- Your first Project and file uploads
- The major AI families to try the workflow
- A small daily message allowance
Create a digital product with AI
Create a digital product with AI: made once, sold many times, worth paying for.
Templates, guides, calculators, report packs, checklists, courses: a digital product is knowledge packaged so someone can use it without you. AI makes the packaging fast. What it cannot supply is the knowledge worth packaging, and that is the part most AI-made products skip, which is why most of them do not sell. This page is how to make one that does: what to make, how to make it with AI in a week, and how to sell it honestly.
Free to start. Generated documents, spreadsheets and images are on paid plans.
What to make
Products that sell come from problems you have already solved
| Product | Made from | Example | Typical price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Template pack | Documents you use in your own work | Proposal, contract and onboarding templates for freelance designers | $29 to $79 |
| Calculator or tool | A spreadsheet you built for yourself | A pricing calculator for wedding photographers | $19 to $49, or free as a lead magnet |
| Guide | A process you have done many times | How to get a food-truck permit in your city, step by step | $15 to $39 |
| Report pack | Analysis you repeat for clients | A quarterly market brief for one industry | $49 to $199 per issue |
| Checklist system | The list that keeps you out of trouble | Compliance checklist for opening a clinic | $29 to $99 |
| Short course | Something you have taught people one-to-one | Bookkeeping for sole traders in five lessons | $49 to $199 |
The test
Would ten people you can name pay for this today? If you cannot name them, you do not have a product yet; you have a topic. Find the ten first. The validation ladder works for products too.
The week
Building the product with AI, day by day
Day 1: the outline and the promise
One sentence: "After this, you will be able to [result]." Then the outline, from your own process. The AI structures; you supply the steps that only experience knows.
Days 2 to 3: the content
Draft each section with the AI from your notes and examples. Add the specifics: the mistake you made, the number that surprised you, the exact wording that worked. Those are what people pay for.
Day 4: the package
The document, spreadsheet or deck, generated from the Project and formatted properly. Images for the cover and the page. A second model reads it as a sceptical buyer and lists what is missing.
Day 5: the page and the price
A landing page with the promise, what is inside, who it is for, one price, and a real sample. See landing pages.
Day 6: ten people
Send it to the ten you named, with a launch price and a request for one honest complaint each.
Day 7: version 1.1
Their questions become the FAQ and the next section. Buyers' confusion is the product roadmap.
Selling it
Honest, and therefore repeatable
Sell from a page you own, through a payment provider, with a real sample and a clear refund policy. Do not use AI to write reviews or testimonials; use it to write the follow-up email that asks buyers for one. A digital product sells over years if buyers recommend it and dies in weeks if they feel tricked. The marketing plan page covers how to reach people beyond the first ten.
Free is the start. The latest models are the difference.
The product is a document, a spreadsheet or a deck. Make it with tools that produce those.
The paid plans generate real documents, spreadsheets, presentations and images from the Project, formatted and ready to sell, and give you the latest models for the writing, which is what buyers judge. A product that looks and reads like it was made carefully sells at a higher price and gets refunded less.
Newer models hold your whole Project in view instead of the last few messages, reason through trade-offs instead of picking the first plausible answer, and are wrong less often and with less confidence. For the questions on this page, that is the difference between advice that sounds right and advice you can act on.
Pro from $20 a month, cancel any time. The free plan stays free.
- The latest ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity models, all on the same Project
- Far more messages a day, so a working session does not stop halfway
- Modes where several models draft, challenge and verify each other's answers
- Documents, spreadsheets and decks generated from the Project
- Image generation for covers and page visuals
- More Projects, one per product
Start here
First messages for a product Project
Add your notes, the process you follow, and any examples from your own work. Then start here.
IdeaFrom what I do and know, list five digital products I could make from problems I have already solved, with who would buy each and a price.
PromiseFor [product], write the one-sentence promise and the outline from my process. Mark where my own examples must go.
DraftDraft section [n] from my notes. Keep my specifics; do not generalise them. Flag anything that sounds like generic advice.
Buyer readRead the whole product as a sceptical buyer who paid [price]. What is missing, confusing or not worth the money?
PackageProduce the final document with a cover, contents, and consistent formatting. Then describe three images for the cover and the page.
PageWrite the sales page: promise, what is inside, who it is for and not for, one price, refund policy, and a request for honest feedback.
Honest answers
What people ask
Can I make a digital product entirely with AI?
You can package one entirely with AI. The knowledge inside has to be yours, or the product is the same as what the buyer could ask a chatbot for free.
What sells best?
Products that save a specific person a specific amount of time or risk: templates, calculators, checklists and guides for one niche. Broad "ultimate guides" sell worst.
How do I price a digital product?
Against what it saves the buyer, not against your effort. A template that saves a freelancer a day is worth $49. Test a launch price with the first ten, then adjust.
Where do I sell it?
From a page you own with a payment provider. Marketplaces can add reach later, at the cost of margin and the customer relationship.
How do I get reviews honestly?
Ask every buyer for one, by email, a week after purchase. Never generate them. A product with five real reviews outsells one with fifty fake ones.
What is free?
Your first Project, file uploads and the major model families. Generated documents, spreadsheets, decks and images are on paid plans. See plans.
Name the ten people. Then build it in a week.
Put your process in a Project and let the AI do the packaging. Free to start.
Also: create a landing page · create a content business · create a marketing plan · validate the idea