📗 User Manual
BridgeBrain OE
One operating ecosystem for creative ventures – from the first idea to an investor-ready plan, an operating rhythm, and a clear path to market.
Pick a project once in the Control Center. Every rail then opens the right workspace, speaks the right language, and reports back to the same Project Passport. This manual shows you how, rail by rail.
Contents
How to read this manual
BridgeBrain OE is a suite of connected rails. Each rail lives on its own subdomain and does one job well, but they share the same navigation, the same templates, and – most importantly – the same project. To help you keep your place, every rail keeps its identity throughout this book: its own color, and a two-letter square you’ll come to recognize.
Core Concepts
Six ideas hold the whole suite together. Learn these once and every rail will feel familiar.
Project
The unit of work – a film, a game, a company, a raise. Everything you do in OE is scoped to a project. You create projects in the Control Center.
Project Passport
A shared, read-only summary of a project’s readiness across every rail. Each rail publishes its own section; the Control Center reads them all into one cockpit.
Rail
A focused app for one discipline – Studio, LegalOps, Capital, and so on. Each rail lives on its own subdomain and owns one Passport section.
Mode
What kind of project this is – Film, Game, Business Plan, and more. Mode reshapes labels, upload categories, templates, and the advisory agents to fit the work.
Active Project Context
The project you selected in the Control Center travels with you. Open any rail and it lands in that project’s workspace – never someone else’s, never a blank default.
Human-approved
Nothing external happens without you. Agents draft, organize, and suggest; a person reviews and approves every send, publish, and signature.
The Rails
Eight rails, in the order you’ll usually meet them. Each chapter follows the same shape: what it’s for, when you’re here, the steps, and what it publishes to the Passport.
Control Center
Your command center. Create projects, choose a mode, set the one that’s active, and launch every other rail from here.
What it’s for
The Control Center is the source of truth for who you are and what you’re working on. It holds your projects, tracks the one you have active, and shows an At a Glance cockpit that reads every rail’s readiness into a single view. When you open a rail, the Control Center is what tells it which project to open.
Step by step
- Create a workspace, then a project.
First-run setup walks you through creating a workspace and your first project. Give the project a name.
- Choose the mode.
Pick from Film, Animated Production, Video Game, Interactive Software, Creative IP Venture, or Business Plan. Mode is what tailors every rail to your kind of work – you can change it later.
- Set the active project.
Select a project in the sidebar to make it active. This is the single choice that scopes the whole suite; it persists for you across sessions.
- Read the cockpit.
At a Glance shows a card per rail with its status, next action, and any blockers or approvals waiting on you. In Business Plan mode the labels shift to business language – “Operating Plan,” “Capital Package,” and so on.
- Launch a rail.
Use a card’s Open button. The Control Center carries the active project with you so the rail lands in the right workspace.
Studio Command Center
The intake and organization engine. Bring in your materials; Studio reads them, breaks them down, and drafts with section-aware agents.
What it’s for
Studio is where a project takes shape. You upload your source materials – scripts, decks, budgets, or in Business Plan mode a business plan, pro forma, and PPM – and Studio organizes them into sections, generates readiness reports, and gives you an expert agent tuned to each section. It’s the rail that feeds the others.
When you’re here
At the start of a project, and any time you have new material to add or want an updated readiness read.
Step by step
- Land in your workspace.
Opened from the Control Center, Studio finds the workspace linked to your active project. If none exists yet, it offers to create one in your project’s mode, or link an existing workspace – no blank first project.
- Upload sources.
Add files under the category that fits – pitch deck, pro forma, cap table, market research, and so on. Categories change with the mode so the labels always match your work.
- Let privacy default sensibly.
In Business Plan mode, sensitive materials – PPM, pro forma, cap table, legal/entity, investor data room – default to owner-private. You raise access deliberately; it’s never done for you.
- Run readiness.
Generate a readiness report to surface assumptions, gaps, risks, and next actions. Reports are drafts for your review, never final judgments.
- Ask the section agent.
Each section has an advisory agent – Business Model Analyst, Pro Forma Analyst, Capital Package Readiness, and more. Ask questions; it answers from your materials and flags what needs human or professional review.
