Sosai for briefing a designer
Say it your way. Designers will get it.
Paste your website, answer in plain language, and send a brief a professional can quote against.
Free, PDF included. No card.
Four quotes come back, and none of them compare.
Every designer quotes against the same facts.
Start with what you have
Your own website answers most of it.
Sosai reads the page, measures your colors and names the fonts you already use.
- Add PDFs and screenshots
- Nothing has to be tidy
- CMYK for print projects
About 8 of 14filled before the first question, including the fonts on the site. You answer what's left.
When you get stuck
You're allowed to not know the answer.
Press Help me, Saya, talk it through, and our AI drafts wording for you to approve or rewrite.
- Nothing goes in unless you say so
- Pick a look and a typeface from pictures
How it should sound
Read the tone before you choose it.
Every tone comes with the same statement written its way, so the only difference you hear is the tone.
- Compare two side by side
What you send out
Four quotes you can actually compare.
Send it as a link or a PDF, to one designer or five. Posting the job publicly? Pro turns the brief into the text those forms ask for.
- Your words quoted at the end
- Pro: a job post for marketplaces
39 formats
Read one before you write one.
You don't have to know what a designer needs to hear. Pick the thing you want made, and this is the document that comes out.
Pricing
Free to brief. Pro to deliver.
Free
Every brief, start to finish.
- Unlimited briefs, finished and shared
- Help me, Saya on every question
- The full document, on screen and as a PDF
- 5 source analyses a month
- Carries the Sosai mark
Sosai Pro
For work that leaves your studio under your own name.
Everything in Free, plus
- Your client fills the brief in, under your brand
- Your logo and color on the brief, the link and the PDF
- Unlimited source analyses
- A job post text, ready to paste into a marketplace
- Team seats for the whole studio
FAQ
Questions people ask before they start
Do I need to know design words?
No, and that's the point. The look is asked in pictures, the tone with sample sentences you can read out loud, and everything else in plain language.
The brief writes down the professional term on your behalf, so a designer reads exactly what you meant.
What if I don't know my budget?
Say so. Open to a proposal is a real answer, and the brief records it that way.
Leaving the number out entirely is what causes trouble: designers then quote into the dark, and the four numbers you get back can't be compared.
Can I send the same brief to several designers?
Yes, and that's where it earns its keep. Everyone reads the same facts, so the quotes that come back mean something next to each other.
When someone quotes low because they misread the scope, you both have the same page to point at. Send it as a link or a PDF, and withdraw the link whenever you like.
What if I want to post the job publicly?
Pro turns the finished brief into the text a marketplace form asks for, assembled from your own answers so it can never say something the document doesn't. Pro is $29 a month.
The brief itself, the PDF and the share link are free, with or without that.
Will my next project be easier?
Yes. The same questions, the same document, and your brand details already measured from your website. Most of the repeat work is gone.
Designers you work with more than once recognize the format too, which shortens the conversation before it starts.
Is it really free?
Yes, and it doesn't expire. You can brief as many projects as you like, finish all of them, export the PDF and share the link, without a card.
One thing is metered, because it costs us money every time: reading your sources. Crawling a site and looking at uploads runs 5 times a month and resets on the first. Writing, editing, exporting and sharing are never counted.
Your next project, briefed in five minutes.
Paste your website and see how much of it fills itself in before you type anything.
Built in Zurich. Free, no card.