A real case study or playbook from a creative professional doing better work in less time with AI - delivered to your inbox every Thursday. How it works, what it costs, what you can copy for yourself.
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A real creative person or business using AI to do better work in less time. Designers, illustrators, video editors, content creators, studio owners, agency leads, in-house creative teams. Real names, real numbers, real results.
The actual steps. What tools they use, how they're stitched together, where humans stay in the driving seat, what the AI handles automatically, what they tried first that didn't work.
What it costs. What it replaces. How many hours it saves a week. The honest economics, not the press release version.
Detailed enough that you could pinch the whole thing and run it in your own work this week. No theory. No hype. No "ten AI tools you need." Just the playbook.
Sam Thomas. I help creative professionals build AI production systems for their own work. Solo designers, freelancers, studios, agencies, in-house creative teams.
I write Made With Machines because the existing AI advice for creative people is hype, theory, or "top 10 tools you need." None of it explains how the people actually doing this stuff are doing it. So I'm writing the version I wish someone had been writing while I was figuring it out.
I also run Dull Studio, an AI-native creative shop where I get to test what I'm writing about against real client work. More at samthomas.works.