Design

Generating ad concepts from brand guidelines with AI

Use an AI assistant (Claude Cowork/Code) as a creative-director helper by supplying brand guidelines, product details, and initial creative ideas to quickly produce multiple ad concepts that can then be refined into final assets.

Why the human is still essential here

A human provides the brand context and creative direction, selects which concepts are worth pursuing, and does the final pixel-perfect design and edits (e.g., in Figma) before anything is shipped.

How people use this

Brand-aligned ad copy variations

Feed brand voice guidelines and product value props to generate multiple headline/body/call-to-action options for each ad concept, then pick and polish the best performers.

ChatGPT / Claude

Key visual and moodboard exploration

Generate several stylistic directions (photography style, color mood, composition ideas) that match brand guidelines to inform the visual concept before final design work.

Midjourney / Adobe Firefly

Editable ad layout drafts for refinement

Turn selected concepts into rough but editable layouts (e.g., multiple sizes/placements) that designers can quickly bring to pixel-perfect in the design file.

Figma (Figma AI) / Canva

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I've been using AI much more substantially in my workflows for the past two months.

I've been using AI much more substantially in my workflows for the past two months.

I always thought AI had a ton of potential, but, like many, I used it primarily for copy editing rather than doing most of the work.


Now, it's rare I don't have Claude Cowork/Code helping with a workstream in a given day.


On one hand, it's certainly not perfect, but one observation is that it's substantially "unblocked" me, allowing me to do things that would either take much longer, or that I just wouldn't be able to accomplish.


With the pace of change, things will be substantially better within a matter of months.


That's both exciting and terrifying.


Here's an example: at Marco Experiences we're experimenting with new ad formats.


I'm not a copywriter, nor am I a graphic designer.


But by providing access to our brand guidelines, information about our products, and some creative ideas, within a matter of hours I'm able to have a creative director assistant with 4 concepts for ads.


The output is editable, but not quite pixel perfect / fully usable. We still use Figma to get things to 100%.


This small example of using AI in a marketing-related workflow would have been impossible a year ago and unimaginable a few years ago.

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Suman SivaCEO and Co-Founder at Marco Experiences
Feb 24, 2026