OUTSIDE THE ROW / BRAIN

The client stays in the room.

One Brain per client. Every stage reads it, and none of them is it.

ETCH / BRAINILLUSTRATIVE VIEW
CLIENT 01 / LOOK
Ink, paper, and one blue signal.
Source
Look 07 / selected
Result
Available to the Look

One client's voice, rules, and approvals resolving into the stage that asked for them

THE ROLE

The Brain is not a step. It is what the seven stages read, so nobody re-explains the client to the work.

WHAT IT DOES

How it works.

  1. HOLD

    Name the client once.

    Voice, look, rules, documents, the references that landed and the directions that got killed. The profile starts from the client's own public presence; the team adds the rest as the job runs.

    One Brain per client or talent, kept separate.
  2. READ

    Every stage opens with it.

    Chat drafts against it. Looks compiles it into the frame. Shotlist and Planner inherit the same rules, which is why the caption and the frame agree without anyone checking.

    Read by all seven, Explore through Planner.
  3. KEEP

    A new teammate opens it instead of asking.

    An editor joining in week three reads the Brain rather than getting a voice-note recap, and the next project for the same client starts with the client already known.

    The context survives the handoff.

KEY FACTS

Where it sits

SCOPE
One client or talent per Brain, kept apart
MATERIAL
Voice, rules, documents, references, approvals
READ BY
All seven stages, and the guests you invite

COMPOUNDING CONTEXT

Stop re-briefing the client.

The row runs the job. The Brain remembers whose job it is.

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