<p>When we decided to rebuild Pickaxe from scratch, the first thing we did surprised a lot of people.</p>

<p>We didn't open a code editor. We didn't scaffold a project. We didn't start arguing about frameworks or databases.</p>

<p>We opened a blank document and started writing help docs.</p>

<h2>The Counterintuitive First Step</h2>

<p>Every instinct in a startup tells you to ship fast. Move quickly. Get something in front of users. We've lived that way for years. And it's good advice, most of the time.</p>

<p>But this time was different. We weren't adding a feature to an existing product. We were starting over. Building something new on top of everything we'd learned from running Pickaxe. And when you're starting from zero, the most dangerous thing you can do is start coding before you know what you're actually building.</p>

<p>So we wrote the documentation first. Not as an afterthought. Not as a parallel task. As the <strong>very first deliverable</strong>.</p>

<p>Here's why.</p>

<h2>Documentation Forces You to Think</h2>

<p>Writing help docs before the product exists sounds backwards. But it turns out to be one of the most powerful product design exercises you can do.</p>

<p>When you write a help article about a feature that doesn't exist yet, you're forced to answer hard questions immediately. How does a user set this up? What happens when they click this button? What if they make a mistake? What does the error message say?</p>

<p>You can't handwave through those details in documentation the way you can in a product spec or a Figma mockup. A help doc has to describe real steps that a real person would follow. If the steps don't make sense, you know your product design doesn't make sense either.</p>

<p>We found bugs in our product thinking before we wrote a single line of code. Entire workflows that seemed elegant in the abstract fell apart the moment we tried to write clear instructions for them.</p>

<p><strong>That's the point.</strong> It's better to discover those problems in a Google Doc than in a codebase.</p>

<h2>It Gives You a Complete Mental Model</h2>

<p>One of the biggest risks when building something new is losing the forest for the trees. You start with a grand vision, but the moment you begin coding, you get pulled into the details. Database schemas. API endpoints. Edge cases in authentication flows. Two weeks in, you've built a beautiful auth system but lost track of what the product actually does.</p>

<p>Writing documentation first gave us something invaluable: a complete mental model of the entire product before anyone touched code.</p>

<p>We wrote docs for every major feature area. How agents get created. How builders configure deployments. How end users customize their experience. How billing works. How access control works. Every doc forced us to think through not just what the feature does, but how it connects to everything else.</p>

<p>By the time we finished, we had a clear picture of the whole system. Not a vague roadmap. Not a slide deck with boxes and arrows. A real, detailed description of how every piece works together, written in plain language that anyone could understand.</p>

<p>That clarity has been worth more than any technical design document we've ever written.</p>

<h2>It Changes Everything About Agentic Coding</h2>

<p>Here's the part that surprised us the most.</p>

<p>We use AI heavily in our development workflow. Claude Code, agentic coding sessions, automated code generation. The whole stack. And here's what we discovered: <strong>AI coding tools are dramatically more effective when they have documentation to work from.</strong></p>

<p>Think about what happens when you ask an AI to build a feature from a vague description. It makes assumptions. It guesses at edge cases. It picks patterns that might not match your architecture. You spend half your time correcting its assumptions instead of building.</p>

<p>Now think about what happens when you hand an AI agent a detailed help doc that describes exactly how the feature should work from the user's perspective. Suddenly it has real constraints. It knows what the user sees. It knows what happens in each step. It knows what error states exist. The code it produces is dramatically closer to what you actually want.</p>

<p>Our documentation became the single best prompt engineering we've ever done. Not because we wrote it as prompts, but because <strong>good documentation is a precise, unambiguous specification written in natural language</strong>. That's exactly what AI coding tools need.</p>

<p>We've been running an experiment where we hand Claude Code a help doc and ask it to implement the feature the doc describes. The results have been remarkable. Less back-and-forth. Fewer misunderstandings. Code that actually matches the intended user experience on the first pass.</p>

<p>This has fundamentally changed how we think about the relationship between documentation and development. They're not separate phases. Documentation is the input. Code is the output.</p>

<h2>The Amazon Approach, Adapted</h2>

<p>This idea isn't entirely new. Amazon has famously used "working backwards" for years, writing press releases for products before building them. The press release forces you to articulate the customer benefit clearly before you invest in implementation.</p>

<p>We took that concept and pushed it further. Instead of a press release (which is still fairly high-level), we wrote the actual user-facing documentation. The help articles. The step-by-step guides. The troubleshooting pages.</p>

<p>A press release tells you <em>what</em> you're building and <em>why</em>. Documentation tells you <em>how it works in practice</em>. And the "how" is where most products succeed or fail.</p>

<h2>What We Actually Wrote</h2>

<p>To be specific, here's what our documentation-first process looked like:</p>

<ul>
<li><strong>Getting Started guide.</strong> The first thing a new user would read. This forced us to nail the onboarding flow before building it.</li>
<li><strong>Feature-by-feature help articles.</strong> Each major capability got its own doc. Agent creation. Deployment options. Access control. Monetization. Knowledge bases.</li>
<li><strong>API documentation.</strong> What endpoints would exist. What parameters they'd accept. What they'd return. This became our technical spec.</li>
<li><strong>Troubleshooting guides.</strong> What could go wrong, and how users would fix it. Writing these upfront forced us to think about error handling as a first-class concern, not an afterthought.</li>
</ul>

<p>The whole process took about three days. Three days that saved us months of rework, confusion, and misaligned assumptions.</p>

<h2>The Tradeoffs</h2>

<p>Honest answer: this approach isn't free.</p>

<p>Spending the first three days working on documentation instead of building felt like lost momentum. Especially in AI, where every day brings new capabilities and the pressure to ship is constant. Your brain is screaming at you to just start coding. To make something real. Sitting in a Google Doc writing help articles for a product that doesn't exist yet feels almost irresponsible when competitors are shipping every week.</p>

<p>And the docs aren't perfect. Some of them will change as we build and discover things we didn't anticipate. That's fine. The goal was never to write permanent documentation. It was to think through the product completely before building it.</p>

<p>The other risk is over-specifying. If you write documentation that's too rigid, you can constrain yourself unnecessarily. We tried to write docs that described the user experience clearly while leaving room for implementation flexibility. The help doc says "click the Deploy button and choose your platform" without specifying whether that's a dropdown, a modal, or a separate page. User intent is fixed. Implementation details stay flexible.</p>

<h2>What We'd Tell Other Teams</h2>

<p>If you're building something from scratch, especially if you're using AI coding tools in your workflow, try writing the documentation first.</p>

<p>Not a product spec. Not a PRD. Not a Notion page with bullet points. Write the actual help articles your users would read. Write them as if the product already exists and someone needs to learn how to use it.</p>

<p>You'll discover design problems early. You'll build a shared mental model across your team. And if you're using agentic coding workflows, you'll have the best possible input for your AI tools: clear, specific, user-centered descriptions of exactly what needs to be built.</p>

<p>For us, it turned documentation from the boring thing you do after launch into the most valuable thing you do before it.</p>

<p>We're still early in this rebuild. Plenty could still go wrong. But we're building on a foundation of clarity that we've never had before. And that foundation started with a blank document, not a blank codebase.</p>

<p>If you want to follow along as we build the next version of Pickaxe, we'll keep sharing what we learn, what breaks, and what surprises us. This is the second post in our <a href="/post/the-innovators-dilemma-at-pickaxe">building in public series</a>. More coming soon.</p>

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<p>AI never sits still. And neither can we.</p>

<p>Clayton Christensen’s <em>The Innovator’s Dilemma</em> describes a pattern that has played out across industries for decades. Successful companies don’t fail because they stop innovating. They fail because they keep optimizing for the thing that made them successful, right up until the ground shifts beneath them. The most rational-sounding decision, keep doing what works, turns out to be the most dangerous one.</p>

<p>We think about this a lot at Pickaxe.</p>

<h2>What Got Us Here</h2>

<p>Since we started Pickaxe, our mission has been simple: give people the best technology to build, deploy, and monetize AI agents. That hasn’t changed. But the landscape around us looks almost nothing like it did when we began.</p>

<p>We built a great product. One that fits the RAG model perfectly. Pickaxe has helped consultants, coaches, creators, and business owners package their expertise into AI-powered tools and actually make money doing it. Real businesses have been built on top of our platform, and that matters deeply to us.</p>

<p>But here’s the tension we keep running into.</p>

<h2>The New World of AI</h2>

<p>The next generation of AI looks vastly different from the one we built for. Trying to bend the latest technology to fit inside a UI designed for legacy infrastructure is becoming more and more redundant.</p>

<p>This is the classic Christensen trap. The existing product works. Customers depend on it. Every incentive tells you to keep refining what you have. But the technology is moving in a direction that your current architecture was never designed for, and no amount of incremental improvement will close that gap.</p>

<p><strong>Everyone is a developer now.</strong> People want more control. They want to write code, customize behavior, and leverage AI agents to help them build. The rise of agentic workflows means a more powerful API interface would let agents themselves co-build inside the platform.</p>

<p>We’ve seen this firsthand. When we build new OpenClaw instances for ourselves, the process looks nothing like going through the Builder UI. It’s us chatting through the CI/CD pipeline. That’s the way we want to build our product, and it’s the way our users increasingly want to build theirs.</p>

<p>There’s another shift we can’t ignore. More and more companies are building appless apps. Tools that don’t really have a UI at all. They just integrate natively with the messaging platforms people already use: iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack.</p>

<p><strong>So we’re at a crossroads.</strong></p>

<p>We want to keep building on the cutting edge. But we also don’t want to break what our best users have already built their businesses around. Forcing large architectural changes onto an existing product that people depend on isn’t fair to them.</p>

<p>The answer, we believe, is to build something entirely new.</p>

<h2>What We’re Building</h2>

<p>The new product will be closely tied to Pickaxe but separate enough to give us the freedom to make bold changes without disrupting current users. Think of it as a much simpler, much more powerful version of what Pickaxe offers today.</p>

<p>Here’s the vision.</p>

<p>You create powerful OpenClaw agents for yourself and your users at scale. You manage and monetize them. Your clients can tailor the agents to fit their specific needs, too.</p>

<p>Instead of one portal housing many disconnected agents, you sell a single unified agent connected to any skills you want to add. You can offer premium skills or add-ons to enhance it. One agent, endlessly extensible.</p>

<p>Deployments get simpler too. We’re focusing on messaging-native deployment types: iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack. The places where people already spend their time and where chatting with an AI assistant feels most natural.</p>

<p>The platform will be developer and agent-friendly. More adjustable through code. More room for AI agents to help you build. One of the hardest unsolved problems in this space is deploying, managing, and updating agents that are themselves being customized by end users. That’s a technically challenging puzzle, and we want to help solve it not just for consultants and coaches but for startups and developers building next-generation AI tools.</p>

<h2>Building in Public</h2>

<p>As we embark on this journey, we want to document it and share it with you.</p>

<p>We’re living in a wild, fast-paced world where every week brings new learnings and forces important business decisions. It has been extremely fun and exciting for us. And honestly, we felt like we should be writing it down.</p>

<p>Not just for our own sanity, but because we genuinely think that for better or worse, it’s going to be a great story.</p>

<p>So we’ll be building in public. Sharing our highs and lows. All the challenges and all the learnings.</p>

<p>We’re excited to have you join us for this next adventure.</p>

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<p id="">If you're wondering how usage allowance works on Pickaxe, you're reading the right article. We operate a simple system to keep track of your usage of AI models. In this article we will go over how the Pickaxe usage system works and answer all the most frequently asked questions about it.</p><p id="">Let's dive in.<br></p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id=""><strong id="">What is my usage allowance?</strong></h2><p id="">Usage allowance represents the amount of money each user has to spend on prompt runs. </p><p id="">Any time an AI model generates an output, it has a certain cost, which will vary based on the number of tokens used, the resources referenced, and many other factors. Usually, the cost per interaction is very small – a fraction of a cent. Here's another way to think about it: every time you push the “submit” or “test” button to run your pickaxe, you use a small amount of your allowance.<strong id=""> </strong>When you run out of money, you can't generate more outputs.</p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id=""><strong id="">How much usage do I get?‍</strong></h2><p id="">Every user gets <strong id="">$5</strong> of usage when they sign up for a free account. This allowance replenishes monthly, on the 30-day anniversary of their sign-up date.Customers who sign up for a Gold subscription get <strong id="">$15</strong> and users who sign up for Pro get <strong id="">$50.</strong> </p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">When other people use my Pickaxe, do they use my credits?</strong></h4><p id="">Whenever an end-user uses your Pickaxe, they do so at your expense. Which means they use your credit. </p><p id="">This is true whether they use your Pickaxe as an unlisted tool, as a listed tool in a Studio, or as an embedded Pickaxe on another website.</p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">Embedded pickaxes&nbsp;(on a third-party website)</strong></h4><p id="">Embedded pickaxes always debit the pickaxe owner's account. If you embed a pickaxe on your website, every time someone presses “submit” on the embedded tool, it uses one of your credits.</p><p id="">This system allows people to use pickaxes embedded on your website without signing up for a Pickaxe account. It’s a way to sponsor free usage of your tool. You can set a usage limit on your Pickaxe so that you can restrict the total amount of times the same person can use it. You can set use usage limit within the Embed Customization screen. </p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">Pickaxes in a Studio</strong></h4><p id="">When you put a tool inside a <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/pickaxe-studio-sell-your-ai-tools-as-services">Studio</a>, usage works similarly to an embedded Pickaxe. Studio Pickaxes always debit the pickaxe owner's account. Importantly, in a studio you are controlling usage of your tools through your own credit system. And most likely, you are <strong id="">selling usage</strong> of your tools. </p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">Can I limit use of my embedded pickaxe?</strong></h4><p id="">You can always control the amount of times an individual user can run an embedded pickaxe. To set a limit on each use, click "add a new embed" and then in the embed customization screen look for a slider labeled “prompt runs per user”.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2144px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="2144px"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67e88294733c4619896f28d5_Xnapper-2025-03-29-16.29.54.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">You can set usage restrictions on embedded Pickaxes on the embed customization screen.</figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">Can I limit use of my studio pickaxe?</strong></h4><p id="">Yes. You can always control the amount of times an individual user can run a pickaxe in a studio. The studio has a robust system for setting usage tiers and prices. To set a limit on users, click on the <strong id="">Access</strong>&nbsp;tab of your Studio. Here you'll see dedicated sections for limiting Guest Users and Paid Users. For more information on creating Products within your Studio, check out <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/pickaxe-user-manual-how-to-do-everything-in-pickaxe">this blog post</a>.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:90%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="90%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6717edadc370590255872956_6663dc7e35a6c89e53eab521_Screenshot%25202024-06-07%2520at%25209.21.59%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">How do I see how much money I have?</strong></h4><p id="">To see your credits balance, simply go to your <a href="https://pickaxe.co/user/account">account page</a>. You credits will be listed there. You'll see the <strong id="">total credits remaining </strong>and the total monthly credits you get. Importantly the first number is the total amount of un-used credits you have remaining.</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">How do I see how much I am spending?</strong></h4><p id="">Each prompt run will cost a different amount, depending on a variety of factors, and you might find it useful both to see what costs more and the amount of money your users are taking from your allowance. All of these things can be checked in the Users tab of your Studio Dashboard. In the Activity section, you can select the ⓘ icon &nbsp;below any bot response to see a detailed breakdown of the cost, including a cost comparison with other messages within the same Pickaxe. Under the "Manage Users" tab, you can find a detailed breakdown of both the cost and credits usage of any member of your Studio, so you can keep track of spending on an individual level. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/68fbd8f9283c73215d432b3a_Screenshot%25202025-10-24%2520at%252012.51.12%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍<strong id="">‍</strong></p><h4 id=""><strong id="">Can I buy more credits?</strong>‍</h4><p id="">You can top up your account on Pickaxe by <a href="https://pickaxe.co/user/account">purchasing credits</a> at any time. Any additional credits that you buy will never expire and roll over to any month. You can also <a href="https://pickaxe.co/pricing" id="">upgrade to a subscription</a> (Gold or Pro) to receive $15 or $50 of free monthly credits in addition to a variety of awesome features.</p><p id="">If you need more than your allotted number of credits, you can always purchase additional credits - your plan credits will always be used first, and your extra allowance purchases will only kick in if you go over this amount. </p><p id="">Once you run out of usage, you will no longer be able to use your tools. However, you can now enable auto-reload of credits - which will purchase additional credits if your usage allowance dips below a set value. </p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">How do credits replenish on Gold and Pro plans?</strong></h4><p id=""><strong id="">‍</strong>Credits replenish every 30 days. Credits replenish in aggregate, meaning all at once. Credits do not stack. 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A simple explanation of the credit system on Pickaxe.

