How can AI help me as a solo artist without a team?

Think of AI as an employee for your one-person business. You’re a solopreneur—you don’t have a team. AI becomes that second, third, fourth person on your assembly line. It helps you accomplish more in less time across every facet of your business: writing better artwork descriptions, improving your SEO, crafting professional correspondence with clients, generating ideas for new work, and more. The key is seeing it as a modern tool that levels you up, not something to wait on until it’s ‘perfect’ or to avoid because it feels unfamiliar. The artists who embrace AI now and experiment with it will have drastically different businesses than their peers five years from now. It’s fundamentally about expanding your GDP—your gross domestic product as an artist—getting more widgets out of your factory. Use it to learn, to grow, and to handle tasks that free you up for creation.

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Asked by an artist exploring AI tools · Answered by Patrick Shanahan · art-marketing-podcast · 2025-02-28