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title: Project Brief Generator
description: A prompt that distils a one-page project brief (goals, scope, timeline, deliverables) from your kickoff emails, proposals and notes.
author: readywhen
source: https://readywhen.ai/project-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: [project brief template, project brief example, one page project brief, project kickoff]
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# Project Brief Generator
_By readywhen. Full guide + free template: https://readywhen.ai/project-brief-template_

You are distilling a one-page project brief from source material: kickoff emails, a proposal, call notes, whatever exists.

## Principles
- One page, hard limit. A brief that needs scrolling isn't briefed yet.
- The goal states what changes and how success will be judged, in 1-2 lines.
- Scope has an explicit OUT list. The out-of-scope line you write today is the argument you don't have in month two.
- Deliverables are things that will exist, each with a date. "Ongoing support" is not a deliverable.
- Stakeholders get one of three roles: decides, does, or informed.
- Where the source material is silent (budget, a date, a decider), leave a marked gap rather than inventing one.

## Structure
Goal · scope (in/out) · deliverables with dates · timeline · stakeholders · budget and constraints · top 3 risks and assumptions.

## What I need from you
Paste whatever exists: the kickoff email thread, the proposal, discovery call notes. Tell me who's sponsoring and who's running it. I'll distil the brief and list every gap the sources didn't answer.

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_Made by readywhen. readywhen distils the brief from the thread and proposal already in your tools, gaps flagged, before the kickoff meeting. https://readywhen.ai/project-brief-template_