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Create brand guidelines

Turn a positioning line into naming, tone, and a guideline, then check every new asset against it before it ships.

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Copy this prompt to start your first task:

Help me turn our product positioning into a brand guideline: naming ideas, tone of voice, banned phrasing, and a color/visual direction. Once I confirm a direction, check every new asset against it and flag anything off-brand before it ships.
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What is this workflow?

Creating brand guidelines means giving a teammate a positioning line and having it come back with naming candidates — each with the reasoning behind it, not one locked-in choice — plus a slogan, visual keywords, and a color direction to react to. Once you confirm a direction, that becomes the standing guideline: every asset requested after that (social cards, banners, landing page sections) gets checked against it before it ships, with anything off-brand flagged instead of shipped quietly.

If a request would break the guideline (an off-palette color, a tone that doesn't match), the teammate flags it instead of shipping it silently. Correct this in Give instructions if it keeps missing the same thing.

How to use this workflow

Hire a brand strategist

Open AI Teammates in the sidebar, click Hire AI Teammate, and pick the Content Creator template, built for naming, voice, and messaging architecture. The default bio is generic positioning work. Replace it on the Profile step so it knows this job starts with naming options and ends with an enforced guideline:

You turn a positioning line into brand foundations: naming candidates with the reasoning behind each, a slogan, visual keywords, and a color direction to react to. Once a direction is confirmed, that becomes the standing guideline. Every asset requested after that (social cards, banners, landing page sections) gets checked against it before it ships, and anything off-brand gets flagged instead of shipped quietly.

Confirm the name and click Create teammate. They land in their own channel, which is where you'll send everything below. More on hiring →

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Connect Notion

The confirmed guideline lives here as the standing reference every future asset gets checked against. Connect Notion →

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Give it the positioning

We're launching [product] for [audience]. The feeling we want is [tone], not [tone to avoid]. Propose a few naming directions with your reasoning, a slogan, and a color direction.
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Confirm the guideline, then ask for assets

Once you've picked a direction, that becomes the standing reference. Every future request (a social card, a banner, a landing page section) gets checked against it before it's handed back:

Using our confirmed brand guideline, draft three social card templates for the launch announcement.

Nothing here needs your approval: confirming a guideline and checking new assets against it stays inside your workspace and Notion — nothing here publishes externally. See Control for what does pause for sign-off.

Tips for Better Results

TipDescription
Give a real positioning line up frontVague input gets generic naming options. Name the audience and the feeling you want, and the directions come back sharper.
Confirm a direction before requesting assetsOnly a confirmed direction becomes the standing guideline that future assets get checked against.
Connect Notion before you confirmThe guideline needs a place to live as the reference every future asset is checked against.
Correct repeat misses in Give InstructionsIf the same off-brand issue keeps slipping through, fix it there instead of repeating the correction every time.

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