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Help Center: Review Desk & Universal Layout-Adaptive Swayd Editorial Director

Welcome to the Swayd Review Desk! This guide explains how customer discussion signals from the Command Center are transformed into fact-verified editorial carousels with precise spatial bounding boxes.

1. What is the Review Desk?

The Review Desk (/dashboard/review-desk/[projectId]) is the direct-response editorial studio where you review, refine, and approve the copy, narrative arc, and spatial layout of your carousel before dispatching it to Swayd Optical Studio for generation.

Unlike generic social media generators that create repetitive, ungrounded slides, the Swayd Editorial Director conducts live web fact-checking on the customer pain points you selected and maps your brand's exact colors and transparent cutouts into a proven layout topology.

2. Step-by-Step Walkthrough

Step 1: Select 1–3 Customer Ideas in the Command Center

Navigate to Command Center (/dashboard/command-center).

Review the mined discussion signals from Reddit, Quora, and Google PAA.

Check the checkboxes for 1 to 3 ideas sharing a related theme or narrative arc.

Click "Choose Layout & Send to Review Desk" on the floating action bar.

Step 2: Choose Your Layout Topology

A modal opens with all active layout archetypes from the Swayd Library:

Let Swayd Decide (`ai_auto`): Swayd Editorial Director analyzes the psychological structure of your mined ideas and automatically chooses the single highest-converting archetype.

Category Default (`category_default`): Uses your workspace's preferred default layout for that content category.

Manual Selection (`manual`): Click any card in the gallery (e.g. The Architectural Teardown, The Dual Column Contrast, The Curated Index) to lock that layout.

Click "Confirm Layout". Swayd initializes your project and immediately navigates to your Review Desk.

Step 3: Verify Empirical Claims & Citations

On the left side of the Review Desk, inspect the Verified Fact-Check Dossier:

Every factual claim made in the slide copy is paired with an empirical source title and clickable external link.

Review the sources to confirm that all benchmarks, technical specifications, and statistics are accurate.

Step 4: Refine Slide Copy in Real Time

On the right storyboard grid, review each slide from Slide 1 of N to Slide N of N:

Click into the Headline, Subheadline, Body Callouts, or Handwritten Marginalia to edit the wording.

Edits are automatically saved in real time.

Use the Brand Asset Toggles (Include Monogram, Include Hero Product) to control which slides feature your transparent brand cutouts.

Step 5: Inspect 0–1000 Spatial Coordinates

Expand the 0–1000 Spatial Coordinates & Layout Inspector on any slide.

Inspect the exact normalized integer boxes ([top, left, bottom, right]) and see the compiled prompt that will guide image generation.

Step 6: Approve Script & Render Slides

Once you are satisfied with the copy and layout, click "Approve Script & Render with Swayd Optical Studio".

3. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q1: Why did Swayd pick a different slide count than other tools?

Answer: Swayd does not use a rigid slide count. Every proven layout archetype deconstructed into the Swayd Library has its own native narrative rhythm (between 4 and 10 slides). Swayd Editorial Director respects the exact topology of the chosen archetype so that pacing, visual variety, and call-to-action placement match proven viral formats.

Q2: What is the "Sibling-Not-Twin" visual cohesion rule?

Answer: While templates maintain consistent brand colors (light_bg_hex, dark_bg_hex, accent_hex) and typography across all slides, adjacent slides should never look like identical clones. Slides alternate camera shot types (e.g., flat lay macro vs. eye-level editorial) and background polarity (light paper vs. dark espresso) while referencing Slide 1's texture and color grading.

Q3: Can I edit the text after rendering the images?

Answer: Yes. In the Swayd Optical Studio, you can edit bounding boxes with inpainting, swap text layers, and rollback versions using our Before/After comparison slider.

Q4: How does Swayd prevent hallucinated statistics?

Answer: In Stage 1, Swayd reads the original customer discussion thread (source_url) and runs targeted web verification searches. Every empirical assertion in the copy must trace to a verified source in the fact_verification_log.

Q5: Where do the brand monogram and product cutouts come from?

Answer: During onboarding, Swayd processed your logo and hero product images through Swayd Precision Cutout to produce transparent PNG cutouts permanently stored in Swayd CDN. In the Review Desk, these are injected into spatial box coordinates.

Have additional questions?

Reach out to our creative support team at support@tryswayd.com.

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