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AI-Powered Creative Briefs

Your complete photo brief,
generated in minutes.

Marketing teams: stop burning hours on Pinterest. Brief Builder generates your full creative brief — moodboard, shot list, brand voice, and captions — ready to share with your photographer.

🎨 AI Moodboard 📋 Shot List 🎯 Brand Voice & Style ✍️ Caption Generation 🔗 One Shareable Link

Free to join · Early access · No credit card required

🎨 Cohesive moodboard
📸 Structured shot list
🎯 Brand voice guide
✍️ AI-written captions
🔗 Shareable in one click
The Problem

The Pinterest problem.

Right now, creating a photo brief means opening Pinterest, saving random pins, screenshotting 15 images, and hoping your photographer interprets it the way you meant.

⏱️

Takes forever

2+ hours scrolling Pinterest, saving pins, organizing them into something that vaguely makes sense — and you're still not sure it's cohesive.

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Messy and inconsistent

Random pins with clashing styles and colors. Your "moodboard" looks like a chaotic collage with scribbled notes, not a clear creative direction.

😵

Photographers still guess

You send 47 Pinterest screenshots. They interpret "modern minimalist" completely differently. Three revision rounds later, you're over budget and behind schedule.

There's no structure. No brief. No alignment. Just chaos passed off as creative direction.
Brief Builder fixes all of it — in one place.
What You Get

One brief. Everything your photographer needs.

Brief Builder doesn't just make a moodboard. It generates your complete creative brief — everything in one professional document, shareable with one link.

AI Generated
🎨

AI Moodboard

Cohesive visual reference board built from your brand assets — not random Pinterest pins. Every image labeled by shot type: Hero, Supporting, Detail.

Structured
📋

Shot List

Priority-ranked table: shot name, technical specs, angle, props, lighting direction, and deliverable format. Crystal clear. Zero guesswork.

On-Brand
🎯

Brand Voice & Style

Brand adjectives, tone positioning, reference aesthetics, and a "what to avoid" guide — so your photographer understands not just what to shoot, but how.

Campaign
📝

Executive Summary

A concise creative concept statement that aligns your entire team — designers, photographers, stakeholders — before anyone picks up a camera.

Optional
✍️

Caption Generation

Ask Brief Builder to write AI-generated captions for Instagram, website headers, or press copy — tailored to the campaign's tone and message.

How It Works

From brief to photographer-ready in minutes.

Three steps. No design skills needed. No hours on Pinterest.

1

Upload your brand assets

Past shoots, logo, color palette, brand guidelines — Brief Builder analyzes your visual style and learns what "on-brand" actually means for your brand. No manual configuration. No generic templates.

📁

Drop your brand assets herePast shoots, logo, brand guidelines, color palette

✓ brand-guidelines.pdf ✓ logo.png ✓ 12 past photos ✓ color-palette.png
2

AI generates your complete brief

In minutes, Brief Builder produces your full creative document: moodboard, shot list, brand voice guide, executive summary, and optional captions. Everything structured, labeled, and on-brand — no random Pinterest pins.

Generating Brief… ⚡ 8 min avg
Executive Summary
Brand Voice & Style
AI Moodboard
Shot List (11 shots)
Caption Generation
75%
3

Share one clean link

Your entire brief — moodboard, shot list, brand voice, captions — lives at one URL. Send it to your photographer, your team, your client. Everyone's aligned before anyone picks up a camera.

The Difference

Before vs. After Brief Builder.

On the left: the chaos you live with now. On the right: what Brief Builder produces. Click the tabs to see each section.

