One hour, live and open. We'll walk through whatever's surfacing from the new course — questions in the comments, projects you're stuck on, and the places where the methodology lands cleanly or runs into something you don't have a good answer for yet. The next course gets shaped by what comes up tonight. Bring a real project if you want one workshopped. Here's the link: https://www.skool.com/live/D56XPPZqbvD See you tonight

The new course is live: How to Get Client Approval, Eliminate Reworks, and Grow Your Business After weeks of recording, the full methodology course is published. This is the work I've spent years refining at DARKSQUARE — the process that took us from burning around $50K per project on reworks down to under $10K, and that's helped clients see real revenue impact after launch. (One rebrand: a 33% sales lift in the 12 months post-relaunch.) What's in it: - Stakeholder discovery, and harmonizing what the team actually agrees on (and where they don't) - The Pinterest method for sourcing 100+ swatches that are actually useful - Building two to three tightly cropped moodboards that test something real - Validating those moodboards with Constellations - The stakeholder presentation that closes discovery and gets a creative brief approved in the meeting Each lesson is a video with a written companion you can scroll back to. The capstone includes two real case studies — one large-scale rebrand with 22 stakeholders, one with two founders — showing how the method scales both directions. I want your feedback. This community gets sharper every time someone pushes back, asks a clarifying question, or names something I missed. Three things I'd love to hear from you as you go through the lessons: - What was the most useful idea you took away? - Where did you push back, or where did something not translate cleanly to your work? - What did I miss? What would you want me to cover in the next course? Drop a comment under any lesson, or reply to this post. The people who comment now help shape what the next course looks like — that's not a slogan, it's literally how I decide what to build next. Go take a look. The capstone lesson in particular — How to Prevent Rework With Moodboards — is where the full case for the method lives.

"Do you see a someone skilled in their work? They will work for kings, not unimportant people." -Proverbs 22:29 The new course is live, on how to align stakeholders and get approval is live. First, take the course. If you haven't already, the new methodology course is up in the classroom now. This is the work I've spent years refining at DARKSQUARE — the process that took us from burning around $50K per project on reworks down to under $10K, and that's helped clients see real revenue impact after launch (one rebrand: a 33% sales lift in the 12 months post-relaunch). The full method — stakeholder discovery through Pinterest sourcing through moodboard validation through the presentation that closes the brief in the meeting — is all there. Block 90 minutes between now and Monday and watch it through. You don't need to memorize it, but the conversation on Monday lands harder when the lessons are fresh. T hen come Monday. Once a every new and full moon, we get on a call — live, open, no script — for support, collaboration, and creativity around the work. This first one rises with the course launch, and there's a reason it's timed that way. Why come. The methodology in the course is the result of years of refinement. But the way it gets sharper from here is conversation — with the people running it on their own projects, with their own clients, hitting their own obstacles. Every time I run this for a new audience I learn something. A client situation I hadn't seen. A friction point that needs a better answer. A use case that opens a door I hadn't walked through. That's how the next course gets built. You get a direct seat at that table. You also get something most creative work doesn't offer: a room full of people who think this way. Most of us are running alone, on our own clients, with our own deadlines, fielding our own moments of am I the only one seeing this? A live, open conversation with thoughtful creatives who care about doing this well — and who are willing to share what's working and ask what isn't — is rare. The full moon is the right time for it.

I am wrapping up a whole course on how to get client approval on creative work faster and easier. This should reduce cost and frustration for you as a professional creative and for your clients who work with you, making everybody happier and making you more money. You don't need constellations to go through this lesson or to implement what you learn, but it does help a little if you do. Check back later this week for the full course to be published, and post me your war stories of hard-won or lost client approval in your career, below.

Paid tier Skool members now get access to Constellations. If you sign up for the premium level with Skool you will see a new lesson that has instructions for how you can access the platform and conduct your own tests with it. It is a limited version where you can only have one test published at a time, but it's a deep discount from the full version and if you are a solo professional it's probably all that you need and a great place to start. More free and premium content coming soon. Thanks for supporting me and the project, I really appreciate everyone here and the great conversations we're having. -Joe