Copy-paste replies for when a client, PM or exec overrules you. Here’s one. Push back on it.
New references after round two count as a direction change.
I’m happy to explore it: that’s [X hours / $X], or we can finish the current direction first and look at this one after. Which do you prefer?
Scene made up, but still unsettlingly familiar. Reply shown is from the AI Objection Pack, situation 2.
You earned Scope Creep Survivor.
“Love it so far. I made some AI images last night. Can we make it more like these?”
A client, round three.
or drag it off the table
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Billing for the extra round instead of doing it free.
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Holding your rate when they want the same job, worse, for less.
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Five things you’ll hear this year, and what to say back.
“AI could do it in 10 seconds.”
“Can you just match the AI version?”
“We made the screens with AI, so we can skip design.”
“Just clean up the AI file.”
“You have AI now, so can we see 10 directions by tomorrow?”
They say: “We made the screens with AI, so we can skip design.”
Love that we have something to react to.
Can we put it in front of 5 users this week? Then we’ll know which parts to keep before anyone builds it.
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