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Embedded AI tools are also great <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-use-ai-chatbots-for-traffic-leads" id="">lead generation</a> as well. </p><p id="">The embedded chatbot delivers real value to website visitors.</p><p id="">Let's dive in!</p><h3 id=""><strong id="">How are businesses adding AI to their online presence?</strong></h3><p id=""><strong id="">‍</strong>A common question small online businesses ask is something along the lines of, "How can I add ChatGPT to my website?"</p><p id="">They don’t necessarily mean “How do I put ChatGPT into my website”. What they really mean is how do I customize ChatGPT with directions, save that customized version of ChatGPT, and embed it into my website as an interactive chatbot?</p><p id="">Well, it’s not that hard. With prompt templates, you can create a guided ChatGPT experience and embed it onto your website so customers can use it. Similarly, you can embed AI tools into an internal workspace like Notion or Sharepoint so that co-workers can use the ChatGPT the way you use it.</p><p id="">Pickaxe makes it easy to <a href="https://pickaxe.co">add AI chatbots</a> into any website.</p><p id="">Check out this website that offers a <a href="https://www.inck.ai/">personal AI writers room</a> for brainstorming, writing, and editing copy.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64aa0ead096cb13826eba43a_Embedded_Pickaxe_Examples_2.png" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Screenshot of Inck.ai, a personal AI-powered writing suite</figcaption></figure><p id="">Before we discuss how to add AI to your website natively, let’s quickly discuss WHY.</p><h3 id="">‍<strong id="">Why should you add AI to your website?</strong></h3><p id=""><strong id="">‍</strong>A lot of small businesses or solopreneurs offer “professional services”. This includes all kinds of “knowledge work” like consulting, marketing, coaching, etc. Services that <em id="">don’t scale.</em></p><p id=""><em id="">‍</em>Or at least not historically.</p><p id="">However AI, especially Large Language Models like ChatGPT, offer workers to ability to scale previously unscalable services.&nbsp;</p><p id="">If you are a marketing consultant who helps clients rewrite their sales pitches according to your system, you give a lot of the same advice over Zoom calls, email threads, and phone calls. Your time is the limiting factor to your productivity. Since you can’t scale your time, you can’t scale your business and serve more customers.</p><p id="">But with the onset of Large Language Models, now you can. It’s easy to design a prompt that provides that same expertise you do. By turning transforming your expertise into an interactive chatbot, you can now serve numerous customers at once.</p><p id="">Customers' basic needs can be met by your AI chatbot. For more involved needs they still contact you.</p><p id="">You just outsourced a huge part of your job to your AI chatbot!</p><p id="">Delivering dynamic AI content allows small businesses to scale their services. If you can emulate part of your process with a chatbot, you can serve many more customers simultaneously.</p><h3 id="">‍<strong id="">How to embed AI chatbots into your website</strong></h3><p id=""><strong id="">‍</strong>Let’s dive into how to embed an AI chatbot into your website.</p><h4 id="">‍<strong id="">Step 1 - Create a chatbot</strong></h4><p id=""><strong id="">‍</strong>The first step is to create an AI chatbot through Pickaxe. Pickaxe is a free, simple way to create a chatbot that requires no code. You can build chatbots or forms in the<a href="https://pickaxe.co/builder" id=""> Pickaxe AI Tool Builder</a>.</p><p id="">Making a tool is fairly simple. Write a prompt, add user inputs where you want people to insert their own values, and then customize the design. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can watch the how to make a <a href="https://youtu.be/-a2kvpdPguY?si=1c-3pJDuy-7o_l8r" id="">pickaxe tutorial video</a>.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2720px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="2720px"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67ed849a851e472805322abb_Xnapper-2025-04-02-11.40.10.png" loading="lazy" alt="A screenshot of the Pickaxe AI chatbot builder interface" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Pickaxe Builder page</figcaption></figure><p id="">Remember, the art of prompt design is important. The better prompt you write, the better your chatbot will perform. The best practices of designing a chatbot are debated, but generally it’s good to follow <a href="https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/gpt-best-practices" id="">OpenAI’s GPT&nbsp;Best Practices guide</a>.</p><p id="">Once you're done building the tool, be sure to click the "Publish" button. </p><h4 id="">‍<strong id="">Step 2 - Create an Embed</strong></h4><p id=""><strong id="">‍</strong>Embedding the chatbot into a website is easy. After you’ve made a chatbot on Pickaxe, you can create an embed. You'll be able to customize its styling and some basic usage restrictions. </p><p id="">Just click on the "Create embed" button on the Pickaxe page. <br></p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2720px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="2720px"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67ed85344b5cee3cc21c715c_Xnapper-2025-04-02-11.42.36.png" loading="lazy" alt="A screenshot of the interface for creating new embedded AI chatbots on Pickaxe." width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍</p><p id="">Clicking this button will take you to an Embed Customization screen. Here you can change the color, font, size, and other styling elements of your Pickaxe. You can also select what type of embed you want (an in-line iframe, a pop-up button, a Floating Action Button, etc.). You can also create some basic restrictions here like how many times someone can use the tool and what messaging they receive when they hit a the usage limit. You can read more about setting <a href="https://community.pickaxeproject.com/t/how-to-set-usage-limit-on-embedded-pickaxes/565" id="">usage limits on embedded Pickaxes</a> here. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2976px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="2976px"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/blog/67ed85ba7241af7b13bffc40_Xnapper-2025-04-02-11.45.00.png" loading="lazy" alt="A screenshot of the Embed Customization screen on Pickaxe for styling AI chatbot embeds. " width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">Once you've customized your embed according to your preferences, be sure to click the "Save Embed" button in the top right of the Embed Customization screen. </p><h4 id="">‍<strong id="">Step 3 - Copy &amp; Paste embed code into your website</strong></h4><p id=""><strong id="">‍</strong>To add the chatbot to your website, just copy and paste the embed code. It’s that easy!</p><p id="">You can find the embed code on the very top of the Embed Customization screen. Click the "copy code" button to copy the whole thing. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2912px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="2912px"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67ed868be622200992fa4934_Xnapper-2025-04-02-11.48.23.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">If you’re building your own website, you can embed the chatbot directly into a website’s HTML. Pickaxe also works on a wide range of no-code website builders as well as such as Wix, Wordpress, Webflow, Notion, and more! Users love Pickaxe because the process requires no code! Embedding your chatbot is as simple as copy and pasting.</p><p id="">Here’s a walkthrough for most popular website builders and workspaces.&nbsp;</p><h3 id="">‍<strong id="">How to embed AI chatbots using different website builders</strong></h3><p id=""><strong id="">‍</strong>You can embed AI chatbots into Notion with ease. Just add a new block by clicking the “+” button. Scroll down to look for the “Embed” option. Click it and paste in the pickaxe embed link!</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:1038px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="1038px"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/648aa160f1b00eb24621356d_Screen%20Shot%202023-06-14%20at%2010.26.58%20PM.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">‍</p><p id="">You can embed AI tools into Webflow easily as well. It’s as simple as adding an “embed element” on the add panel. Then just paste the embed link into the box!</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:1501px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="1501px"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64aa1131193adf43b75d3243_How_to_embed_6.png" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div><figcaption id="">The embed block on webflow</figcaption></figure><p id="">Embedding chatbots into Squarespace, Wix, Wordpress, Sharepoint is just as easy. Look for adding an element for "embed code", dragging it into your website, and then pasting in the pickaxe embed code. </p><p id=""><strong id="">‍</strong>Adding AI widgets in a website or workspace is really that simple! Build a tool, customize the embed, paste in the embed link!</p><p id="">Once a pickaxe is embedded, it's fast, flexible, and easy to manage. Users can always adjust the prompt and settings without needing to change the embed code. The chatbot will update automatically. </p><p id="">For more information about building Pickaxes, creating embeds, and other features of Pickaxe, check out the <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/pickaxe-user-manual-how-to-do-everything-in-pickaxe">Pickaxe User Manual</a>. </p><p id="">‍</p>

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How to Embed AI Chatbots into Your Website: A Step-by-Step Guide

<p id="">Mistral is a popular AI&nbsp;model from France.&nbsp;It's a great model to use to power GPTs, chatbots, tools, and other AI apps you want to build and sell. </p><p id="">To build an AI chatbot with Mistral, you'll likely want to a Mistral API&nbsp;key. </p><p id="">In this post we show you how to get a Mistral API key, step by step. </p><p id="">Let's jump into it. </p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Step 1 - Go to Mistral &amp; create an account</h2><p id="">Go to <a href="https://mistral.ai/" id="">https://mistral.ai/. </a>Then click log in or create an account. You'll be prompted to crete an account and setup a workspace. This is fairly straight forward.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6752087bbda1cb8a2505e0ce_675206fbefb35f642f2bc7a4_Screenshot%25202024-12-05%2520at%252012.01.51%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6752087bbda1cb8a2505e0c8_67520713bda1cb8a25048def_Screenshot%25202024-12-05%2520at%252011.31.35%25E2%2580%25AFAM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">You'll then be redirected to <a href="https://console.mistral.ai/" id="">https://console.mistral.ai/</a> Next we'll want to add some billing information so we can get an&nbsp;API&nbsp;key!</p><h2 id="">Step 2 - Setup Billing Information</h2><p id="">In order to use Mistral via API, you'll need to add some billing information. Within the console page, click on the "Billing" tab.</p><p id="">Here you'll want to add some billing information!</p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Step 3 - Choose a plan</h2><p id="">Next, you’ll want to make an API account. Go over the the <strong id="">Limits </strong>tab of the side nav. Click on it! </p><p id="">Then click on <strong id="">choose a plan. </strong></p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67523884d4d41a0a0297fdff_6752345450c0233c63df4ad4_Screenshot%25202024-12-05%2520at%252011.32.17%25E2%2580%25AFAM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍</p><p id="">You can subscribe to the Experiment plan (free)&nbsp;or the pay as you go. The Scale plan has higher limits, but will require billing information to be filled out. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67523884d4d41a0a0297fe11_6752359ddf2895f0316824b5_Screenshot%25202024-12-05%2520at%252011.33.28%25E2%2580%25AFAM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">When you sign up for a plan, you'll be asked to verify your phone number. When you enter a phone number, Mistral will send you a verification code via SMS. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67523884d4d41a0a0297fde6_675235c84e22b9fd8cb16d35_Screenshot%25202024-12-05%2520at%252011.33.47%25E2%2580%25AFAM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><h2 id="">Step 4 - Create a new Mistral API&nbsp;key</h2><p id="">Now that we've created an account and added some basic billing information, we get to the fun stuff. Creating our very own Mistral API&nbsp;key! </p><p id="">In the left-hand nav bar, click on the API&nbsp;Keys</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67523884d4d41a0a0297fdef_675236316686aeddd689d061_Screenshot%25202024-12-05%2520at%252011.13.04%25E2%2580%25AFAM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">Then look for a big orange button that says "Create new key". Click this button!</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67523884d4d41a0a0297fde9_675236425d3063610eb25d59_Screenshot%25202024-12-05%2520at%252011.16.48%25E2%2580%25AFAM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">Then you'll have the opportunity to fill out some optional such as a nickname for the API key (to help you keep track of multiple Mistral API&nbsp;keys) as well as an expiration date. Perhaps you're working with a collaborator and want to create an API&nbsp;key for the lifespan of the project, but no longer. Again, these fields are both optional. When you're done click "Create key". </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67523884d4d41a0a0297fdec_675237405824513357e6774f_Screenshot%25202024-12-05%2520at%252011.19.23%25E2%2580%25AFAM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><h2 id="">Step 5 - Copy your key!</h2><p id="">This is very important. As soon as your Mistral API&nbsp;key is generated, COPY&nbsp;IT down somewhere! You will not be able to see your API&nbsp;key again once it's generated Store it someplace secure where you won't forget it. And don't share it with anyone else!</p><h2 id="">Step 6 - Enter your Mistral API key into Pickaxe</h2><p id="">Now that you have your API&nbsp;key, enter it in your chatbot, smart form, or other tool. If you're using Pickaxe to create no-code AI bots, then entering your API&nbsp;key is very simple.</p><p id="">Here's a video walkthrough of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4BgFXWKMvQ">how to get a Mistral API key</a> as well. </p>

A walkthrough of how to get an API key from Mistral

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How to get a Mistral API Key (2025)

