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Welcome toBrandCamp× Daytime Design Co.

Brand Camp · Live online · Waitlist open

Turn your AI into the senior brand designer of your dreams.

A live camp where you pull your brand together with a brand designer, then hand it to your AI so everything you make looks like you.

No design or tech experience needed.

3 days live
Online, with me guiding every step
Replays and tools
To streamline the process. Yours to keep.
Waitlist only access
To discounts and early access

Made with AI. Directed by me.

This whole brand.
Zero design tools.

The entire Brand Camp brand was made with AI: the colors, the illustrations, the images, and this website. I gave AI the references, direction and feedback, and never opened a design tool. This is the exact process I'll teach you at camp.

Three Brand Camp social designs side by side: Pull it together, Lock it in, and Hand it off.
AI-generated Brand Camp sweatshirt, workbook, badges and stationery arranged on a wooden table.

Sound familiar?

You know it when you see it.

But explaining your brand to someone else, including your AI? That's the hard part.

So your website, posts and slides keep looking like three different businesses.

The order matters

Foundation first.
Then AI.

First, we define your brand and write it down. Then we teach your AI to work from it, so it has something clear to follow every time you make something.

What we cover

Pull it together

Find the look of your brand.

Bring the screenshots, saved posts, old logo and half-written words. AI shows you directions, you react, and you land on the one that feels like you.

Lock it in

Make the decisions and write them down.

Colors, fonts, photos, illustration. Every choice lands in one brand guide, in plain language your AI can follow every time.

Hand it off

Teach your AI, then put it to work.

Your brand guide goes into the ChatGPT or Claude you already use. Then we make real things with it, live, before camp ends.

The first campers

Straight from the camp chat.

Our founding cohort camped in October. These came in while we were live, screenshots and all.

Yesterday was incredible. I was amazed at what Claude created and how easy it felt. As someone who's dragged her feet with AI and is frequently overwhelmed with kids, I wouldn't have been able to do it without the added skills. I was also unexpectedly emotional at the result. It felt like my whole brand and body of work was reflected across these beautiful assets in a way I could have never seen for myself.
Finally doing brand camp homework and I'm on literal cloud nine. This is the most fun I've ever had? lol
My mind is blown
Emily has been a million steps ahead, and she explains it so clearly which is amazing! Feel like I have learnt everything AI from her!
So. worth. it!
It's crazy how my background as an interior designer is finally showing up here. It feels like for the first time my brand is taking on all the parts of me. This is THE BEST training I have done in YEARS! I'm not kidding.
I love mine. It led me in a totally different direction than I thought it would, but I love it. I have two businesses, one is copywriting and messaging strategy, so I put in my messaging guide and it helped a lot.
Em it just brought back the first drafts. This. is. AMAZING!
Hearing how you talk to Claude has been super helpful!
This is gorgeous
I iterated a lot but feel like I am really picking up on what certain things actually mean once I see it in the actual carousels. And then I have it update itself which is really great and easy!!
Mine already generated sooo good
You're brilliant Em!!
I have the basics moving for a new updated look! Incredible!
YAY mine looks amazing!!!
This is so fun!

What you get

Your brand. Your AI. Yours to keep.

A brand you can describe, an AI that knows how to use it, and real pieces already made.

Live with meLive sessions where I work on screen and you follow along on your own brand.

Replays + workbookCome back to the process whenever you need it.

Your brand guideEvery decision on one page, written so a person and your AI can both use it.

Epic AI tools built for youThe process I use with my high-ticket brand clients, broken down into work-along tools that guide you through every step.

Social content and moreHow to apply your brand to your posts, your carousels and everything else you make.

Real-time feedbackFeedback on your work from me, a professional brand and web designer, while you build it.

You don't have to be a designer.

(But designers are welcome too.)

This is for you if…

  • You don't have a designer and aren't ready to hire one.
  • You have a designer and want everything you make between projects to match their work.
  • You're nervous about AI and want someone to walk you through it. Every step is shown on screen, with the AI you already use.
  • You ARE a designer and want a repeatable way to bring AI into your process, with your eye and judgment leading the work.

The waitlist

Get on the list and you'll hear about the next camp before anyone else.

Waitlist campers get the dates first, along with the waitlist price.

Em Smale smiling in an orange sweatshirt and black cap.
Em Smale

Your counselor

A brand designer who uses AI intentionally.

I'm the founder and creative director of Daytime Design Co., a Minneapolis studio for brand, web and product design. I led design for Google, Ford, Delta and UnitedHealthcare before building Daytime.

Now I train founders and their teams to put AI to work on their brand. I know where AI helps and where it needs a designer's eye. At camp, that eye is yours.

Questions

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Walk in with ideas. Walk out with a brand that looks like you everywhere, and an AI that keeps it that way.

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