Brief™
What is a Brief?
A Brief is a structured, shareable AI Context Package. It organizes the people, decisions, status, open items, timeline, files, and evidence surrounding a project or engagement, then lets recipients converse with that accumulated knowledge.
It is the unit Brieflin produces: not a summary you hope someone reads, but a body of context someone can interrogate.
What is a Brief?
A Brief is a structured, shareable AI Context Package. It organizes the people, decisions, status, open items, timeline, files, and evidence surrounding a project or engagement, then lets recipients converse with that accumulated knowledge.
Structurally a Brief has two halves. The extracted half is what the platform pulled out of your material — named people with roles, decisions with dates, open items with owners, a timeline, and metrics with a stated basis. The conversational half lets a recipient ask anything across the same sources and get an answer that cites the passage behind it.
What you send today
- A shared folder with forty files, of which four matter and nobody says which.
- A handoff document written from the author's memory, already out of date by the time it lands.
- An email thread where the actual decision lives in a reply nobody forwarded.
- A call to explain it all, repeated for each new person who joins.
How a Brief gets built
- Step 1
Add what already exists
Upload PDF, DOCX, TXT, Markdown files or paste the notes and email text straight in. No re-writing.
- Step 2
Brieflin extracts the structure
People, decisions, status, open items, timeline and metrics come out as reviewable cards, each pointing at the passage it came from.
- Step 3
You correct what it got wrong
Anything uncertain lands in a review queue. Edit a title, fix a role, delete a card, mark it reviewed. Nothing publishes until you say so.
- Step 4
Publish one link
Recipients open it with no account. You can revoke it, set an expiry, or regenerate it at any time.
What the Brief understands
People
- Who is involved
- What role they hold
- What they own
- Who they answer to
Decisions
- What was decided
- When
- By whom
- What it superseded
Status & open items
- What is done
- What is in flight
- What is blocked
- Who owns the next move
Evidence
- Which source a claim came from
- The passage itself
- Where sources disagree
- Where the record is silent
See a real one
The example Briefs are complete, fictional scenarios you can question the way a recipient would. Nothing in them is a real customer or a real deal.
Open an example BriefFictional scenarios built to demonstrate the format.
What people ask a Brief
These are the questions recipients actually type first, across every industry we have seen.
- Give me the two-minute version.
- What has actually been decided, and by whom?
- What is still open and who owns it?
- Show me the evidence for that number.
- What changed in the last month?
How answers stay honest
- Answers are generated only from passages retrieved out of your own sources.
- Every answer links back to the passages behind it, so a reader can check rather than trust.
- When the sources do not support an answer, the Brief says it does not know and names what is missing.
- Where two sources disagree, both are shown rather than averaged.
Before you publish a Brief
- Every person card has the right role and owner.
- Every decision card has a date and a source.
- Superseded material has been removed, not just buried.
- The review queue is empty.
- You have asked it the five questions your recipient will ask.
Common questions
- What is a Brief?
- A Brief is a structured, shareable AI Context Package. It organizes the people, decisions, status, open items, timeline, files, and evidence surrounding a project or engagement, then lets recipients converse with that accumulated knowledge.
- How does a Brief work?
- You add sources, Brieflin extracts the structure, you review and correct what it understood, then you publish one link. Recipients open the link without an account and ask questions in plain language. Each answer is generated only from your sources and cites the passage behind it. You can revoke the link at any time.
- What information belongs in a Brief?
- Include the material that answers the questions the recipient will actually ask: who decides what, what has been agreed, what is still open, what the timeline is, and where the numbers came from. Source documents, decision emails, status notes and the current financial model matter more than polished summaries.
- How is Brieflin different from a document?
- A document answers the questions its author thought of. A Brief answers the questions the recipient actually has, because they can ask. The document is still useful as a source — Brieflin reads it and keeps it as evidence — but the recipient no longer has to find the one paragraph that matters to them.
- Does Brieflin replace project documentation?
- No. Brieflin connects source material into a transferable context layer. The original files remain evidence, while the Brief helps recipients understand what happened, what matters, and what remains open.A Brief summarizes and cites the sources it was given. It is not a system of record.
Ask Brief
The conversation surface is what makes a Brief different from a document. It is worth understanding how retrieval and evidence work before you send one.
How Ask Brief worksScope and limitations
- A Brief summarizes and cites the sources it was given. It is not a system of record and does not replace the original files.
- Answers are only as current as the sources the creator uploaded.
Build your first Brief
Free to start. Add a few sources, review what it understood, send one link.