<p id="">Do you want to use your own API key for Claude models? You're in the right place. </p><p id="">In this post we'll walk through what a Claude API&nbsp;Key is, how you can get your own API key, and how to use it on platforms. </p><h2 id="">Main Takeaway</h2><p id=""><strong id="">To get a Claude API key, you must create an Anthropic account add securely generate your key within the Anthropic Console. The key is shown only once so store it safely. Claude’s API is pay-as-you-go, but you can start with free credits.</strong></p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id=""> Video Walkthrough</h2><p id="">Want to see the entire process in action? Watch our complete video tutorial where we walk through each step:</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-video w-richtext-align-center" style="padding-bottom:5%" data-rt-type="video" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="" data-rt-max-height="45%" data-rt-dimensions="640:480" data-page-url="https://youtu.be/QozEgXEI5mE"><div id=""><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QozEgXEI5mE" title="How to Get Your Claude API Key (Step-by-Step Guide for 2026)"></iframe></div></figure><h2 id="">What is a Claude API&nbsp;Key</h2><p id="">If you use many AI&nbsp;products, you've probably come across the term "a Claude API key" and wondered what it is, why it's important, and how you get one. An API key serves as a unique identifier that lets you connect to your Anthropic account (the company that created Claude) and access their models like Claude Sonnet and Claude Opus. While it may seem like a hassle, it’s often cheaper in the long-run to use your own API key rather than relying on third-party platforms that act as middle-men. A&nbsp;Claude API key plugs you right into the source so you can pay as you go.</p><p id="">For example, Pickaxe's <a href="https://www.pickaxe.co/">no-code AI app builder</a> allows users to enter their own API key. This allows them to enjoy near unlimited usage of their embedded AI tools and AI studios not worry about having enough credits or usage.</p><p id="">In this step-by-step guide, we'll walk you through the process of finding, generating, and using your own Claude API key.</p><h2 id="">Step 1: Go to Anthropic console &amp;&nbsp;Create Account</h2><p id="">Anthropic is the company that created Claude. To get an API&nbsp;key, you'll want to go the <a href="https://console.anthropic.com/login" id="">Anthropic console website</a> and create an account if you don't already have one.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/68ee84285ca0ae0372999e73_CleanShot%25202025-10-14%2520at%252010.10.33%25402x.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Page to sign up for an Anthropic account</figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Step 2: &nbsp;In Dashboard Page, Click on API Keys</h2><p id="">After logging in or creating an account, you'll be redirected to your dashboard page</p><p id="">After you click the "Start Building" button and signed in, you'll be redirected to your <a href="https://console.anthropic.com/dashboard">dashboard page</a>. This is your home page for all things related to your Anthropic account. You can check billing, usage, save prompts, etc. </p><p id="">Next, you'll want to click on the button that says "<strong id="">API&nbsp;Keys</strong>".</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/68ee85823b79c10eab335ae7_CleanShot%25202025-10-14%2520at%252010.12.35%25402x.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Anthropic's API dashboard to get your API keys</figcaption></figure><h2 id="">Step 3: Create a New Claude API Key</h2><p id="">Now you're in the API&nbsp;Keys tab of your Anthropic dashboard. If you have existing API&nbsp;keys, you'll see a list here, including their nickname and the date they were created. If you don't have any keys, it will be empty. </p><p id="">Look for the “+Create Key” button on the top right corner and click on it.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/68ee867a4e9a012bfe799dbf_CleanShot%25202025-10-14%2520at%252010.20.35%25402x.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">Then you'll be prompted with a pop-up to name and create a new Claude API&nbsp;key. Write in the nickname you want for your API&nbsp;key. This nickname is strictly to help you organize and remember these keys. If you're using the Claude API&nbsp;key for a certain project, name it after that project. When you're ready, click "Create&nbsp;Key" to create the key. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/68ee871bc1f8e425082b5fb6_CleanShot%25202025-10-14%2520at%252010.22.44%25402x.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Give your Claude API&nbsp;key a name</figcaption></figure><h2 id="">Step 4: Save Your Key!</h2><p id="">Next you'll see a window that lists out your entire API&nbsp;key. It will be a long string of nonsensical characters. </p><p id="">This is important. <strong id="">Save your Claude API&nbsp;Key!</strong>&nbsp;Copy it down somewhere secure you can access later. Once you've generated a Claude API Key, you <strong id="">will not be able to view it again</strong>, </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/68ee874ba359e5605d34165d_CleanShot%25202025-10-14%2520at%252010.22.57%25402x.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Copy your Claude API key. (Do not copy the key shown in the image)</figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><p id="">This key is shown only once for security reasons. If you lose it, you'll need to create a new one.&nbsp;Also do not share your Claude API&nbsp;key with other people unless you really trust them. This key has the ability to charge your account. </p><h2 id="">Step 5: Enter your Claude API&nbsp;key into your Studio</h2><p id="">With your API key copied, you can now use in your applications for unlimited usage. For instance, you can enter this key into any of your AI&nbsp;Studios on Pickaxe to use the Claude models and enjoy unlimited usage of them. If you're curious about how API usage differs from credits, you can read this <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-do-credits-on-pickaxe-work">guide on credit systems and API keys.</a> </p><p id="">To add your&nbsp;API&nbsp;key go to the studio settings and then under Model API Keys click on "Add Custom API" the select Claude as the as the model type and then add your api key.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/68eebc7e33a36a975951b3b7_CleanShot%25202025-10-14%2520at%252012.34.02%25402x.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Adding a few API key to Pickaxe</figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/68eebcc9311f329cf9f13bec_CleanShot%25202025-10-14%2520at%252012.33.11%25402x.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Entering the API&nbsp;key and creating a name for it.</figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Managing Billing</h2><p id="">To manage billing on your Claude API&nbsp;key, you can visit your <a href="https://console.anthropic.com/settings/keys">Claude API keys dashboard. </a>There you can see how much your API key has been used, the cost of the usage, all your existing API keys and much more. To view your billing &amp;&nbsp;usage, in the left-hand nav bar just click on the <strong id="">Cost </strong>or <strong id="">Usage. </strong></p><h2 id="">Deleting an Claude API&nbsp;key</h2><p id="">If for whatever reason you want to delete a Claude API&nbsp;key, you can always navigate to the <a href="https://console.anthropic.com/settings/keys">Claude API&nbsp;Keys management tab</a>, find the API key you want to delete, click on the three dots in the far right, and then click "disable" or "delete" </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66b29048172665e184bcae54_66b28df9d2c62f6b265bb69b_Screenshot%25202024-08-06%2520at%25201.52.30%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">How delete a Claude API&nbsp;key in the Claude API keys dashboard</figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Conclusion &amp;&nbsp;other&nbsp;questions</h2><p id="">Claude is a powerful model that many users are starting to <a href="https://community.pickaxeproject.com/t/debate-claude-3-opus-vs-openai-gpt-4/248">prefer over OpenAI models like GPT-4</a>. It's a great way to power AI apps that you want <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-embed-ai-chatbots-into-your-website-a-step-by-step-guide#:~:text=%E2%80%8DEmbedding%20the%20chatbot%20into%20a,tool%20to%20fit%20your%20specifications.">embed into your website as a chatbot</a> or form. </p><p id="">Or if you want to <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/pickaxe-studio-sell-your-ai-tools-as-services">make money with AI</a>&nbsp;by selling AI tools in A studio, Claude Sonnet 3.5 is a great choice for business use cases. </p><p id="">If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out in our <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co">AI entrepreneur community forum</a> where people starting AI&nbsp;businesses discuss best practices and answer each other's questions.</p>

A step by step walkthrough of how to find and create your own API key for Claude models

How to get your Claude API key: A step-by-step guide (2026) | Pickaxe Blog

How to get your Claude API key: A step-by-step guide (2026)

<p id="">Need to use your own API key?&nbsp;</p><p id="">If you're using AI tools or AI&nbsp;platforms you've probably come across the term "OpenAI&nbsp;API key" and wondered what it is, why it's important, and how you get one. An API key serves as a unique identifier that lets you connect to your OpenAI account and access their models like ChatGPT and GPT-4. While it may seem like a hassle, it’s often cheaper in the long-run to use your own API key rather than relying on third-party platforms that act as middle-men. An OpenAI API key plugs you right into the source so you can pay as you go.</p><p id="">For example, Pickaxe's <a href="https://pickaxe.co">no-code AI&nbsp;app builder</a> allows users to enter their own API key. This allows them to enjoy near unlimited usage of their embedded AI tools and not worry about having enough credits or usage.</p><p id="">In this step-by-step guide, we'll walk you through the process of finding, generating, and using your own OpenAI API key. </p><h4 id="">Step 1: Log into OpenAI’s website</h4><p id="">To start visit <a href="https://platform.openai.com" id="">OpenAI’s website</a>.<br></p><p id="">If you already have an OpenAI account, you’ll be prompted to log in. If you don’t have an account, create one. Don't know if you have an account? If you use ChatGPT, that means you already an account!</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/649f11015c04179c9af47605_API_Key_Blog_Post_Logging_In.jpg" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">Log in screen of OpenAI</figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">Step 2: Click on your profile and select “View API keys”</h4><p id="">Once you’ve logged in, you’ll be redirected to the OpenAI Dashboard. You should see your name and profile in the top right corner.</p><p id="">Click on your profile. You’ll see a dropdown menu appear.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Click on the “View API Keys” item.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/649f11d1265b37a14fcade7f_API_key_blog_post_2.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">Home page of OpenAI</figcaption></figure><p id="">‍<br></p><h4 id="">Step 3: Navigate to the API Keys Section</h4><p id="">You will be redirected to your profile section. There are a ton of options and settings about your account. But&nbsp;we’re only interested in your API&nbsp;key.<br></p><p id="">Make sure you're on a page titled “API keys”. You can navigate to it by clicking on "API Keys" on the left-hand panel. It should look like this.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/649f11fd27df32d70caad8e5_API_Key_Blog_Post_6.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">API&nbsp;Keys section of your OpenAI&nbsp;account</figcaption></figure><h4 id="">Step 4: Generate a new API key</h4><p id="">This step is pretty simple. Click “Create new secret key”.&nbsp;<br></p><p id="">You will be prompted to give the API key a nickname. Enter a nickname and click "Create new secret key"</p><p id="">This will generate a new API key. It will be a long string of random letters and numbers. This is an important string! Treat it like a password. Don’t lose it and don’t share it with parties you don’t trust. Your API key is a way to connect to your OpenAI account and ultimately bill your account for usage.&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">Step 5: Copy your API Key (you get one chance!)</h4><p id="">Make sure to copy your API key to your clipboard or somewhere safe on your computer. Once an API key has been generated you won’t be able to see the entire key again on OpenAI. This is for security purposes.&nbsp;If you didn’t copy the API key or you lost it, you can always generate a new one.<br></p><h4 id="">Step 6: Enter the API key into Pickaxe</h4><p id="">Now that you have your API key, you can integrate it into websites or applications that require one.&nbsp;</p><p id="">To use your API key on Pickaxe, it’s very simple. By entering your API&nbsp;key into a Pickaxe you can give that Pickaxe unlimited usage. It will use your API key instead of your Pickaxe credits. </p><p id="">To enter your API key, go to a particular pickaxe and visit the control panel.</p><p id="">Under the API Key section, select “custom” and then paste in your API key. Click "save" to securely store your API key.</p><p id="">Your API key is now safely stored. Don’t worry Pickaxe can’t see this key.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/649f131d226408aa5b2fcd3c_API_key_blog_Post_Image_1.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">How to enter your API key into a pickaxe</figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">Further Questions<br></h4><h5 id="">Why should I&nbsp;use an API key?</h5><p id="">In the long run, it’s cheaper to use your own API key. Many services provide use of their own Api key as proxy. It’s how they offer access to OpenAI’s models through their platforms. However, each use of an API key costs money and the platform may pass it off to at a mark-up.&nbsp;<br></p><h5 id="">Does using my OpenAPI key cost money?</h5><p id="">Yes. Using your OpenAI key is costs money. Each use of your API&nbsp;key will cost a small amount of money that OpenAI will bill to you. However, it's very small. Generally each run of ChatGPT (GPT 3.5) costs about $0.002 per 1,000 tokens of output. A “token” is a technical unit, but it equals roughly 0.75 words. So in simpler terms, it costs about 1 cent to generate 3,750 words of output. These prices are subject to change and are trending downward as computing gets cheaper. For the most up to date pricing, you can visit <a href="https://openai.com/pricing">OpenAI’s pricing page</a>.</p><h5 id="">Are there downsides to using my OpenAI key?</h5><p id="">For most part, it’s advantageous to use your own API key. However, there are a couple potential downsides.&nbsp;</p><p id=""><strong id="">Access to GPT-4</strong>. Not all users have access to the latest, most powerful models. Some users may not have access to GPT-4. To gain access, you can <a href="https://openai.com/waitlist/gpt-4-api">request GPT-4 access here</a>.&nbsp;</p><p id=""><strong id="">Usage Limits</strong>. By default, accounts have a usage limit of $120/month. If you aren’t running a gigantic business, then it’s difficult and quite unlikely you’ll surpass this amount. For reference, that’s 45 million words of output on ChatGPT. However, if you find yourself running up against your limit, you can always request more usage. To do so, just visit your OpenAI account, click on Billing and Usage Limit. On that page you can request an increase.&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍<br><br></p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/649f1467265b37a14fce66da_API_Key_Blog_Post_5.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">How to request a usage increase of your OpenAI API key</figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><p id="">‍</p>

A simple walkthrough (with screenshots) on how to get an OpenAI API key and use it on Pickaxe

How to get your OpenAI API key: A step-by-step guide | Pickaxe Blog

How to get your OpenAI API key: A step-by-step guide

<p id="">Pickaxe is a way to share your best AI prompts as standalone apps and tools. Creators <em id="">love </em>embedding AI&nbsp;prompts into their websites and online courses to offer scalable value. But in this economy, everyone is wondering… how can I make money with them? Because Pickaxe easily turns prompts into <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-embed-ai-chatbots-into-your-website-a-step-by-step-guide">embeddable AI widgets</a>, Pickaxe is an easy no-code way to monetize AI&nbsp;prompts through third-party sites, such as Squarespace, Notion, MemberSpace, and more!</p><h2 id="">Create Paid Member-Only Areas</h2><p id="">Websites like <a href="https://www.memberspace.com/">MemberSpace</a> allow you to create parts of a website that are "member-only" spaces, meaning visitors can only access the page by joining a paid community. MemberSpace is easy to integrate with a number of websites, such as Squarespace and Notion. It's a go-to solution for users who want to partition off parts of their website behind a paywall. No-code solopreneurs have told us about how easy the process is, especially because of the friendly, no code environment. </p><p id="">To learn more about how to effectively monetize Pickaxe, we talked to Kassie Kuehl, an entrepreneur who uses Pickaxe as part of her<a href="https://the-growth-guild.circle.so/home"> thriving online businesses</a> such as prompt garden in order to help fellow entrepreneurs promote growth for their ideas and businesses.</p><h2 id="">How to Create Monetizable Frameworks with Pickaxe</h2><p id="">Before you can monetize prompts, you need to consider the following:&nbsp;what about your expertise can you turn into a Pickaxe? </p><p id="">Kassie calls this “<em id="">productizing your genius</em>”. It has been a great strategy for creating AI tools for lead generation and personalizing her website. By creating Pickaxes based on her expertise in various domains, she's been able to productize her skills in the form of AI content generators. These tools can work for her clients even when she's not around.</p><p id="">For a hands-on example of productizing your genius, check out Kassie's <a href="https://ai-prompts.super.site">prompt garden</a>, a website full of targeted AI tools behind paywalls. This website was made completely with no-code tools-- from the prompts, to the website, to the paywall system. </p><p id="">Kassie shared about her experience using Pickaxe, and how easy it is to embed Pickaxes into her Notion website, especially as a no code solution! She has successfully monetized her Pickaxes by adding a paywall around the best prompts on her website, allowing members of her Circle community to access resources to learn more about how to accelerate growth in their businesses!</p><p id="">‍</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:70%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="70%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64cd5bae58981a5cf243eb66_Kassie_Kuehl_Blog_1.png" loading="lazy" alt="Screenshot of Kassie Kuehl's Growth Garden website" id="" width="auto" height="auto"></div><figcaption id="">Kassie's Growth Guild website</figcaption></figure><h2 id="">No-Code Tools for Creating Paywalled Websites</h2><p id="">So how do YOU start? Pickaxes can be embedded into Squarespace, Notion, Wix, Webflow, Kajabi, Wordpress, and more! It's really easy. And monetization is as simple as toggling some settings on those websites or using an easy, no-code third party solution like <a href="https://www.memberspace.com/">MemberSpace</a>!</p><p id="">Let's take a look at how to monetize your AI prompts on a few of these platforms. </p><h2 id="">Monetizing on Squarespace</h2><p id="">Squarespace is one of the most popular website builders available. And it also offers native ways to add paywalls to your websites. </p><p id="">Squarespace has a variety of plans for your website, depending on what your business needs! You can start with a 14-day trial, and decide how you like the interface and usability. </p><p id="">There are no-code options to build your website, with templates and resources to help build your business! It’s easy to put your Pickaxe into your website, as easy as copy and pasting the code!</p><p id="">To add a Pickaxe to your Squarespace site, just embed it directly into your website. For information on how to add AI&nbsp;to your Squarespace, you can read our <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-integrate-ai-to-your-website-wix-weblfow-squarespace-wordpress">step-by-step walkthrough here</a>.</p><p id="">To monetize your Pickaxe on Squarespace, you'll want to create a special Member Area on your website and put your Pickaxe there. </p><p id="">Let's explore how to do that. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64cd5c1f2c39efef7d15fb8a_Kassie_Kuehl_Blog_2.png" loading="lazy" alt="Screenshot of Squarespace pricing page" id="" width="auto" height="auto"></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Squarespace</em></figcaption></figure><h2 id="">Member Areas on Squarespace</h2><p id="">Within your Squarespace site, you can create <strong id="">Member Areas</strong>, where people will have to subscribe to your community and/or pay in order to get access to certain parts of your website! Member Areas have a few different packages with monthly prices, depending on how many paywalls you want to set up.</p><p id="">Payment can be a one-time price upfront or a subscription with recurring payment, in addition to the option to make it free in which case users would have to join your community in order to get access! Members Areas show up as a different section in Pages when you are building your website, and you have control over what you want to include!</p><p id="">For more information on how to set up a Member Area on Squarespace, check out this <a href="https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050366952-Getting-started-with-Member-Areas">help center article</a>. </p><p id="">While Squarespace has native monetization through Member Areas, there are plenty of third-party options that you can use to monetize <em id="">any website.</em></p><p id="">Let's dive into how.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64cd5c5ead0a301dff4e2a67_Kassie_Kuehl_Blog_3.png" loading="lazy" alt="Screenshot of Member Areas in Squarespace UI" id="" width="auto" height="auto"></div><figcaption id="">Squarespace's Member Areas</figcaption></figure><h2 id="">Using MemberSpace to Monetize Websites</h2><p id="">If you're hosting your website on a platform that doesn't offer native monetization, there are plenty of ways to monetize it. One of the best is <a href="https://www.memberspace.com/platforms/" id=""><strong id="">MemberSpace</strong></a><strong id="">, </strong>an easy way to create paid membership sites or paid membership sections of a website.</p><p id="">With MemberSpace, you can integrate “members-only access” into your website, given your site is made in one of their compatible platforms, such as Squarespace, Notion, Wix, Webflow, etc. They have a free plan with a wide variety functionality, in addition to a professional plan with more advanced features.</p><p id="">Similar to Squarespace, different structures of payment can be used for users to gain member access to your Memberspace. </p><p id="">Depending on which platform you are integrating MemberSpace into, there will be different instructions in order to Copy and Verify Install. Then, you’re set to start customizing your very own MemberSpace!</p><p id="">Bonus tip:&nbsp;Creating high-quality, engaging content that resonates with your target audience is essential to monetize your website. One effective way is to enhance your videos by <a href="https://www.veed.io/tools/add-subtitles" target="_blank">adding subtitles</a> to reach more audiences. By investing time and resources like an <a href="https://www.veed.io/tools/auto-subtitle-generator-online" target="_blank" id="">automatic subtitle generator</a> in creating videos, you can build a loyal following who will be more likely to engage with your brand and ultimately convert into paying customers.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64d97b63babc33a74f89a0d0_Memberspace_blog_photo.png" loading="lazy" alt="A list of all the platforms MemberSpace supports" id="" width="auto" height="auto"></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">MemberSpace offers integrations with most major website builders</em></figcaption></figure><h2 id="">Accepting Payments&nbsp;Online</h2><p id="">For business payments, it is important to be able to accept payments online. One terrific option that can scale along with your business is <a href="https://stripe.com/" id="">Stripe</a>. To monetize your pickaxes, we suggest you set up a Stripe account so that members are able to pay you, and you are able to receive payment. Stripe is an easy way to accept payments. Both small and large businesses use Stripe. It's interface is simple and friendly. </p><h2 id="">Setting Up Stripe</h2><p id="">Setting up Stripe is fairly straightforward. Just visit their <a href="https://dashboard.stripe.com/register" id="">website</a> and sing up for an account. Not only does Stripe allow how you accept payments, with Stripe you can also make custom payment links for different products or features. You can set prices, creates discounts, and perform all the actions an online store would need to.</p><p id="">Once you connect your bank account information and add business details, one way to receive payments is by creating a shareable link. The interface to the left would appear for the user, where they are able to input their payment information. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:75%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="75%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64cd5e223290bd62a7685492_Kassie_Blog_Post_6.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt="Screenshot of Stripe's interface for online payments."></div></figure><h2 id="">Start Monetizing Your Prompts Today!</h2><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatleft" style="max-width:25%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatleft" data-rt-max-width="25%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64d97758fc3436f1111b930d_Kassie_Blog_Photo.png" loading="lazy" alt="Photo of entrepreneur Kassie Kuehl" id="" width="auto" height="auto"></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Kassie Kuehl</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">Kassie is one of many users who sees Pickaxe as a way of selling access to her expertise and prompts, and “productizing their genius,” as she says. &nbsp;</p><p id="">If you're curious to learn how to better monetize your prompts and productize your genius, you can check out Kassie's <a href="https://tally.so/r/wQeK97">Masterclass</a> on how to productize your expertise with AI, in which&nbsp; key insights into how solopreneurs can use AI for their online businesses.</p><p id="">Pickaxe's no-code platform is made to be easy and friendly to use for people of all backgrounds, especially those without coding experience! </p><p id="">It's easier than ever to take ideas and turn them into income-generating businesses online with Pickaxe and other no code tools.</p><p id="">Ready to start your own Pickaxe path? Start making money moves with Pickaxes now! The first step is to <a href="https://pickaxe.co/">create a Pickaxe</a>.</p>

