Tacit · Start Free · Any AI · ~15 min

Your first brand.md. Today.

Copy the prompt below. Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cowork, or whatever AI you already use. It will interview you for about fifteen minutes, then hand you back a complete set of BCP files ready to publish at your domain. No signup. No account. Free forever.

Step 01
1 minute

Copy the prompt.

This is a senior brand strategist, compressed into a single prompt. Paste it into any AI. It knows how to interview you, what to push back on, and exactly what files to produce.

Not technical? Good. You don't need to edit this. Copy it verbatim. Paste it into the AI you already use. Answer the questions in your own words.
Which AI to use Works well with Claude (any model), ChatGPT (GPT-4+), Cowork, and Gemini 2.5 Pro. Free-tier Gemini and weaker models sometimes ignore the one-question-at-a-time instruction and flood you with everything at once. If that happens, tell the AI "stop. Ask one question, wait for my reply." If it still misbehaves, switch to a smarter model.
BCP Authoring Prompt · v0.1
You are helping me author a Brand Context Protocol (BCP) for my brand. A BCP is a set of markdown files that describe my brand in a way AI agents can read. Every agent in my marketing stack, every vendor platform, and every consumer-facing AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini) that might talk about my brand. The spec lives at https://hellotacit.ai. I am adopting it.

Your job: interview me, then produce a complete BCP tree as seven markdown files I can publish at `mydomain.com/.well-known/brand.md` and `mydomain.com/.well-known/brand/*.md`.

## Interview rules: READ CAREFULLY

**ONE question at a time. Then STOP.** Do not write a second question. Do not preview. Do not summarize. After each question: STOP, wait for my reply, then ask the next one.

If you find yourself generating multiple questions in a single response, you are violating these rules. Stop after the first question mark.

## Part 0: What have you got? (ASK THIS FIRST)

Before the interview starts, ask me: **"What have you got?"**

Do I have existing brand documents, such as brand guidelines, strategy decks, mission/vision statements, a pitch deck, tone-of-voice docs, an 'About' page? Anything in writing that describes the brand already?

Offer three ways to share: paste text, upload files, or link to public URLs (my homepage, about page, blog).

If I share materials: read them carefully, pre-fill answers to the 18 interview questions, and only ask me about the gaps. Don't re-interview me on things you already know.

If I say "I don't have anything," start the interview at Question 1.

[... followed by 18 interview questions across Identity, Voice, Values, Boundaries, Claims, and Representation, plus the seven file templates. Full prompt is ~3,500 words. Copy the whole thing into your AI of choice.]
Works with: Claude → ChatGPT → Gemini → Perplexity → · and any other chat-based AI
Step 02
15 minutes

Answer the interview.

The AI will ask you eighteen questions across six parts. Answer them in your own words. Be specific. Vague inputs produce vague BCPs. A vague BCP does nothing for your brand.

You'll cover:

  1. Identity. Who you are, who you serve, how you're different from your competitors.
  2. Voice. How you sound, how you don't, what to prefer, what to avoid.
  3. Values. Three to five values in priority order, each with an observable behavior.
  4. Boundaries. The hard no's and the soft no's. Brand safety signals your vendor platforms can read.
  5. Claims. Factual statements you make about yourself, with the evidence behind each one.
  6. Representation. The exact language you want ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini to use when they describe you.

At the end, the AI gives you seven markdown files: a root brand.md plus six daughter files. That's your complete BCP tree.

Step 03
Depends on your setup

Publish your files.

The files need to live at yourdomain.com/.well-known/brand.md and yourdomain.com/.well-known/brand/*.md. Three paths to get there, depending on who's helping you:

Path A · Have a dev?

Forward to engineering.

Email your seven files to your dev team with a link to our publishing docs. Hosting is a ten-minute task for anyone who ships your website.

Read the docs →
Path B · Technical yourself?

Publish it yourself.

Fork our public template, drop your files in, deploy to Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, Netlify, or GitHub Pages. Full walkthrough in the docs.

See hosting options →
Path C · Want help?

We'll do it for you.

Book a $1,500 Expert Session and a senior strategist will sharpen your BCP and get it live on your domain inside a week. No pressure. The self-serve path is real.

See our services →
Alt · Technical
If you'd rather work in a shell

Or: from the command line.

Prefer code to chat? Fork our reference repo, edit the seven files, push to your domain. The template is MIT-licensed and production-tested against our own BCP at hellotacit.ai/.well-known/brand.md.

# Clone the reference template git clone https://github.com/Bruiserhq/hellotacit.ai.git my-brand-bcp cd my-brand-bcp # Edit the seven files in .well-known/ # brand.md · root, always loaded # brand/voice.md · tone, prefer, avoid # brand/values.md · priority-ordered # brand/boundaries.md · hard/soft no's, IAB/GARM # brand/claims.md · approved claims + evidence # brand/representation.md · for consumer agents # brand/README.md · human readme # Deploy (any static host: Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages) git remote set-url origin [email protected]:YOUR-ORG/your-brand-bcp.git git push -u origin main # Verify it's live curl https://yourdomain.com/.well-known/brand.md

Hosting specifics (MIME types, CORS headers, Cloudflare rules, DNS config) live in the docs.

Publish your BCP. Then share the URL.

The whole point is adoption. When your /.well-known/brand.md is live, tweet it. LinkedIn it. Tell your vendor platforms it exists. Every live BCP makes the standard a little more real for every brand that comes after you.