No it was Aprilia who was in charge of building the bike, it was presented toghether with the griso prototype, with same engine. The guzzi style labs was the name of some people working in mandello, but I could be wrong. And for Aprilia it was at the moment where things were going worse. Could be that without them, Piaggio would have never bought Guzzi, but we'll never know.
And strategy? Well, for shure the strategy, so it existed was changed during the building process.
If the goal would only be to build 50 bikes for racing, they wouldn't have invested so much in making molds for a number of parts. Like the gastank, swingarm and more parts. So I suppose in the beginning there was the idea of a streetbike too. Maybe until someone started calculating. It would have needed euro 3 approval, which is costy. And would be hard to become with the daytona engine in tuned shape.