Prompt-first post flow — wizard → draft → create → export

Directional mockups for the Social Planner flow redesign (image + carousel first). Fixes the broken stage handoff (wizard auto-runs planning, lands on Create, errors "Draft a direction first") and makes prompt-first the main production mode: plan everything in-app, compose a production-grade prompt, generate in Google Flow / Gemini / any tool, upload the result back. One demo story across all pages: Fidelis Global — "client reporting time halved".

Wizard→ Draft (owns direction)→ Create (approach + prompts)→ Upload-back→ Schedule
1 New post wizard — config-first, manual plan, angle→hook research Per-type essentials (aspect ratio, slide count, duration) BEFORE planning · "Plan this idea" runs only on click (auto-run removed) · research more angles → pick → research hooks for that angle → pick · creates the post landing on Draft. view → 2 Draft — image post · Draft now OWNS direction Brief (locked format · aspect ratio editable) + research carried from the wizard + the Visual direction card (moved here from Create) — concept, layout, color & mood, on-image text, prompt seed. Continue gates on direction. view → 3 Draft — carousel post · the slide plan IS the direction Slide count essential + "Suggest slides" plan (theme + on-slide headline per slide) planned in Draft; headlines flow into the per-slide image prompts; shared style guide keeps slides consistent. view → 4 Create — image · approach choice + prompt-first produce Direction summary (read-only, edit in Draft) → Approach (Google Flow / Gemini / any tool ✦ vs in-platform ⚡) → composed brand-aware prompt + refine history · per-tool step guide · resources checklist · finished-image upload-back → heroMedia. view → 5 Create — carousel · compose-all-slides, work each slide "Compose all slide prompts" in ONE style-consistent pass → per-slide rows (prompt + copy + recompose + upload final) · carousel-level shared references · 2-of-4 progress · all finals → ordered slides + heroMedia. view → 6 Export for AI — copy the whole post context "Copy for AI" from the post header at any stage: brand summary + brief + angle/hook + direction + composed prompts + guide + checklist as one markdown block for Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini. view →
What this fixes (audit 2026-06-10)
  • Wrong landing: the wizard's own plan marks Draft "done" (angle+hook stamped) so posts jump straight to Create and hit "Draft a direction first" — direction now lives in Draft and the wizard always lands there.
  • Auto-run: "Plan this idea" fired on mount for inbox ideas — now strictly manual, after the user configures format, aspect ratio & platforms.
  • Angle→hook order: hooks depend on the angle; the wizard now hosts the research loop (more angles → pick → hooks for that angle → pick).
  • No prompt-first path: image/carousel could only raise to the in-platform Studio — now the main mode composes production-grade prompts + a per-tool guide + checklist, and takes the finished asset back.
  • Carousel quality: slide headlines never reached the image prompts and slides composed blind — now one style-consistent compose pass renders each headline exactly.