The Brief Archive.
Every brief you have ever received, kept per brand and kept for good. There is no retention limit — a brief stays until you delete it.
Every brief ScoutRival has ever produced for a brand is still here. Nothing ages out, nothing gets trimmed at the end of the month — the archive is the running record of what your market did and what you were told to do about it.
What the archive holds
Brief Archive is the full history for the brand you're currently in. Each row is one day's brief, exactly as it was produced that morning — the verdict, the rival activity, and the posts and blog it drafted for you.
It is not a summary or a digest. Open any row and you get the whole brief back, in the same three groups you read it in on the day.
How a brief gets here
Automatically. There is no “save to archive” step and nothing to switch on.
- Your scheduled morning brief lands in the archive the moment it's generated — before it's delivered to Telegram, Slack or Discord.
- A brief you generate by hand from the Daily Brief page is archived the same way.
If you hit Regenerate brief, the new brief replaces today's — the old version and its drafts are deleted, not kept as a second row. Yesterday and everything before it are untouched. If you want to keep a version you're about to regenerate over, export it first.
Reading the list
Each row shows three things: the date, the verdict — the one-line call the brief opened with — and a status badge.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
ready | The brief was generated and is waiting to be read. |
approved | You signed off on its content. |
shipped | Its content went out. |
skipped | You passed on it. |
failed | Generation didn't complete. |
Newest first by default. The toolbar above the list gives you search, a date range, a status filter and a sort — covered in full here, including the two things the search box doesn't match.
What you can do with an old brief
The ⋯ menu on any row, and the button bar at the top of an open brief, give you the same four actions:
- Open — the full brief, exactly as it was. What you'll see →
- Export — HTML, Markdown, or your browser's own print-to-PDF. Free. Formats →
- Share link — a read-only public page a client can open without a login. Read the gotchas first →
- Delete — one brief, or a batch. What the delete takes with it →
How long we keep them
Indefinitely. There is no retention window, no 30-day cap and no plan-based limit on how much history you keep. A brief stays in your archive until you delete it.
The only two things that ever remove a brief are your own delete, and regenerating a brief on the same day (which overwrites that day).
Six months in, the archive is the only honest answer to “what has this rival been doing all year?” — and the fastest way to send a client proof of work. Sort oldest-first and read down.
One archive per brand
The archive always shows the brand you're currently switched to. Change brand with the switcher and you're looking at that brand's history instead. Briefs never mix across brands, which is what makes the share link usable with a client — they only ever see their own.