A walkthrough of how to monetize your Pickaxes

How to Monetize Your Prompts with Pickaxe | Pickaxe Blog

How to Monetize Your Prompts with Pickaxe

<h2 id=""><strong id="">Setting Up Stripe for Pickaxe Studio</strong></h2><p id="">If you're building a Studio in Pickaxe, you may want to create a paid subscriber tiers so you can monetize your chatbots and AI&nbsp;tools. You're in luck! Pickaxe's Stripe integration makes the process easy, fast, and completely no-code. To do this, you'll want to set aside about 3-5 minutes and make sure you have some information about your bank account ready. </p><p id="">Then you can start accepting payments through your <a href="https://pickaxe.co/user/dashboard">Pickaxe Studio</a>!</p><h2 id=""><strong id="">Step 1 — Build a Studio</strong></h2><p id="">(If you've already done this, feel free to skip to Step 2)</p><p id="">In order to set up monetization, you'll need an existing Pickaxe Studio. Setting up a Studio is free and quick. </p><p id="">To create a new studio, just go <a href="https://pickaxe.co/user/dashboard">here</a> or click "Studio" in the Pickaxe nav bar.</p><p id="">Then give it a name, add one or more Pickaxes, and write a description for it. For a detailed walkthrough, check out our <a href="https://intellibotique.substack.com/p/living-my-life-like-its-golden-with">full guide about setting a Studio</a>.</p><p id="">After you select whether your studio is Public or Invite-Only, you'll have the option to set up a paid tier. Click <strong id="">“+ Add a paid tier”</strong> at the bottom. Then decide how many uses each tier should get.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65d8f8078ad52dd95ca37f57_setuppaidtier.jpg" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><h2 id="">Step 2 - Register with Stripe</h2><p id="">After creating your studio you will be asked to <strong id="">connect a Stripe account</strong> to activate payments. <a href="https://stripe.com/">Stripe</a> is a payment processor that is easy to use and trusted by many of the biggest websites and services. For example, OpenAI and Pickaxe both use Stripe to power all of their&nbsp;paid subscriptions. So you're in the best, most trusted hands of online payment processing. </p><p id="">In order to get started using Stripe you will need to <strong id="">provide and verify your e-mail address</strong> <strong id="">and phone number</strong>.&nbsp;Make sure to use good contact info, because Stripe will use these details in case of fraud and other account issues. </p><p id="">When you successfully verify your account you’ll be provided an important retrieval code that you’ll want to put in a safe place.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65d8f8e402d9a9da7be4463d_Strip_5.jpg" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Step 3 - Fill out Business &amp;&nbsp;Personal Details. </h2><p id="">Next you’ll be asked a series of questions about how you intend to use Stripe. </p><p id="">Stripe will also ask for various personal information <strong id="">including your address, birthday, and the last four digits of your SSN</strong>. This information is <em id="">handled securely </em>via Stripe. Pickaxe does not store any of this information on our servers. <em id=""> </em></p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65d8f99c74b85887fbd1acc4_Strip_6.jpg" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65d8ffa78713d6ead31617ac_Strip_2.jpg" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><h2 id="">Step 4 - Connect a Bank Account</h2><p id="">Once you have finished creating your account, the next step is to <strong id="">connect a bank account to your Stripe account</strong>. </p><p id="">All your earnings in Stripe will automatically deposit into this destination bank account at regular intervals. Stripe will not pull money from your account. It will only deposit earnings from your Pickaxe Studio into your bank account.</p><p id="">Depending on who you bank with you’ll either be able to log in through the sign on screen you’re used to using with your bank, or you may have to look up your account number and routing number and enter them in manually.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65d8ff8dfcba9f2ab504c5cd_Strip_4.jpg" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><h2 id="">‍</h2><h2 id="">Step 5 - Set optional charity donation (OPTIONAL)</h2><p id="">The last step to register your Stripe account is to decide whether or not you’d like to donate a portion of your earnings to remove carbon from the planet.&nbsp;Though this may seem mandatory, but please note it <strong id="">IS&nbsp;OPTIONAL</strong>. You can skip it by clicking "No&nbsp;thanks".</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65d8ffdff6269499f03cd5fb_Strip_1.jpg" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">As soon as you complete the process you’ll be redirected back into your Studio where you can continue to refine and manage your creation.</p><h3 id="">Does Stripe Have Fees?</h3><p id="">Stripe is free to set up, but charges a fee based on all processed revenue. Pickaxe also charges a fee for revenue processed through Studio subscriptions. </p><p id="">The fees break down as follows. </p><p id="">From Pickaxe:</p><ul id=""><li id="">10% of each transaction . </li></ul><p id="">From Stripe:&nbsp;</p><ul id=""><li id="">3% of each transaction</li><li id="">$0.30 flat fee for every transaction.</li></ul><p id="">This means if you are charging $10/month subscriptions to your Pickaxe Studio, you will make $8.40 from each subscription ($10.00 minus $1.30 in revenue-based fees + $0.30 flat fee for the transaction). Please be mindful that this $.030 flat fee does not change whether the transaction is $1, $5, or $25. </p><p id="">You can read more about Stripe's pricing <a href="https://stripe.com/pricing">here</a> and Stripe's terms of service <a href="https://stripe.com/legal/consumer">here</a>.</p><h3 id="">Further Questions</h3><p id="">And there you have it!&nbsp;Now your Pickaxe Studio has monetization enabled. All the money you earn through your Pickaxe Studio subscriptions will automatically go through your Stripe account and deposit into your connected bank account. No more set up required!</p><p id="">If you have questions regarding this process you can always email the Pickaxe team at info@pickaxeproject.com.</p>

A simple walkthrough of how to set up a Stripe in your Pickaxe Studio

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How to Set Up Monetization in Pickaxe Studio with Stripe

<p id="">This is a simple walkthrough of how to use the document upload feature that powers our <a href="https://pickaxe.co/builder">no-code AI&nbsp;tool builder</a>. Pickaxe's document upload system is a powerful way to take knowledge trapped in texts and inject them into your chatbots or AI tools. By training chatbots on texts, you can create very powerful and useful tools. For example, this <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-use-books-and-documents-to-make-a-chatbot-building-a-charlie-munger-chatbot">Charlie Munger chatbot</a> was created by uploading his books and essays into a chatbot. Now it answers questions with the sensibility of Charlie Munger and his value investing principles.</p><h2 id="">How It Works</h2><p id="">To get the most out of our document upload system, let's start with a quick explanation of how it works. Essentially, our document upload is a form of semantic search. When you upload a document, our system breaks it down into uniform "chunks" of text. It then stores all these chunks in the AI's brain. Whenever the end-user sends a new message to your chatbot or tool, the system quickly scans all of the chunks, finds the most relevant ones based on semantic search, and then returns those chunks. Those chunks are then dynamically inserted into your chatbot as context that it can choose to consider or ignore as it generates a response. </p><p id="">For example, let's say you are making a chatbot that can answers questions about U.S. tax laws and upload a large document about U.S. tax law. If a user asks about tax write-offs for home offices, it may return two chunks from the document about home office write-offs. The chatbot will then look at those chunks and use them to inform its answer. </p><h2 id="">Uploading Documents</h2><p id="">To upload a document, look for the section "Knowledge&nbsp;Base"&nbsp;in builder. You will be prompted to upload documents. When you upload a document, it will immediately turned into "chunks" that will then be stored in the tool's brain. This process takes a while, so give it a moment. Once the document has been "chunked", searching and retrieving chunks will be near instantaneous. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:1536px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="1536px"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/659c9bdd63635412a40a6e34_DocUpload_6.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><h2 id="">Framing the information in the chunks</h2><p id="">For advanced users who have a clear understanding of how they want their chatbot to behave, the ability to "frame" your chunks is a powerful way to exercise more control over the chatbot. </p><p id="">The concept of "framing" the chunks is pretty simple. When the "chunks" are returned to the model, it is also given a simple instruction on how to interpret the chunks. &nbsp;The chatbot will receive the phrase followed by all the relevant chunks that were found. We've put in a robust default phrase already, but you may want to change it for more precise control. For example, you can tell the chatbot that chunk is from the U.S. Tax Code. Or you might want to tell the model something very specfic about the data </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:1420px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="1420px"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/659cae7b3c72a54f7f82bcbd_Screen%20Shot%202024-01-08%20at%206.24.37%20PM.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">The default phrase used to frame your chunks.</figcaption></figure><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:1394px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="1394px"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/659c9c007f7b87002df610d4_DocUpload_7.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">A custom phrase that is suited towards a particular use-case.</figcaption></figure><h2 id="">How to set a threshold for relevance</h2><p id="">When the system is searching through the chunks, it does not return all the chunks. It only returns the 'relevant chunks'. What does that mean?</p><p id="">When searching through the chunks, the model assigns each chunk a 'relevance score'. This score reflects how relevant the chunk of text from your document is to the user's message. If the user asked about tax write-offs for a home office, it will quickly give each chunk a score that reflects how relevant it is to the user's question. 0 is the lowest score and 1 is the highest score. A&nbsp;relevance score of 0.5 is pretty irrelevant, a score of .75 is kinda relevant, and a score of .9 and above is very relevant. </p><p id="">If you set this number to 0.7, that means only chunks that score 0.7 or higher will be returned. Everything else will be ignored. We suggest somewhere in the 0.7 to 0.8 range, but you may want to adjust this based on your specific case. </p><h2 id="">Amount of chunks returned </h2><p id="">Another advanced setting is the "tokens available for the knowledge base". That sounds like a mouthful but it's pretty simple. It's a way to set an upper limit on how much text you feed the model from your documents.</p><p id="">Depending on the message, the model might return tons of chunks or only a few chunks. Since the chatbots have limits on how many tokens (words) they can input and output, obviously you don't want to feed your chatbot 10,000 words about tax law when it may only need 100 words. By default we set the limit of tokens reserved for the chunks to 750. That means that the model will be given chunks until it hits 750 tokens or there are no more relevant chunks to feed it, whichever comes first. You can set this upper-limit yourself if you want to allow the chatbot to receive more information. But be warned. Sometimes less is more. Chatbot performance can be dulled if you give it too much text sometimes. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:1390px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="1390px"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/659c9c68010e04c1e0a36bc9_DocUpload_3.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><h2 id="">More Resources</h2><p id="">If you have any questions on how to use the Pickaxe document upload system, feel free to reach out at info@pickaxeproject.com. We love talking to enthusiastic prompt designers!</p><p id="">For help writing good prompts, you can check out this guide on <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-design-an-ai-chatbot-pickaxe-chatbot-builder-walkthrough">chatbot prompt design</a> principles. </p>

A walkthrough of the Pickaxe document upload system.

