Hey everyone, launching BriefOps tomorrow (June 21st) and wanted to start a conversation here first.
The problem I kept running into as a freelancer: a client says "I need a website" or "redesign my brand," I start working off a 20-minute call, and three weeks later there's a disagreement about what was actually agreed to. Scope creep isn't really a client problem, it's a documentation problem. Most freelancers just never had a system for it. BriefOps fixes that at the start of every project. You send your client one link, they answer 7 focused questions about goals, audience, budget, and timeline, and AI turns their answers into a clean, structured project brief in under 60 seconds. No more starting work on a handshake.
A few things I'd love feedback on from this community:
If you're a freelancer or run a small agency, what's your current process for scoping a new project? Curious how common (or uncommon) a formal brief actually is in practice.
Anyone tried similar AI-brief tools before? What worked or didn't?
What would make you actually use something like this versus just writing a Google Doc?