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How Sosai works

Paste a link, answer what is still missing, send out a creative brief. Everything below is what people ask before and after they do that for the first time. If your question is not here, write to hello@sosai.studio.

The basics

What this tool is, and what you hold in your hand when it is done.

What is Sosai Studio?

Sosai Studio is a briefing engine. You hand it what already exists about a project, a website address, a few files, the half written message you gave up on, and it reads all of that before it asks you anything.

Then it asks only about what is genuinely still missing, in plain language. What comes out is a creative brief: one structured document a designer can quote against.

What exactly is a creative brief here?

A single document with the things a designer needs before starting: the goal, the audience, the scope, the budget and timeline, the tone, the colours actually in use, and the things to avoid.

Your own words are quoted verbatim in a section the engine is never allowed to rewrite. Everything else is assembled from your sources and your answers.

See what comes out

How long does it take?

Most briefings are finished in about five minutes. The reading of your sources takes a minute or two on its own, and you can leave the tab while it runs.

How many questions you get depends on how much your sources already answered. A rich website leaves a short dialog. A blank page leaves a longer one.

Does my client need an account?

No. Only you sign in. Your client either reads the finished brief through a share link, which needs no login, or fills the briefing in through a client intake link, which also needs no login.

Making a briefing

From an empty page to a document you can send out, and what to do when you get stuck.

How do I start a briefing?

Press New briefing and give it whatever you have. A link is the strongest single thing you can paste: a website, a portfolio, a social profile. You can add files as well, a PDF, screenshots of things the client liked, a logo, and you can paste loose notes.

None of it has to be tidy, and nothing is mandatory. You can start from a blank page and answer everything in the dialog instead.

What does the analysis actually read?

For a link: the visible text of the page, its metadata, and a full page screenshot. For images: a compressed copy, the dominant colours measured as hex values, and a style reading.

The colours are measured by us, pixel by pixel, not guessed by a model. That is the difference between a palette you can hand to a printer and a palette that merely sounds right.

What do I do when I cannot answer a question?

Press Help me, Saya on that question and talk it through in a few sentences. Saya asks what you would be asked in a good kickoff meeting, then proposes wording.

Nothing is written into your brief until you press the button to accept it. You can rewrite the proposal first, and you can ignore it entirely.

Can I change a briefing after it is finished?

Yes. Open it and edit any section directly, the text stays yours. Reopening the dialog lets you answer questions differently, and the document is rebuilt from your new answers.

Adding a new source and running the analysis again counts as a new analysis run against your monthly allowance. Editing text, exporting and sharing never do.

How do I send it to someone?

Two ways, and both are free. A share link opens the brief in a browser, read only, no login. A PDF export gives you the same document as a file to attach.

You can withdraw a share link at any time from your briefings list, after which it stops working. Anyone who already opened it may still hold a copy of what they saw.

Free and Pro

Free is not a trial and does not expire. One thing is metered, and it is not the briefing.

What does Free include?

As many briefings as you like, finished in full, with the whole dialog, the PDF and a permanent public share link. There is no card and no time limit.

One thing is metered: reading your sources. That runs 5 times a calendar month and starts over on the first of the next month.

The difference on Free is whose name is on the document. Free briefs carry the Sosai mark; Pro puts your studio there instead.

Compare the plans

What counts as an analysis run?

One run is one press of the analyse button, however many sources you gave it. Ten images and two links read together are one run, not twelve.

Finishing a briefing, editing it, exporting the PDF and sharing the link cost nothing and are never counted. Your remaining runs and the reset date are shown on your overview.

What does Pro add?

Pro is $29 USD a month. It reads sources without a monthly limit, and it puts your studio on everything that leaves it: your logo and colours on the brief, your own domain on the share link, your brand on the PDF instead of ours.

It also unlocks the client intake link, so your client fills the briefing in under your name, a ready job post text from every briefing, and team seats so your studio works in one shared workspace.

How do I try Pro?

Press any Pro feature. The same dialog opens everywhere and starts a 14 day trial with no card, once per studio.

Pro features stay visible on Free rather than being hidden, so you can see what you would be turning on before you turn it on.

How do I cancel, and what happens to my briefings?

Cancel from Settings, Billing. The subscription runs to the end of the period you paid for and is not renewed.

Nothing is deleted when you go back to Free. Your briefings stay, stay shareable and stay exportable. They carry the Sosai mark again instead of yours, and source reading returns to the monthly allowance.

The client intake link

The Pro feature that lets your client fill the briefing in, under your name, without an account.

What is a client intake link?

A private link you send to your client. They open it, see your logo and your colours rather than ours, and answer the questions themselves. When they submit, the briefing lands in your dashboard and you are notified by email.

It is the one place where a link without a login can write. Everything about it is deliberately narrow, see below.

What can someone with the link do?

Fill in exactly that one briefing, and nothing else. No dashboard, no other briefings, no settings, no exports. They can submit up to 10 sources and run the analysis up to 3 times.

The link expires after 30 days, dies the moment your client submits, can be withdrawn by you at any time, and never opens a briefing that is already finished.

What happens after my client submits?

The briefing is yours to finish. You review what they wrote, fill any remaining gaps yourself, edit anything that needs it, and then export or share it as usual.

Their own words stay quoted verbatim, so you can see what came from them and what came from you.

Your files and your data

What is stored, what leaves our servers, and what never does.

What happens to the files I upload?

They are stored with the briefing they belong to, together with a compressed preview and the colours measured from them. They are used to build that brief and nothing else.

Deleting a briefing removes its sources, its analysis, its answers and its uploads. Your files are never used to train a model.

Does the AI see my client's data?

Excerpts of the briefing text and the images go to a language model so it can judge style and spot gaps. Before any text is sent, contact details in it are stripped and replaced with placeholders.

The model orchestrates and asks. It never processes your data on its own account, and colour values are measured by us rather than generated.

Read the privacy page

How do I delete my data?

Delete individual briefings from your briefings list, or the whole account from Settings, Account, which removes the studio and everything in it.

You can also ask us to do it, or ask for a copy of what we hold, by writing to hello@sosai.studio.

Account and studio

Signing in, working as a team, and where to get a human answer.

How do I sign in?

With a one time link sent to your email, or with Google. There is no password to forget.

If the email has not arrived after a minute, check the spam folder, then try again. The link is single use and expires, so always use the newest one.

Can my studio work in one place?

Yes, on Pro. Invite your colleagues from Settings, Team, and everyone sees the same briefings, the same clients and the same branding.

Can share links run on my own domain?

Yes, on Pro. Enter the subdomain you want to use in Settings, White-label, for example briefings.yourstudio.com. We send you the two DNS records for it, usually the same working day.

Once you have added them at your registrar, the certificate is issued automatically and every share link you send after that carries your address instead of ours.

Something is wrong and this page does not cover it.

Write to hello@sosai.studio and describe what you did and what happened instead. If it concerns one briefing, send the link to it, that saves a round trip.

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