Brainstead

The client's voice lives in the brain, not in each brief.

Brainstead learns each client's brand voice from their own material. Paste the client's website and the brain reads up to 25 pages into knowledge; add brand files and skills, and every account manager drafts from the same source.

Every draft names its voice sources in the reviewer notes and marks unsupported claims as [NEEDS-FACT]. A brain is plain markdown files; export, so you can take it with you, is in development. It runs on Claude by default, or another frontier model your client chooses.

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drafts/roastery-linkedin.mdharbour

Every bean we roast starts with a farm we know by name. Our new roastery opens [NEEDS-FACT: opening date], and it's built around one idea: small batches, roasted this week.

Reviewer notes "a farm we know by name" ← knowledge/website/sourcing.md "small batches, roasted this week" ← knowledge/website/about.md British spelling, short sentences ← brand/tone.md

How to

How to give an AI agent a client's brand voice

  1. 01

    Paste the client's website

    Add the address when you create the brain. It reads up to 25 pages into knowledge/website/, one markdown file per page.

  2. 02

    Add brand files

    Put tone-of-voice guides, approved copy, product sheets and do-and-don't lists into brand/ as markdown files.

  3. 03

    Add or adjust skills

    Skills such as /draft set the house rules for each kind of request: length, structure, what to check. Edit them as markdown.

  4. 04

    Ask for a draft

    In the client's Slack channel: @brain-harbour /draft a short LinkedIn post about the new roastery.

  5. 05

    Check the reviewer notes

    Each draft lists where its voice came from, phrase by phrase, and flags anything it couldn't source as [NEEDS-FACT].

Good to know

A thin website gives a thin voice

If the client's site is mostly images or a single page, the brain has little to learn from. It says so in the reviewer notes, for example "no brand/ folder yet, voice taken from site copy", rather than inventing a style. Two or three pieces of approved copy in brand/ usually fix it.

Inside the brain

What the brain reads and stores

A brain is a folder of plain markdown. knowledge/ holds what the brain has read, starting with up to 25 pages of the client's website, one file per page. brand/ holds the files you add: tone guides, approved copy, product sheets. skills/ holds the instructions for each kind of request, such as /draft.

Nothing is hidden in a model's memory. If a draft sounds wrong, you can open the file it learned from and change it, and the next draft follows.

Handovers

When an account manager leaves, the voice stays

In most agencies a client's voice lives in the heads of the two or three people who work on the account, plus a style guide nobody opens. When one of them moves on, the next drafts drift. With Brainstead, the voice is in the client's brain, so the next person starts from the same sources and the same reviewer notes.

What it adds

What Brainstead adds to a style guide

  • The voice is applied in every draft, not left in a PDF nobody opens.
  • Every account manager drafts from the same source, so the voice survives handovers.
  • Reviewer notes name the source of each voice choice.
  • [NEEDS-FACT] markers instead of invented claims.
  • Mixed spellings and styles on the client's site are noticed and resolved one way, with a note.
  • Quality gates that check voice and claims before review are in development.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Can we edit the voice by hand?

Yes. Everything the brain knows is markdown in knowledge/, brand/ and skills/, and you can edit any of it.

What if the client's website is thin?

The brain tells you in the reviewer notes. Add approved copy or a tone guide to brand/ and the next draft uses it.

Does it learn from drafts we approve?

Not automatically. You decide what goes into brand/, so the voice changes only when someone changes it.

Can we move a brain to another tool?

A brain is plain markdown any tool can read. Export, so you can take it with you, is in development.

How much does it cost?

Brainstead is priced per client brain, not per seat. Pricing isn't announced yet.

What isn't it?

It isn't a design or asset tool, and it doesn't publish. It drafts text in the client's voice for a person to review.

Related

Also works with

Each client brain also works with Slack, ClickUp, Client isolation and ChatGPT projects vs Brainstead. See what runs today and what's in development, the security page for questionnaires, or start from the Brainstead home page.

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