Strategy & IntelligenceUpdated Jun 2026

Projects: strategist engagements

Brand foundation setup and separate client engagement projects — Discovery, portal sharing, insights, and deliverables.

Projects has two roles. Brand foundation is your brand strategy project HQ — Discovery, Research, Deliverables, and Portal (including draft sharing before Brand Intelligence is published). Build workshops and Strategy Review in Strategy nav. Client engagements are additional projects for campaign/rebrand work — Files, Outputs, and Portal. Published strategy still flows through Strategy Review → Brand Intelligence.

📍 How to Access

Open Projects from the sidebar, or go directly to /projects. Projects are part of the paid spine (Founder, Strategist, Agency); on Free you'll see an upgrade screen.


What a project holds

🧩 Discovery

Capture the brief and starting context for the engagement. Use the stakeholder interview pack on the Discovery tab for role-based questions, then log conversations as Stakeholder sources in Research.

📚 Sources & findings

Evidence you add (notes, URLs, documents, competitor and audience inputs) is auto-linked to the project's evidence folder.

💡 Takeaways & Strategy Review

Synthesize findings into takeaways on Research, then polish and publish formal strategy through Strategy Review → Brand Intelligence.

📦 Deliverables

Build client-facing outputs (presentations, positioning and messaging frameworks) and publish them for review.


How to run a project

1
Start brand foundation, then add client projects

If you have no foundation project yet, use Start brand foundation (or Strategy → Discovery). After foundation exists, create client engagement projects from /projects. Pick an engagement type (campaign, rebrand, creative brief, etc.), link a client workspace when possible for portal sharing, and scope deliverables for that client initiative.

2
Work the spine in the project hub

Open the project to move through Discovery → Research Findings → Workshops → Messaging Architecture → Strategy Review → Create deliverables in one place. Evidence you add here links to this engagement automatically.

3
Promote decisions to Brand Intelligence

Approved decisions become the active context Halo Chat, Halo Studio, and Review read. See Brand Intelligence for how active context works.

4
Publish deliverables for review

Send deliverables to the linked client workspace so reviewers can comment in /portal, then finalize outcomes in Review Center.

💡 Pro Tip

Create a project before you start adding sources. When engagements exist, the Sources page asks you to pick one, and Eklipsa keeps each engagement's evidence cleanly separated.

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