CarExpert Studio
A two-day social tile tool that grew into CarExpert Studio: one home for the marketing team’s graphics, links and mockups.
- Role
- Designer & Developer
- Client
- CarExpert
- Year
- 2026
- With
- Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres, Railway, Puppeteer, Payload CMS, Claude API, FLUX
When CarExpert’s in-house designer left the business, nobody sat down and formally reassigned their work. It just quietly landed on whoever was nearby.
For the social media team, that meant adding “make the tiles” to a job that was already full. Their process became: visit the site, find the hero image, download it, read the article to understand the content type, open Canva, upload the image, wrestle the headline into a layout, export, repeat. Ten articles a day. Five days a week. Up to twenty minutes each.
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