BUILT THOROUGH A project notebook / Vol. 01
Good work deserves a clear next chapter

A home for the finishing details

Leave a
clear handoff.

Gather the notes, decisions, and loose ends that help the next person pick up exactly where you left off.

The handoff drawing

FICTIONAL PROJECT / PAPER ROOM
BT / PROJECT 001ILLUSTRATIVE · NOT TO SCALE
A three-room map of a project handoff Brief, assets, and context are represented as rooms. The selected room is yellow. ONE CONNECTED RECORD ABC The briefThe assetsThe context WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO A MAP FOR NOTES, NOT MEASUREMENTS
DRAWN FOR THE NEXT PERSONFOCUS: THE BRIEF

Start with the intention.

What was this project meant to do? Keep its original purpose next to the final work.

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Start anywhere.
The notes stay in this tab.

The working principle

Make the invisible
details visible.

Built Thorough imagines a calmer space between “finished” and “handed over.” Start with words another person can use.

01Gather the record

Bring the brief, asset labels, and working notes into the same conversation. A collection becomes useful when its pieces have a clear relationship.

02Explain the decisions

Keep the reason alongside the result. A short note about a tradeoff can be more useful than a folder of unexplained versions.

03Leave a next step

Give the next person a starting point: something to review, a question to resolve, or one place to look first.