AI Cafe: How to Be a One-Person Creative Team Using AI
Hiring a creative team isn't in the budget for most solo founders, but the content still has to look on-brand when it goes out on socials. AI image and video tools close that gap, as long as you know which models to reach for and how to avoid the tells that give a campaign away as machine-made.
Karen Manga of No Code Girl and Natalie de Groot of The Fashion Aigency run a hands-on session on making on-brand images for your own business, with Natalie working through her creative process live, from reference images to a finished campaign. It's built for founders with an app, a physical product, or a brand they want to show off, and no design or coding experience is assumed. Bring your laptop and you'll leave with your first creatives underway.
What we'll cover
The models worth knowing: which image and video models to use, and what each one is best at.
The AI tells: the signs that make a campaign look AI-generated, and how to keep them out of your own work.
A live build: Natalie's process end to end, from the first reference image to a finished campaign.
Your own first creatives: where to start once you're back at your desk.
Agenda November 19th, 2026
8:45 - 9:30 am • Coffee and Socialize
9:30 - 10:30 am • Workshop and Live Demo in the Clubhouse with Audience Q&A
11:00 am • Space closes to the public
About: Natalie de Groot
Natalie de Groot spent more than twenty years designing, developing and bringing fashion products to market before founding The Fashion Aigency in 2025, where she is creative director. She works with brands on turning a reference or an idea into original, market-ready designs, visuals and campaigns.
She was among the first people in fashion to work seriously with generative tools, and is now a creative partner to several of them, including Flora, Lumoo, Raspberry, Imagineart, Caimera and Botika. Favikon named her one of its Top 100 LinkedIn creators globally, her essay "When Vision Became Visible" appears in the 2025 Generative AI Dispatch, and her work was the cover feature of Altered District. She studied at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and is based in Los Angeles.
Hosted by Karen Manga
Karen Manga is the founder of No Code Girl, a community where creator-entrepreneurs learn AI systems so they can spend less time on busywork and more on the work they care about.
She spent five years as a Senior Business Analyst at an ecommerce agency, and built and launched Matcha Map, an iOS app for finding and reviewing matcha cafés.
About The KINN
The KINN is a membership network, accelerator, and collaborative workspace for conscious entrepreneurs, based in Venice, CA. Running tailored inner development and business accelerator programs for startups, providing executive coaching, accountability, and access to a top-tier LA-based community of entrepreneurs, creatives, intrapreneurs, and investors. If you're interested in learning more about KINN Membership, please visit http://thekinn.co/apply
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