Convince your boss
Design Mentor AI pays for itself in a single avoided review cycle. Here's an email you can copy, tweak, and send to get it expensed.
Subject: Request to expense Design Mentor AI ($149.99/year)
Hi [Manager],
I'd like to expense a subscription to Design Mentor AI, an AI design mentor I've started using to raise the quality of my work. It gives me senior-level critique on my designs, portfolio and career feedback, and practical help using AI in my workflow, on demand, 24/7.
Why I think it's worth it for the team:
- Faster, higher-quality output. I catch issues before review, so we spend fewer cycles going back and forth.
- A senior second opinion whenever I'm stuck, without pulling a lead designer off their own work.
- Continuous skill growth that compounds for the whole team over time.
It's $149.99 for the whole year, which works out to just $12.50/month and is 37% cheaper than paying monthly. That's less than a single hour of agency design time, it's one simple annual expense, and I can cancel anytime with no lock-in.
Could we expense this? Happy to share examples of how I'm using it and what it's helped me ship.
Thanks,
[Your name]
Cheaper than one review
A month costs less than an hour of senior or contract design time.
No lock-in
Monthly or annual, cancel anytime. Easy to try on a real project.
Team-wide upside
Better craft and faster ramp-up compound across everyone's work.