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Campaign Brief
Describe a promotion — get a single-minded creative brief.
How it works
Corpus-grounded (advertising/creative-brief discipline via the marketing cluster). Produces a focused brief: objective, target audience, the human insight, the single-minded proposition, reasons to believe, key message, tone & voice, channels, success metrics, mandatories, and the riskiest assumptions — kept single-minded, not a message dump.
You bring
{ campaign, audience?, cluster? }
You get
{ campaign_summary, objective, target_audience, insight, single_minded_proposition, reasons_to_believe[], key_message, tone_and_voice, channels[], success_metrics[], mandatories[], riskiest_assumptions[], grounded_in, provenance }
Use it for
- →Marketing-guide reader: a promotion → a brief an agency or freelancer can run with
- →Force a single-minded proposition instead of five competing messages
- →Brief a campaign with the insight + reasons-to-believe spelled out
See it work
example outputCampaign: a launch promotion for a B2B expense-management app targeting finance leads at early-stage startups.
Campaign Brief — Tally (expense management for startups)
Campaign: Launch promotion introducing Tally to startup finance leads.
Objective
Drive 1,200 free-trial signups from seed / Series-A finance leads in the launch quarter (single, measurable goal — not "build awareness").
Target audience
The first finance hire (Head of Finance / fractional CFO) at a 20–100-person startup — drowning in receipts, running month-end close in a spreadsheet, personally chased by the CEO about burn.
Insight
They don't want "expense software" — they want to stop being the person who looks disorganized in front of the board. Messy expenses make a sharp finance lead feel amateur.
Single-minded proposition
Close the books in a day, not a week — and never chase a receipt again.
Reasons to believe
- Auto-categorization + receipt capture straight from the card swipe.
- Syncs to QuickBooks / Xero, so close is one reconciliation, not 200.
- A real-time burn dashboard the CEO can self-serve (no more "what's our runway?" pings).
Key message
"Your first finance hire shouldn't spend month-end in a spreadsheet. Tally closes the books in a day."
Tone & voice
Calm, competent, peer-to-peer — finance-person to finance-person. Confident, never hypey; respects their intelligence.
Channels
- LinkedIn (finance-lead targeting) · founder & finance newsletters · a "month-end close in a day" content piece · warm intros via existing seed-stage customers.
Success metrics
- Free-trial signups (primary) · trial→paid conversion · cost per acquisition by channel · close-time reduction reported by activated accounts.
Mandatories
- SOC 2 badge · QuickBooks / Xero logos · "no card fees" disclosure.
Riskiest assumptions
- That "books in a day" is believed without proof — lead with a customer number.
- That the first finance hire holds the budget, not the founder.
Grounded in: creative-brief / single-minded-proposition discipline (marketing cluster).
Run it now
Write a campaign brief
Turn a promotion into a single-minded creative brief: objective, audience, the human insight, the single-minded proposition, reasons to believe, key message, tone, channels, KPIs, and mandatories.
Prefer code? Call it over the API or hand it to your AI agent via MCP — POST /api/bicycle/campaign-brief · write_campaign_brief. API & agent access →