Every brief the flow has written.

Every intake ends in a brand brief. To prove the format, we pressure-tested Intake against the world's most studied brands: positioning, audience, voice and visual direction, composed and ready. Open any one and read what the flow produces.

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Nike · Hero archetype

Every body, cast as an athlete.

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Apple · Magician archetype

Technology that disappears into intention.

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Google · Sage archetype

Curiosity, given infrastructure.

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Stripe · Hero archetype

Growth, treated as an engineering problem.

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Tesla · Magician archetype

The future, sold as inevitability.

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IBM · Sage archetype

A century of thinking, worn in blue.

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YouTube · Creator archetype

An audience for every voice.

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LEGO · Creator archetype

Imagination, sold by the brick.

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Amex · Ruler archetype

Membership, minted in metal.

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IKEA · Everyman archetype

Democratic design, flat-packed.

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Rolex · Ruler archetype

Time, worn as proof.

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Anthropic · Sage archetype

Intelligence, raised carefully.

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OpenAI · Magician archetype

Answers that ask what is next.

What a brand brief contains.

All thirteen briefs here have the same six sections, because every one is built from the same set of questions. Answer them once and they come back arranged into one document a designer can open on the day the work starts.

  1. 01

    The idea

    One sentence the whole brand has to hold up, and the reasoning underneath it.

  2. 02

    Positioning

    Where the brand stands and what it stands against, stated plainly enough to design from.

  3. 03

    Strategic focus

    Three goals the work is accountable to, in order, so scope arguments have somewhere to land.

  4. 04

    Audience

    The three groups the brand is actually for, the choice they’re really making, and where it hurts today.

  5. 05

    Overview

    How those people think, buy and decide, read as positions on an axis rather than adjectives — with the frustration, risk and desire behind each read.

  6. 06

    Competitive landscape

    Who else occupies the space, and the gap this brand is pointed at.