❌ How you do it now ~2 hrs
Spring 2025 Inspo · 47 pins · 3 contributors
Save
maybe?? too casual idk
Save
wrong colors but close
Save
for lighting ref ONLY not style
+ 41 more pins… 😩
47 pins. 3 contributors. Still no clear direction.
"2 hours on Pinterest. Still not sure if this is right."
✅ Brief Builder Output ~8 min
Hero Shot
Lifestyle
Product Detail
Context
Ambient
Supporting
Hero
Opening Brand Shot
Wide angle · natural light · off-center composition · for OOH + web hero
Hero
Lifestyle Moment
50mm · golden hour · candid · for social (4:5 crop)
Support
Product in Context
Macro · diffused window light · overhead · for press kit
Support
Team / Energy Shot
35mm · candid group · natural outdoor · for LinkedIn
Detail
Texture / Close-Up
100mm macro · side light · for Instagram story
+ 6 more shots · 60+ deliverables · RAW + JPEG + PNG
Brand Adjectives
Warm Minimal Authentic Energetic Premium
Tone & Aesthetic
Natural light preferred. Off-center composition. Candid over posed. Preserve texture and imperfection — this is not a glossy campaign. Think editorial, not commercial.
Reference Aesthetics
Aesop Glossier Le Labo Kinfolk Mag
What to Avoid
✗ Bright white studio backgrounds   ✗ Over-retouched skin   ✗ Generic stock photo poses   ✗ Flash photography
Instagram Caption
The shoot that started with a clear brief ends with photos that actually tell your story. No revision loops. No "that's not quite what I meant."
#ContentCreation #MarketingTeams #PhotoBrief
Website Hero Copy
Stop briefing photographers on vibes and screenshots. Brief Builder turns your brand assets into a complete, structured creative brief — in minutes.
LinkedIn Post
We coordinated 78+ photo shoots. The ones with clear briefs needed 3x fewer revisions. Brief Builder is what we wish existed from day one.
"Complete brief in 8 minutes. Photographer loved it."
Who It's For

Who Brief Builder is for.

If you brief photographers and hate how messy the current process is, this is built for you.

🏢

In-house marketing teams

Stop spending hours on Pinterest. Create complete, professional briefs in minutes and get better results from every shoot.

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Marketing agencies

Standardize your briefing process across clients. Onboard photographers faster. Deliver consistent quality that makes clients say wow.

Freelance creatives

Show up with professional briefs that make clients trust you instantly. Less back-and-forth, better outcomes, more referrals.

Built on Real Experience

Built by people who lived the pain.

We've coordinated 78+ photo shoots through student clubs at McGill. Every miscommunication, every "wait, I thought you meant X" taught us something. Brief Builder is what we wish existed.

78+
Shoots coordinated
with structured briefs
~90
Minutes saved
per brief
Fewer revision rounds
when briefs are clear

Brief Builder is what we wish existed when we were drowning in Pinterest boards and Google Docs.
Now we're building it for every marketing team that's been there.

Early Access

Join the Waitlist.

Be the first to access Brief Builder when we launch. Stop wasting time on Pinterest — get early access and help shape the product.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Pinterest is for inspiration, not structured briefs. You get random pins that take hours to organize and don't tell your photographer how to shoot. Brief Builder generates a complete creative document — moodboard, shot list, brand voice guide, and captions — based on your actual brand assets. One professional output, not 47 screenshots.
Yes. You upload your brand assets — past shoots, logos, color palette, brand guidelines — and the AI analyzes your visual aesthetic to generate a brief that actually matches your brand, not whatever's trending on Pinterest today.
Your brief includes: (1) Executive summary — the campaign concept in one paragraph, (2) Brand voice & style — adjectives, tone, references, and what to avoid, (3) AI moodboard — labeled reference images by shot type, (4) Shot list — priority-ranked table with technical specs, and optionally (5) AI-written captions for social, web, or press use.
Yes. Brief Builder prepares the creative brief and aligns your team — it doesn't replace the photographer. Think of it as the tool that makes every briefing conversation dramatically more productive.
Absolutely. Use Pinterest to explore and brainstorm. Then use Brief Builder to transform those ideas into a structured, professional brief. Pinterest is the messy sketchbook — Brief Builder is the final document.
We're validating demand now. Early access rolls out to waitlist members first — the sooner you join, the earlier you get in. No credit card required to join the waitlist.

Stop wasting hours
on Pinterest.

Join the waitlist and be the first to get a complete, AI-generated photo brief — moodboard, shot list, brand voice, and captions — in minutes.