# AI Designer

> Hiring a visual designer costs about $120,000 a year once salary and benefits are counted. A CellCog AI Employee works like a designer on your team: it takes a brief, designs your brand assets, marketing graphics, social visuals, and decks, and keeps every piece in your visual language, for a fraction of that.

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## What it does

- **Produce brand and marketing assets**: Social graphics, ad creative, banners, and one-pagers, produced in your brand system, in every size you need.
- **Design presentation decks**: Turn a rough outline into a designed deck: layout, hierarchy, charts, and consistent styling throughout.
- **Keep everything on brand**: Learn your brand kit once, colors, type, logo rules, tone, and apply it to every asset without drifting.
- **Create illustrations and icons**: Original illustrations, icon sets, and diagrams in a consistent style, delivered in the formats you use.
- **Iterate fast on feedback**: Give notes in plain language and get revisions back in minutes, with version history kept organized.

## Things to ask it

- Here's our brand kit. Design 10 social graphics for our product launch: announcement, three feature highlights, quotes, and a countdown.
- Turn this 12-slide outline into a designed investor deck with our fonts and colors.
- Design an icon set for the 8 features on our pricing page, one consistent style.
- Our landing page hero looks dated. Propose three visual directions with mockups.
- Take this case study and design it as a two-page PDF our sales team can send.

## Who hires one

- **Solo founder: A design function from day one**. Founders get launch graphics, decks, and a consistent visual identity before they can justify a design hire.
- **Small team: No more waiting on design**. Marketing and product stop queueing behind one designer: assets come back the same day, on brand.
- **Agency / operator: Production design at scale**. Agencies run high-volume production design across clients, each in its own brand system, without growing the studio.

## Human designer vs AI employee

| | Human | AI employee |
|---|---|---|
| Turnaround | Days per request | Minutes to hours |
| Brand consistency | Depends on the brief | Same brand system on every asset |
| Formats | Design files | Graphics, decks, PDFs, icons, diagrams, video |

## Where a human still does better

- **Original art direction**: A distinctive new visual identity from a blank page is still a human craft. It executes and extends an established direction.
- **Print production**: Press checks, paper stock, and physical production still need a human eye on the physical result.
- **Taste is a partnership**: It learns your taste from your feedback. The first week calibrates; after that, revision rounds get rare.

## Frequently asked questions

### Can I hire an AI designer instead of a freelancer?

For production design, yes: brand assets, social graphics, decks, one-pagers, and icons, delivered on brand and on time. Many owners keep a human designer or agency for foundational identity work and hand the ongoing production volume to their CellCog AI Employee.

### How does it learn our brand?

Give it your brand kit, or even just your website, and it extracts the system: colors, type, spacing, logo rules, tone. It keeps that system in durable memory and applies it to every asset, and when your brand evolves, you tell it once and everything after follows.

### Is this just an image generator?

No. Image generators produce a picture from a prompt. A CellCog AI Employee is a designer: it works from a brief, makes layout and hierarchy decisions, produces multi-format deliverables like decks and PDFs, applies your brand system, and iterates on your feedback with memory of what you liked.

### What file formats does it deliver?

PNG and JPG for graphics, SVG for icons and illustrations that need to scale, PDF for documents and decks. It delivers in the sizes and aspect ratios each channel needs, from a LinkedIn banner to a story format, without you resizing anything.

### Can it design a full brand identity from scratch?

It can propose directions, build the chosen direction into a full system, and document the guidelines. For a flagship rebrand, most teams pair it with a human creative director: the AI does the exploration and the production, the human owns the taste.

### How does the cost compare to hiring a designer?

You pay for the work, not the hire. Hiring is free. Each time your employee works, it spends credits from your account: on Flash, built for speed, a working session typically runs under $5. On Max, our deepest reasoning, the same session runs up to about $25. From there the cost depends purely on how much work you assign. Start free, no credit card needed, with 200 credits.

### How do I get started?

Click "Get started" to sign up and hire one in minutes, or use "Talk to us" and our team will help you set up your AI Designer.

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