Free planning resources

Brand and website planning worksheets

A useful brief connects a business decision with evidence and a person who can approve the work. Choose one worksheet for the decision in front of you, then complete your copy in your own workspace.

Choose a worksheet

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Choose the decision first

Every worksheet opens as plain text, without an account or email address. Copy it into your own document and mark missing evidence as an open question.

Decide what to retain and what needs investigation

Brand audit evidence worksheet

Your website, proposals and customer materials give different accounts of the offer. Review the evidence before choosing a rebrand scope.

What to prepare
Bring public touchpoints, customer questions and examples of where the explanation becomes unclear.
Your working record
Record observations, interpretations, evidence limits and priorities for a focused brand review.

Choose the buyer and the reason to choose the offer

Brand positioning brief worksheet

The team needs to agree who the offer serves, which alternatives buyers consider and what evidence supports the difference.

What to prepare
Bring the current offer, priority buyer, alternatives and redacted evidence from real customer questions.
Your working record
Organise the buyer, alternatives, supporting evidence, open research questions and a short enquiry summary.

Agree what one offer needs to explain

Brand messaging evidence worksheet

Service pages, proposals and conversations explain the same offer in different ways. Start with one priority buyer and the words they encounter.

What to prepare
Bring buyer questions, current wording, approved claims and the evidence behind them.
Your working record
Connect claims with proof, choose terminology and name the questions and owners needed before writing.

Check readiness before commissioning an unfinished build

Unfinished website takeover worksheet

A website project has stalled and the remaining work is unclear. Separate available work, account control and unresolved dependencies before choosing completion, repair or migration.

What to prepare
Bring the public URL, original brief, observed gaps and account access status. Keep credentials and private files in an agreed secure handover.
Your working record
Record permissions, reusable work, dependencies, search continuity and acceptance owners, with country context for a remote takeover review.

Compare suppliers against the same website brief

Website proposal comparison worksheet

Several proposals describe different amounts of work. Set your priorities before comparing the responses.

What to prepare
Bring one agreed brief, the proposals, current accounts and the person responsible for each approval.
Your working record
Compare deliverables, responsibilities, commercial assumptions, acceptance evidence, account ownership and unresolved questions.

Define a Canadian website project before requesting proposals

Canadian website project brief

A Canadian website brief needs to connect audience, pages, language responsibilities and the arrangements for delivery.

What to prepare
Bring the provinces served, page inventory, language needs, account owners and approval responsibilities.
Your working record
Record page and language scope, CAD costs and account owners, plus a separate acceptance record for each launch check, with evidence, approval and retesting responsibilities.

Agree what must be checked before a website moves

Website migration and launch worksheet

A redesign changes URLs, content or a platform. Record the decisions and acceptance evidence before agreeing a launch.

What to prepare
Bring the existing URL inventory, proposed destinations and the owners of content, accounts and launch approval.
Your working record
Record URL decisions, redirects, content responsibilities, launch checks and handover decisions for an agreed website project.

Check what an AI answer actually says about your business

AI answer evidence and correction worksheet

An answer cites your website, mentions the business or gives an inaccurate fact. Save the full response before deciding what the observation supports or what needs correcting.

What to prepare
Bring the exact question, date, product settings, complete response and linked URLs. Keep confidential conversations and customer information in your own controlled workspace.
Your working record
Separate answer citations, source panel links, mentions and recommendations. Record unavailable checks, the source behind a factual correction and evidence from a later recheck.

Add the country and delivery context

The shared worksheets organise the decision. Add the locations, languages and review responsibilities for your business, then use the relevant country guides for sourced local questions.

Australia

Name the states served, your time zone and the Australian review windows. Identify who supplies content and approves specialist claims before the scope is agreed.

Guides for Australia

India

Record required languages, content reviewers and mobile enquiry journeys. Name the owners of page approval, translation, accounts and handover.

Guides for India

Canada

Name the provinces served, page languages and the people who approve translated wording or specialist claims. Use the Canadian website brief when the decision concerns website scope.

Guides for Canada

the United Kingdom

Connect the priority service and buyer with the materials being commissioned. Name content approval, accessibility review and hosting or support responsibilities for website work.

Guides for the United Kingdom

the United States

Name the states served, time zones and evidence behind the offer. For website work, identify integrations, account ownership and the people responsible for approval.

Guides for the United States

the United Arab Emirates

Name the emirates served and the languages used at each customer touchpoint. Record the owner of Arabic writing or translation and the person who approves specialist claims.

Guides for the United Arab Emirates

Turn the record into a useful conversation

  1. Choose one decision and open the worksheet that supports it.
  2. Record the source of each observation and separate it from your interpretation.
  3. Name the open questions, review owners and decisions needed before commissioning.
  4. Bring a short, redacted summary to a scope discussion with Suman.

These are working records for a future project. Research, recommendations, implementation and acceptance checks receive an agreed scope. Commercial terms are shared privately in the written proposal.

Keep confidential proposals, credentials and private customer records in your own controlled workspace. Bring public URLs and redacted examples that you have permission to share.