Why your AI-designed brand is invisible, and the 3-step fix

AI for Founders with Ryan Estes · Sep 8, 2026 · 1h 1m

Everyone got the same tools. Almost nobody got taste.

Jacqueline Schmidt grew up two subway stops from tigers.

The Bronx Zoo was her backyard. Her favorite exhibit was the sloth, which she went back to visit twenty-five years later and found out had died. She spent summers collecting salamanders in the woods and carrying them home in her Smurf boots, fifty at a time, to the ongoing horror of her grandparents. She drew animals constantly. Then she sold the drawings. Then the drawings became a company.

Today she is CEO of Radiance, an AI-powered design agency backed through Infinity…