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# Launch brief

Every detail for your next product launch.

Follow our outline—or customize with sections you deem important—to draft and share a brief with your team. Clear and collaborative communication allows you to align on the language you use for promotional campaigns, sales outreach, FAQ/Help content, and more.

## Launching: [Name of product]

### 🌟 TL;DR

Provide a quick preview of the launch you’re announcing. Once you’ve filled in your brief, you can ask Coda AI to summarize the information in this space using the / command.

### What's launching

Provide an overview of features/value props of upcoming product launch.

### Who is the intended user/audience?

Notes on any personas, usage patterns, opportunity sizing go here.

### Release date

12/1/2025

### One-line pitch

> What’s the one-sentence elevator pitch? You can use the / command to ask Coda AI to generate something snappy for you.

### Outreach plan

Are you going to proactively announce this? Or reactively manage inbound if users have questions? Both?

### Why are we launching it?

Internal motivation can help you craft your external messaging; why are we launching this?

### Primary channels

Where are you landing your launch message? Examples could be Press Release, Blog, Social Media, Sales Team, Support Team, etc.

### Points of contact

PM:

Design:

Eng:

PMM:

### 📋 WHAT IS IT?

Fuller detailed version of what’s launching. Include GIFs & images here! If before/after matters, try to get an image of both!

Details

Add content here.

GIFs or images

Drag and drop images/GIFs here.

### 🔧 HOW DOES IT WORK?

How do you access and use the feature? Any watch-outs or things that might be confusing? Include GIFs & images here!

Details

Add content here.

GIFs or images

Drag and drop images/GIFs here.

### ❓FAQs

What questions can we get ahead of via our messaging? What do we need to have pre-answered for inbound questions?

**Question #1**

Answer #1.

**Question #2**

Answer #2.

### 🚧 RISKS & MITIGATION

Are we risking anything with this product launch or our go-to-market plan?

Risk: Articulate the risk here.

Mitigation: Explain how we are mitigating the risk here.

Risk: Articulate the risk here.

Mitigation: Explain how we are mitigating the risk here.

### ⌨️ DRAFT INTERNAL COMMS

How are you giving your team & company a heads-up about this launch? It may be a synthesis of the above!

### 📣 DRAFT EXTERNAL COMMS

Use this space to riff on your external messagingーwhether that’s draft email copy, social copy, etc.

Email

Draft email copy here.

Social

Draft social post copy here.
