▲ Built for the founder who landed here on purpose
The AI Mentor for Freelance Designers
You are the best designer your clients have ever worked with, and you are still the cheapest employee you have ever had.
Design is the part you are great at.
▲ This is your week · let's name it
Design is the part you are great at. The business around the design is the part quietly bleeding you dry. You lose billable days to writing proposals, chasing invoices, and answering "can you just make one small change" for the ninth time. You price by the project instead of by the outcome, so a logo that reprints on a thousand trucks earns you the same flat fee as a logo nobody sees. You have no retainer base, which means every month starts at zero and every dry spell is a small panic. And the deepest trap is this: you are the entire delivery engine, the entire sales team, and the entire operations department — so growth means working more nights, and there are no more nights.
The reason it never gets fixed is not that you are lazy. It is that the fix — a real pipeline, a productized offer, a client process that runs itself — is exactly the kind of work you never have time for, because you are always heads-down finishing the current project. You do not need another design tool. You need a senior operator who can see the whole studio and an AI team that builds the machine while you keep the client work moving.
▲ What lands in your hands
No filler. Just what you walk away with.
Your 24/7 AI Executive Council — Atlas, Aria, Nova, Phoenix & Diana
Five specialized AI agents trained on your studio, your niche, and your ideal client — running the business work you keep pushing to midnight. They draft your proposals and scopes of work so a new lead gets a polished response in an hour, not next week. They run outbound so your pipeline fills between projects instead of going quiet the second you deliver. They turn your finished work into case studies and a portfolio funnel that books discovery calls while you sleep. And they package your one-off services into a productized retainer offer clients can say yes to on the spot — so you stop selling hours and start selling a monthly outcome.
Italo Campilii — Your Weekly Fractional CMO
Every week you sit down 1-on-1 with Italo: a founder who has built and sold real brands and knows exactly why talented designers stay broke. He helps you fix the two things that cap every freelance studio — what you charge and how you package it — and rebuild your offer around outcomes and retainers instead of flat project fees. He tells you which one move actually raises your income this month, so your scarce non-billable hours go to the lever that matters instead of another portfolio tweak nobody asked for. This is senior business judgment aimed at the studio, not more feedback on your kerning.
Done-With-You Systems That Run the Studio Without You
Over 90 days we build the machine your studio has been missing: a lead funnel that books qualified discovery calls, a client onboarding and intake flow that ends the endless back-and-forth, an automated proposal-to-invoice pipeline, and a productized retainer offer with the delivery process to support it. You keep all of it — no retainer dependency on us. This is the difference between a freelancer who earns only while designing and a studio owner whose business books work, onboards clients, and collects payment whether or not you are at the desk.
This is for you if
- Freelance designers with a strong portfolio and steady referrals who still hit an income ceiling because every dollar needs their hands on the work
- Designers stuck in project-by-project feast-and-famine who want a retainer base and a pipeline that fills without them cold-pitching
- Studio-owners-in-waiting who know the bottleneck is them running sales, delivery, and operations all at once
- Anyone tired of undercharging and losing billable days to proposals, revisions, and admin, ready to build systems that handle the business side
This is not for you if
- Designers with no paying clients yet — you need a working service and real demand before systems have something to scale
- Anyone who wants a done-for-you agency to run everything while they stay passive — MentorMe is done-with-you, and your design skill plus a few focused hours a week is the input
- People looking for design software or another template pack — this builds the business around your design, not the design itself
Founder —
You searched for this for a reason. You're carrying the whole thing yourself, and you're tired of being the only one who can do the work.
You don't have a discipline problem. You have a system problem — and no one ever handed you the system.
So here it is: 90 days, real systems, a fractional CMO in your corner and an AI clone doing the work you keep doing yourself. Your name stays on the win. We just rope in.
Start your plan. The first foothold is free.
— Italo
▲ Your move
Start your 90-day build.
Answer a few questions and walk away with a custom 90-day roadmap — free, no card, no call. Your first concrete step out of the chaos.
▲ Before you decide
The questions you're already asking.
I barely have time to finish client work. How would I build all this?
That is the entire point. The AI executive council does the building — the funnel, the proposals, the outbound, the onboarding flow — in the hours you spend designing. Your weekly session with Italo makes sure the handful of decisions only you can make land on the one or two things that move income. You are not taking on a second job. You are finally getting leverage on the studio you already run.
How is this different from a design course or a business coach for creatives?
A course hands you videos and leaves you to build the business alone in time you do not have. A typical coach gives you advice and a homework list. MentorMe gives you a human fractional CMO plus an AI executive council that actually builds the pipeline, the retainer offer, and the client systems alongside you. You walk away with working infrastructure you own, not a folder of modules you feel guilty about.
I charge per project. Can you really get me to retainers?
Yes — it is one of the first things Italo works on with you. We reshape your one-off services into a productized monthly offer clients understand and renew, and the AI council builds the delivery process and the sales assets to sell it. Moving even a few clients from project fees to retainers is usually what turns a stressful freelance income into a stable studio.
What does the founding investment cover?
It covers the full 90-day build: your custom AI clone and executive council trained on your studio, all five AI agents, weekly 1-on-1 sessions with Italo as your fractional CMO, and every system we build together — funnel, retainer offer, onboarding, proposal-to-invoice pipeline, and operations. Founding seats are a one-time investment in the $5K to $11K range depending on the scope of your build, with no ongoing retainer required to keep what we build. There are 10 founding seats at this price so Italo's weekly attention stays real.
What happens after 90 days — do I keep the systems?
Everything we build is yours. The AI clone, the funnel, the retainer offer, the client workflows — none of it disappears when the engagement ends. The goal is to hand you a studio that books and delivers work without us in the room, so scaling or hiring becomes a decision you make from strength. You are not renting a growth team. You are building one around your own craft, and you own it forever.
▲ The adventure is the climb