Tattoo consultation, modernized
The new standard for tattoo consultations.
TatBrief turns the back and forth before an appointment into a complete, structured brief, so you walk into every session with the full picture and any issues already flagged. It doesn't replace your consultation. It gives you everything you need to run a better one.
Free for 60 days or 100 briefs, whichever comes first. Then $20/month CAD. Card required, no charge today.
Tattoo consultations are changing.
Clients arrive better prepared. Studios run tighter books. The artists who used to guess about scope, skin, and budget mid session are running out of room to do that. TatBrief is how the next generation of studios runs intake.
The gap
The conversation that decides the tattoo usually happens too late.
By the time a client is in the chair, you have to surface every detail that matters: budget against scope, placement against pain tolerance, skin tone, scarring, hard nos, references that don't match the brief in their head.
Miss one, and the appointment shifts from making art to managing expectations.
Issue flagging
The brief comes back with the problems already raised.
TatBrief checks every consultation against the conflicts artists run into most often, then surfaces them in the brief. The artist still makes every call. The brief just makes sure no detail is missing when they do.
Scope vs. budget
Client wants a full back piece in three sessions on a budget that won't cover one. The brief flags it with a note on what their budget realistically covers, so the scope conversation happens before they sit down.
Pain and placement
Low pain tolerance, ribs or sternum placement. The brief flags it as a heads up. This combination usually means session breaks or a placement worth reconsidering.
Skin context
Cover-up, scarring, recent sun exposure, or skin tone that won't read certain inks. The brief flags it early so you can plan around it, or have the design conversation before any time is invested.
These are three of the most common. The brief surfaces dozens of others, including reference style mismatches, healing risks for the location, ink choices that won't read on the client's skin, fine line work in areas where it ages poorly, watercolor in high friction zones, timeline expectations that won't fit the work, and more. The artist sees the flags up front and decides what to do with them.
Complete briefs
Every detail you'd ask for, captured before they arrive.
Same fields, every time. No chasing a client by DM the night before, no half-answered intake forms. Just the inputs you need so you can bring your judgment to the work.
Subject, style, intent
Body placement and size
Skin tone (Fitzpatrick I to VI)
Cover-up, scar, fresh skin context
References (Pinterest, uploads, AI-curated)
Design mode (Execute, Collaborate, Freestyle)
Budget band and timeline
Pain tolerance, hard nos, concerns
For your clients
Your clients get an experience worth talking about.
Ordinary intake is a wall of form fields nobody finishes, or a DM thread that dies after two replies. Your client gets something better: a short, guided conversation in their own language that asks one thing at a time, adapts to what they have already said, and never makes them repeat themselves. Two minutes, on the phone already in their hand. No app, no account, no login.
Scan the code.
One QR is all your clients need. It opens in their browser, instantly.
Pick a language.
English or Québécois French. The whole conversation happens in theirs.
Talk it through.
It feels like texting someone who knows tattoos, not filling out a form.
The way a client is treated before the appointment is the first thing they will tell their friends about. We obsess over that experience, because for most of your clients it is the first impression of your studio, and it should feel like the work you do.
Where we stand on AI
The AI handles the intake. The tattoo is yours.
We know some in the industry want nothing to do with AI, and plenty of that skepticism is earned. So here is our position, plainly. TatBrief's AI never designs, never decides, and never speaks for you. It asks the questions you would ask anyway, organizes the answers, and points at what looks off. Every call about scope, ink, placement, and what is actually possible stays with the artist, because years at the machine are exactly the thing that cannot be automated.
It never designs.
TatBrief does not generate tattoo art, and it never will. It captures what the client is asking for and hands it to you. The drawing is yours.
It never decides.
A flag is information, not an instruction. Whether a placement works, whether a budget is realistic, whether the idea should change at all: that is your call, every time.
It never trains on your work.
Client briefs and reference images are not used to train AI models. Our AI provider processes them under commercial terms that prohibit it.
The point was never to do less of the work. It is to spend the appointment on the part only you can do.
Shared everywhere
One link, everywhere clients find you.
Your TatBrief link goes in your Instagram bio, on a business card, on a QR sticker at the studio, in your booking confirmations. Wherever a new client meets your work, the conversation can start in a few seconds.
Questions
Questions, answered.
Does this replace the in-person consultation?
No. TatBrief doesn't replace your consultation, it sets it up. The brief lands in your inbox before the appointment with everything you'd normally chase down by DM. The conversation in your studio still happens, and it's still yours. It just gets to start from a complete picture instead of a Pinterest board.
What if my client doesn't want to use it?
Nothing changes. They book the way they always did. TatBrief is for the clients who want to give you a complete picture, and most prefer it once they try it.
What languages does it work in?
English and Québécois French. The AI conducts the entire consultation in the client's chosen language, and the brief auto-translates into yours.
Where do my clients' reference images live?
In your dashboard, alongside the brief. Pasted Pinterest pins are stored as references; uploads live in private storage with secure presigned access.
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Every account starts free for 60 days, or 100 client briefs, whichever comes first. We ask for a card up front so the trial rolls straight into a subscription instead of dead-ending, but nothing is charged on day one, and we email you before that changes.
How much does it cost?
$20/month CAD per artist, plus applicable taxes. No tiers, no per-brief fees, and you can cancel anytime. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.
I run a studio with several artists. How does that work?
Each artist gets their own account, their own QR code, and their own inbox, at $20/month CAD each. Briefs only ever go to the artist they were meant for.
Does the AI make decisions about my client's tattoo?
No. The AI captures, organizes, and flags. Every call about scope, design, ink, placement, and what's possible is yours to make. Years of experience aren't replaceable, and TatBrief isn't trying to.
Be the studio that already runs intake this way.
Free for 60 days or 100 briefs, whichever comes first. Then $20/month CAD, cancel anytime.
Bring another artist with you and you both get a free month. Referrals stack.