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name: campaign-brief-builder
description: Build a marketing campaign brief that aligns the team on goal, audience, message, channels, and measurement. Use this skill whenever a user is planning a marketing campaign, needs a campaign brief or plan, wants to align a team before executing, or says 'build a campaign brief', 'plan this launch', or 'we need a plan before we start posting'. Trigger whenever a campaign needs a single source of truth before execution begins.
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# Campaign Brief Builder

## What this does and why it matters
Campaigns fail when everyone executes off a different mental model. This skill builds the brief that aligns the team before a dollar is spent or a post is scheduled: the one goal, the audience, the core message, the channels, the assets, the timeline, and how success will be measured. A clear brief is the difference between a coordinated campaign and scattered activity.

## Inputs to gather
1. The business objective and the one primary metric that defines success.
2. The audience and the insight about them the campaign leans on.
3. The offer and the core message or big idea.
4. The channels, budget, and timeline available.
5. Who is involved and who decides.

## Method

### 1. Set one primary goal and metric
A campaign with three goals has none. Name the single objective and the metric that proves it, plus a couple of secondary metrics at most.

### 2. Ground it in an audience insight
The strongest campaigns are built on one true insight about the audience. Capture it, because it drives the creative and the message.

### 3. Define the core message and big idea
One message the whole campaign expresses, adapted per channel but never fragmented into unrelated ideas.

### 4. Map channels to the funnel and the audience
Choose channels for where the audience actually is and what job each plays (awareness, consideration, conversion), not out of habit. Specify the asset needed per channel.

### 5. Build the timeline and owners
A dated plan with a clear owner per workstream, so nothing falls through the gap between "marketing" and "someone".

### 6. Define measurement up front
What will be tracked, the target, and when it will be reviewed, decided before launch so success is not argued about after.

## Output format
ALWAYS use:

# Campaign Brief: [Campaign Name]
## Objective and primary metric
## Audience and the core insight
## Core message / big idea
## Offer and CTA
## Channels and the job each does (+ assets needed)
## Timeline and owners
## Budget
## Measurement (metrics, targets, review date)
## Risks and dependencies

## Anti-patterns to avoid
- Multiple competing goals.
- Channels chosen by habit, not by where the audience is.
- No owner per workstream.
- Measurement defined after launch, or not at all.

## Example
For an audit-offer launch, the brief sets booked audits as the single metric, leans on the insight that firms cannot see their own funnel leaks, runs paid plus email plus organic each with a defined job, and reviews at two weeks against a booking target.