Freelance Designers
Freelance designers: Photoshop clean-up and extending images, late-invoice reminders, proposal drafts and font and stock licence registers for handover.
4 ideasTypical saving about £82€95 a month
AI for Agencies & Creative
Creative businesses sell time and judgement, and much of that time goes on reporting, scheduling, feedback rounds, culling, subtitles and chasing. Reporting, scheduling, culling and editing tools take on the repetitive parts, and an assistant can draft wording for you to check. Client confidentiality, the licence terms of any AI-generated image or copy, advertising rules (ASA and CAP), consent for people in photos and video, and your contracts stay with you. Check what each vendor says about commercial use, and never assume AI output is automatically yours to use.
20 ideastypical cost £12€14 a monthtypical saving about £173€201 a month
Types of business
Marketing Agencies
Marketing agencies: client reports, social scheduling, call notes and ad copy drafts, with a person checking every claim before it goes out.
4 ideasTypical saving about £222€258 a month
Photographers
Photographers: AI culling, photo clean-up in Lightroom, client galleries with print sales and enquiry replies, with consent and licences kept in your own hands.
4 ideasTypical saving about £108€126 a month
Video Production Companies
Video producers: rough cuts from transcripts, client subtitles, review rounds and call sheets with risk assessments checked by a competent person.
4 ideasTypical saving about £340€395 a month
Web Design Agencies
Web design agencies: client feedback videos, site uptime alerts, translated site versions and first-draft page copy, all checked by a person.
4 ideasTypical saving about £122€142 a month
All ideas for Agencies & Creative
Freelance Designers
Proposal and scope drafts for freelance designers
ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini draft a design proposal and scope from your notes, for you to price and check. Free to about £20 a month.
- Costs Free–£20Free–€23/mo
- Worth £140€163/mo
- Pays for itself in a few days
- Easy to set up
Photoshop Generative Fill and Remove for freelance designers
Photoshop's Generative Fill, Generative Expand and Remove tool extend and clean up images. £21.98 a month including VAT, £9.98 for the first 3 months.
- Costs £22€26/mo
- Worth £105€122/mo
- Pays for itself in about a week
- Easy to set up
Font and stock licence checks before handover for designers
ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini turn your asset list into a licence register and handover note, which you check at source. Free to about £20 a month.
- Costs Free–£20Free–€23/mo
- Worth £58€67/mo
- Pays for itself in about a week
- Easy to set up
Late invoice reminders for freelance designers with Xero
Xero Ignite is £18 a month ex VAT (20 invoices); check reminders are included on that plan. Xero says it emails polite reminders.
- Costs £2–18€2–21/mo
- Worth £35€41/mo
- Pays for itself in about two weeks
- Easy to set up
Marketing Agencies
Client call notes for marketing agencies with Fathom AI
Fathom AI Notetaker records and summarises Zoom, Meet and Teams calls with action items. Free summaries; Premium from about £12 a user a month.
- Costs £36–45€42–52/mo
- Worth £301€350/mo
- Pays for itself in about a week
- Easy to set up
Ad copy variants for marketing agencies, checked by a person
ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini draft ad copy variants from your brief. A person checks every claim against the CAP Code. Free to about £20 a month.
- Costs Free–£20Free–€23/mo
- Worth £204€237/mo
- Pays for itself in a few days
- Easy to set up
Social scheduling for marketing agencies with Buffer
Buffer schedules posts across channels and lists an AI Assistant to refine and repurpose copy. From about £4 a channel a month on yearly billing.
- Costs £38–75€44–87/mo
- Worth £194€226/mo
- Pays for itself in about two weeks
- Easy to set up
Client report drafts for agencies with AgencyAnalytics
AgencyAnalytics lists AI insights and draft client commentary in client reports. From £15 per client a month on annual billing, £19 monthly.
- Costs £120–152€140–177/mo
- Worth £240€279/mo
- Pays for itself within the month
- Some setup needed
Photographers
AI culling for wedding photographers with Aftershoot
Aftershoot's AI culling makes a first pass through a wedding's frames. Select is from about £8 a month billed annually, £11 monthly.
- Costs £8–11€9–13/mo
- Worth £175€203/mo
- Pays for itself in a few days
- Easy to set up
Enquiry replies and shot lists for wedding photographers
ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini draft enquiry replies and shot lists from your notes, for you to personalise. Free to about £20 a month.
- Costs Free–£20Free–€23/mo
- Worth £123€143/mo
- Pays for itself in a few days
- Easy to set up
Photo clean-up for photographers with Lightroom
Adobe's Photography plan lists Generative Remove in Lightroom for cleaning up photos. About £20 a month including VAT, with Photoshop.
- Costs £20€23/mo
- Worth £93€108/mo
- Pays for itself in about a week
- Easy to set up
Client galleries for photographers with Pixieset
Pixieset delivers photos in private client galleries with print sales. Plus is $16 (about £12) a month billed yearly, or $20 monthly.
- Costs £12–15€14–17/mo
- Worth £70€81/mo
- Pays for itself in about a week
- Easy to set up
Video Production Companies
Call sheets and risk assessment drafts for video producers
ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini draft call sheets and shoot risk assessments from your notes for a competent person to check. Free to about £20 a month.
- Costs Free–£20Free–€23/mo
- Worth £367€427/mo
- Pays for itself in a few days
- Easy to set up
Rough cuts for video producers with Descript
Descript lets you edit video by editing the transcript, with filler word removal and captions. Hobbyist is from about £12 a month billed annually.
- Costs £12–18€14–21/mo
- Worth £360€419/mo
- Pays for itself in a few days
- Easy to set up
Client video review rounds with Frame.io
Frame.io collects client comments on frames and can generate transcripts and captions. Pro is $15 (about £11) a member a month.
- Costs £34€40/mo
- Worth £320€372/mo
- Pays for itself in about a week
- Easy to set up
Client video subtitles for producers with Happy Scribe
Happy Scribe makes AI subtitles and transcripts in many languages. Basic is €17 (about £15) a month, or about £7 billed annually.
- Costs £7–15€8–17/mo
- Worth £170€198/mo
- Pays for itself in a few days
- Easy to set up
Web Design Agencies
Website copy first drafts for web design agencies
ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini turn a client questionnaire into first-draft page copy for the client to approve. Free to about £20 a month.
- Costs Free–£20Free–€23/mo
- Worth £280€326/mo
- Pays for itself in a few days
- Easy to set up
Client feedback videos for web design agencies with Loom
Loom Business + AI lists auto titles, summaries, chapters and tasks for recorded walkthroughs. About £18 a user a month.
- Costs £36€42/mo
- Worth £181€210/mo
- Pays for itself in about a week
- Easy to set up
Uptime alerts for web design agencies with UptimeRobot
UptimeRobot checks client sites and alerts you when one goes down. Solo is €10 (about £9) a month on monthly billing.
- Costs £9€10/mo
- Worth £63€73/mo
- Pays for itself in about a week
- Easy to set up
AI-translated site versions for web designers with Framer
Framer lists AI-powered translation for site content, priced per locale. About £26 a month for one extra language on a Basic site, shown in euros.
- Costs £26€30/mo
- Worth £35€41/mo
- Pays for itself within the month
- Some setup needed