How many Design Genie briefs do I get?

Every brief costs Nimanto real money to paint, so each plan includes a set number of briefs. The brief page always shows "X of Y briefs left this month" and any earned briefs. Current numbers per plan are on the pricing page.

How the month is counted

• A "month" is a rolling 30 days from now, not a calendar month.
• A brief counts when it was filed in the last 30 days, did not fail, and was not filed on an earned brief.
• The plan you are on when you send the brief is the one that counts.
• Revisions never use briefs; they use the revisions your brief includes. See Revise a Genie design.

Earned briefs

Pay for a Genie design drafted from your own brief and you earn a banked brief:

• Per design, not per payment: publishing the same design to a second invitation earns nothing more.
• Only the brief's author earns it. A design included in your plan is not paid for, so it earns nothing.
• Banked briefs are capped, and spent only once the month's allowance is used up.
• A full refund that takes the design's licence back takes one earned brief back, never below zero.

When you have none left

The brief page says "You have used your briefs for this month" and offers three ways on: pick a design from the catalogue, upgrade your plan, or come back next month. Where extra briefs are on sale, you can buy one more; see Buy extra briefs.

What never counts

• A brief that fails on Nimanto's side stops counting, and an earned brief spent on it comes back.
• Retrying a failed brief goes through even with no allowance left.
• A brief declined by the review is not filed and uses nothing.