092: How Nick generates 9 high-performing image ads in 10 minutes

Hello, you powerful Creatives!

Welcome to Volume 9️⃣2️⃣ of Creative Cuts 🔪 – your weekly dose of creative strategy from your friends at CreativeOS.

Today, we’re pulling back the curtain on a practitioner whose approach embodies everything we believe in: simplicity, speed, and discipline.

Meet Nick Theriot.

Let’s not sugarcoat it:

Most teams overthink creative and underdeliver results.

Too many brainstorms.

Too many blank canvases.

Too much time spent hoping an ad will hit.

Nick doesn’t play that game.

He’s built a system using CreativeOS + ChatGPT that churns out consistently high-performing image ads in minutes.

Here’s how:

1️⃣ Prime ChatGPT with only your truth.

Forget generic prompts and junk outputs.

Nick feeds ChatGPT two focused docs:

• His product one-pager
• His market research (pain points, use cases, audience triggers)

Then he tells it:

"Only use these. Don’t guess. Don’t make stuff up."

Result?

Messaging that’s sharp, aligned, and customer-first. Every. Time.

If your GPT output feels mid, this is why:

You’re giving it garbage inputs and asking it to spit out gold.

2️⃣ Build from proven winners. Not vibes.

Inside CreativeOS, Nick picks from ad templates that weren’t just designed—they were battle-tested.

Every template is vetted like this:

• Start with 100,000+ Shopify brands
• Filter to the top ~800 with sustained performance
• Reverse-engineer layouts from ads that crushed spend, conversions, and longevity

This means every design has already been validated at scale.

You’re not guessing what might work.

You’re standing on what has worked—again and again.

3️⃣ Move faster than the market.

Nick takes the template into Canva (yep, Canva - because speed beats ceremony).

Then he goes to work like a machine:

• Drops in the winning headlines ChatGPT just generated
• Rotates sub-benefits and pain points for variant testing
• Adds product photos, logos, and brand accents
• Duplicates the layout to spin 9+ variations in minutes

Total time: 10 minutes.

Result: a week’s worth of image ad testing before most teams finish their design brief.

No big team.

No production studio.

Just process.

This is what happens when your system removes chaos and builds around signal.

Not “creative flow.”

Not “inspiration.”

Just repeatable excellence, on demand.

If your current process is slower, messier, and hit-or-miss...

It’s not your fault.

You’re just missing the right system.

👉️ Start your FREE trial with CreativeOS and start building like Nick.

Templates that work. Messaging that converts. And time back in your pocket.

And if you want the full walkthrough of how Nick does this…

He spills everything in one of his new YouTube uploads 👇

👉 Watch Nick’s step-by-step guide here

👉 WORK WITH NICK

👉 Follow Nick on X for more creative systems

We’re grateful to collaborate with performance marketers like Nick - the ones in the trenches of top performing ad accounts…

Proving that speed and discipline outperform complexity every time. 

Until next time,

Chase