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How to upload documents into a chatbot on Pickaxe

<p id="">The OpenAI <a href="https://openai.com/blog/introducing-the-gpt-store">GPT Store</a> is a big gamechanger. Entrepreneurial GPT creators are flocking to build GPTs and launch them in the store. Some want to share their GPTs with the world, others want a chance at making tons of money, and others still aren’t even sure what they want to accomplish but they like the idea of publishing a GPT for public use.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" style="max-width:30%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright" data-rt-max-width="30%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65a62225d613b0ff41925d8f_whitelabelpicturepost.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">The GPT Store is a "walled garden"</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">And why not? Creating and sharing your own GPT is a huge value add to your brand, team, and business. </p><p id="">However, the GPT Store has a few limitations that are <strong id="">severely limiting</strong> for many users. The GPT Store is a walled garden. Not everyone can get in. And your GPT&nbsp;can't get out. That means only ChatGPT+ subscribers can access your GPTs, which limits the potential reach of your tool and revenue. Additionally, GPTs can only be used within the OpenAI ecosystem. They can't be integrated in the places where you actually do your work. Into your brand, business, or website. </p><p id="">This guide will provide step-by-step directions on how to overcome these hurdles, white-labeling your GPTs with your own branding for broader and more personalized use.</p><h2 id=""><strong id="">Understanding the GPT Store’s Limitations</strong></h2><h3 id=""><strong id="">1. Subscription Barrier: </strong></h3><p id="">Most people can't use your GPT!&nbsp;Only ChatGPT+ subscribers can access your GPTs hosted in the GPT Store. That means only people who pay OpenAI $20/mo can use your tool. If you’re making tools for relative amateurs, chances are they will be stopped at the door of the OpenAI walled garden. </p><h3 id=""><strong id="">2. Closed Platform</strong>: </h3><p id="">GPTs are confined to usage within OpenAI's ecosystem. That means you can’t put them in your website. Or in your notion. Or your Sharepoint. AKA all the places where you actually need them. And when people use your GPT, it means they need to leave your ecosystem to use your GPT. That's a big deal if you're trying to include them in your website for lead gen!</p><h3 id=""><strong id="">3. Limited Branding&nbsp;Options</strong>:</h3><p id="">The GPT&nbsp;Store also offers limited options to showcase your brand prominently. The biggest barrier, of course, is the fact that it ilves on an OpenAI web address. You don't fully own it. While you can name it and add custom pictures, you can’t remove OpenAI’s branding. Which leads to our topic for this guide:&nbsp;you can’t fully white-label GPTs on the GPT Store.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:1400px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="1400px"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65a613339083bb4f9a0f7d0b_GPTs.jpg" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">The GPT&nbsp;Store lets you launch your own monetizable GPT. But it has limits.</em></figcaption></figure><h2 id="">Steps to White-Label your GPT</h2><p id="">Fully customizing your GPT into a fully white-labeled tool isn't so hard. You can do it in a few minutes. Just follow these simple steps. </p><h2 id="">Step 1: Identify Alternative Platforms</h2><p id="">The first step is to choose one of several platforms to host your GPT. Don't worry, it will still run on OpenAI's model and behave the same. This is just to find a no-code platform that allows for free AI&nbsp;chatbot creation and sharing. </p><p id="">Make sure it has the features you want.&nbsp;The important things to consider are custom-branding, ability to remove the platform's branding and logo, the ability to offer free or sponsored usage of your tool to anyone, and other features that might be important to your use case. </p><p id="">Of course, Pickaxe is a great platform. You can build chatbots easily with no-code. And converting GPTs to Pickaxes is a simple process that takes mere minutes. But there are other platforms too more geared towards specific use cases. </p><h2 id="">Step 2: Recreate your GPT</h2><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" style="max-width:45%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright" data-rt-max-width="45%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65a1d7f27eb6560d92378f73_BuilderScreenshot_2.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt="The configure panel of GPT Store "></div><figcaption id="">Look for the "instructions"&nbsp;part on your GPT's configure page</figcaption></figure><p id="">After you've picked a platform, step two is easy! </p><p id="">Go to your GPT on OpenAI and click the "edit" button. Then look for the box labeled "instructions"&nbsp;in the configure panel. </p><p id="">These instructions basically constitute the "prompt" for your GPT. </p><p id=""><strong id="">Copy and paste</strong> these instructions into the chatbot builder of whatever platform you choose. </p><p id="">Be sure to add any documents form the knowledge base. Depending on what platform you use, customize other settings until you feel it’s behaving as good or better than your OpenAI GPT. &nbsp;</p><p id="">For a detailed guide to converting your GPTs, you can read our <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-white-label-your-gpts-on-the-gpt-store">guide on transferring GPTs</a> here.</p><h2 id="">Step 3: Customize your branding </h2><p id="">Step 3 is the fun part! Customize your GPT and add your branding and design. Add your logo, your color palette, and most importantly, remove OpenAI's branding. &nbsp;</p><p id="">As we all know, building and protecting your brand is crucial in any online presence. There's a reason businesses <a href="https://www.domo.com/learn/article/the-benefits-of-using-white-labeled-software#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20main%20reasons,building%20a%20completely%20new%20product.">love to white-label</a> any software they use. It's because it elevates your brand perception in the eyes of your users and customers. </p><p id="">Most platforms offer white-labeling is an easy setting to turn on/off. On Pickaxe, white-labeling GPTs is an easy process that's as simple as toggling it on. </p><h2 id="">Step 4: Share on your website as an embed!</h2><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" style="max-width:45%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright" data-rt-max-width="45%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65a6166fad376843aa7094d5_Screenshot%202024-01-15%20at%209.38.06%E2%80%AFPM.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">An example of an embedded GPT</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">If you have your own website or space online, be sure to <a href="https://pickaxe.co/ai/embeddable-chatbot">embed your GPT</a> into your website. This is a simple process. After customizing your GPT design, just copy/paste the embed code to put your GPT into a website as a simple iframe.</p><p id="">Many services make this an easy process. Once a GPT&nbsp;is embedded in your website, anyone who visits your website can use it without needing an OpenAI account. Embedding GPTs into a website is a great way to pique the interest of visitors or to create an easy workspace for people to be productive. </p><h2 id="">Step 5 (bonus): Promote it on the internet! </h2><p id="">One of the major advantages of a white-labeled GPT that you've "jailbreaked" from the GPT&nbsp;store is that it can reach a wider audience. Take advantage of that!</p><p id="">The next step (for those who are ambitious about getting their GPT out there) is to share and market your tool. Now anyone who encounters it can use it! Cool tools like this <a href="https://studio.pickaxe.co/STUDIOPG82VD7AF2YLMV9/AFN6B79TCNDIV4WW1GIK">subreddit suggester</a> that generates relevant subreddits to post your product in by analyzing your product can be very helpful. Posting your GPTs and website to appropriate subreddits can be a great way to find people looking for what you're offering. &nbsp; </p><h2 id="">Going even further</h2><p id="">Breaking out of the OpenAI GPT Store and white-labeling your GPTs can significantly enhance your brand's presence and customer engagement. It's pretty easy to do and can pay off bigtime. And remember, you can also have your <strong id="">GPT in multiple places!</strong> You can keep it on the GPT store but also put a white-labeled version into your website or workspace. <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-embed-ai-chatbots-into-your-website-a-step-by-step-guide">Embedding AI&nbsp;chatbots</a> into your website is a huge benefit to any online business!</p><p id="">By leveraging various no-code GPT builder platforms, you can create, white-label, and share your custom GPTs more freely, ensuring they are accessible to a wider audience while proudly showcasing your brand.</p>

A step-by-step guide on how to white-label and customize GPTs from the GPT Store

How to white-label your GPTs - (Going beyond the GPT store) | Pickaxe Blog

How to white-label your GPTs - (Going beyond the GPT store)

<h3 id="">Reading Shakespeare Today<br></h3><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatleft" style="max-width:30%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatleft" data-rt-max-width="30%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64c003afe68d95263258f02d_VirtualShakespeare_12.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">The Bard</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">William Shakespeare is widely believed to be the most read author in history.&nbsp;That's saying a lot for a writer born nearly 500 years ago. But as we near that 500 year mark, many modern audiences find his language dated. Elizabethan English can be difficult to understand for first-time readers. Despite that barrier to entry, audiences who engage with the Bard usually discover a lifelong love for the material. </p><p id="">That’s why we created the automatic <a href="https://shakespeare.tools/0BGI08DC0IAP5EBYNBXU">Shakespeare Translator tool</a> which intelligently and instantly paraphrases old English into modern English. It’s a helpful tool for understanding Shakespeare’s text better.&nbsp;<br></p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Is it bad to translate Shakespeare English into modern English?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p id="">No! If translating Shakespeare into modern english helps you understand the text, it helps you enjoy the original material more. Importantly, paraphrasing Shakespeare is not intended as a substitute for reading Shakespeare's works. Indeed if you just paraphrase Shakespeare, you lose all the joy of it. However, if you use the tool as a way to make Shakespeare more approachable, you will find yourself enjoying the material more than ever.<br></p><h3 id=""><strong id="">How Does the "Shakespeare Translator" Work?&nbsp;</strong></h3><p id="">The tool converts elizabethan english into common, modern english. In other words, it paraphrases old english into modern English. The tool is powered by an AI&nbsp;large language that has been instructed through clever prompt design to effectively comprehend and paraphrase William Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. For any piece of text you submit, the AI model reads the passage and then explains the meaning in simple English with a special attention to the metaphors.&nbsp;<br></p><p id="">The tool is simple to use.&nbsp;Just type or paste in an excerpt and hit "submit". The tool will generate a translation in seconds. </p><p id="">Enough talk. Let's look at some examples! </p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Examples</strong>&nbsp;of Translated Texts</h3><h3 id="">"Julius Caesar"<br></h3><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:25%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="25%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64bf668d48285682bff1ac18_VirtualShakespeare_1.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">Let’s look at Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Casca’s Colossus speech is a personal favorite and a great place to start. It’s also the source of the famous line “The fault lies not in our stars.” Here's Casca talking to Brutus about Julius Caesar.</p><h5 id="">The Original</h5><blockquote id="">Why man he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus, and we petty man walk under his huge legs and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves. Men at some times are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. <br></blockquote><h5 id="">Simplified&nbsp;Version </h5><blockquote id="">The world is small compared to the power of a great individual, and we ordinary people are insignificant beneath their might. Despite this, we have the ability to control our own destinies; the fault for us being subservient does not lie in fate, but in ourselves.<br></blockquote><h3 id=""><br>"Hamlet"</h3><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:25%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="25%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64bf67a37e56a28cc5813d3d_VirtualShakespeare_8.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">Let’s swerve into Hamlet. We've all heard it a thousand times, but what exactly does Hamlet mean he utters those famous six words to be or not to be?<br></p><h5 id="">Shakespeare’s original&nbsp;</h5><blockquote id="">To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them.<br></blockquote><h5 id="">Simplified Version</h5><blockquote id="">The question to consider is whether it's better to accept life's hardships and struggles or whether it's more noble to fight them directly.<br></blockquote><h3 id="">"Romeo and Juliet"<br></h3><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:25%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="25%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64bf66b2e96bb600257f8e6e_VirtualShakespeare_6.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">Let's look at some steamier stuff. How exactly does Romeo convince Juliet for their first kiss? Here's the opening of that famous sonnet.</p><h5 id="">Shakespeare’s Original</h5><blockquote id="">If I profane with my unworthiest hand&nbsp;this holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.</blockquote><h5 id="">Simplified Version</h5><blockquote id="">Romeo flirtatiously expresses his reverence for Juliet by proclaiming that if his touching her cheek is unacceptable, his lips are ready to amend his mistake with a tender kiss.<br></blockquote><h3 id="">"Richard III"</h3><p id="">Now let's see how well we can translate the histories. We can try the famous opening from Richard III. </p><h5 id="">Original</h5><blockquote id="">Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried.</blockquote><h5 id="">Simplified Version</h5><blockquote id="">Our unhappiness has now turned into joy due to the presence of the ruler from York; and all of our worries and troubles are now in the past, having been swept away and forgotten.<br></blockquote><h3 id="">"Macbeth"</h3><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:25%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="25%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64bf66db633ef1a63c2dd71d_VirtualShakespeare_4.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">And what of Macbeth’s dangerous, vaulting ambition?</p><h5 id="">Original&nbsp;</h5><blockquote id="">I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on th'other.</blockquote><h5 id="">Simplified&nbsp;Version</h5><blockquote id="">I have no motivation to follow through with my plan, only my ambition which causes me to take risks and fail.<br></blockquote><h4 id="">"Antony and Cleopatra"<br></h4><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:25%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="25%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64bf671ee96bb600257fc43b_VirtualShakespeare_5.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">We got the essence of Romeo's cooing for Juliet, but can it capture the <em id="">inexpressible</em> love of Antony and Cleopatra? </p><h5 id="">Original</h5><blockquote id="">Cleopatra: "If it be love indeed, tell me how much."</blockquote><blockquote id="">Antony: "There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd."</blockquote><h5 id="">Simplified Version</h5><blockquote id="">Cleopatra asked Antony how much he loved her, and Antony replied that if a love can be measured it is a low quality love.<br></blockquote><h4 id="">The Sonnets</h4><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:25%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="25%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64bf6769a5891c9c63466d76_VirtualShakespeare_7.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">We all know that Shakespeare wrote beautifully about love. He also wrote <em id="">savagely</em> about aging. He really didn't pull any punches when he talked about getting gray.&nbsp;Let's take a look at one of the sonnets.</p><h5 id="">Original</h5><blockquote id="">When forty winters shall besiege thy brow</blockquote><blockquote id="">And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,</blockquote><blockquote id="">Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now,</blockquote><blockquote id="">Will be a tattered weed, of small worth held.</blockquote><h5 id="">Simplified</h5><blockquote id="">When forty years have passed, the youthful beauty you now have will be gone and no longer held in high esteem. The wrinkles that time has placed on your forehead will have dug deep furrows in your once beautiful face.</blockquote><h4 id="">"Doctor Faustus"</h4><p id="">And what if we cheat and depart from Shakespeare? The tool can translate any old english writing. Here’s a famous line from Christopher Marlowe’s "Dr. Faustus".</p><h5 id="">Original</h5><blockquote id="">Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo’s laurel bough, that sometime grew within this learned man.</blockquote><h5 id="">Simplified</h5><blockquote id="">The potential of a great person is expired, and the glory that once belonged to them has been extinguished.<br></blockquote><h3 id=""><strong id="">Use the Shakespeare Translator tool!</strong></h3><p id="">Simple summarization of dense text is one of the best use cases of AI and large language models. The Shakespeare Translator tool is a wonderful example of this use case as it can instantly translate old English into simple, modern English. By using this AI-powered&nbsp;Shakespeare translator you can <a href="https://shakespeare.tools/0BGI08DC0IAP5EBYNBXU">translate Hamlet or Macbeth into modern english</a>.This tool is a wonderful way to overcome language barriers. By making Shakespeare more readily comprehensible to a bigger total audience of readers, this tool broadens the reach of classic literature.&nbsp;By giving the meaning and sentiment of the text, it drives readers back to the original to re-absorb the language with a better understanding. </p><p id="">Struggling with some Elizabethan language? Want to double check your understanding? Try out our Shakespeare Translator tool! The tool is embedded below for your enjoyment.<br></p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://shakespeare.tools/0BGI08DC0IAP5EBYNBXU" width="100%" height="600px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><p id="">‍</p>

An examination of famous Shakespeare lines translated into modern english by AI.

Translating Shakespeare to Modern English (AI Use Case) | Pickaxe Blog

Translating Shakespeare to Modern English (AI Use Case)

<p id=""><strong id="">Prompt Engineer Contest</strong></p><p id=""><strong id="">‍</strong>The Pickaxe Prompt Design Contest is over! The contest was a celebration of the emerging art of <a href="https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/generative-ai/learn/introduction-prompt-design#:~:text=Prompt%20design%20is%20the%20process,responses%20from%20a%20language%20model.">prompt design</a>, the skill of nudging persuading, and leading AI&nbsp;models towards desired behavior. As we tell so many people everyday, </p><blockquote id="">"Writing prompts is not an exact science, it’s an art."</blockquote><p id="">And some people are really good at it.</p><p id="">Prompt design is a quickly emerging field with people discovering new techniques all the time. Skilled prompt designers are debating how to write the best, most effective prompts at forums like the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PromptDesign/" id="">Prompt Design subreddit</a>. Meanwhile, Discord servers organized around prompt engineering are popping up all the time. Inside, members trade prompts and tips. If you're a complete beginner and want to know some simple best practices, check out these <a href="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/post/anatomy-of-a-good-prompt-the-basics-of-prompt-design" id="">basic principles</a> of prompt design.</p><p id="">But this contest wasn't for beginners. Many prompts were entered, but only the top 10 most-used advanced to the final round to be evaluated by our panel of esteemed judges. For a quick recap of the top 10 prompts, you can check out the full list <a href="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/post/top-10-pickaxes-from-our-prompt-engineering-contest" id="">here</a>.</p><p id="">The judges pored over the prompts, turned in their votes, and now we now have our winners. The judges include <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@mreflow/videos">Matt Wolfe</a>, the popular youtuber who educates millions of viewers every month about new AI tools, Pete Huang, co-editor and co-founder of the <a href="https://join.theneurondaily.com" id="">Neuron newsletter</a>, <a href="http://functionsofsouki.com/regenerative-ai" id="">Souki Mehdaoui</a>, filmmaker and AI consultant, AI super TikTokker <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@rileybrown.ai" id="">Riley Brown</a>, and AI artist &amp; Twitter sensation <a href="https://twitter.com/dreamingtulpa" id="">Dreaming Tulpa</a>.</p><p id="">So let’s get into the winners!<br></p><h3 id=""><strong id="">People’s Choice Award (most uses)</strong></h3><p id="">Dyllen Nellis, a celebrity in her own right for starting a successful business out of her college dorm room, is now a celebrity prompt engineer! Dyllen’s AI Passion Project Generator amassed more uses than any other entry. She won the People's Choice Award for the most popular and most-used pickaxe entered into the competition.<br></p><p id="">Dyllen is quite an impressive person. In fact, we will be featuring her unique use of Pickaxe in an upcoming blog. You can check out her college counseling business and other entrepreneurial projects <a href="https://dyllennellis.com/entrepreneur/">here</a>. In her college admissions counseling business, she uses her AI Passion Project generator as a lead gen magnet, giving users free access in exchange for their email.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Check out her tool below!</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://embed.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=AI_Passion_Project_Generator__Unlimited_XO4NN&mode=embed_gold&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="800px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><h3 id="">‍<strong id="">Best Chatbot Award (chatbot with most judge votes)</strong>‍</h3><p id="">The best chatbot is the Talk to a Muse chatbot created by Circe. This chatbot helps you enjoy any sensory experiences by giving you guided instructions.</p><p id="">Gulp down your coffee too fast? Talk to the muse about it. It will tell you to relax, enjoy the aroma, savor the test, examine the color, and savor in every small detail. This chatbot helps you live in the moment and by breaking down even simple actions into rich experiences.&nbsp;</p><p id="">For being the chatbot-based pickaxe that got the most votes from judges, Talk to a Muse wins the best chatbot award!&nbsp;Congratulations Circe!</p><p id="">You can talk to the muse below!</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=Talk_to_a_Muse_6X5JI&mode=embed_gold&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="600px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><h3 id=""><strong id="">Best Overall (pickaxe with most judge votes)</strong></h3><p id="">The best overall prompt, as judged by our judge panel, was the <strong id="">Reverse Prompt Engineer</strong> created by Ian Eck. Ian is actually a designer at Pickaxe. "What!? A&nbsp;Pickaxe employee won best overall?" It's weird, but yes!&nbsp;The Reverse Prompt Engineer garnered a landslide victory in vote totals from the judges. Importantly, none of the judges are affiliated with Pickaxe. Ian is a prompt aficionado, a fixture of the r/promptdesign community and spends more time than anyone messing around with prompt design. When he cooked up his Reverse Prompt Engineer, reportedly he didn’t sleep the next day. He just reverse engineered different prompts.</p><p id="">This pickaxe reverse engineers prompts based on outputs. Feed it any text and it will write a prompt that could produce it. This is a cool tool in the quickly emerging category of "meta prompts", or prompts that produce other prompts.&nbsp;It's a useful tool for discovering good prompt design techniques. If you're having trouble getting a model to behave, try entering the desired output into the Reverse Prompt Engineer. It will give you inspiration for a prompt that could produce it. </p><p id="">Reverse engineer a prompt below!</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=Reverse_Prompt_Engineer_PRYIJ&mode=embed_gold&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="600px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><p id="">‍</p><p id="">Well, that's a wrap on the 2023 Pickaxe Prompt Design Contest. Congratulations to the winner. To make your own prompt-powered app, <a href="https://pickaxe.co/">start creating</a> on Pickaxe today for free. <br></p>

