You ask colleagues for feedback. You get polite praise, or a list of fixes you didn’t ask for.
The planner watches for both, including «the failure mode of prescriptive, ownership-stealing notes.»
What it does
The Braintrust Session Planner asks for five elements: the work to review, the right people, candour and safety, notes not prescriptions, and who keeps ownership. It scores each out of 10, maps the five as a path and ranks three moves.
The Pixar Braintrust: a small group of trusted people who watch an early cut and give honest, specific feedback aimed at making the work better. Feedback focuses on the work, not the person.
The Cinematic Curriculum Method, Appendix §21, The Iterative Editing Process
What you’ll do
Write each of the five elements of your session.
Press «Plan the braintrust».
Work through the three moves and plan again.
What you get. A critique-design score out of 100 with a verdict, the five elements mapped as a path, what the analysis noticed in your own words, and three priority moves. The report downloads as a one-page PDF.
Before and after
BeforeAs it opens: five elements, each with its own question.AfterThe app’s own worked example, run: a score of 86, «A real braintrust», and the five elements mapped as a path.
Watch it work
1 / 6Open The Braintrust Session Planner. Five elements, each with its own question.
How to use it
Open The Braintrust Session Planner from My tools.
Under «The Session Design», answer the question for each of the five elements. Watch the word count and the flags under each answer. «Load Worked Example» shows a finished set.
Press «Plan the braintrust».
Read the score, the verdict, the path and what the analysis noticed.
Work through the three priority moves, strengthen the weakest answers and run it again.