- Route onward.
Send capital materials to Capital Formation, legal questions to LegalOps, and discovery to Scout. Studio is the hub of intake; the specialists take it from there.
Digital Rights Licensing
The persona, likeness, and IP licensing layer – PTP and PLF. Use it when a project monetizes identity, voice, or creative assets.
What it’s for
Navigator carries BridgeBrain’s licensing infrastructure: the Persona Transfer Protocol and the Persona Licensing Framework. It’s how a project defines who and what can be licensed – a person’s likeness, an avatar, a voice, a brand – with terms, usage limits, and an acceptance ledger that stands up to scrutiny.
When you’re here
Optional for most Business Plan projects. Essential when your venture’s value is an identity or creative asset – a licensed persona, a character, or a brand you’ll grant others the right to use.
Step by step
- Confirm the active project.
Navigator uses the project carried from the Control Center for its exports and Passport actions, so multi-project accounts always act on the right one.
- Define what’s licensable.
Set up the persona or asset, its rights facets, and the license purpose templates – what a licensee may and may not do.
- Set terms and limits.
Apply usage limits and fixed-term durations. The framework keeps a hash-chained acceptance ledger so every grant has verifiable provenance.
- Publish and export.
Publish the licensing snapshot to the project, and stage any data-room exports for human approval in the Control Center.
LegalOps
Legal readiness – not legal representation. Organize entity, IP, contracts, and securities questions so counsel can review them fast.
What it’s for
LegalOps gets a project’s legal house in order before it reaches an attorney. It runs a guided intake, flags risks, drafts a funding/securities risk memo framed for counsel, and tracks what still needs professional review. It is operations software – it never gives legal advice or stands in for a lawyer.
When you’re here
Whenever a project has entity, IP, contract, or securities questions – which, for a Business Plan raise, is early and often.
Step by step
- Open the linked workspace.
From the Control Center, LegalOps resolves your active project to its legal workspace. If none is linked, it offers to create a Business / Funding Venture workspace, or link one you already own.
- Answer the intake.
The funding intake covers entity standing, founder and advisor agreements, IP assignment, and – for a raise – offering materials and securities questions.
- Review seeded risks.
LegalOps seeds risk items appropriate to the project – including a securities-review flag for funding ventures – and a risk memo drafted for attorney review.
- Send to counsel.
Move items into the counsel-engagement state. Sensitive-materials gates keep the wrong documents from leaving before they should.
FinanceOps
The finance operating loop – budgets, actuals, runway, burn, and use of proceeds – kept to the cent.
What it’s for
FinanceOps is the day-to-day money workspace for a project or company. It holds budgets and actuals, models runway and burn, tracks obligations and claims, and closes periods – all with integer-cent math so nothing drifts. Where Capital Formation prepares the story for investors, FinanceOps runs the operating reality behind it.
When you’re here
Once a project has real numbers to track: revenue and cost assumptions, a funding target, and a use-of-proceeds plan.
Step by step
- Open the finance entity.
Launched from the Control Center, FinanceOps opens the finance entity linked to your active project. If none exists, it offers to create one – defaulting to a Company entity for a Business Plan – and links it automatically.
- Bring in the numbers.
Import actuals from CSV or an accounting connection, and set up budgets. The actuals inbox lets you categorize as you go.
- Model runway and burn.
Build scenarios for runway, burn, and funding gap. Lock a model when you want a stable reference.
- Publish the snapshot.
Publish a finance snapshot to the project so the cockpit and capital rail see current runway and use of proceeds.
Capital Formation · Financial Architect
Investor readiness and the capital package – PPM, pro forma, and a clean, data-room-ready story.
What it’s for
Capital Formation is where a raise gets built. It runs a guided readiness intake, assembles the capital package – PPM drafts, pro forma review, deal structure – and checks that materials are consistent, conservative, and ready for investors. For a Business Plan project, this is the primary destination once you’re raising.
When you’re here
When a Business Plan project moves toward funding: you have a PPM, a pro forma, a capital target, and a company to raise for.
Step by step
- Open the linked company.
From the Control Center, Capital Formation opens the company linked to your active project – never the first company in your account. If none is linked, it offers to create a company workspace or link an existing one.
