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A face just popped into your head, didn’t it, the business ride or die you’d actually love to work on profesh developmen...
28/05/2026

A face just popped into your head, didn’t it, the business ride or die you’d actually love to work on profesh development with?

That’s your sign. It’s time to become the next iconic duo ✌️

Reach out to chat if you’ve got someone in mind and you want to talk about designing the way it works. One duo spot only, split the cost, double the growth. Private coaching has been sold out since January — bringing a friend is the only way in.

I volunteer tribute to be the Iceman to the next Maverick and Goose 😂

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🚨 PSA | interior designers, Trust me on this one: Hold to read. Screenshots from my Friday email - join in bio if you ne...
27/05/2026

🚨 PSA | interior designers, Trust me on this one:

Hold to read.

Screenshots from my Friday email - join in bio if you need this type of pep talk in your inbox every Friday 📨

If something in this ‘flex file’ is still on your to-do list - S A V E this post.Was the Tuesday afternoon I spent buil...
23/05/2026

If something in this ‘flex file’ is still on your to-do list - S A V E this post.

Was the Tuesday afternoon I spent building out the exact way I make decisions and approach designs a bit of a drag? Heck yes. I won’t lie, it wasn’t creative or fun, and at best, it was kinda boring. It got it all out of my head, it allowed me to once and for all make some solid business decisions for my design studio and I only had to do it once and now any AI tool can access that high level of detail to know how I operate and the level of deliverable I expect (with examples).

I cannot recommend these changes enough. So much so I am currently taking a fully sold out cohort through building this out for themselves in Studio Build, if we have to do the boring s^*t first, at least we can do it together and with someone like me at the helm, testing, weeding out what we don’t need and taking all the robot shortcuts. It’s the fastest way to slingshot to the front of the line.

I’ve already done this all in my own design business and that’s how I know for sure this changes everything about how AI stops being a ‘Chatty Kathy,’ and starts being a ‘Working Wally.’

Link in bio for the July 7 round of Studio Build 🤍

18 months of ChatGPT. What have you actually built with it? This is not supposed to be a buuuurn. When you think about i...
19/05/2026

18 months of ChatGPT. What have you actually built with it? This is not supposed to be a buuuurn. When you think about it though, ARE you still chatting, prompting and over editing .. or are you sorted, confident and secure in your AI literacy?

When your AI of choice (Chatty G, Claude, etc ) learns your processes, systems, expectations, how you like things done | It suddenly becomes an asset that runs without you explaining yourself from scratch every single time.

Most designers are using AI like a very fast Google, or a therapist (be honest, how many breakdowns did you unload on Chat this week?) Ask, wait, copy, edit, feedback, scream, start again, close. Sometimes I wonder if you’re not editing for more time than it would take you to just write it like a human?? That’s prompting, and there are deffinately good and bad versions and all prompting has a ceiling.

The designers who’ve actually changed how their studio runs didn’t focus on prompting, chatting or surface level. They signed up to build out their business in a way that didn’t matter if they knew how to chat back and forth or get better at asking. They built the context layer that means AI properly knows how they work, what they expect, how they do things and they never have to “brief what they want” at the start of every damn conversation.

That’s a whole lifestyle change
Want the full breakdown — link in bio.

These are the actual words spoken in today’s sesh. from actual designers, as they got a look at what we are creating, we...
19/05/2026

These are the actual words spoken in today’s sesh. from actual designers, as they got a look at what we are creating, week three really started to show them what they’re building..
These are the actual things people said out loud while it was happening.
N was Natasha, who decided she’s going to be smugly McSmuggerson when this wraps up.. same babes.
L was Lisa, who asked Claude what skills to build, and then immediately answered her own question changing her workflows forever.
J was Jane, who onboarded a new client with a skill she built the week before. What used to take two days appeared in 10 minutes.
K was Kristy, who watched Cowork build her Google Drive folders in real time and couldn’t find a better word than magic, I wish you saw her face. It was my fave part of the call.
E was Elle, who voice-memo’d everything she knew about her ideal client while driving, added it to her brand command and got back something so detailed it shocked her.
K was Karen, whose AI website audit came back 27 pages long and ended with a triaged priority checklist
This is week three of six, I’m witnessing them all build out clean and organised studios ready for AI and the change is s**c.
Studio Build July cohort is now O P E N.→ link in bio.

27/04/2026

Can we stop already with the “Claude just killed *insert creative industry* here!” If you can’t see why that is categorically untrue, This account is not for you.
Bye Felicia. ✌️

Creatives, is this annoying you too??

Interior Designers 🚨 save & share this with other designers, AI can now look at a render and read the exact depth of eve...
26/04/2026

Interior Designers 🚨 save & share this with other designers, AI can now look at a render and read the exact depth of every object in it. Without camera data, or a CAD file.
Purely from the image itself, 🤯 Google dropped this last week, Nobody in the design space is talking about it YET but mark my words, they will be, this is a whole new playing field and I cannot wait tot explore tech that actually supports my concept design workflow.

This is the research that makes “just swap the rug in that render” actually possible, or “remove that hideous lamp no one asked for” without a 3D modeller, without re-exporting, without sending it back to your contractor who charges by the hour.

It’s not in your tools just yet, But it’s coming fast. Designers who understand what it can do will have a very different conversation with their clients than the ones who don’t.

Swipe for what it means in your studio.

Documenting these processes in your interior design business are 1000% necessary. If you want to get serious about train...
23/04/2026

Documenting these processes in your interior design business are 1000% necessary. If you want to get serious about training AI to fully integrate into your studio, and even if you’re not building skills or using Claude yet etc, my advice is to map out each of these in your own document. Your business can only benefit from this activity. When the time comes to start getting serious about AI, you’ll be soooo glad you did.

Save this so you can systematically step through future proofing your studio.

21/04/2026

Every “try this prompt”, “quick tip”, “save for later” etc is just a distraction preventing you from using AI in a super meaningful/helpful way.

Does ai know how you onboard a client, handle a scope blowout, write a proposal?
Does it know what you charge and why you charge it? Or how you’re trying to show up in the market or what your next moves are??

Without that, it doesn’t matter how clever your prompt is. You’re asking a stranger to write in your voice and hoping they’ve guessed correctly. Every. Single. Time.

If you recognise yourself in that statement you’re probably having to rewrite everything AI rebels you up which makes you feel like you’re double handling air (not saving hours)

Here’s what to document first 👇

1. Your voice find previous examples and save them together or write 10 sentences the way you’d actually say them to a client. That’s your voice doc. Start there.

2. Your onboarding process | step by step, from signed contract to first site visit. Write it out. Not just for AI, but also for you. AI just benefits from it existing.

3. Your proposal structure | what sections, what language, what you always explain about your fees. Write it down. You probs have an example ready to go, share it!

Drop those three documents into any AI conversation and the quality of your output will shift immediately,

Because the AI finally knows who you are, and what you what.

20/04/2026

Balance can exist. You can feel more supported and organised than ever before AND still pull in your voice, personality and unique POVs ✌️ just saying.

Who’s sick of AI generated crap flooding the feed and is growing weary AF with seeing another unedited result from the prompt “write me a good instagram caption” caption?! Surely I’m not out here alone?

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