Built for Designers Who Run Their Own Business
Manage client briefs, send professional invoices, and track every project — without juggling five different tools. One workspace for your entire design business.
Sound Familiar?
These are the problems designers tell us about every week.
Chasing Payments with Ugly Invoices
You spend hours in Google Docs formatting invoices that still look unprofessional. Clients pay late because there is no status tracking.
Briefs Scattered Everywhere
Client feedback lives in email, Slack, Google Docs, and sticky notes. Finding the latest approved version is a scavenger hunt.
No Single View of Your Business
Project progress is in Trello, finances in a spreadsheet, invoices in FreshBooks. You never see the full picture in one place.
Paying $50+/mo for Separate Tools
Notion for docs, FreshBooks for invoicing, Trello for tasks, a spreadsheet for finances. The monthly cost adds up fast.
How Second Brain Solves It
Everything you need to run a design business, in one workspace.
Branded Invoices in Seconds
Add line items, apply tax rates, preview, and export as PDF. Your invoices look polished without touching a design tool.
Project Briefs in the Block Editor
Write style guides, mood boards, and creative briefs with a rich text editor. Keep everything linked to the client and project.
Kanban Boards per Client
Track every project phase — concept, revisions, delivery — on visual task boards with priorities and due dates.
Financial Overview at a Glance
See total income, outstanding invoices, and expenses in one dashboard. Know exactly who owes you and when.
Client Contacts with Full History
Store client details, link every invoice and project, and never dig through email to find an address or tax ID again.
A Day in the Life
How a freelance brand designer uses Second Brain
9:00 AM — You open Second Brain and check the dashboard. Two invoices are marked as paid overnight. One project is waiting for client feedback.
10:00 AM — A new client emails a brief. You create a contact, open a new project space, and paste the brief into the block editor. You add a mood board page and a style guide page in the same space.
1:00 PM — You finish the first concept round. You move the task card from “In Progress” to “Review” on the kanban board and make a note in the project brief.
4:00 PM — Time to invoice. You create an invoice linked to the client contact, add line items for the discovery phase, preview it, and export a branded PDF. Sent in under two minutes.
5:00 PM — You glance at the finance dashboard: monthly income is up 12%, and you spot a client who has not paid an invoice from three weeks ago. You send a reminder. Day done.
Designers and Creatives Love It
“Replaced Notion + FreshBooks + Trello with one tool. I write project briefs, send invoices, and track tasks all in the same workspace. Saves me 5+ hours a week.”
Alex Moretti
Brand Designer at Studio Moretti
“I used the hourly rate calculator before even signing up. Then I created an account, set up my profile, and sent my first invoice to a client — all in one session. Brilliant onboarding.”
Jana Weber
Copywriter & Content Strategist
Your Design Business, One Workspace
Stop stitching together Notion, FreshBooks, and Trello. Second Brain gives you invoices, briefs, tasks, and finances in a single tool — free during beta. Learn how to write a freelance proposal or estimate your next project with our project price calculator.
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