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AI for Graphic Designers

The client side of freelance design: scope, batches, rounds, invoices, portfolio.

IntermediateGraphic design

0/88 stops · about 2 hours · final quiz · certificate

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Start with

• AI at Work: FoundationsStart from zero and finish with three things you can actually use.

Who this is for

Freelance and small-studio designers who want the client work handled so the design work has room. Every example follows Rami, a freelance brand and social designer for restaurants and gyms, with three retainer clients and a stream of one-off briefs.

You will be able to

• Turn a brief PDF into a scope, a quote and a questions email before you say yes
• Run each retainer's monthly asset batch from a calendar row to a Canva-resized set
• Present a concept round with rationale written for a restaurant owner, not a designer
• Handle revision requests with a reply that keeps the scope and the relationship
• Keep each client's brand rules, deliverables and history in one Project
• Invoice with the license note and keep the portfolio current without a weekend

Stops

1. 1 The brief and the scopeA brief PDF becomes a scope table, a questions email and a quote priced from your own rate card, before you say yes. Weekly
2. 2 The client ProjectOne Project per retainer, holding the brand rules, the deal, the past feedback and the owner's taste, so every month starts loaded. Set once
3. 3 The monthly batchOne calendar row becomes an asset list with sizes, copy in the client's voice, and a Canva set resized and exported. Weekly
4. 4 Presenting the roundThree directions, a rationale a restaurant owner can repeat to his brother, and a presentation email that does not quietly widen the scope. Weekly
5. 5 RevisionsTurn "can you make it pop" into three specific changes, count the round out loud, and keep a change log the client can see. Daily
6. 6 Licenses, invoices and the paperCheck every font and stock licence against the real page before delivery, then invoice with the usage note that stops the argument a year later. Weekly
7. 7 Portfolio and new workThe finished job becomes a case study, a Behance page and an Instagram carousel, and the case study becomes the outreach email. Later
8. 8 Rami's weekThree routines, one delegated batch, and a capstone that runs a whole retainer month from the calendar row to the invoice. Weekly

Final quiz