research-new-brand

Purpose

Bootstrap the full creative-prep package for a new brand: research the product, analyze any existing ads, source logos and reference photos, generate brand-anchored product + lifestyle imagery, and write the brand-context docs the pipeline consumes.

This molecule emits the exact brand-context contract that video-orchestrator-with-control-plane reads at State 0.1 — the four brand-research/*.md files and brand-assets/manifest.json at the brand root. Filling these is the whole point: a brand researched by this skill needs no manual fill in the desktop Brand view, and the orchestrator's State 0.1 finds populated context and advances instead of gating. It also writes a supplementary concept-brief.md (brand-level concept seeds) and the populated brand-assets/ folders.

Layout note: write everything under the brand root — the directory that holds ad-runs/, brand-research/, and brand-assets/ (by convention <your-project>/<brand>/, but never hardcode that; use the brand_dir input or the path the caller is in). The orchestrator locates this root by walking up from a run folder until it finds brand-assets/manifest.json or brand-research/, so the only requirement is that these three siblings live together.

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