> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.daoco.org/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Brand documents

> The maintained documents daoco keeps for a business or personal brand, with every agent change waiting for review.

Brand documents are the reference material daoco keeps about your brand and reads while it works. The default catalog follows the brand mode you selected during onboarding.

Business brands start with:

| Document            | What it holds                                                                       | Written from                                         |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| Brand Summary       | The concise statement of what the brand is, who it serves, and how it is positioned | Your reviewed onboarding answers and site evidence   |
| Products & Offers   | What you sell, prices, who it is for, promises, and limits                          | Your brand profile and what daoco found on your site |
| Design Guide        | Color roles, type, logo rules, and imagery direction                                | Your brand identity and your asset library           |
| Strategy            | Audience, positioning, messaging pillars, and what you have ruled out               | Your audience and positioning answers                |
| Competitor Analysis | The rivals you track, what they claim and charge, what changed                      | Your competitor research and positioning             |

Personal brands start with:

| Document                     | What it holds                                                                   | Written from                                              |
| ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Personal Brand Summary       | Who the person is, who they want to reach, and the position they can support    | Your reviewed onboarding answers and public evidence      |
| Expertise & Point of View    | Subjects, experience, beliefs, credentials, supported claims, and boundaries    | Your profile, published work, and reviewed answers        |
| Audience & Community         | Who you want to reach, what they need, and the relationship you want to build   | Your audience answers, channels, and community evidence   |
| Content Strategy             | Content pillars, recurring formats, channel roles, cadence, and calls to action | Your channels, published content, audience, and goals     |
| Goals & Opportunities        | The outcomes and opportunities you want, plus constraints and exclusions        | Your stated goals, current work, and offers when supplied |
| Peer & Inspiration Landscape | Peers, references, category habits, and room to stay distinct                   | Named inspirations and public research                    |

A personal brand does not receive a Competitor Analysis by default. Peers and inspirations keep their own language. Daoco does not label people as competitors just to reuse a business document.

The catalog is a starting point. If you use documents from both catalogs, the workspace keeps the documents you have already created alongside your current defaults.

These documents are different from files you upload. Uploads stay in **Assets**. daoco writes and versions brand documents in the brand workspace.

## Where they come from

Guided setup uses the questionnaire as intake for the document system. Research-assisted onboarding starts the same document catalog directly from the researched profile and public sources, without sending you through the manual questions. Review uses the same document tabs and editor as Brand Hub, but keeps version history, export, and turn-off controls out of setup. Edits remain part of the setup draft; **Finish setup** accepts that draft as version 1. Later edits are authoritative when they differ from a research inference. Brand Summary and the document authors run in parallel. Thin evidence does not remove a catalog document: the first version keeps its required sections and names the information that is still unknown. daoco does not fill the space with an invented product, credential, peer, price, or claim.

Existing brands keep their current Brand Summary, profile, logo, colors, and voice. When a brand is missing documents, Brand Hub shows a **Set up brand documents** prompt. daoco fills in the brand's known website and public profiles and selects the missing documents. Missing documents become version 1. Existing documents stay unchanged unless you select them, in which case they receive a reviewable proposal.

Brands finalized before personal-brand onboarding are migrated to business mode when setup starts. A newer brand with no saved mode gets one business-or-personal choice before the document list appears. daoco saves that choice for later refreshes.

**Refresh from sources** starts with every document in the current catalog selected. Use the document menu in the refresh form to narrow the pass before it starts. The workflow panel has one page for the source review and one for each selected document, with a dropdown and previous or next controls. Selected documents with enough supporting evidence run separately and in parallel. A selected document with limited evidence is marked **Needs input** instead of receiving a version or proposal. A missing applicable document gets its first version. An existing applicable document gets its own proposal, so a source refresh never silently replaces edits you already accepted. If the source review finds no profile changes, the document jobs start immediately. Retrying a refresh keeps the same document selection unless you choose a different one. Unselected documents are not generated or refreshed.

## The document workspace

Open **Brand Hub** and select a document. The workspace stays focused on that document, with three simple views:

* **Document** renders the accepted Markdown in an inline editor and lets you create a document when none exists.
* **Suggestions** appears when daoco has proposed changes. Nothing is accepted until you apply it.
* **Versions** lets you read and restore any saved version.

Click a section to edit its formatted Markdown in place. Tables stay visible as editable grids, and the table controls let you add or remove rows and columns without working with pipe syntax. After setup, saving creates a new version instead of overwriting history. Go back to Brand and select another card when you want to work on a different document. Refreshing the page restores the same document.

If a document is missing, **Create from sources** opens the source refresh form with that document selected. **Start blank** opens the Markdown editor instead.

## Two kinds of changes

**Your edits apply immediately.** Click a section, change the Markdown, and **Save version** publishes your edit. You never approve your own change twice.

**daoco's changes wait for you.** When the brand-update runtime, a source refresh, or an automation wants to change a document, the changes appear under **Suggestions**. Proposed text renders as Markdown, with a separate **Edit** control when you want to change the draft itself. Each section shows the current text when one exists, the proposed text, the reasoning, and its sources. You can select the sections to apply or skip the whole proposal. Nothing touches the document until you apply it. The same durable review appears in normal chat, the document workspace, and your attention queue, so resolving it anywhere resolves it everywhere.

If the document changes while a review is open, the review is marked stale and can no longer be applied. Ask daoco to propose again from the current version.

## Versions, restoring, and turning a document off

Choose **Versions** to see every version, who or what wrote it, and when.

* **View** shows an older version read-only.
* **Restore** brings an older version back as the new current version. Nothing is erased. The version you restored away from stays in the history.
* **Turn off** stops daoco from reading a document without deleting it. **Turn on** reactivates the latest saved version without adding a history entry. You can restore an older version under **Versions**.
* **Export** downloads the current version as a markdown file.

## How daoco uses them

Agents do not read every document on every task. Each run sees the list of documents you have and retrieves one only when the work needs it. A caption writer may read pricing facts, while a personal-brand content run may read the point of view and content strategy. The summary stays short. It orients a run and points to the deeper documents instead of repeating them.

A document that is turned off, or has never been written, is not available for a run to read. Runs never read pending reviews. Only accepted versions count as brand truth.