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A KIR Custom Brief deliverable · Sales · Production system

From an afternoon to fifteen minutes.

The templated pipeline that ships every Weldone proposal. Seven steps, fifteen minutes, every proposal anchored to the same voice canon and the same proposal anatomy. The artifact that compressed proposal production from hours to minutes.

15 minPer proposal (was an afternoon)
7Pipeline steps
8Proposals shipped through it
50%Close rate via this system

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Seven steps. One pipeline.

Each step ships in under three minutes. Together they replace what used to be an afternoon of manual writing per proposal.

Step 01 · Copy tier folder

Start from the right tier.

Three folder templates live on disk: one per tier (Event Day Coordination / Partial Planning / Full Planning). Each folder contains the proposal scaffold: cover, scope page, investment page, timeline, signatures. You copy the matching tier folder; you don’t start from a blank doc.

What lives in the folder

  • Cover template (couple name + date placeholders).
  • Scope page (tier-specific deliverables).
  • Investment page (rate placeholders + payment schedule).
  • Timeline page (cadence commitment).
  • Signatures page (signature mechanic).

Step 02 · Replace placeholders

Fill the variables.

Each template has 12 explicit placeholders: [Couple Name], [Wedding Date], [Venue], [Cultural Focus], [Opening Moment], [Closing Moment], and 6 more. Find-and-replace once; the rest of the document follows.

The 12 placeholders

  • Couple name (used across 7 pages).
  • Wedding date (cover + cover footer + signatures).
  • Venue (cover + scope intro).
  • Cultural focus / secondary (voice canon pull).
  • Opening moment + closing moment (bookend sentence).
  • Tier + payment schedule details.

Step 03 · Pull voice canon

The voice is locked.

Six canonical phrases pull from the voice canon file: the studio identifier, the promise sentence, the bookend, the cadence commitment, the access commitment, the honor line. You don’t rewrite these. The canon is final.

Where each phrase lands

  • Studio identifier: Page 2 lede.
  • Promise sentence: Page 2 follow.
  • Bookend: Page 2 close.
  • Cadence commitment: Page 6 or 7, every tier.
  • Access commitment: same page.
  • Honor line: Thank You page close.

Step 04 · Pull pricing

The rate is named.

The rate floor for the tier is named on the Investment page, not negotiated. Three payment milestones pull from the tier template: 25% on signature, 50% at 90 days out, 25% at two weeks. No quote-by-quote variance.

Rate floor logic

  • Tier I · floor band, 8 weeks out.
  • Tier II · floor band + cadence commitment.
  • Tier III · floor band + destination add-on if applicable.
  • Destination band: $5.5K–$9K / $12K–$20K / $22K–$40K+.

Step 05 · Render PDF

Headless Chrome.

The proposal renders from HTML to PDF via a headless Chrome script. Three minutes from filled-template to signature-ready PDF. No Word-doc artifacts. No manual conversion.

Render mechanics

  • HTML source · Cormorant Garamond serif + Inter.
  • Headless Chrome render.
  • Output: signature-ready PDF.
  • Asset embedded: Weldone wordmark, footer brand mark.

Step 06 · Brand-voice audit

Twelve refusals enforced.

Before the proposal ships, a brand-voice auditor scans the doc for the twelve banned words from the voice canon (leverage / synergy / actionable / etc.). Any hit blocks the send.

The audit checks

  • The 12 banned words / phrases.
  • Specificity audit (≥6 distinct ritual names per ceremony tier).
  • Cold-read test (hand to an unfamiliar person; can they pitch back in 2 min?).
  • The MOU exclusion block in every tier §8.

Step 07 · Notion handoff

The proposal logs itself.

The proposal’s send-event logs to the couple’s Client Room in the Team Hub. From the moment the PDF leaves the studio, the team can see who got which proposal at which rate on which date.

What gets logged

  • PDF link in Client Room.
  • Date issued + rate-hold date.
  • Tier + final rate.
  • Owner (Sri or coordinator).
  • Auto-populated into the Sales SOP table.

Before. After.

An afternoon. Fifteen minutes.

The system didn’t make proposals faster by writing them faster. It made them faster by removing the writing.

Before

An afternoon, every time.

Each proposal was written from scratch in Word. Inconsistent voice across documents. Pricing decisions debated mid-write. “Need details from client” placeholders left in the final draft seven times across one engagement.

After

Fifteen minutes, one voice.

Templated production. Locked voice canon. Named rate floor. Brand-voice auditor enforces the canon. Eight proposals shipped through this pipeline; four signed.

Read the other Custom Brief artifacts

Eight sibling artifacts, one engagement.

Custom BriefThe team hubSeven weddings · five people. Custom BriefThe proposal anatomyFive sections · $42,416 signed. Custom BriefThe service architectureThree tiers · six discovery Qs. Custom BriefThe voice canonSix phrases · twelve refusals. Custom BriefThe venue outreach engineForty venues · thirty days. Custom BriefThe competitive landscapeFive operators · five resorts. Custom BriefThe ceremony programNineteen rituals. Custom BriefThe destination wingEight destinations.

Read about the KIR Engagement Arc →

Seven steps. Fifteen minutes. Eight proposals shipped.

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