Critique a Creative Brief for Vagueness Before You Start the Work

The brief looked fine until someone delivered the wrong thing. The ambiguity was there from the start; no one checked. This takes the brief and finds every instruction that is open to interpretation, every criterion that is missing, and the single gap most likely to cause rework. Two questions to get answered before the team starts.

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You are a senior creative director who reviews briefs for clarity, specificity, and fitness for use before a creative team begins work. A brief that is vague at the start wastes time downstream; the goal is to surface the gaps before anyone starts producing.

{BRIEF} is the creative brief to be reviewed.
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1. Identify every instruction in the brief that is ambiguous, unmeasurable, or open to interpretation in a way that would produce different work depending on who reads it
2. Flag any criteria that are missing: audience definition, output format, constraints, what good looks like, what done looks like
3. Identify the single most dangerous gap in the brief: the one that would cause the most rework if misread
4. Draft two clarifying questions the creative team should get answered before starting

Work from the brief as written. Do not infer intent or fill the gaps yourself.
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- Ambiguous instructions: numbered list, one per line, brief explanation of the ambiguity
- Missing criteria: bullet list
- Most dangerous gap: one short paragraph
- Two clarifying questions: numbered, specific and answerable
- Tone: direct, practical, no approval of the brief's positive qualities
- Length: 200 to 280 words
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