A recap of the three winners from the 2023 Pickaxe Prompt Design Contest

2023 Prompt Design Contest Winners | Pickaxe Blog

2023 Prompt Design Contest Winners

<p id="">Previously, we <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/semantic-prompt-design-a-comprehensive-guide">explored Semantic Prompt Design</a>. We also <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/openai-gpt-builders-prompt-instructions-prompt-design-walkthrough">examined the inner workings of OpenAI's GPT Builder</a>, an automated framework for AI development within the ChatGPT ecosystem. Now we’re combining these two principles together to create ways to automate semantic prompt design.</p><p id="">Today I’m introducing two tools: <strong id="">Semantic Forge</strong> (centered around automatic prompt improvement) and <strong id="">Pickaxe Generator </strong>(centered around prompt creation). While these two tools are designed to make it easy to integrate semantic prompt design into AI chatbots, they each serve a distinct purpose. Each tool represents a step towards more powerful AI chatbots that are easier to tune and improve. They are both available as Pickaxes for you to start using today. </p><h3 id="">The Tools</h3><p id="">Pickaxe Prompt Generator helps you create powerful Pickaxes with nothing but an idea. This tool asks you a series of simple questions and then creates a customized AI prompt as its final output. You can then paste that prompt directly into our <a href="https://pickaxe.co/builder">no-code chatbot builder</a>.</p><p id="">Semantic Forge helps you improve existing Pickaxe prompts by converting them into more robust prompts that follow semantic prompt design.</p><h1 id="">Pickaxe Prompt Generator</h1><p id="">‍<a href="https://studio.pickaxe.co/STUDIOT02V95SPCCGISWA/Pickaxe_Generator_5RXSH">The Pickaxe Prompt Generator</a> is not just refining; it's creating. Starting from a user's broad goal with their AI tool, the Pickaxe Prompt Generator pioneers the creation of new Pickaxe prompts scripted in the style of Semantic Prompt Design. To remind readers, Semantic Prompt Design is a framework for writing prompts that are easy to read, easy to edit with precise intentions, and written in a structure that gets better performance out of AI models. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65b177899fe2d2e02a9cb2e1_semanticpropmtdesigpost_1.png" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">This means you can come to the Pickaxe Prompt Generator with nothing more than a vague idea for your tool!&nbsp;The generator will ask you a series of questions and gradually define your tool by working with you. Let's examine how it works in more detail. </p><p id="">The process is interactive and intuitive. First, it suggests a name for the new Pickaxe, inviting user to finalize it or suggest their own name. This step is more than a formality; it’s about establishing identity and purpose. </p><p id="">Then, the Generator delves into shaping the script’s context. It navigates through "Role and Goal," "Conversational Objectives," and other key areas, asking targeted questions to extract detailed information from the user. This approach ensures each new Pickaxe is tailored to its intended function and audience.</p><p id="">In crafting the output, the Pickaxe Generator meticulously assembles a final prompt. It's not just about ticking boxes; it's about weaving a narrative that resonates with users. From a well-crafted introduction to effective quality control mechanisms, each element is designed to make the Pickaxe not only functional but also engaging and context-aware.</p><p id="">Upon completing the script, the tool presents it for user review, an invitation for feedback and further refinement. This final step underscores the collaborative nature of the tool, merging AI capabilities with user insights.</p><p id="">You can paste the final output directly into the Pickaxe chatbot builder. </p><h1 id="">Semantic Forge </h1><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65b177d69645350826c8a1cb_semanticpropmtdesigpost_2.png" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">While I&nbsp;originally developed this tool as <a href="https://chat.openai.com/g/g-9x0UNfQ8x-semanticraft">SemantiCraft (an OpenAI GPT)</a> to help with improving custom GPTs, the same principles can apply to a Pickaxe, which offers the same functionality of the GPT&nbsp;builder, but without the restrictions of <a href="https://medium.com/@AI_prompt_design/the-gpt-store-walled-garden-what-you-cant-do-aba534b8871e">OpenAI's walled garden approach</a>. </p><p id="">The <a href="https://studio.pickaxe.co/STUDIOT02V95SPCCGISWA/Semantic_Forge_AQBB2">Semantic Forge Prompt Improvement tool </a>focuses on taking existing Pickaxe prompts and improving them by rewriting them according to Semantic Prompt Design guidelines. As it refines the script, Semantic Forge ensures that each segment aligns with Semantic Prompt Design principles. The introduction is restructured for clarity, transitions are made smoother, and conversation objectives are carefully redefined for focus and relevance.</p><p id="">Semantic Forge's enhancements extend to the prompt's personality, emotional intelligence, and humor. These elements are tailored to fit your tool's intended use, enhancing user engagement. Moreover, Semantic Forge draws from its deep understanding of Semantic Prompt Design to define a specific <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-upload-documents-into-a-chatbot-on-pickaxe">chatbot knowledge base</a> in order to keep the tool's responses informed and relevant. Semantic Forge enhances the personality, emotional intelligence, and humor of the prompt, and ensures that they are appropriate for their designated roles, whether in customer service, education, or entertainment.</p><p id="">The final output is an enriched Pickaxe prompt, showcasing technical proficiency and nuanced engagement. The process concludes with a user review for potential further refinements so that you can easily modify any challenges, oversights, or shortcomings. </p><p id="">To use the output, just edit your Pickaxe and paste the output directly into your Pickaxe's role.</p><h1 id="">Advancing AI&nbsp;Communications</h1><p id="">In conclusion, the integration of the Semantic Forge Prompt Improvement and the Pickaxe Prompt Generator represents a significant leap forward in AI chatbot development. These tools not only streamline the process of creating and refining AI prompts but also enhance the overall quality and effectiveness of chatbots by making it easy to adhere to the best practices of prompt design. By leveraging Semantic Forge, users can transform existing prompts into more engaging and context-aware interactions, while the Pickaxe Generator enables the creation of new, powerful prompts from mere ideas. </p><p id="">For anyone looking to build or improve their AI chatbots, incorporating these tools into their workflow is a crucial step towards achieving more empathetic, interactive, and efficient AI communication.</p><p id="">Try them today! </p><p id=""><em id="">This post was authored by Pickaxe evangelist and prompt engineer Josh Wolf. </em></p>

Two AI tools for automatically creating and revising prompts that follow best prompt design practices.

AI tools for automatically writing better prompts | Pickaxe Blog

AI tools for automatically writing better prompts

<p id="">No-code businesses are flocking to AI app builders to create GPT-powered apps. <a href="https://www.brancher.ai/" id="">Brancher.ai</a> is one of the most popular no-code AI app builders. Its slick design gives users the ability to launch their own AI apps in minutes.&nbsp;<a href="https://pickaxe.co">Pickaxe</a> is another popular no-code AI app builder that offers chatbot interfaces and the ability to embed apps onto your website.</p><p id="">In this article, we’ll talk about the <strong id="">pros and cons of each no-code AI&nbsp;platform</strong>, comparing their features. By the end, you’ll be able to find the right platform for you. </p><p id="">But first, here’s a high level of each AI app building platform’s pros and cons.</p><h4 id="">‍<strong id="">Brancher.ai &nbsp;</strong></h4><h5 id=""><strong id="">Pros</strong></h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Launch slick standalone websites</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> More control over look/styling&nbsp;</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Chain prompts together</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Big library of cool templates</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Supports image models</p><h5 id="">‍<strong id="">Cons</strong><br></h5><p id="">❌ Can’t create chatbots</p><p id="">❌ Can’t embed apps into websites</p><p id="">❌ Slow load times because doesn’t support text-streaming</p><p id="">❌ More expensive</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">Pickaxe</strong><br></h4><h5 id=""><strong id="">Pros</strong></h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Embed apps directly into your website&nbsp;</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Chatbot and form interfaces</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Cheaper and allows you to use your own API key&nbsp;</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Access to latest models (like GPT-4)</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Answers load instantly with text-streaming&nbsp;<br></p><h5 id=""><strong id="">Cons</strong></h5><p id="">❌ Can’t chain prompts together</p><p id="">❌ Can’t style app as much&nbsp;<strong id="">‍</strong></p><h5 id=""><strong id="">🥱 TLDR</strong>:</h5><p id="">Brancher.ai is great if you want to launch your AI app as a standalone webpage. Pickaxe is focused on creating AI apps to embed into your website. Brancher’s functionality to chain prompts together allows for a lot of customization, but Pickaxe’s chatbot interface allows for more flexible user experiences.</p><p id="">Let’s jump into the nitty and gritty and look at each app’s features in depth.&nbsp;<br><strong id="">‍</strong><br></p><h4 id=""><strong id="">Accessibility</strong></h4><p id="">Which app is more accessible? Are they easy to use for first-time users? Brancher.ai has a friendly wizard that walks you through the process. Pickaxe throws you in and offers example buttons that fill out the form for you as a test.&nbsp;</p><h5 id="">Brancher.ai</h5><p id="">❌ Must sign up for an account to make an app</p><p id="">❌ Users must sign up for an account to use your Brancher app (unless you sponsor them with credits)&nbsp;</p><h5 id="">Pickaxe</h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Can create an app without signing up for an account</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Users can use your apps without making an embed</p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">App Building Flow</strong></h4><p id="">The builder page is the meat of the app for both Brancher.ai and Pickaxe. In the builder. You write your prompt, design your app, and fine-tune the performance of it. Brancher has a noticeable emphasis on designing your app. Their builder begins with filling out the title, description, and color scheme of your app. Pickaxe has an emphasis on prompt design. The Pickaxe builder begins with writing a prompt first.&nbsp;</p><h5 id="">Brancher.ai</h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>More design customizations</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Prompt Chaining&nbsp;allows you to chain together prompts, using the output of one prompt as an input to another prompt</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Supports image models like DALL-E</p><p id="">❌ Does not support GPT-4 or non OpenAI models</p><p id="">❌ Does not expose prompt hyperparameters </p><h5 id="">Pickaxe</h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Offers GPT-4 (most powerful model) and non&nbsp;OpenAI models like&nbsp;Google Flan</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Can customize hyperparameters (output length, randomness, user input limits, system message).</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Offers a chatbot builder with features like training dialogue&nbsp;</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Exposes advanced prompt settings like "system message" and "training dialogue" for detailed prompting</p><p id="">❌ Does not support prompt-chaining</p><p id="">❌&nbsp;Does not offer image model</p><p id="">‍</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a3483c6b4a8baed0a2975a_Brancher_Pickaxe_Blog_2.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">Screenshot of Brancher.ai app builder flow</figcaption></figure><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a3485cf82a5f4ccf37ba81_Brancher_Pickaxe_Blog_4.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">Screenshot of Pickaxe app builder flow</figcaption></figure><h4 id=""><strong id="">Form Customization</strong></h4><p id=""><strong id="">‍</strong>Brancher.ai offers many ways to customize your AI-powered form, including custom color options by hex code. Pickaxe offers less customization options regarding color but offers more customization options when embedding forms into your own website such as sizing, transparency, light/dark mode.<br></p><h5 id="">Brancher.ai</h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Write-in responses, multiple choice, and dropdown menus</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Hex-code color customization&nbsp;</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Vanity-urls</p><p id="">❌ No&nbsp;chat interface option, only form interface</p><h5 id="">Pickaxe</h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Write-in responses, multiple choice</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Chat interface&nbsp;&amp; form interface</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Upload cover photo</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Can customize size, transparency, and more of embedded apps</p><p id="">❌ Cannot customize color scheme</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a3487ff82a5f4ccf37cbb0_Brancher_Pickaxe_Blog_9.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Brancher.ai offers a variety of style customizations</em></figcaption></figure><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a3530bd2db1d0ef1e8daff_Pickaxe%20Chatbot%20Deployment.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">Pickaxe offers a versatile chatbot interface</figcaption></figure><h4 id=""><strong id="">Deployment</strong></h4><p id="">After you've created an app, where can you deploy your app and how easily? Brancher.ai offers a powerful solution for launching apps as standalone webpages. However, if you want to embed an app inside a website, a notion doc, a Kajabi course, or anywhere else you aren’t able to. Pickaxe can deploy your app as a standalone website with less customizations, but also allows you to add your chatbot or app anywhere on the web with embed code. People can only use your Brancher app if they sign up for an account (unless you sponsor the app), while Pickaxe apps are available for anyone to use.&nbsp;</p><h5 id="">Brancher.ai</h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Can launch app as styled, standalone webpage</p><p id=""><strong id="">❌ &nbsp;</strong>Third-party users must sign up for brancher and pay to use your app (unless set up sponsorships)</p><p id="">❌ Can’t embed app into a website</p><p id="">❌ Can't deploy app as a chatbot</p><h5 id="">Pickaxe</h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Can launch app as a plain, standalone app</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Third-party users can use your app for free 10 times (unlimited times if app is embedded on your own website)</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Can embed your app into a website</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅ </strong>Can deploy an app as a chatbot</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a3491de63a28bce7543cb1_brancher%20Pickaxe%20Picture.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">Screenshot of Pickaxe embed customization page</figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">Billing / Pricing&nbsp;</strong></h4><p id="">The pricing structures and tiers of AI apps are very important. Most AI apps provide "credits" which equate to running an AI&nbsp;model once. For example, if you use OpenAI's image generator DALL-E, each image generation is a "credit". Brancher.ai offers a free and paid plan to use their interface and then sells credits separately. &nbsp;Pickaxe sells their interface and credits in a single package, and also sells additional credits. Brancher only allows users to buy credits. Pickaxe sells credits but also lets users use their own API key which is much cheaper. </p><h5 id="">Brancher.ai</h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Has a free tier, $8 tier, and $24 tier.&nbsp;</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> You get 100 free credits to start</p><p id="">❌ Paid tiers do not come with credits, you must buy credits additionally</p><p id="">❌ Additional credits cost $15 for 100, or $0.15 a credit</p><p id="">❌ No option to use your own API Key. For reference 100 credits from OpenAI would be about $0.20.&nbsp;</p><h5 id="">Pickaxe</h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Has a free tier and $20 tier.&nbsp;</p><p id="">❌ You get 25 free credits to start (refresh every month)&nbsp;</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Paid $20 tier comes with 1000 credits</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Additional credits cost $15 for 1000, or $0.015 a credit</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Option to <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-get-your-openai-api-key-a-step-by-step-guide">use your own API key from OpenAI</a> instead of buying credits ($0.002 a credit or 5 credits for $0.01).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a34a139738c2842b8a4d8e_Screen%20Shot%202023-07-03%20at%203.21.13%20PM.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Screenshot of OpenAI's pricing for users who use their own API key </em></figcaption></figure><h4 id=""><strong id="">Management</strong></h4><p id="">Managing and monitoring your AI&nbsp;apps is important, especially if you're running a business with them. Brancher.ai offers a slick dashboard for managing and viewing your apps, including charts and metrics for app usage and history. Pickaxe offers a less flashy dashboard for managing your apps that includes the full history of each one’s responses but no charts.</p><h5 id="">Brancher.ai&nbsp;</h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Dashboard to view all apps</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Log of uses (the inputs and the outputs)</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Charted analytics with usage history</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Analytics on response time speed</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Saves drafts</p><h5 id="">Pickaxe&nbsp;</h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Dashboard to view all apps</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Log of uses (the inputs and the outputs)</p><p id="">✅ Analytics on usage, but no history or chart&nbsp;</p><p id="">❌ No analytics on response time speed</p><p id="">❌ Does not save drafts</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a34ac5c01078b4cefa1d6d_Screen%20Shot%202023-07-03%20at%203.24.47%20PM.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">The app usage page of an app in Brancher.ai</em></figcaption></figure><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a34af1b72b0d966e9713d1_Screen%20Shot%202023-07-03%20at%203.24.18%20PM.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">The control panel for an app in Pickaxe</em></figcaption></figure><h4 id=""><strong id="">Speed / Performance&nbsp;</strong></h4><p id="">Because AI models dynamically generate text, they can sometimes be slow or bogged down by a lot of requests. Brancher.ai’s website is fast, responsive, and easy to navigate. However, the AI model results load slowly because they wait for an entire response to be generated and then render it. Pickaxe supports text-streaming so results load instantly, word-by-word, as they're produced.&nbsp;</p><h5 id="">Brancher.ai</h5><p id="">❌ No text-streaming, wait for answer to load</p><p id=""><strong id="">❌ </strong>Answers can take upwards of 30+&nbsp;seconds to load</p><p id=""><strong id="">❌</strong> Load time varies depending on result length</p><h5 id="">Pickaxe</h5><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Text-streaming, answers load in&nbsp;real-time</p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Answers take 4-seconds to start loading, despite </p><p id=""><strong id="">✅</strong> Load time is constant for long and short outputs</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a3501797aa399452ae374e_Brancher%20AI%20Loading.gif" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">Brancher.ai loading results</figcaption></figure><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a3502b97aa399452ae496b_Pickaxe%20AI%20loading.gif" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">Pickaxe loading results with text-streaming</figcaption></figure><h4 id="">Conclusion </h4><p id="">In this article, we compared and contrasted two popular no-code AI app builders: Brancher.ai and Pickaxe. Both platforms offer the ability to create GPT-powered AI apps using prompt templating.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a353e03fb1b1811e8e5ee5_brancher-blog-hero.jpg" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><h4 id=""><strong id="">Brancher.ai</strong></h4><p id="">Brancher.ai excels in providing a stylized and easy interface, allowing users to launch sleek standalone websites with more control over look and styling. It offers the flexibility to chain prompts together, enabling advanced customization options. The platform also provides a wide library of cool templates and supports image models. However, Brancher.ai falls short in some areas. It lacks the ability to create chatbots, has slower load times due to the lack of text-streaming support, cannot embed apps into websites, and is relatively more expensive.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a353f7d2db1d0ef1ea1644_6454b1615fe36cb9cf5ad7ba_open-graph.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><h4 id=""><strong id="">Pickaxe</strong> </h4><p id="">Pickaxe focuses on <a href="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/post/how-to-embed-ai-chatbots-into-your-website-a-step-by-step-guide" id="">embedding AI chatbots and apps directly into websites</a>, making it a preferred choice for users looking to integrate apps seamlessly into their existing web presence. Pickaxe offers chatbot and form interfaces, allowing for more flexible user experiences. The platform is also more cost-effective, offering the option to use your own API key and providing access to the latest models like GPT-4. Additionally, Pickaxe's text-streaming feature ensures instant loading of answers, enhancing performance. However, it lacks the ability to chain prompts together and does not provide as much app styling customization compared to Brancher.ai.</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">Which should you use?</strong></h4><p id="">In conclusion, the choice between Brancher.ai and Pickaxe depends on your specific requirements. If you prioritize launching a standalone webpage with your app and need advanced prompt chaining functionality, Brancher.ai is a suitable option. On the other hand, if you aim to embed AI apps into your website and prefer a chatbot interface with more customizable prompt settings, Pickaxe is the preferable choice.</p><p id="">Ultimately, both platforms have their strengths and weaknesses, so it's important to carefully consider your needs and preferences when selecting the right no-code AI app builder for your project.</p>

