Reading an archived brief.
The same three groups you read on the day, read back out of storage rather than generated again. Nothing changes under you, and there are no placeholders for drafts that never existed.
Opening a brief from the archive gives you the brief back, not a summary of it. Same layout, same three numbered groups, same drafts — the version you were handed that morning.
The same three groups
An archived brief is laid out exactly like the live Daily Brief:
Where you stood
The verdict headline and the reasoning behind it — your competitive position on that day, and the time it was generated.
What your rivals did
One card per tracked competitor, each with the written read-out of what they were up to and what it meant for you.
Your content
The social posts and the blog suggestion that brief drafted for you — the full bodies, hashtags and calls to action, not links to them.
The header carries the brand name, the brief's date, and its status badge. Back to archive sits under it.
“Your content” only appears when that brief actually produced drafts. A brief generated on a day when no platforms were enabled has nothing to show, so it shows nothing rather than an empty shell.
It's a snapshot, not a re-run
Nothing is regenerated when you open an old brief. The verdict, the reasoning, the written competitor read-outs and every drafted post are the exact text produced on the day — read back out of storage, not written again.
That matters more than it sounds. It means an archived brief costs nothing to open, it never changes under you, and it's admissible as a record: what you're reading in October is word-for-word what you were told in March.
No “pending” placeholders
On the live brief, a platform that hasn't produced its draft yet shows a placeholder card so you know something's still coming. The archive doesn't do that.
In an archived brief, the platforms you see are exactly the platforms that produced a draft. If LinkedIn and Instagram cards are there and X isn't, then X produced nothing that day — and no amount of waiting on the page will change it. A historical record with a “draft pending” box in it would be a lie about the past, so we don't render one.
One honest caveat about the rivals group
The written read-out on each competitor card is the one from that day and never changes. The raw activity listed underneath it is drawn from your brand's most recently captured competitor activity, not filtered to that brief's date — so on an older brief the items under a card, and the “3 days ago” style ages next to them, can reflect newer moves than the brief itself.
In practice: trust the verdict and the written read-outs as history. Treat the raw activity list under each rival as current, not archival. The same applies to exports and share links, which are built from the same page.
The action bar
Top-right of an open brief, next to the status badge:
- Export ▾ — HTML document · Markdown (.md) · PDF (print). What each one gives you →
- Share — mint a read-only public link for a client. Read the gotchas →
- Delete — removes this brief and its drafts, and sends you back to the list. What it takes with it →
Dismissing a suggestion
Each card in “Your content” has a Dismiss. It's not a delete of the brief — it drops that one suggestion from the brief.
A dismissed suggestion is also left out of every export and every share link from then on. That's the intended use: prune a brief down to the two posts you actually stand behind, then send the client the link.