How-to guides

Step-by-step guides: your first strategy, CSV batches, stakeholders, Refine, ringi exports, subsidy and loan plans, and white label.

  1. 01 · 10 min

    Create your first strategy

    Walk through writing a brief and getting your first council-reviewed strategy.

  2. 02 · 8 min

    How to build a brief with the guided steps

    A concrete example-driven guide to writing briefs that produce strong strategies.

  3. 03 · 10 min

    Three ways to create several plans at once

    Create one plan per client from a spreadsheet, build variants of one brief and compare them, or collect department plans in the same format (Pro, Firm and Enterprise).

  4. 04 · 6 min

    Set up your stakeholder panel

    How to choose and configure the roles that will challenge your strategy.

  5. 05 · 6 min

    Write expected objections

    How to pre-load known concerns into your brief.

  6. 06 · 6 min

    Revise with Refine

    How to give feedback and have the chairman model rewrite parts of the strategy.

  7. 07 · 6 min

    Export a ringi (formal written approval request), proposal, PDF or Word document

    How to export the strategy in a format ready for internal approval or a proposal.

  8. 08 · 6 min

    Add numbers and charts

    How to add figures to your brief and use the chart suggestion feature.

  9. 09 · 10 min

    Use it for a subsidy application plan

    How to draft and stakeholder review a business plan for a subsidy application.

  10. 10 · 10 min

    Use it for a bank loan plan

    How to draft and stakeholder review a business plan for a bank loan review.

  11. 11 · 6 min

    Deliver under your own brand

    How to set your logo and brand color and deliver under your own name.

  12. 12 · 5 min

    Invite your team

    How to invite teammates by Google account email and set their roles.

  13. 13 · 5 min

    Tips for writing without personal data

    Tips for writing briefs that refer to roles instead of names.

  14. 14 · 5 min

    Use the free review

    How to upload an existing plan and get a free diagnostic review.

  15. 15 · 5 min

    Using stakeholder presets

    Add the stakeholders who argue in the stakeholder review in one click, from 81 role presets and 10 ready-made panels.

Start with a free review

Upload a plan or proposal and get the top 5 weaknesses, objections by stakeholder, and a 0–100 readiness score.

Try the free review