A side-by-side comparison of Brancher.ai and Pickaxe. Breaks down the features of each no-code AI app builder.

Brancher.ai vs. Pickaxe: Pros & Cons Comparison | Pickaxe Blog

Brancher.ai vs. Pickaxe: Pros & Cons Comparison

<p id="">AI models are trained on hundreds of gigabytes of data from key sources around the internet, and after years of improvement they have the information necessary to manage a wide range of user queries. However, many use cases require a model to have more specific stores of knowledge. Owners of a small business may want their model to have detailed information on their store’s offerings, while an avid baker may want to make sure their model knows the contents of their favorite cookbooks back to front. In situations like these, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with the Pickaxe Knowledge Base the key to getting the most out of your model interactions. </p><h4 id=""><strong id="">What is the Knowledge Base?</strong></h4><p id="">Put simply, RAG enhances your existing AI model by drawing from sources of information that you provide it with to answer user queries. At Pickaxe, these uploads go into your Knowledge Base, which can be found under the “Knowledge” tab on your Pickaxe editor. </p><p id="">You can add a variety of file types to the Knowledge Base, from Excel sheets to PDFs, with minimal limitations on size (around 100 MB max). You can also add links, which will prompt the page provided to be scraped for information. </p><p id="">One common question is whether an entire site can be scraped using one link; the answer depends greatly on the individual site and how easy the site map is to navigate, so trying out different sites and links is a great way to measure what you can do. It’s also important to note that the page will be scraped at the moment it is added to the Knowledge Base; if there are changes to the page, you should remove it and add it again to make sure those changes are reflected in your model responses. </p><p id="">Knowledge Bases are stored by Studio and are accessible to any Pickaxe after they are uploaded. If you click “Connect files,” you will be able to select from items already uploaded as well as add new items, and you can use the “Off/On” toggle to determine whether an item in the Knowledge Base is actively being used.</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">How the Knowledge Base accesses information</strong></h4><p id="">To access information from uploaded items, the Knowledge Base will break your files into “chunks,” which are analyzed and pulled by your model to retrieve relevant content. Chunks are created automatically when a file is uploaded; for most file types, chunks will be around 250 words each, though this is more variable for spreadsheet files, which are processed by row. You can learn more about chunk creation and how the model searches for chunks <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-use-books-and-documents-to-make-a-chatbot-building-a-charlie-munger-chatbot">here</a>.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" style="max-width:60%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright" data-rt-max-width="60%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/68817b52f128b8b4845f33db_Screen%2520Shot%25202025-07-23%2520at%25202.23.05%2520PM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">If you want to see how your file has been broken up and test how your Pickaxe is retrieving chunks based on the query, all you have to do is click on a file or webpage upload in your Knowledge Base to pull up the file explorer. If you have a Pro account, you can also delete or edit chunks to your specifications. You can choose to explore these files one at a time, or even select all at once to get a broader sense of how chunks are being pulled. </p><p id="">You can also see how the Knowledge Base chunks are being pulled in the Preview box on the right side of your Pickaxe Editor using the “Message Insights” feature. After a query is responded to, there will be a small magnifying glass to the right of the “copy” function below the text. Select this and you will see exactly which chunks were pulled during the query – along with useful information about Token and Action usage.</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">Knowledge Base Settings</strong></h4><p id="">The key components that influence how the Knowledge Base is used can be found in the Knowledge Settings. First, there’s the Relevance Cutoff – this will determine the degree to which the model will reference your Knowledge Base when responding to queries. When a query is issued, all existing Knowledge Base chunks are ranked on a scale from 0 to 100 based on query relevance – the higher the Relevance Cutoff, the higher the ranking for a chunk must be for it to be included in a response. </p><p id="">Second, there’s the Amount – this feature sets the number of words from the Knowledge Base that your model will pull to answer each query. For instance, an Amount of 1,000 means that 1,000 words will be pulled from your Knowledge Base chunks (starting with the most relevant chunks and working down). It’s important to note that chunks may differ in size based on the file format, and only chunks that can fully fit inside the Amount limit will be processed, so it’s useful to err on the side of a larger Amount to make sure the processing doesn’t get cut off.</p><p id="">The Relevance Cutoff and Amount are interrelated in how they pull information, and work in congruence such that the fewest number of chunks will be pulled. For example, if there is a cutoff of 99 and an amount of 1000, the model will only pull the chunks that meet this very high cutoff (even if it’s well below 1,000 words). If there is a cutoff of 20 and an amount of 1,000, will the model stop pulling after 1,000 words, even if there are more chunks above the relevance threshold.</p><p id="">Lastly, there’s the Context, which is for you to provide useful information about the files you’ve uploaded – armed with this context, the model will be able to better determine when and how to pull from the Knowledge Base.</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">How to optimize your Knowledge Base</strong></h4><p id="">With all these settings in hand, how can you tailor your Knowledge Base to get the best results? The answer will depend greatly on the use case, but here are some handy tricks:</p><ul id=""><li id="">If focusing on the Knowledge Base is important for your use case, you should set the Relevance Cutoff to be very low and the Amount to be very high to make sure your model will heavily rely on it.<br><ul id=""><li id="">If you’re still dissatisfied with the degree to which your Pickaxe is leaning on the Knowledge Base, you can add text to your Knowledge Base Context – or in serious cases, to your Model Reminder – telling the model to reference the Knowledge Base first.</li></ul></li><li id="">Some file formats are easier to process than others. Text files (.doc, some .pdf files) can be read by Pickaxe, whereas image files (.jpeg, .pdf files that are pictures) are processed by your model using optical character recognition (OCR). Where possible, always use text files over image files, as OCR is more prone to processing errors.<br><ul id=""><li id="">If you are using an image file, model matters –the more intelligent the model, the more accurate the OCR will be!</li></ul></li><li id="">While some tiers (Free, Gold) have limitations on how many documents can be uploaded, there is a relatively high ceiling on document size; combining files into larger documents is an easy way to circumvent this limitation! </li><li id="">Spreadsheet files (.xlsx or .csv) are processed into chunks differently than text files, based on the file rows. As a result, you can determine the information in each chunk even without a Pro account by using spreadsheet files.<br><ul id=""><li id="">This is also a useful feature if you want larger chunk sizes; the Knowledge Base tries to keep chunks in text files at around 250 words, whereas spreadsheet files have a max chunk size of around 1,000 words.</li></ul></li><li id="">When uploading a text file, Pickaxe will always strive to keep the chunk size between 200-300 words; while the impacts may not be substantial, adding paragraph breaks and punctuation may help keep your chunks slightly smaller.</li></ul><p id="">&nbsp;</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-video w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:60%;padding-bottom:33.723653395784545%;width:60%" data-rt-type="video" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="60%" data-rt-max-height="33.723653395784545%" data-rt-dimensions="854:480" data-page-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlWfzz9NRo4"><div id=""><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SlWfzz9NRo4" title="Knowledge Base Configuration Tutorial - Pickaxe"></iframe></div></figure>

A detailed rundown of the Knowledge Base features and some tricks to make it work for you.

