No. AI has no taste, no client, and no site. What it can do is run the studio around you. A designer's answer to the question clients are starting to ask.
Michelle Fiallo The $134,000 AI headline is a contractor's number. The honest design-studio version is $80,000, and the more important finding is where the compounding hours actually live.
Michelle Fiallo Twenty-two percent of renovating homeowners now use AI before they call a designer. What they ask, where they stop, and the three intake adjustments that turn the AI-shaped brief into an advantage.
Michelle Fiallo Sixty-nine percent of design firms use AI as a stand-alone tool. The 2026 Houzz data shows why the savings stall at 3.6 hours a week, and the three connections that change it.
