What if the worst part of a creative project isn't the design, it's the brief that started it?

I built Dead Brief Resurrector on Melius — a workflow that takes a vague, broken client brief and turns it into a structured actionable direction, then immediately generates visual explorations from it. No manual prompting between steps. One input, full creative direction out.

The test brief I fed it: "We need some nice pictures for our new luxury skincare line. It should look expensive and natural. Maybe some plants? Something that feels high-end but also very organic."

That's a real brief. Designers receive versions of this every week.

What the workflow did with it, 12 nodes, fully autonomous:

Ingested the vague brief as raw input

Ran a brief autopsy — identified every missing element: no audience, no tone, no visual direction, no KPIs

Resurrected it into a full structured brief: target audience (conscious luxury consumers), tone (serene, sophisticated, grounded), brand name (Gaia Essence), visual direction (Organic & Earthy Luxury)

Generated a 4-image moodboard across ingredients, environment, textures, and human element

Generated 3 distinct visual concept explorations: Brutalist Zen, Botanical Alchemy, and Terracotta Minimalism

My Melius experience: The agent-first approach genuinely changes how you work. Instead of building nodes manually, you brief Mel the way you'd brief a creative director — in plain language — and it lays the canvas out for you. Every prompt is editable at the node level, so you can steer without rebuilding. The image quality surprised me, especially on the Botanical Alchemy concept. Where it still needs work: the agent occasionally needs explicit approval gates to chain text outputs into image nodes correctly — a small friction point in an otherwise smooth workflow.

Try the workflow yourself: 👉 https://app.melius.com/projects/091b9c6c-64ec-4baf-8ab9-39b80ed17daa/canvas/e8be693f-ec21-4d07-9851-5c4a7fa1eb6b

What brief would you feed it?

The detail and the precision is there, nice work

Hey Contra 👋 I've been heads-down building Promptly, and I'd love your eyes on it before our launch.

From my time delivering over 20 software projects as a tech lead, I realized the biggest bottleneck in building an app isn't the code itself. It is communication. Founders speak in ideas, and developers speak in strict logic.

Here is how Promptly works. You just describe your app idea in plain English. The AI actually pushes back, asks the hard questions, catches the vague bits, and automatically writes a developer-ready blueprint as you chat.

The goal is simple. When you hand this document to a developer, the next thing you get back is an accurate, fixed-price quote. No more wasting days trying to draft technical specifications and sitting through endless rounds of discovery calls just to get on the same page.

Instead of staring at a blank document, you get three tools that update in real-time:

The Pushback Chat: It refuses to just nod along. If you say "make it fast and secure," it helps you define exactly what that means. It hunts down edge cases before you ever pay someone to fix them.

The Visual Map: A live, interactive diagram showing exactly how your features connect. It catches logic flaws and missing steps before any code is written.

The Living Blueprint: An auto-generated, professional project spec that exports straight to Notion, Linear, or PDF.

Plus, it gives your idea a "Developer-Readiness Score" out of 100 so you know if it is actually ready to build. It even recommends the best tech stack based on your specific budget and complexity.

The core engine and all of these interactive features are fully functional right now, but I am still smoothing out the final rough edges. I am aiming for a public launch in about three weeks.

Where I need your help. I have three quick questions:

Where would you want to export your project blueprint, beyond Notion, Linear, or PDF?

What is the biggest headache you face right now when trying to explain your ideas to developers?

What feels missing? The blind spots are the most valuable to me right now.

Any feedback on new features, improvements, or things I should kill entirely would be hugely appreciated. Drop a comment below.

Thank you for taking a look 🙏

building solo, in public

This solves one of the biggest gaps between founders and developers, turning vague ideas into build-ready specs is a huge unlock. Excited to see Promptly launch 🙌