Marketing automation for graphic design studios
You make other brands look brilliant, and your own studio's feed hasn't moved since the last quiet week. Maggie, your AI CMO, turns your projects and the way you work into posts and guides for your website and channels, and you approve every one.
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Why design studios struggle to market themselves
Client deadlines always come first. Your own studio is the client who never gets a slot in the schedule.
Feast, then famine
When you're busy, nobody has time to post. When it goes quiet, you start posting, and the work that comes from it arrives months later. The gap between projects keeps repeating.
Finished work, never written up
A rebrand launches, the packaging hits the shelves, the annual report goes to print. The client is thrilled, you move on to the next job, and the project never makes it into a case study or a post.
A portfolio isn't found in search
Businesses search “how to brief a designer”, “what's in brand guidelines” and “graphic designer near me”. A gallery of beautiful images with no words around them doesn't answer any of that.
Referrals don't scale
Most of your best clients came through someone you know. That's lovely until the people who refer you are busy with their own work, and you have no other way of being found.
You finished a rebrand on Friday, and its story is ready to share by Tuesday.
It's Monday. A local brewery's rebrand went live on Friday, you've two packaging jobs in the studio, and you can't remember the last time you posted something that wasn't a quick shot of a print proof.
You paste your studio's website into cmo.so. Maggie reads it and writes your brand profile: your identity, packaging and print work, the independent food and drink brands and charities you work with, how you run a project from workshop to guidelines, what sets you apart from bigger agencies and your friendly, plain-speaking voice. You correct one thing: you've stopped building websites and now partner with a developer.
By Tuesday the drafts are waiting, each with a picture in your studio's look: a blog post on how to brief a designer for a rebrand, a LinkedIn post about the thinking behind the brewery's new identity, an Instagram post on choosing paper stock for packaging and a Google Business update for businesses looking for a designer nearby. You approve three and rewrite the opening of the fourth in your own words.
The posts go out at the times you set for each channel, and each comes back with its link. While you're at the printer checking colour, Maggie is already planning posts for the run-up to next year's budgets, and Search Console in cmo.so shows which guides are bringing businesses to your site.
A marketing assistant who keeps your studio's pipeline full
Each of those problems has an answer, and you still decide what goes out under your studio's name.
Guides that bring in briefs
How to brief a designer, what brand guidelines should include, choosing print finishes, planning a rebrand, written for Google and for AI answers. Published to your WordPress, Webflow, Wix or Shopify site, or any site through the cmo.so API.
Blog on autopilotEvery project told well
Projects on your website become posts about the brief, the thinking and the result, spread across channels and weeks, so finished work keeps working for you long after hand-over.
Project storiesSteady posts, busy or quiet
Posts are planned and queued ahead, so your studio stays visible during the busiest weeks, and you aren't starting from nothing when things go quiet.
Content planA look you'd sign off
Enter your website and Maggie builds your brand profile: your services, clients, process, what sets you apart, competitors and voice. You choose a picture look and post template per channel, so posts match your studio's style.
Brand profileOne project, every channel
One idea becomes a post for each channel in its own style: LinkedIn for marketing managers and founders, Instagram and Facebook for visual work (in beta), and Google Business for clients searching nearby.
Every channelApprove between rounds of amends
By default nothing goes out until you approve it. Swipe through drafts in the iPhone app or at app.cmo.so, rewrite a line, skip a post or pause a channel during a big deadline.
ApprovalsYour marketing team, in your pocket
Real screens from the cmo.so app on iPhone.
From your studio's website to a steady stream of posts in four steps
Enter your website
Maggie reads it and drafts your studio's brand profile in minutes.
Check your profile
Correct your services and clients, choose a picture look for each channel and pick the channels you want.
Review the drafts
Your first week of posts arrives with pictures. Approve, edit or skip each one.
Let them go out
Approved posts go out at each channel's times and every one comes back with its link.
Why not just…
The usual ways design studios try to win new clients, and where each one runs out.
…post on portfolio sites?
Portfolio platforms are full of other designers, and clients rarely hire from them. Guides and project stories on your own site answer the questions businesses actually search.
…do it yourselves in quiet weeks?
Then the posts stop the moment the next big job arrives, and the gap between projects comes round again. Maggie keeps posts going whether the studio is flat out or not.
…hire a marketing person?
A full-time marketing hire in the UK costs around £3,000 a month before tools, which is a lot for a small studio. Maggie plans, writes and publishes every week from £15 a month.
