And what I had to fix before it was worth publishing.

So I finally did the thing I had been putting off for months. I sat down with an AI portfolio tool, dumped in my project notes, and let it generate a first draft.

The result was genuinely useful and genuinely incomplete in equal measure. Here is an honest breakdown of both.

The part that worked better than expected

The blank page problem is real. I had been avoiding my portfolio not because I lacked projects to show but because starting from zero felt like too many decisions at once. Structure, tone, what to include, how long each section should be.

Platforms like Figma, Framer, Canva, Gamma, Wix, and Unicorn Platform handle that starting phase well.…