- Complete the readiness intake.
The guided intake and AI advisory layer walk you through the business, the deal, and the numbers, pre-filled from Studio’s published sources where available.
- Assemble the capital package.
Generate PPM drafts, review the pro forma, and structure the deal. Export gates keep incomplete packages from going out.
- Publish capital readiness.
Publish the capital snapshot to the active project. The language stays conservative – projections are framed as forward-looking, and GAAP and legal review are flagged, not faked.
Opportunity Scout
Ethical discovery. Read public signal, match it to your project, and hand a person a shortlist – never auto-send.
What it’s for
Scout finds the right people to talk to. It reads only public, first-party, or officially-licensed signal – no scraping – matches what it finds to your project and intent, and presents a triaged shortlist. Every prospect carries the public item that surfaced them, so you always know why they’re there. A human decides who’s worth contacting.
When you’re here
When you’re ready to build a pipeline: investors, customers, advisors, or partners for the project you have active.
Step by step
- Confirm the active project.
Scout preselects the project carried from the Control Center. If none is active in the suite, it asks you to choose one rather than defaulting to a placeholder.
- Choose an intent pack.
For a Business Plan raise, pick from Investor, Customer, Advisor, Strategic Partner, or Competitive Intelligence discovery – each tuned to the right archetypes and signals.
- Run a search.
Pick your public sources and run discovery. Scout returns matches with the surfacing signal attached.
- Triage, then import.
Review the shortlist, keep who fits, and import chosen prospects into Outreach with the right intent – ready for human-approved contact.
Project Outreach
Relationship activation. Human-approved campaigns and actions that move investor, partner, advisor, and customer conversations forward.
What it’s for
Outreach turns a pipeline into conversations. It runs project-scoped campaigns with a clear intention – Capital Formation, Distribution, or Project-Aware – drafts toward that goal, checks readiness before anything goes out, and hands meetings off cleanly. Every action is prepared by the copilot and approved by a person.
When you’re here
Once Scout has handed you a shortlist and you’re ready to activate relationships for the active project.
Step by step
- Open in your project.
Outreach scopes to the project carried from the Control Center; new campaigns default to it, so you never mix pipelines by accident.
- Set the campaign’s intention.
Choose Capital Formation for investor and advisor outreach, Distribution for partners and press, or Project-Aware for everything the project needs now. The intention shapes goals, drafts, and templates.
- Prepare actions.
The copilot drafts tailored messages toward the goal, referencing only cleared claims. Readiness gates evaluate against the Project Passport before anything is sendable.
- Approve, then hand off.
You review and approve each action. Approved conversations move to meetings and handoff – with the human in control at every step.
Project Modes
One project, many shapes. Mode is set in the Control Center and reshapes every rail – the labels you read, the categories you upload into, the templates you start from, and the agents that help you. Changing mode never renames anything underneath; your data is safe.
| Mode | Best for | How the suite adapts |
|---|---|---|
| Film / Movie | Features and shorts | Script breakdown, schedule, budget, deliverables; production agents. |
| Animated Production | Animated series & films | Design, boards, pipeline stages; production agents. |
| Video Game Development | Games | Design docs, milestones, build deliverables. |
| Interactive Software | Apps, SaaS, AI tools | Product brief, MVP scope, technical roadmap, go-to-market. |
| Creative IP Venture | Brands & avatars | Positioning, asset kit, licensing, rollout. |
| Business Plan | Startups & raises | Company overview, financial model, capital package, legal readiness, data room. |
Spotlight – Business Plan Mode
The newest lane, built for turning company materials into a raise.
Business Plan Mode helps you turn company materials into an investor-ready operating plan, capital package, legal/readiness checklist, and cross-rail execution workspace. It’s the mode BridgeBrain uses on itself.
When a project is in Business Plan mode, the whole suite speaks business: the Control Center cockpit reads Studio as “Operating Plan” and Financial Architect as “Capital Package”; Studio offers business upload categories and defaults sensitive materials to private; the agents drop production language entirely; LegalOps maps to a Business / Funding Venture; and FinanceOps opens a Company entity. You bring in a business plan, pitch deck, pro forma, PPM, cap table, and market research once – and each rail knows what to do with it.
