Brief to ad, in days
1
The brief
POISE's brief was about the app's real screens: one safe-to-spend number, budgets that never turn red, and a clear view of where money goes. A client's brief would carry their own app's screens; POISE is invented, so we drew them ourselves.

- Type
- Calm personal-finance app
- Home
- Safe-to-spend, at a glance
- Budgets
- Three rings, never red
- Flow
- Where every dollar goes
- Balance
- “You’re okay.”
- Accent
- One Serene Mint signal
- Voice
- Reassuring, never alarming
- Platform
- iOS · Android (concept)
2
The references
The explainer was made from one approved reference: the Calm Dashboard reading "You're okay" and $84 safe to spend, on one phone held straight so the screen always reads, in deep teal and cream.
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- App screen
- The real Calm Dashboard — “You’re okay”, $84 safe to spend
- Device
- One phone, straight on, the screen always readable
- Colour
- Deep teal into cream, one Serene Mint glow
- Mood
- Still and quiet — nothing flashing, nothing red
3
The film
With that reference approved, AI made a 15-second motion-graphics explainer, and the words and logo went on afterwards. Three frames:



4
The ad set
Five stills from the same brief: the safe-to-spend screen, where the money goes, budgets that stay calm, the whole dashboard at a glance, and the wordmark.
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The timeline
Studio quality — without the studio calendar.
Traditional
4–5 weeks
Booking a studio, scheduling a shoot, rounds of edits — strung across everyone’s calendars.
AI WISE
4–5 days
Brief, script, reference images, film, then the ad images, each checked by a person before the next step.