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Browser design that non-designers can actually finish — and now an AI connector that generates editable drafts in chat.

Pick this when

You need a decent-looking visual artifact and you're not going to open a real design tool.

What makes it different

Generated designs open in Canva for editing — you get a draft, not a dead image

The flagship ChatGPT app demo: one prompt, finished invitation designs in-chat

What it does

Designs social posts, invitations and marketing assets from templates

Generates designs from a prompt via the ChatGPT app integration

What it does not do

Common wrong expectations

Doesn't produce the same design twice — forty identical prompts gave forty different results

Where it sits in a stack

The visual output seat for anyone whose job isn't design.

Shelf

Design & whiteboarding

Our status · not-using

The KB's visuals are hand-authored SVG in the house palette.

For your projects

None.

Freshness

current

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Every moment the course touched it (20)

SessionCoverageMomentWhat happened
Basecamp 5: MCPdemonstrated2:29:12Invitation cards generated from a single prompt, then opened in Canva for customization
The Video Formula, Packaging, and Getting Comfortable on Camera — Hook, Foundation, Loops, Outro; Titles and Thumbnails Before Filming; and an Eight-Step Ladder Out of Camera AnxietydemonstratedThumbnail build; background remover is a Pro feature
Build a Lead-Generating LinkedIn Banner in Canva, with an AI Banner-Copy PromptdemonstratedBanner from template
The Featured Section: Turn the Profile Into a Funnel (Four Content Types, the Build, the 1200x627 Cover)demonstrated1200x627 cover
AI Product Ads: Turn a Phone Photo into an Animated Poster in Canva Magic Studio, then a Video Shot in Gensparkdemonstrated
Growth Funnel Case Study, Part 2: the Freemium Rule, a Five-Part Audience Template, and Channels by StageexplainedFreemium example
Vibe Marketing: Emotion x Automation x Virality, the Marketer as Orchestrator, and an AI Squad of Toolsexplained
Session 13: Claude Code — Skills, Sub Agents & the Token Economy (posted as 'Beyond Vibe Coding — n8n & More')mentioned0:13:50The installed-but-idle MCP paying the token tax
Session 20: Complete LinkedIn Agency Automation — Carousels + Newsletter from One Content SystemmentionedThe design bar the image-native slides are measured against
Day 2: The Image/Video Model Landscape, Cinematic Prompting, Cost Strategy, and a Commercial Built LivementionedBeginner storyboard + free video editor
Day 5: MCP as Concierge — Easy/Medium/Hard Modes, Stacking Servers, Smithery Vetting, and RAG vs MCPmentionedStacking target (itinerary -> brochure)
Section 3: AI Image Generation — Nano Banana Pro's Nine Use Cases, Grok vs Nano Banana, Photoshop's Five AI Tools, Ideogram Logos, Image Ads, and UpscalingmentionedFree/paid graphics alternative
Sections 4-5: AI Clones and AI Video — the 5-Step Workflow, Image-to-Video Prompting, First/Last Frame, HeyGen, Runway Aleph, ElevenLabs Voice, and Wan 2.2 ReplacementionedCharacter-sheet template
Section 6: Four Full Builds — a Faceless Hook in 20 Minutes, a '$300,000 Ad for Under $30', an Animated Music Video, and a Viral AI-Clone Action SequencementionedManual image tweaks; storyboard sketches
Effect 2: Jumping Into a Mug — the Four-Layer Composite (Splash, Cutout, Shield, Hand-Hide), Seven-Frame Fall, and 'Apex Editing'mentionedAlternative background remover
Turn Content Into Leads: the 3:2:1 Ratio, Hand-Raise Posts, Three Tiers of Lead Magnet, the Comment-to-DM Funnel, and the Rule of 100mentioned
Growth 101: Introduction and Course Roadmapmentioned
Zapier for Marketers: Trigger-Action Zaps to Post Drive Uploads to LinkedIn and File Email Attachmentsmentioned
Phot.AI Deep Dive: Browser-Based AI Photo Editing for Product Images - Background Removal, AI Product Shoots, Object Removal, Enhancing and Restoringmentioned
Supergrow Deep Dive: a LinkedIn Personal-Branding Suite - Post Generator with Content Styles, Voice-to-Post, Carousels and Schedulingmentioned

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