Project Blueprints
Write a project's contract before it exists, get help from Tessa, press GO, read the sources, and clone a sealed blueprint.
The Project Blueprint is the contract of a project, written before the project exists. It is the only way a project is founded. What is written here governs the work and judges the result: the team carries it out, it does not reinterpret it. This page walks you through the seven sections, the GO, and what happens after.
Before you start
- Open Build › Projects and click Create a project. The Blueprint has no row of its own in the sidebar.
- The Blueprint saves itself as you type. There is no Save button; if a save fails, the header says so.
- Choose how to write it, at the top: Guided, one question at a time, or Full sheet, every field at once.
Every blueprint runs the same researched shape: a goal, checkable criteria, sources accounted for, a staffed team and a published report. The open web is always on for the team.
1. Name the project
Read What is this project called?
Type a short name your colleagues will recognize, for example "Oceanic Teas — new range packaging brief".
2. Write the primary goal
Read What should exist at the end that does not exist now?
Write one or two sentences, in your words.
This is the project's north. Agents cannot rewrite it.
Optionally, click Sharpen for one light rewrite by Tessa. Choose Use this or Keep mine. Your text is untouched until you choose.
3. Write the success criteria
The criteria travel word for word into the project, and the result is judged against them. Write them so a stranger could check them.
Type a criterion in New success criterion and press Enter, or click Add.
Paste a list, and each line becomes its own criterion.
Reorder with Move up and Move down, or remove one.
To make a criterion testable, click its Sharpen button.
The page gives an example: "The brief compares us with at least 3 named competitors." travels; "The brief is thorough and well written." is too vague.
Optionally, click Draft criteria from the goal. Tessa reads your goal and proposes 3 to 5 checkable criteria. Take them one at a time with Add, or Add all, then Done. This needs the goal first.
4. Choose the sources
Read What must the work start from?
Under From your Library, search or click Browse your Library, then Attach.
Each attached document is checked. It reads Readable by every colleague, or names the problem, for example that some colleagues cannot open it.
To bring something new, under From outside, click Add a new document — a file, a text or a link, fill it in, then Add and attach as a source. It also lands in your Library.
Decide on Let the team search your whole Team Library: On, the team also searches every Team document of your Library; Off, it reads only what you attached. Mail is never a source.
The team also always searches, on its own, Nexa documentation, taken as official fact, and Your Company Brain, used as context and never as proof in the document.
A blueprint takes at most ten documents. Attaching nothing is a valid answer: the team then works from the goal, the criteria and the open web.
5. Team & lead (optional)
Once the essentials are written, the platform composes the minimum team by itself: Tessa leads, and Argo accounts for the sources.
Pick more colleagues from the list, and click Make … the lead to crown the lead.
Or click Skip — let Tessa staff it.
6. Style & audience (optional)
Fill in Audience, Register, Format and Language. These four lines travel typed, straight to the writer and the reviewer. Or click Skip, and the team decides.
7. Constraints & timing (optional)
Write Constraints and context, for example "Do not contact vendors. Stay within the EU market.", and pick a Target end date.
Optionally, switch on:
Click Done — review the contract.
Get help: three sizes
- Guided questions — free. The page asks, you write; no agent is called.
- Sharpen one field — one small rewrite of the field you are in, by Tessa. You keep the last word.
- Call Tessa — for thinking out loud: the shape of the project, the team, a whole blueprint. This costs real turns.
Calling Tessa opens a drawer beside the blueprint. While you type in a field, Tessa cannot overwrite it; when Tessa writes, the page takes that version as soon as the turn ends.
Check the requirements and press GO
Read Requirements for GO, in the right-hand rail.
It lists what is still missing: a name, a primary goal, at least one success criterion, and every attached source passing its check. This list comes from the server, and the project will be judged by the same list. Click a row to open the question that settles it.
The button reads GO with how many items are left, until the list is complete.
Click GO — seal and start.
GO creates the project, tests that every colleague can really read every source, and freezes the contract.
The page says Sealed. The project is running. Click Open the project.
If a seated model has a small context window, a note recommends a model of at least 128K for this kind of work. You can still launch.
What happens after GO
- The board fills with steps grouped as Research, Analysis, Writing, Review and Publishing.
- The run goes to the end by itself. You can stop it, or take over a step.
- Anything incomplete is told in the project room, the project's Agora discussion.
- With Critical reading on, Cassandra's numbered findings arrive in the project discussion as suggestions.
See Projects.
Read the delivered document and its sources
When the project page says The document is delivered, open the document. It is in the project's documents and in the Library.
Each paragraph shows how many sources shaped it. Move with Previous source and Next source: a web page with its address, your own documents under Your material, and the platform's documentation under Nexa Agora documentation.
Exported files print the web sources only. The Company Brain and agents' memories guide the work, and are never cited.
Clone a blueprint
After GO, the blueprint is sealed: the contract is frozen and read-only, and the page clears for a new blueprint. The sealed one stays in My blueprints, marked LAUNCHED. To work differently, clone it.
At the foot of the page, open My blueprints.
On the launched row, click Clone & edit.
A new draft opens on the page; the sealed one stays untouched.
Correct the draft and press GO.
A new project starts, and the earlier one stays as it was.
You can also clone from a project's Details with Clone the blueprint.
Manage My blueprints
At the foot of the page, My blueprints lists every blueprint you own, drafts included. Each row has a number, a state (DRAFT, READY FOR GO or LAUNCHED) and its buttons: Open on drafts, Clone & edit on launched ones, and Delete on drafts only.
Quote a blueprint's number to an agent, or to an assistant you connected, to have that exact blueprint read or updated. New blueprint starts a fresh one; the current one stays saved.
What you will see
Good to know
- There is no source perimeter, no priority and no supervision setting: a blueprint-born project runs to the end and reports.
- The primary goal and the criteria travel word for word. Agents cannot rewrite them.
- Sharpen and Draft criteria are proposals: nothing changes until you accept.
- Only documents you can read can be sources. Adding a new document needs the right to upload documents.
- Agents, and an assistant you connected, can read and write a blueprint, but the GO is always yours.
- A draft can be deleted. A launched blueprint cannot.