets the tone. 🎭
Task
One clear action: summarise, compare, rewrite, list. A brief with several tasks does none of them well. 🎯
Material
Your own knowledge: product detail, pricing logic, customer profile, a previous text. Without material the output stays generic. 📎
Format and limits
How many words, which headings, which language; and what it should not do: no invented figures, no hype, no bullet points. 📏
Why is the output generic?
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- No material was given
- The audience is vague
- No example was shown
- It was attempted in one shot
The cause is almost always the same. 🪞
No material was given
The tool does not know your business. Asked without your own data, it repeats the internet average. 📄
The audience is vague
“For businesses” is not enough: who, with what problem, at which stage of the decision? Precision changes the tone. 👥
No example was shown
Giving a text you like as an example is more effective than ten sentences of explanation. 📘
It was attempted in one shot
Good output usually arrives on the second round: outline first, then filling in. Expecting one move misleads. 🔁
How is the brief improved?
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- Ask for the plan first
- Have one section written
- Correct with rules
- Save what works
By going back and forth, step by step. 🔄
Ask for the plan first
Not the text but the outline: headings and sections. If the plan is right, the text comes out right. 🗂️
Have one section written
Once you catch the tone you like, ask for the rest. This method halves the time on long texts. ✂️
Correct with rules
Not “I don’t like it” but “sentences are long, shorten them” or “the tone is too formal”. The tool corrects on rules. 📏
Save what works
A brief that lands gets saved to a file and reused. Accumulation happens here. 💾
How is a company brief built?
Not a personal skill but a shared asset. 🏢
Brand information file
What you sell, to whom, in what language, which words you avoid. This one file gets attached to every brief. 📋
Ready brief templates
For frequent jobs: proposal text, product description, email reply, job advert. Everyone takes them from one place. 📚
Three common mistakes
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- Mistake 1: a long, scattered brief
- Mistake 2: asking without showing the target
- Mistake 3: skipping verification
- The sentence that cuts all three
All three lengthen correction time. 🚧
Mistake 1: a long, scattered brief
Five paragraphs of requests leave the tool no priorities. Short and itemised works better. ✂️
Mistake 2: asking without showing the target
There is no such measure as “a nice text”. An example or criterion must be given. 🎯
Mistake 3: skipping verification
However good the brief, figures and claims get checked; the method sits in the verification guide. 👁️
The sentence that cuts all three
This: “Role, task, material, format, limits — plus an example.” ✅
What should I do today?
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- Step 1: write the brand information file
- Step 2: produce one template
- Step 3: work in two rounds
- If you want help
Three steps, one day. 🪜
Step 1: write the brand information file
Half a page: what you sell, to whom, in what language. It gets attached to every brief. 📋
Step 2: produce one template
A five-part brief for your most frequent job. Written once, used constantly. ✍️
Step 3: work in two rounds
Plan first, then text. This habit is the fastest gain. 🔁
If you want help
Let us build your company brief set: use the consult your expert form. For your current usage see the business AI usage audit; the whole sits on the AI consultancy page. 🎯
📝 Notes From the Field
A team kept saying “the tool can’t write in our language”. Their brief was a single sentence: “write an article on this topic”. A half-page brand information file was added, along with a text they liked as an example. The same tool, the same day, produced something unrecognisably better.
📖 Short Glossary
Brief: the job description given to the tool. Brand information file: a fixed text summarising what you sell, to whom and in what language. Two-round working: asking for the plan first and the text second. Limits: the list of things the tool must not do.
⚡ Quick Summary
A good brief has five parts: role, task, material, format, limits. ✍️ Generic output usually means missing material. Work in two rounds: plan first, then text. A brief that lands gets saved and becomes a company template.
🎯 Next Step
Let us build your company brief set: use the consult your expert form. Account structure sits in the company account guide; for your current usage see the usage audit.
Frequently Asked Questions
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In the shared space, not a personal account; the logic sits in the company account guide. 🗄️
Whoever does the work most, quarterly. An un-updated template keeps describing the old product. 👤
A short but complete one is best. With the five parts written, a brief runs to a few lines; length grows only when adding material, not when adding explanation.
Largely yes, because the five parts are universal. Only the tone setting may vary between tools; keeping the template and adjusting slightly is the practical route.
Not by explaining rules but by handing over a working template. People learn by copying and editing a brief that lands; training presentations are usually forgotten by week three.
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