For artists · Free
Free tools
Tools for working through pricing, opportunities and direction, built from real conversations with artists. They run in your browser: nothing you enter is sent to us or stored.
Three tools
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Direction · About five minutes
Artist Career Compass
See where your practice sits now, where you want to take it, and which of five creative ecosystems it lines up with.
- Where your practice sits now
- Where you want to take it
- Which ecosystems your work fits
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Pricing
Commission pricing calculator
You set your own fee and the tool builds the full quote around it, then shows the minimum your fee should be to cover the time the work takes.
- Artist fee, materials and complexity
- Usage and licensing rights
- Contingency margin
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03
Pricing
Brand collaboration fee calculator
You set your creative fee for making the work and the tool adds a licence fee on top, based on how the brand will use it.
- Creative fee for making the work
- Licence based on usage, reach and term
- Territory and exclusivity
£250 · 90 minutes
Want to talk a result through?
The tools can show a pattern. If a result raises more questions than it answers, that is usually the useful part. A strategy session works through one decision properly: a fee, an opportunity, a direction.
Questions
Are these tools free?
Yes. All three are free and run entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is saved or shared, and there is no email to give.
How accurate are the pricing figures?
The calculators give a considered starting range, not a fixed quote. Real pricing depends on the specific project, the client and the context, which no calculator can fully hold. Use the numbers to anchor your thinking, then pressure-test them.
What is a usage or licensing fee?
A licence fee is what a client pays for the right to use your work, separate from the fee for making it. The more prominent, widespread and long-lasting the usage, the higher the licence. Keeping ownership of the work and licensing specific uses usually serves an artist better than handing over full copyright.
Will the Career Compass tell me what to do?
No. It gives a high-level read on where your practice is pointing, not a verdict on your work. It is a starting point for a decision, not the decision itself.