The one-page brief format that lets a designer or writer produce assets without a meeting, and what each section is for.
A brief exists so that someone else can make the assets correctly the first time. Most briefs are either a paragraph of hope or a deck nobody reads. This guide sets out a one-page format where every section answers a question the maker would otherwise have to ask.
How to produce listing images that show the real product clearly, consistently, and in the formats marketplaces want.
Listing images decide whether a buyer reads the rest. This guide covers the two cases a store meets — screenshots of digital products and photographs of physical ones — with the rules that keep every image honest, consistent and usable across platforms.
Build help article suggestion on ticket close as a n8n automation: when a ticket closes, suggest the help article that would have answered it, and log the gap if none exists.
Trigger: Help desk ticket status changes to closed.
Use feed validation tools to catch listing data errors before a marketplace or ad platform rejects the feed.
Marketplaces and shopping ads ingest a product feed — a file of titles, prices, availability, images and identifiers — and reject items with missing or malformed fields; a validator checks the feed against the platform's rules before submission so rejections are fixed in bulk rather than one email at a time.
Use feed validation tools to catch listing data errors before a marketplace or ad platform rejects the feed.
Marketplaces and shopping ads ingest a product feed — a file of titles, prices, availability, images and identifiers — and reject items with missing or malformed fields; a validator checks the feed against the platform's rules before submission so rejections are fixed in bulk rather than one email at a time.
Read a CRM export and list deals with no activity for a set number of days, sorted by value, with a suggested action column.
Stalled deals hide in a long pipeline list; a script over the weekly export surfaces them in seconds with the last note attached so the next action is obvious.
A small function that turns a model's classification into a routing decision with an explicit threshold and escalation list.
Routing on a model's category without a confidence threshold sends uncertain tickets to the wrong queue; the rule belongs in code where it can be tested.
Build back-in-stock notification as a Zapier automation: when a product's stock goes from zero to positive, email the customers who asked to be notified, once.
Trigger: Inventory sheet row updated where stock changed from 0 to above 0.
Automate around records in Airtable: triggers on record changes, scheduled runs and scripts.
Airtable automations fire on record events or schedules and run actions including scripts, which makes it a good home for process trackers where the data and the automation live in one place.
Build contract renewal reminders as a Make automation: remind owners ninety, sixty and thirty days before a contract renews, with the notice period and cost.
Automate checks, deploys and scheduled jobs next to the code.
GitHub Actions runs workflows on repository events and schedules, with a marketplace of actions and hosted runners; it is the default place for CI, release automation and nightly jobs when the code lives on GitHub.
Build stale branch cleanup as a GitHub Actions automation: list merged or abandoned branches weekly and delete those over ninety days old after a warning.
Use Make's visual scenarios for branching automations with routers, iterators and error handlers.
Make builds automations as visual scenarios of modules with routers for branching, iterators for lists and explicit error handling per module; it suits processes with real logic and is priced on operations, so loops need care.
Build slack digest of form responses as a Zapier automation: collect form responses through the day and post one digest at 17:00 instead of a message per response.
Build onboarding sequence from a signup as a Make automation: when someone signs up, create their records, send the welcome and schedule the check-in, without duplicates.
Trigger: Webhook on new signup.
1. Webhook
2. CRM
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