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Eight short questions become a one-page brief you can print, share with colleagues or send to us.

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Eight questions

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Question 1: What's the problem today?

What it costs in time, errors or visibility, with an example or two. Plain words are fine.

Question 2: Who will use it, and roughly how many?

Roles rather than names: supervisors on each line, the quality team, a few people in the office.

Question 3: Which systems does it need to read from or write to?

A database, spreadsheets, a historian, PLCs, a vendor portal, email. Say which it only reads from and which it writes back to.

Question 4: Where will it be used?
Pick any that apply

For example: shared tablets, gloves, no Wi-Fi in the warehouse, locked-down PCs.

Question 5: How should people sign in?
Pick any that apply

Your IT team may already have a rule for this.

Question 6: What does “done” look like?

Something people can do that they can't today, a report nobody has to build by hand, a number you can check after go-live.

Question 7: What constraints should a builder know about?
Reviews and sign-offs it will need

Dates that matter and why: a shutdown window, an audit, a budget cycle, a customer requirement.

Question 8: What have you tried so far?

Spreadsheets, an off-the-shelf product, an internal attempt, a vendor proposal. What worked and what didn't.

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Project brief

The problem, on one page

0 of 8 questions answered

1.The problem today

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2.Who uses it

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3.Systems it reads from or writes to

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4.Where it runs

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5.Sign-in

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6.What done looks like

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7.Constraints

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8.What's been tried

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Written with the project brief builder

webb-technologies.com/how-we-work/project-brief/

What the brief is for

Use it to align your team and compare quotes.

  1. Agree on the problem first.

    Forward it to the people who will use the system, to IT and security, and to controls if it touches the plant floor.

  2. Compare firms fairly.

    Give every firm the same description, so their questions and quotes are easier to compare.

  3. Start the call from your problem.

    We read the brief first and come with questions about the gaps.

When you're ready

Send the brief with a scoping request.

“Send this brief” puts your brief in the last step of this form, where you can edit it. Nothing reaches us until you press Send.

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After you send this

  1. 1If a call makes sense, you can pick a time on the next screen. If not, we reply by email.
  2. 2We read your brief first, so a scoping call starts from your problem and the gaps in it.
  3. 3If it's a fit, working sessions with your key people to agree the scope and plan, then we build in stages.