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Workflows

Brain organizes the studio’s daily work into a small number of defined workflows. Each workflow has a clear trigger, an AI-drafted output, a human approval gate, and a write path to either CutMake or an outbound email. The full lifecycle looks like this:

The intake group

Workflows that turn a fresh client RFQ into structured records.

Email → Style

Detects RFQ emails, tags them, creates a task, extracts style fields, runs duplicate detection, and produces a draft style record for approval.

Client Creation

Creates new client records from sales contracts, registration docs, and onboarding materials, with required-field checking.

Style Creation

The standalone style creation workflow used either by command or as the write step of the email-to-style flow.

The costing group

Workflows that turn approved styles into accurate cost models.

Tech Pack → BOM

The anchor feature. Reads tech packs, POMs, and images to produce a first-draft BOM with confidence scores for every line.

True Cost

Builds a first-draft true cost from the BOM, flags missing prices, and routes to the merchandiser for review.

Material Sourcing

Suggests materials from the library and surfaces gaps for the sourcing team. Humans assign the real materials.

The quotation group

Workflows that produce and send the client offer.

Quotation

Generates a quotation from approved true cost. Starts with fixed markup; later adds pricing intelligence.

Quotation Email

Drafts the client email with the quotation attached. Human approval is always required before send.

The visibility group

Workflows that give managers a clean view of the pipeline.

Oversight Agent

Monitors every RFQ in flight. Flags slow responses, cold inquiries, missing quotes, ownership gaps, and pricing risk.

Manager Queries

“What is happening with this client, style, or order?” — answered consistently, every time, with source links to every claim.

Common spine

Every workflow follows the same pattern:
  1. Trigger — a user command, an inbound email, or a scheduled check.
  2. Permission gate — who is asking; what they can do.
  3. AI extraction or generation — drafts using whatever sources apply.
  4. Source linking — every claim ties back to an artifact.
  5. Draft preview — confidence-tagged, editable.
  6. Approval gate — human reviews, edits, approves.
  7. Write or send — record promoted into CutMake or email sent.
  8. Correction logging — every edit captured for the feedback loop.
  9. Next-step suggestion — Brain proposes what to do next.
See Principles for why the spine looks this way.