…write it with ChatGPT?
You still brief it, check it, make the picture and post it yourself, and it doesn't know your projects, your process or your voice. Maggie remembers your studio and puts posts out on schedule.
Cut the £5,900/mo marketing bill to £15/mo
Everything a marketing team does, done by Maggie.
| What needs doing | Without cmo.so | With cmo.so |
|---|---|---|
| Full-time marketing hire | £3,000/mo | Included |
| SEO and AI search (GEO) agency | £1,000/mo | Included |
| Content writer, AI-assisted | £500/mo | Included |
| Social media manager, freelance | £800/mo | Included |
| Designed pictures for every post | £300/mo | Included |
| SEO and GEO softwareRank tracking, site audits, AI visibility | £250/mo | Included |
| AI writing and image tools | £50/mo | Included |
| Working hours | Office hours | 24/7 |
| Total per month | £5,900+ | From £15/mo |
Typical UK costs for a small business in 2026, with AI already cutting freelance rates. Estimates only; your own quotes will vary.
- 5 social posts, 30 once verified
- 15 Maggie messages a day
- Upgrade any time
- 12 posts a day
- 150 Maggie messages a day
- All channels
- 96 posts a day
- 1,000 Maggie messages a day
- All channels
Per website, billed monthly. Blog and social posts share one allowance; your best plan sets how much you can talk to Maggie across all your websites.
Marketing automation for graphic design studios: your questions
Still unsure?
What is marketing automation for graphic design studios?
It's software that does the repeating work of marketing a design studio: planning topics, writing blog and social posts about your projects and process, making pictures and publishing them on schedule.
With cmo.so, Maggie does all of it from your studio's website, and nothing goes out until you approve it.
How do graphic design studios get more clients online?
Graphic design studios get more clients online by being found when businesses are planning design work: guides on their own website that answer how to brief, budget and plan a project, regular LinkedIn posts that show how they think, and an active Google Business profile for local searches.
Maggie writes those posts every week, and Search Console in cmo.so shows which guides bring businesses to your site.
How much does marketing automation cost for a design studio?
There's a free plan with no card needed. Paid plans are per website and billed monthly: Air at £15 a month covers two posts a day, which suits most small studios, and Pro at £45 a month suits a growing studio posting on several channels.
Founding members get lower prices for good on every plan until 1 January 2027. You can cancel any time.
Which channels should graphic design studios start with?
Most studios start with LinkedIn, where the marketing managers and founders who commission design work spend time, plus their own blog for guides and project stories.
Instagram and Facebook are in beta and suit showing visual work, and Google Business helps clients searching for a designer nearby. Each channel has its own posting times and queue.
Will the pictures look generic next to our work?
You choose the picture look and post template for each channel, and Maggie learns from what you approve and edit.
If a picture isn't right for a post, edit or skip it before it goes out. Nothing is published without your approval by default.
Can it write about our client projects?
Yes, from what's already on your website and in your brand profile. Maggie doesn't invent clients, results or quotes.
If a project is under wraps, leave it out of your profile, and you can edit any post before approving it so you only share what the client is happy with.
Will posts sound like a designer wrote them?
They're written in the voice from your brand profile, and you can correct it, such as cutting the jargon or keeping it more personal.
Every edit you make teaches Maggie a little more about how your studio talks, so drafts need fewer changes over time.
Do you run ads or send our newsletter?
No, cmo.so doesn't run ads or send email newsletters. Maggie plans, writes and publishes blog and social posts.
Your posts and guides can still give your newsletter something to link to.
Is it safe to let AI post for my design studio?
Yes, because nothing goes out until you approve it. Approvals are on by default, and you can keep them on for every channel or let a channel you trust run on autopilot.
Social channels connect through each platform's official sign-in, so cmo.so never sees your passwords, and cmo.so never sells or rents your data.
Can we use cmo.so for our clients too?
Yes. You can add several websites to one account, each with its own brand profile, channels, schedule and approvals.
Elite at £195 a month per website is made for agencies and many brands, with up to 96 posts a day.
Can the whole studio approve posts?
Yes. In Me → Team you can add people and choose what each can see or change, using presets such as editor or manager.
So a designer can check the post about their project while you keep an eye on the blog.
Give your own studio the attention you give every client
Enter your website. Your brand profile and first week of posts are ready in minutes, and nothing goes out until you approve it.
- Free plan, no card needed
- You approve every post
- Cancel any time