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Summary
Smart Draft lets you generate a first-pass announcement draft from your existing source material — a prompt, a Jira epic, a PRD, or a Loom walkthrough — without copying and pasting between tools. It's available to all plans. Tone & Voice, which applies a consistent brand voice to every draft, is available on Premium plans.
Using Smart Draft
Click Announcements on the left side bar and then Smart Draft. The Smart Draft modal gives you three options to configure before generating your draft.
1. Start from a template (optional)
Select a template to give your draft a required structure. When you choose one, Smart Draft inherits the following from it automatically:
Section structure — The template's headings become a required outline. Smart Draft writes content under each section in the order you set, and won't add, remove, or reorder sections.
Headline — If the template has a headline, it's used as-is and Smart Draft skips generating a title.
Categories — Applied automatically so your draft is pre-tagged for the right audience or product area.
Roadmap items — Any work items linked to the template carry over to the draft.
Hero image — The template's hero image is copied to the new announcement.
2. Write a prompt
Type directly into the prompt text box to tell Smart Draft what to write. You can describe the update in your own words, or give it a specific direction — for example, "Lead with the performance gains" or "Tie this to our Scalability pillar." More detail produces a more complete draft.
3. Add context
Click the button Add Context to add source material for Smart Draft to draw from. Attach any of the following:
Files — Upload a PDF, Markdown file, plain text, or CSV (up to 10 MB). PDFs, Google Doc exports, release notes, and specs all work well.
Jira issues — Attach epics, stories, bugs, or tasks. Smart Draft reads the title, description, and status of each issue. The finished announcement will also link back to each attached issue.
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Loom video — Paste a Loom URL. Smart Draft pulls the transcript and uses the substantive content as draft material.
Once you're ready, click Create draft on the modal. Smart Draft will then create a draft announcement that you can fine tune and edit.
Note: You need to add at least some meaningful context for Smart Draft to work. If your inputs are blank or too sparse, Smart Draft will prompt you to provide more detail before generating.
Tone & Voice (Premium)
Tone & Voice is a project-level setting that tells Smart Draft who you're writing for and how your brand sounds. Write it once, and every draft inherits it automatically. To customize it, open the Smart Draft modal and click on the edit icon next to Tone & Voice. You can also access it under Settings > Customize Page > Tone & Voice.
For full setup instructions and tips on writing an effective prompt, see How do I set a consistent brand voice for my AI drafts?.
Notes & important info
Smart Draft is available on all plans. Tone & Voice is a Premium-only feature.
Your source material stays private. Content you add to Smart Draft — Jira issues, files, Loom transcripts — is processed within LaunchNotes' AWS environment via Bedrock. It will not sent to consumer AI tools and is not used for model training.
Confluence and Linear are source content that is not available yet, but coming soon.
Troubleshooting
Jira issues aren't appearing. This may be caused by a stale Atlassian token. Try disconnecting and reconnecting your Jira account in the modal.
My Tone & Voice prompt doesn't seem to be applying. Confirm the prompt is saved in your project's Settings and that you're drafting within the same project. Tone & Voice is project-level, not workspace-level.
I don't see the Tone & Voice option. This feature is available on Premium plans only. Contact your account manager to learn more about upgrading.