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The owner of a small Ottawa interior design firm uses ChatGPT for emails and construction scheduling, plus an AI plugin to show clients photorealistic renderings.
The owner uses ChatGPT for routine emails and for construction scheduling, and an AI plugin that turns her physical design renderings into photorealistic images, so clients can see how furniture and lighting will look in a space.
She says the tools let her put more energy into creative work and have saved her time, though she says she cannot yet measure the effect on the business.
The account comes from a bank's small-business feature and gives no figures. The owner says the effect is not yet measured. The plugin is not named, and client names or addresses should not be pasted into a public AI tool without checking its data terms under UK GDPR.
Paste into ChatGPT, Claude or another AI assistant and fill in the square brackets.
Draft a reply to this client email from [client name] about [project and issue]. Keep it polite, plain and under [number] words. Then draft a week-by-week schedule for [project] with these trades and lead times: [list]. Show me both drafts before anything is sent to a client or a tradesperson.
Source: TD Stories · 12 Aug 2025. Summarised in our own words; read the original for the full account.
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