Brand-direction moodboard vote → Slack

The problem this solves

Campaign visual direction is usually decided by whoever speaks most confidently in a meeting about work that does not exist yet. Someone says "clean and minimal," someone else says "bold," and the team debates adjectives for an hour because there is nothing concrete to react to. The real decision gets deferred to the first finished asset, at which point changing direction means throwing away production. Abstract debate up front, expensive commitment later: the worst possible ordering.

Moodboards were supposed to fix this, but assembling one traditionally means a designer spending days collecting references that only approximate the intent. Borrowed references also argue unfairly - one direction looks better simply because its example photography was better. Four purpose-made images of the same subject in four styles is the honest comparison: everything held constant except the direction itself, cheap enough to produce that the debate can happen before anything is committed.

How the mission runs

1. Fix the constant subject. The agent agrees the test subject with you first: one scene or composition that represents the campaign, held identical across all four images. Holding the subject constant is what makes the vote a clean read on style, because nobody ends up choosing a direction for its scenery.
2. Define four real directions. Four genuinely distinct visual languages are drafted - each with a name, a mood, and the campaign argument it would make. The agent pushes the set wide deliberately; four flavors of safe would waste the exercise. Each direction gets the one-line rationale that will accompany it in the vote.
3. Generate the board. Image Generation renders the same subject four times, once per direction, iterating at draft quality until each image is a fair, committed expression of its style, then finishing the four at final quality. Every image carries your brand constants, so the vote compares directions rather than degrees of polish.
4. Post the vote to Slack. The four images land in #marketing as a structured vote: each direction named, previewed, and argued in one line, with emoji voting so the whole team can weigh in asynchronously. Concrete images convert the adjective debate into a decision people make in seconds.
5. Record the decision. Once the vote settles, the agent summarizes the outcome in the thread: the winning direction, the vote spread, and any strong dissent worth noting. That summary becomes the brief for every asset that follows, so the campaign's look is decided, documented, and referenceable before production spend begins.

The prompt

This is the exact objective the agent receives. Swap the obvious placeholders for your own domain, segment or channel and run it as-is from the console, Slack, or the API.

What comes back

A four-image moodboard posted to #marketing as a live vote: the same campaign subject rendered at final quality in four named, genuinely distinct visual directions, each with a one-line rationale. After the team votes, a decision summary lands in the thread recording the winner and the reasoning, giving every subsequent campaign asset a concrete, agreed reference instead of a remembered conversation.

Make it yours

• Run it as a bracket: four directions in round one, then the top two re-rendered on a second subject to confirm the winner survives a different scene.
• Constrain one direction to your current brand look as the incumbent, so the vote explicitly tests whether the campaign should depart from it.
• Aim it at a rebrand exploration instead of a campaign, with the four directions posted alongside your current identity for contrast.

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