Your first run

Sign in, write a Brief, watch the pipeline.

1. Sign in

Go to blueprint.neuronkite.com and sign in. Account creation is via Clerk; you can use Google, GitHub, or email + password.

The Free tier gives you 50 Compute Units (CU) per month — enough for one small Brief. No credit card required.

2. Submit your Brief

From the home page, you'll see a form with:

  • Title — a short label for your project
  • Customer — who the project is for (optional; e.g. "DARPA", "Internal R&D")
  • Brief content — paste your mission Brief, or upload a PDF
  • Support documents — optional supporting material (specs, references, prior work) the pipeline can cite

For your first run, try the Sample Run button on the home page — it submits a curated demo Brief and doesn't burn your CU.

3. Choose a configuration

  • Phase — 1.4 is the default and produces the full artifact set. Lower phases produce subsets (Phase 1.1 stops after stakeholder analysis, etc.)
  • Sensitivity tier — Unrestricted for non-sensitive content; Confidential for IP-sensitive content. Controlled is reserved for future release; do not upload ITAR/EAR or CUI content
  • Verify citations (recommended on) — turns on the citation precision check
  • Max revisions — how many internal critic-loop revisions the pipeline can attempt (typically 2)

4. Confirm cost

Before the run starts, Blueprint shows you the estimated CU cost. Click Generate run to submit.

NOTE
CU is reserved at submit and reconciled when the run completes. If a run fails for a platform reason, the reserved CU is automatically refunded.

5. Watch the pipeline

The status page shows each pipeline stage as it runs:

  1. Ingesting — your Brief is parsed and chunked
  2. Brief Parser — project metadata, seed constraints, stakeholders
  3. Stakeholder Analysis — NGOs, MOEs, operational scenarios
  4. Requirements — functional / performance / interface / constraint
  5. Decomposition — functions, components, interfaces
  6. Design — design specs, trade studies, risk register
  7. Critic — internal quality check; may trigger revisions
  8. Rendering — assembling the artifact bundle

A typical Phase-1.4 run takes 8–15 minutes wall time.

6. Download the bundle

When the run completes you'll be redirected to the Complete page. There you can download the artifact bundle as a ZIP, or browse the artifacts in the in-browser explorer.

Next

Reading your first artifact bundle →