A Complete Run
Here’s the whole suite working as one, following BridgeBrain’s own dogfood project – BridgeBrain PPM Raise – from a blank slate to an activated raise. Watch the rail chips: each hand-off is a rail change, and the project rides with you the entire way.
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OEControl Center
Create the project, choose Business Plan, make it active.
Name it “BridgeBrain PPM Raise,” set the mode to Business Plan, and select it as your active project. Everything downstream now points here.
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SCStudio Command
Bring in the materials and run readiness.
Studio creates the linked Business Plan workspace. Upload the business plan, pitch deck, pro forma, PPM, and cap table – the sensitive ones default private – then run Business Plan Readiness to surface assumptions and gaps.
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CFCapital Formation
Build the capital package.
Open the linked company, complete the readiness intake pre-filled from Studio, and assemble the PPM and pro forma review into an investor-ready package.
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LOLegalOps
Get legal readiness in order.
Work the entity, IP, and securities intake, review the seeded funding-risk memo, and route open items to counsel.
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FOFinanceOps
Run runway and use of proceeds.
Open the Company entity, load actuals, model burn and runway, and publish the finance snapshot.
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OSOpportunity Scout
Build the pipeline.
Run Investor, Advisor, and Strategic Partner discovery packs, triage the shortlist, and import your chosen prospects.
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POProject Outreach
Activate the raise.
Launch a Capital Formation campaign, let the copilot draft toward each goal, and approve every action yourself before it goes out.
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OEControl Center
See the whole picture.
Every rail has published its snapshot back to the project. At a Glance now reads production, capital, legal, finance, discovery, and outreach in one cockpit – a live map of the raise, updated only for this project.
Guardrails & Principles
The suite is built to protect the person using it. These principles hold everywhere, on every rail.
A human approves everything
Agents draft, organize, and suggest. Every send, publish, signature, and external action waits for a person to approve it.
One project at a time
The project you set active scopes the whole suite. Rails open its workspace and publish only to its Passport – never another project’s.
Private by default
PPM, pro forma, cap table, and legal documents stay owner-private. “Investor-safe” is a deliberate action, never an automatic one.
Tools, not advice
OE organizes and flags. It doesn’t give legal advice, certify accounting, or promise outcomes – it routes those to qualified people.
Ethical discovery
Scout reads only public and licensed signal, attaches the reason each prospect surfaced, and hands the decision to a person.
Nothing renamed underneath
Modes change labels, not the data model. Switching a project’s mode is safe; your records keep their meaning.
Glossary & Rail Map
Glossary
- Active Project Context
- The rule that carries your selected project into every rail, so each one opens the right workspace instead of a default.
- At a Glance
- The Control Center cockpit that reads every rail’s Passport section into one readiness view.
- Control Center
- The Hub rail – your command center for projects, modes, and rail launches.
- Mode
- What kind of project this is (Film, Business Plan, and so on). Reshapes labels, categories, templates, and agents across the suite.
- PLF – Persona Licensing Framework
- The licensing terms layer: purposes, usage limits, durations, and an acceptance ledger, carried by Navigator.
- Project Passport
- A project’s shared readiness record. Each rail owns and publishes one section.
- PTP – Persona Transfer Protocol
- The identity layer for licensing a persona, likeness, or voice – the foundation Navigator is built on.
- Rail
- A focused app in the suite, on its own subdomain, owning one Passport section.
- Readiness
- A rail’s assessment of how prepared a project is in its discipline – drafted for human review, never final.
Rail map
| Rail | Chip | Passport section | Palette |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control Center · Operating Ecosystem | OE | core | Indigo |
| Studio Command · Production | SC | production | Warm amber |
| Digital Rights Licensing · Navigator | DL | licensing | Tan / brown |
| LegalOps | LO | legal | Light blue |
| FinanceOps | FO | finance | Light green |
| Capital Formation · Financial Architect | CF | capital | Deep green → black |
| Opportunity Scout | OS | discovery | Teal / aqua |
| Project Outreach | PO | outreach | Warm orange |