A client questionnaire
where every answer changes something.

Storyflow does this one end to end: the questions grouped by what each answer changes, the client's reference pictures pinned beside them, and the shot list and schedule written underneath from the replies. The client reads the board from a link with no account. Collecting typed answers as a form is not what it does, so Google Forms, Typeform or Jotform still gather the replies you paste in.

Ask what the pictures are for and where they will be seen, how long they need to use them, how many final images and how much retouching, who is in them, who is uncomfortable on camera, what time cannot move, what the room looks like, what shapes they need, what a good result would let them do, and three pictures they love plus one they hate.

A questionnaire that takes more than ten minutes to answer gets shorter, less true answers. Ten to fifteen well chosen questions beat forty. Cut any question whose answer would not change what you do, charge or pack, and put the rest in the order that matters to you, not the order they occurred to you.

The one worth the most is: show me one picture you hate. Clients describe what they want in adjectives that mean different things to different people, but they are exact about what puts them off. The runner up is where will these pictures be used and for how long, because that one decides the fee.

Storyflow is a board, not a form builder, so it holds the questions and the answers but does not collect typed replies. Use Google Forms, Typeform or Jotform for that, or HoneyBook or Bonsai if you want intake bundled with the contract. Paste the replies onto the board, where they sit next to the plan they change and stay searchable after the job.

Yes. Describe the job and Storyflow's AI drafts a question set, grouped by what each answer changes. Attach a past brief or an old questionnaire and it reads the file and works from that. It proposes the list; you cut it down to what this client will actually answer.

Yes. Paste the replies and ask for a first shot list, a run of the day and a list of what is still missing. The missing list is usually the useful part. You edit everything it proposes, because it is working from what the client wrote rather than from the room.

Ask for a specific number rather than a general request: three you love, one you hate. Send them the Storyflow board link so they can see where the pictures will go, and let them paste links if collecting files feels like work. Specific asks get answered; open invitations do not.

No. A wedding questionnaire and a brand questionnaire share about a third of their questions. Weddings need the group list, the fixed timings and family politics. Brand shoots need usage, channels, deliverable counts and who approves. Keep one bank of questions on the board and send a cut from it each time rather than one form that half fits every job.

Yes. Storyflow's view-only link opens in any browser with no account, on a phone or a laptop. To leave a comment they sign in. Anyone a paid member invites to a board joins free, so a client can be given proper access without buying a plan.

Storyflow lets you drag any question row into any position on the board. It does not sort a table for you, so the order is the one you set by hand. Since you cut the bank down per job anyway, most photographers keep it in groups and reorder as they build each one, which a priority sort would only get in the way of.

Storyflow holds the brief and the plan. It does not handle contracts, e-signature or payment: those belong to HoneyBook, Bonsai, PandaDoc or DocuSign. What Storyflow gives you is the agreed answers sitting on the same board as the pictures you delivered, which is what you reach for when a question comes up months later.