web02.fireside.fm Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:53:27 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Creavo Cast - Episodes Tagged with “Google Business Profile” https://www.creavocast.com/tags/google%20business%20profile Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:15:00 -0400 Creative Conversations to Foster Collaboration en-us episodic Creative Conversations to Foster Collaboration Jake Van Ness & Carl Grivakis Creative Conversations to Foster Collaboration no Jake Van Ness & Carl Grivakis jake@graphicprecision.com Episode 9: AI Rescue Is Now a Real Design Service https://www.creavocast.com/episode-9-ai-rescue-is-now-a-real-design-service df7a1eed-8632-4f1d-a5af-0f7ce0c2c745 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:15:00 -0400 Jake Van Ness & Carl Grivakis full 1 Jake Van Ness & Carl Grivakis AI-generated designs are flooding the market and clients are already regretting them. Carl shares how he's built a growing niche fixing AI design disasters, and why human creativity still has the upper hand. 33:04 no <p>AI tools promised to make design easier, but for a lot of businesses they've created a new problem: designs that look generic, miss the mark, and sometimes even violate copyright. Carl has started calling the work that follows "AI rescue," and it's quickly becoming a real part of his business.<br> In this episode, Jake and Carl break down why AI-generated logos, brochures, and marketing materials are falling short in the real world. From healthcare brochures that aren't accessible to older audiences, to logos that consumers immediately recognize as AI-generated and reject, the gap between what AI produces and what clients actually need is wide open for skilled designers.</p> <p>The conversation also covers what it's like to take on an intern for the first time as a solopreneur, the difference between teaching and coaching, and why mentoring the next generation of designers matters more than ever in an AI-saturated industry.</p> <p>Plus, Jake and Carl talk honestly about their own use of AI tools, the real cost of replacing human workers with AI, how Google's shift to AI-first search is changing visibility for small businesses, and why sticking your head in the sand and refusing to engage with AI at all isn't the answer either.</p> <p>A practical, honest conversation for designers, marketers, and small business owners trying to figure out where AI fits and where it falls flat. </p> AI rescue, AI generated design, graphic design business, AI in marketing, AI slop, solopreneur tips, design internship, AI vs human design, freelance designer, AI tools for designers, Google Business Profile, accessible design, branding mistakes, AI logo design, Canva vs designer, AI ethics business, design podcast, creative entrepreneur, AI brochure fail, Creavo Cast AI tools promised to make design easier, but for a lot of businesses they've created a new problem: designs that look generic, miss the mark, and sometimes even violate copyright. Carl has started calling the work that follows "AI rescue," and it's quickly becoming a real part of his business.
In this episode, Jake and Carl break down why AI-generated logos, brochures, and marketing materials are falling short in the real world. From healthcare brochures that aren't accessible to older audiences, to logos that consumers immediately recognize as AI-generated and reject, the gap between what AI produces and what clients actually need is wide open for skilled designers.

The conversation also covers what it's like to take on an intern for the first time as a solopreneur, the difference between teaching and coaching, and why mentoring the next generation of designers matters more than ever in an AI-saturated industry.

Plus, Jake and Carl talk honestly about their own use of AI tools, the real cost of replacing human workers with AI, how Google's shift to AI-first search is changing visibility for small businesses, and why sticking your head in the sand and refusing to engage with AI at all isn't the answer either.

A practical, honest conversation for designers, marketers, and small business owners trying to figure out where AI fits and where it falls flat.

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In this episode, Jake and Carl break down why AI-generated logos, brochures, and marketing materials are falling short in the real world. From healthcare brochures that aren't accessible to older audiences, to logos that consumers immediately recognize as AI-generated and reject, the gap between what AI produces and what clients actually need is wide open for skilled designers.

The conversation also covers what it's like to take on an intern for the first time as a solopreneur, the difference between teaching and coaching, and why mentoring the next generation of designers matters more than ever in an AI-saturated industry.

Plus, Jake and Carl talk honestly about their own use of AI tools, the real cost of replacing human workers with AI, how Google's shift to AI-first search is changing visibility for small businesses, and why sticking your head in the sand and refusing to engage with AI at all isn't the answer either.

A practical, honest conversation for designers, marketers, and small business owners trying to figure out where AI fits and where it falls flat.

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