MAPS Intelligence

Archetypes

Who your brand is, when it speaks.

The Campaign Lab’s proprietary methodology: nine communication archetypes in three families, each with six tactical variants — fifty-four ways of speaking. The AI doesn’t pick just one: it recommends a weighted mix, tailored to the brand, the target and the competitors. Or you build the mix yourself. And the concepts are born from that mix.

These are communication archetypes — how the brand speaks and to whom —, not the twelve Jungian archetypes. The examples are a pet food brand and a menswear tailoring brand: names and logos have been changed.

The system

Nine archetypes.
Three families, fifty-four variants.

Each archetype has its essence, when to use it, its tone, its language, typical sectors, what to avoid — and six tactical variants, each with an example. The Engineer, for instance, can speak through technical specification, scientific validation or comparative performance.

Who speaks

Voice-Driven

  • The Authority
    The recognized expert: trust built on expertise, credentials, data.
  • The Storyteller
    Stories that create connection: not a product, a meaning.
  • The Provocateur
    Challenges the category’s conventions and looks for those who share the vision.
What it offers

Value-Driven

  • The Engineer
    Performance and numbers: superiority isn’t an opinion, it’s a fact.
  • The Transformer
    Before and after: who you were and who you can become.
  • The Innovator
    The novelty that changes the category’s rules.
Who listens

Receptor-Driven

  • The Mirror
    Reflects the audience’s identity: not “buy me”, but “you’re one of us”.
  • The Guide
    The mentor who walks alongside, not the protagonist.
  • The Entertainer
    Engages through memorable experiences.
The guide inside the app: 9 archetypes in 3 clusters, 6 tactical variants, 54 approaches
The same taxonomy, available inside the app while you work.
Two modes

All at once,
or one step at a time.

Full AI: from the brief to the complete campaign in a single flow, in the background — you can leave and get a notification at the end. Step-by-step: you build the campaign with control over every step, and you can choose the archetype mix yourself.

Archetype Campaign Generator: Full AI and Step-by-Step
Full AI

From brief to campaign,
in a single flow.

The example: a pet food brand that wants new corporate communication, to make its value system clearer and more memorable. Five phases — brief, context from the project, strategy, concepts, development — and the campaigns stay saved, each with its status.

Campaign Generator: how it works in 5 phases, and the saved campaigns

The strategy.

The target’s motivations and barriers — here: communication perceived as too clinical, little emotional authenticity. Then the mix: the Storyteller at 55% for the emotional bond, the Authority at 30% for scientific credibility, the Guide at 15% to help with the choice. With the reason behind each weight and the white space between competitors.

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Strategic analysis: target insights, recommended archetype strategy 55/30/15, rationale, white space
Six generated concepts, with archetype, differentiation, risk, channels

The concepts, and their development.

Six concepts from the mix — the brand’s roots, the journey from field to bowl, customers’ voices —, each with archetype, differentiation and risk. The developed ones become campaigns: strategic foundation, headlines with the why, body copy in three lengths (core, digital, print), tagline and proof points. And before choosing, you test them with synthetic users.

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A concept’s development: strategic foundation, headlines, core/short/long body copy, tagline, proof points
Step-by-step

One brief,
several strategies to compare.

Each brief is a communication objective — a launch, a repositioning. For each brief you generate several strategies and compare them. And for each new strategy you choose: the AI generates it, analyzing the context, the target and the competitors — or you build it yourself.

How do you want to generate the strategy: Generate with AI or Choose manually

The mix, by hand.

You browse the archetypes family by family: for each one, when to use it and what to avoid. You assign the role — primary, secondary, tertiary —, adjust the weight and pick the tactical variants. MAPS keeps count: the total must add up to a hundred, and the mix is valid when there is at least a primary and a secondary.

Here, for the tailoring brand: Storyteller at 50% with the origin story and behind the scenes, Mirror at 30%, Engineer at 20% with the technical specification.

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Manual selection: The Engineer as tertiary at 20%, tactical variants, current mix Storyteller/Mirror/Engineer
The strategy

The mix,
with its reasons.

Whether the AI chooses it or you do, the strategy starts from the analysis: the target’s motivations and barriers, white space between competitors, risks and opportunities. Then the approved mix, with each archetype’s variants and the rationale.

Primary 55% · The EngineerSecondary 30% · The MirrorTertiary 15% · The Storyteller
The “Tech Eleganza” strategy: strategic analysis, approved 55/30/15 mix with variants, rationale
A strategy generated by the AI: Engineer at 55%, Mirror at 30%, Storyteller at 15%.
The concepts

Six concepts
from a single mix.

Each concept states how it uses the mix: which variant drives it, the emotional territory, the channels, the headline. And the two scores, from the most cautious to the boldest: “comparative performance” with risk 2, the jacket that charges as you walk with risk 8 and differentiation 9.

Six concepts with archetype mix, risk, differentiation, variant, territory and channels

Development

Copy, channels, art direction, execution — with the Collaborate chat and versions, as in the other methods.

Testing

Every concept can be tested with synthetic users before you decide.

Production

The Channel Strategic Direction and the content for each channel, then the Prototype.

A brand has a voice.
Archetypes make it a choice.