Pickaxe Studio

Pickaxe Studio is a simple way to host and sell your AI tools. We’ve seen thousands of AI entrepreneurs create tools with Pickaxe and add deploy them across the web to start businesses. Pickaxe is an easy way put AI into your website, but when you deploy pickaxes as embedded tools there are some important limitations. You can’t see who uses your tool, you can’t monetize tools directly, and importantly, you need to have a website or app!

Studio is an elegant, configurable container for all your tools. It’s no-code and easy to launch in only a few minutes. Creators are launching stores and monetizing their AI tools.

With Studio you can...

- Bundle tools

- Customize a webpage

- Add walkthrough videos to your pickaxes

- Set prices

- Set usage limits

- Create tiers with associated limits, prices, and access

- Create accounts

- White-label everything!

- Create custom logins

- Monitor activity

- Organize tools in folders

- Host it at a custom domain

- & much, much more.

In this blog post I’ll cover the basic functionality of the Studio and how to do use it.

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What is Pickaxe Studio?

Studio is a simple website where you can put tools and share with other people. In addition to that, this simple website lets you put tools behinds paywalls, limit users, manage accounts, and more.

If you want to share your pickaxes with other people, charge money, and run a business-- Studio is the best way to do it!

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Bundle Tools

A Studio is a convenient way to bundle a group of related tools. For example, one Pickaxe user bundled together 5 marketing tools related to writing and promoting LinkedIn posts. Anohter user made a 7-step workflow for creating engaging webinars with a specialized tool for each step. One Fortune 500 bundled together a collection of tools for creating and filling out HR paperwork. A college application consultant bundled together tools for writing college applications-- two for free and two behind a paywall.

Studio lets you add multiple tools, re-sort them, put them into folders, and more!

Examples of bundling pickaxes in Studio

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Set tiers

Inside Studio, you can control how people use your tools, how often, and at what price.

Out of the box, we offer three tiers. But you can add more. "Guests" are users who have not signed up or paid. You can give them 5 uses to try it before signing it up. Or zero uses if you want them to see the pickaxes but not be able to try them. "Members" are users who have signed up with an email to your Studio. Similarly, you can give them any amount of uses. "Premium" are users who pay for your Studio. You can set the price and the associated uses. You can always add more tiers later.

Payments are all handled securely through Stripe. Setting it up is easy and can be done in a few minutes. Here’s a simple step-by-step walkthrough on setting up monetization for your Studio.

Set up account tiers, prices, and usage limits inside Studio.

Customize appearance

Studio is your personal storefront for AI tools. You can customize it to look and feel like your brand. Inside the "Design" tab, almost every part of the Studio is configurable. Let's briefly go over the core elements.

Color, font, & images

Inside Studio you can configure almost every aspect of your Studio to make it feel like a custom website or web app. Change the look of your forms and chatbots down to line widths. Change the fonts across the tools to match your preferences. Make it your own!

Hosting it at a custom domain

By default all Studios are hosted through a pickaxe domain. This makes it easy to launch immediately. If you already have your own domain, you can move your Studio over to it.

If you want your Studio to be occupy a whole domain (like aiconsulting.com), you can find a step-by-step walkthrough for doing that by adding an A Record here.

If you want your Studio to be a sub-domain of an existing domain (like studio.aiconsulting.com) you can find a step-by-step walkthrough for doing that by adding a CName here.

Call-to-Actions text

We also let you customize every pop-up to users. The message to sign up, to log-in, even the message to upgrade when they run out of uses. It’s all easy to configure and customize within Studio

Customize messaging to fit your content, style, & even language!

Manage users

You can see all the activity in your Studio in an a simple dashboard. Here you can see your stats, your users, their activity, and more.

Launch your tools as a Studio!

Getting started with Studio is easy and totally free. Launch your tools as a studio and start monetizing your prompts! Create a studio now.

Pickaxe Studio: Sell your AI tools as services

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