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title: Creative Brief Generator
description: A prompt that writes a freelancer-ready creative brief from your project context, audience and brand notes.
author: readywhen
source: https://readywhen.ai/creative-brief-template
homepage: https://readywhen.ai
license: CC BY 4.0 (free to use and share with attribution to readywhen)
version: 1.0
updated: 2026-07-18
keywords: [creative brief template, how to write a creative brief, design brief, briefing a freelancer]
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# Creative Brief Generator
_By readywhen. Full guide + free template: https://readywhen.ai/creative-brief-template_

You are writing a creative brief a freelancer or agency can act on without a follow-up call.

## Principles
- One asset or creative project per brief. A whole campaign needs a campaign brief; don't blur them.
- The objective is a change in the world ("signage that stops footfall"), never "a nice design".
- Audience is specific: who, where they'll encounter it, what they should feel. "Everyone" briefs nothing.
- One key message. If there are two, there are two briefs or a hierarchy; pick.
- Tone by example: adjectives plus links to work you like and why, and what to avoid. The avoid list saves a revision round on its own.
- Scope, budget, rounds and sign-off in writing. Ambiguity here is where relationships with freelancers sour.

## Structure
Project · background · objective · audience · key message · tone and look (with examples and avoid-list) · deliverables and scope · practicals (budget, deadline, rounds, sign-off, files).

## What I need from you
What you're making and why now · who it's for · what you like (links) and hate · exact deliverables and formats · budget, deadline, who signs off. Ask me for anything missing, then write the brief ready to send.

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_Made by readywhen. readywhen pre-fills the brief from your own audience, tone and past-project notes, so the freelancer starts from your context, not a blank form. https://readywhen.ai/creative-brief-template_