While on vacay, a classic debate sparked making us see a studio blind spot we had never even considered until last month. We recently had a project quite shrink by a third because a client used Claude AI to build a “good enough” website straight from our pitch deck screenshots, completely bypassing our final source files and our payment leverage.

We don’t think the sky is falling and we don’t think AI is killing creativity, but it is changing the operational rules of running a studio. If execution is becoming automated, how do we contractualize AI? How do we protect our portfolios from being deformed out in the wild?

We want to open up the studio to talk about this in person. On June 18th at 18:00h, we are hosting Playground Sessions #01: AI vs. Creative Contracts. No boring panels, just a real sit-down for designers, studio owners, and creatives in Porto to figure out how we navigate and monetize this shift together.

To make things even better, we partnered up with our friends at @cultofsujo , a new brand who will be at the Playground pouring specialty coffee for everyone.