Enhance Your Experience with the Pickaxe Knowledge Base | Pickaxe Blog

Enhance Your Experience with the Pickaxe Knowledge Base

<p id="">If you're interested in getting better results from ChatGPT, GPT-4, and other language models, you're interested in "<a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/anatomy-of-a-good-prompt-the-basics-of-prompt-design">Prompt&nbsp;Design</a>". Also called "prompt engineering", prompt design is the quickly emerging field of how to best structure, phrase, and think about prompts for AI models. Good prompt design is very important in getting AI models to behave. If you want high quality outputs that fit very specific requirements, then you'll want to study how to write a good prompt.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatleft" style="max-width:35%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatleft" data-rt-max-width="35%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64cd3305caa2cfae7cf858b2_Josh_Wolf_AI_2.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">Josh Wolf, AI&nbsp;Prompt Designer</figcaption></figure><p id="">While some argue about the legitimacy of prompt design as a field, it is undeniable that different prompts get different results. Don't believe us? Try out some experiments for yourself. Run a basic prompt like "write a blog post", and then run the same prompt with a specified audience, tone, style, goal, and reference to a famous blogger. You will get very different results.</p><p id="">In this blog post, we delve into the nuances of prompt design through the insights of <a href="https://www.intellibotique.com/">Josh Wolf</a>, a leading prompt designer and owner of the AI&nbsp;consulting agency Intellibotique. Pickaxe became aware of Josh early on with his involvement in some online prompt design communities. His idiosyncratic and thoughtful approach to writing prompts and exploring the capabilities of AI models instantly stood out. Josh is a longtime <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Wolf_(journalist)">writer and journalist</a>, and has been thinking about the ethical commercial applications of technology for years. He even ran for mayor of San Francisco in 2007 on the platform of wearing a livestream camera while performing all mayoral duties. At the time, the App Store didn't even exist and Youtube was barely a year old. Suffice to say, Josh Wolf has been exploring human-machine interfaces long before the recent AI boom.</p><p id="">In the Striking Gold blog, we will increasingly feature thought leaders in the prompt design space. Today, we explore some key takeaways about writing good prompts from Josh Wolf.</p><p id="">Let's dive into some specifics. <br></p><h2 id="">What Makes a Good&nbsp;Prompt?</h2><p id="">Writing a prompt is like writing precise instructions to a reasonably smart, very literal college intern. Expect diligence but not brilliance. At Pickaxe, we always encourage clear instructions in the prompt. The models are smart, but they can't read your mind! Your intentions must be clear. Writing precise instructions to a model ensure that it will understand what you want. </p><p id="">Having a good mental picture of a how a model works is helpful. Josh Wolf elaborates below in his own words.&nbsp;<br></p><blockquote id=""><em id="">"In thinking about my philosophy to writing a good prompt, my first thought is the value of precise communication. Just as computer programs need proper syntax in order to work as intended, subtle changes in the way a prompt is written can have a surprisingly large impact on how a prompt performs."</em></blockquote><p id="">Josh next provides a helpful metaphor to frame the ideal approach to instructing AI models through prompts.<br></p><blockquote id=""><em id="">"Pulling back further, I approach my communication with GPT and other LLMs much as I would in engaging with some folks within the neurodivergent community. While the interface sometimes seems almost human, its way of “thinking” is notably different from the way most people actually think. Learning to predict and adjust for this hyper-literal approach inherent in LLMs seems to be one of the key factors in yielding success within the burgeoning would of prompt craft."</em></blockquote><h2 id="">What's the Process of Writing a Prompt?</h2><p id="">There are three stages to writing the prompt— the persona, the dataset to focus on, and the task. When writing a prompt, think about:&nbsp;</p><p id="">1. What do you want the model to do? </p><p id="">2. Where should it draw the knowledge? </p><p id="">3. And how should it behave and think? </p><p id="">‍</p><p id="">Josh breaks it down beautifully below:<br></p><blockquote id=""><em id="">I tend to look at prompts — particularly in regards to the kind that I’d build for BotPress —as three key components. The persona of the bot, the knowledge base for it to draw from, and the task that it is intended to perform. In some cases that task involves the output of content, in which case, I suppose there becomes two different personas being crafted through the creation of the prompt.&nbsp;By and large though, when creating tools with specific use cases, it seems that the persona crafting is secondary to refining the output.&nbsp;</em><br></blockquote><h2 id="">How Do You Test a Prompt? What's Prompt Quality Control Look Like?</h2><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatleft" style="max-width:45%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatleft" data-rt-max-width="45%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64cc4a44156aafa622fe0822_Dashboard.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">The Pickaxe Dashboard, you can view inputs/outputs &amp;&nbsp;usage</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">The short answer is you can test a prompt by running a large and diverse set of real-world use cases through it. Especially if you plan to actually deploy it publicly for your business. While a prompt may work well with the inputs you expected, you may discover that it doesn't handle certain types of inputs well. You may also uncover certain hallucinations or behavior that the model needs to be specifically instructed against. </p><p id="">For example, if you have a chatbot on your website that provides information about your business's services but it often generates links to pages on your site that don't exist, you should specifically instruct it to give out links from a hard-coded list that you provide in the prompt.&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍<a href="https://pickaxe.co">Pickaxe</a> is a great way to publish your prompt as a usable app without exposing the prompt to users. You can share your prompt with friends, co-workers, customers, and online communities who can all use it. Then you can visit a dashboard to view all the usage-- both the inputs people gave your prompt and the outputs your prompt produced. With this knowledge, you can more deliberately iterate on your prompt to move it closer to a desired behavior. </p><p id="">Everyone has their own strategy for iterating and improving prompts. Josh explains his own iteration process here.&nbsp;<br></p><p id="">‍</p><p id="">‍</p><p id="">‍</p><p id="">‍</p><p id="">‍</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">"I almost always find myself reiterating on the prompt. While I have a knowledge of basic approaches to benchmarking and red-teaming the performance of a prompt, I usually find myself using a more intuitive process while to improve and iterate its performance. In some cases, I have used GPT itself to generate sample responses to test how the prompt behaves. Realistically there is no substitute for real-world testing, but getting enough traffic to really understand how these tools perform in the wild has been a struggle."</em></blockquote><h2 id="">What Are 5 Tips for Writing Better Prompts?</h2><p id="">Josh has written some truly intricate, detailed, and impressive prompts. Josh is especially attentive to creating prompts with well-defined personas that can carry out specific tasks. Writing good personas for your prompt is not intuitive, but Josh definitely knows how. You can check out some of his best chatbots at Intellibotique, ranging from his <a href="https://www.intellibotique.com/bot_solacebot">Solace bot</a> which provides therapy and guidance, his <a href="https://www.intellibotique.com/bot_job_genie">Job&nbsp;Genie </a>which assists with resume evaluation, salary negotiation guidance, and job market advice, and his <a href="https://www.intellibotique.com/eis">Entrepreneurial Intelligence Suite</a> which provides a whole suite of chatbots to assist with building a business.</p><p id="">Josh has a lot to say about this constantly evolving space. Here are five tips he recommends to anyone seeking to write better prompts.</p><h3 id="">Tip #1 - Define a persona</h3><p id="">Describe the type of person you’d like to have a conversation with. This can be an actual person — real or fiction — or it could be based on a particular archetype or just the persona you have cultivated through your imagination or business development process in identifying your customer avatars.</p><h3 id="">Tip #2 - Identify a knowledge set</h3><p id="">Identify the appropriate source of information that GPT should draw upon for the task you are asking it to do. While it seems more powerful to allow GPT to tap into its near-infinite knowledge, if you can identify for the LLM what vertical of expertise to draw from, I’ve found that the results improve immensely. I suppose one could reverse this principle to intentionally cripple GPT's knowledge base for humorous effect, but I have yet to experiment with that.</p><h3 id="">Tip #3 - Coach your prompt with training dialogue</h3><p id="">Specifically identify the features your tool is designed to do and coach the model to drive the conversation around those features. This can make for a more effective and intuitive tool. While this isn’t particularly useful for general prompt design, when it comes to <a href="https://pickaxe.co/builder">Pickaxe's chatbot builder,</a> this is helpful to keep in mind with the training dialogue feature.</p><h3 id="">Tip #4 - Label sections of prompt (Advanced)</h3><p id="">By creating a prompt that is broken into different labeled categories, it becomes much easier to tune the tool. Not only are you likely able to immediately identify where the “bug” is located, but you can much more easily enhance future version of your bot using such a structure. From my experience this approach also tends to be more conservative when it comes to token usage; it also makes it easier to identify the easiest ways to shorten the prompt without breaking it.</p><h3 id="">Tip #5 - Write your prompt as JSON (Advanced)</h3><p id="">Translating a common language prompt into JSON will sometimes help to overcome challenges that can’t otherwise be navigated. It’s not necessary to actually know much about JSON for GPT to assist in the process, but it’s important to have the JSON constructed with multiple sections and not just have the mass of instructions lumped together in one section within the code.<br></p><p id="">‍</p><p id="">For more news on prompt design, follow this blog. And if you want to publish your prompts as interactive apps or chatbots, check out the Pickaxe no-code <a href="https://pickaxe.co/builder">prompt frame builder</a>. <br></p>

Prompt Designer Josh Wolf discusses his approach, philosophy, and top tricks for writing good prompts.

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Featured Prompt Designer Josh Wolf: Examining the Art of Prompt Design

<h2 id="">Dyllen Nellis took her college consulting service to the next level</h2><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatleft" style="max-width:30%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatleft" data-rt-max-width="30%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64bffa93461cf6ecfffc107c_Dyllen_Nellis_Blog_1.jpg" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Dyllen&nbsp;Nellis at Stanford University</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">At Pickaxe, we see hundreds of online businesses use AI models in intelligent ways to transform their operations, from embedding AI tools into their customer-facing websites to creating internal dashboards of AI widgets for their team.</p><p id="">In this blog, we’re featuring Dyllen Nellis, a current Stanford student who runs a college application coaching business called <a href="https://nextgenadmit.com/">Next Gen Admit</a>. Today, we’ll be sharing how Dyllen integrated Pickaxe into her business to help prospective college students more efficiently and personably.&nbsp;</p><p id="">So let’s explore how Dyllen supercharged Next Gen Admit with AI.</p><h2 id="">The beginning of Next Gen Admit</h2><p id="">While applying for colleges during the 2018-2019 cycle, Dyllen Nellis didn’t necessarily know what to do when applying for colleges. In other words, she and many others had to really rely on themselves when figuring out the best strategies to apply to their dream schools. By developing a structured strategy based on reading and watching a variety of sources about the college application process, she was ultimately accepted into every school that she applied to.&nbsp;</p><p id="">At the end of her freshman year at Stanford, however, the pandemic was in full swing. Undeterred, Dyllen decided to give back by creating content geared towards prospective college students about the college application process and the best strategies to use. As her content became more widespread, many people were asking her to take a look at their essays and it inspired her to start her own website, Next Gen Admit.&nbsp;</p><h2 id="">Supercharging lead generation through Pickaxe</h2><p id="">As AI is becoming more commonplace, Dyllen wanted to know which tools would best serve her site. However, the majority of the AI tools that she had found were either too difficult to use or the tool itself only seemed to serve one singular purpose, such as use cases commonly found in marketing or sales. With Pickaxe, however, she found an easy-to-use platform for creating flexible AI tools and <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-embed-ai-chatbots-into-your-website-a-step-by-step-guide#:~:text=%E2%80%8DEmbedding%20the%20chatbot%20into%20a,tool%20to%20fit%20your%20specifications.">embedding them</a> into her website. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatleft" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatleft"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64bffca6d914f8d692e82382_Dyllen_Nellis_Blog_2.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Dyllen Nellis's AI&nbsp;Passion Project Generator</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">Dyllen took her niche expertise in the college admissions process and created a tool that helped generate ideas for college applicants. The tool didn’t require any coding– it just required Dyllen to write a prompt based off her intimate knowledge of how to make college applications pop. The result, the <strong id="">AI Passion Project Generator</strong>, allowed Dyllen to offer a taste of her expertise at scale to hundreds of applicants seeking help.</p><p id="">Before implementing Pickaxe, she was relying on her old posts since she wasn’t posting much on social media, getting her less than 10 new email subscribers daily. In addition, the lead magnet that she was using before in the form of a small downloadable guide was too slow. She realized people would rather have access to a resource that offered immediate results. An AI tool that lived on her website as an embed was the perfect solution. The tool could generate helpful material to her users instantly. &nbsp;By putting the tool behind a sign-up form, Dyllen was able to generate tons of leads.</p><p id="">After implementing Pickaxe and using it in conjunction with her social media, she has been averaging between <strong id="">100 to 200 new email subscribers</strong> a day.</p><h2 id="">The AI Passion Project Generator</h2><p id="">Recently, Pickaxe hosted a<a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/2023-prompt-design-contest-winners"> Prompt Design Contest</a> inviting all Pickaxe users to write prompts and enter them to compete for various prizes.Dyllen’s AI Passion Project Generator amassed more uses than any other entry winning her a prize for the most-used pickaxe in the competition.</p><p id="">When asked why she created her tool, Dyllen said:</p><blockquote id="">“I recently used Pickaxe to create the <a href="https://nextgenadmit.com/passion-project/">AI Passion Project Generator</a> because a lot of students don’t really know where to start on how to create a project that both satiates their intellectual curiosity and helps them stand out in admissions. AI has knowledge in every field that I can tap into and I also train it on the strategy behind passion projects and college admissions – so it’s a win-win for both myself and my students.”</blockquote><p id="">Dyllen's <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@nextgenadmit/video/7243526337556647211">TikTok video</a> about her AI Passion Project Generator also went viral, adding over 700 new email subscribers to her mailing list. Her TikTok showed the importance of creating an independent project, and how her tool could be used to generate passion project ideas based on the student’s interests. In exchange for their email, students would also be able to access the tool for free. This generated much interest from potential students who wanted to learn more about the tool and how it could be used to make them stand out to elite colleges.&nbsp;</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:45%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="45%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64bffdaad61452724f0cc141_Screen%20Shot%202023-07-25%20at%209.51.02%20AM.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Dyllen Nellis's TikTok video about AI Passion Project Generator</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">Since then, she has also built other bots and released a full suite of AI tools called <a href="https://nextgenadmit.com/ec-engine/" id="">EC (ExtraCurricular) Engine</a>. These tools allow her students instantaneous access to personalized and tailored results, making similar resources more accessible and affordable to them.</p><h2 id="">What’s next for Next Gen Admit?</h2><p id="">After Stanford, Dyllen plans to continue to work on Next Gen Admit as she is excited to see what the future holds. She hopes to continue to grow her existing audience of high school students who know that they want to get into the top colleges but they don’t know what steps to take. She also plans to eventually expand more opportunities to younger students so that they, too, can prepare for a successful college admissions process.&nbsp;</p><p id="">If you’re interested in seeing what will make you stand out to get into the college of your dreams, find out how you can create your own passion project and take that next step by visiting Dyllen's <a href="https://nextgenadmit.com/">website</a>.</p>

How Dyllen Nellis used AI to supercharge her college admissions consulting service.

How Dyllen Nellis Supercharged Next-Gen Admit with AI | Pickaxe Blog

How Dyllen Nellis Supercharged Next-Gen Admit with AI

A step by step guide on how to convert an OpenAI custom GPT into a Pickaxe.

How to convert a GPT into a Pickaxe | Pickaxe Blog

How to convert a GPT into a Pickaxe

<h3 id=""><strong id="">Why Convert AI-Generated Text?</strong></h3><p id="">As of November 2022, like it or not, we live in an age where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is writing millions of words for millions of people. Soon those numbers will be billions if they aren’t already. There has been a flood or AI-generated content. Yet a common problem is how do we make AI content sound natural. How do we make it sound 'human’? In this article we will discuss how to detect AI text, why you would want to convert AI text, and provide an <a href="https://studio.pickaxe.co/STUDIOPG82VD7AF2YLMV9/AI_Content_2_Human_Converter_PW5EN">automatic tool for converting AI text</a> to human text.&nbsp;<br></p><p id="">Let’s explore some examples.&nbsp;</p><h3 id=""><strong id="">The Rising Trend of AI-Generated Text</strong></h3><p id="">Look. AI-generated text is becoming omnipresent. There are chatbots handling customer queries, digital assistants organizing schedules, AI content generators writing creating internal reports, and more! Not to mention students writing papers and homework assignments with ChatGPT and other AI models. This machine-written copy is becoming more and more noticeable. And there’s a big hunger for how to rewrite it as more natural-sounding language. Human-written text resonates with human audiences and is often more engaging.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Let’s take a look at how to detect AI text.&nbsp;<br></p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Insights into AI Text Detectors</strong></h3><p id="">Before we delve deeper into converting the AI-generated text, let’s explore how AI text detectors work. Using algorithms that spot distinct patterns in language structuring produced by machines compared to human writing styles, they differentiate between human-made and robot-authored content effectively. Specifically, these detectors look at two factors: <strong id="">Perplexity</strong> and <strong id="">Burstiness</strong>.<br></p><h4 id=""><strong id="">Perplexity</strong></h4><p id="">Perplexity measures how random or unpredictable the word choice of a text is. For each word or phrase, is the word or phrase that follows logical? Or is it… perplexing?</p><p id="">Language Models try to pick the most likely words. They very rarely perplex you with their word choice. It’s strikingly… standard. AI-generated texts usually have <strong id="">very low perplexity scores</strong>.</p><p id="">Humans are sometimes predictable. But often times they are not. Humans tend to take more risks with their word choice. They also tend to be more original. And more erroneous. Humans are more likely to misuse words, have typos, or put words together that aren’t necessarily logical.&nbsp;<strong id="">‍</strong></p><h4 id=""><strong id="">Burstiness</strong><br></h4><p id="">Burstiness measures the randomness in sentence structure, sentence length, and sentence type. While perplexity measures randomness at the word level, burstiness measures randomness at the structural level. AI-generated text tends to be very evenly structured. Sentences typically have similar lengths. AI-generated texts usually have <strong id="">low burstiness scores.</strong>‍</p><p id="">If you’ve noticed AI writing is “monotonous”, it’s probably because it has low burstiness. The sentences just sorta… blend together. Human writing has more bumps, jumps, and excitement.&nbsp;<strong id="">‍</strong></p><h3 id=""><strong id="">How to change AI Text to be more human</strong><br></h3><p id="">Changing AI-generated writing to sound more human isn’t too hard. Humanizing machine text can be done in a few simple steps. Here are the key steps:</p><h5 id="">1. Identify the parts that sound most AI-generated</h5><p id="">Begin by identifying sequences that appear unnaturally structured or lack conversational flow.&nbsp; If you’re a native English speaker, you should be able to identify these just by reading it yourself. These include over-used phrases, overly predictable or monotonous sentences, and qualifying statements among others. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><h5 id="">2. Revise unnatural parts</h5><p id="">Edit extensively and rewrite the parts that sound AI-generated. Replace 25-word sentences with 8-word sentences where you can. Introduce some randomness.&nbsp;</p><h5 id="">3. Feed it through an AI Text Converter Tool!</h5><p id="">If you’re stuck for ideas, feed the text through a tool that rewrites text with special instructions to focus on perplexity and burstiness. Be sure to re-read your answers and look out for offending passages that sound overly “AI-y”.&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍</p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Before and After Examples</strong><br></h3><p id="">Let’s take some examples of AI-generated text and then AI-generated text that has been "converted" through an AI&nbsp;text converter tool. </p><h4 id="">Chef Journal Entry</h4><p id="">❌ Here's an AI-generated journal entry about a pizza chef</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64ba2031fbc3a7ce651e7911_AI_Converted_Text_example_3.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">❌ <em id="">Not so good!</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">✅ Here's the converted version</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64ba20a8deca140f934fdc53_AI_Converted_Text_example_4.1.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">✅ <em id="">Much better!</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">Restaurant Review</h4><p id="">❌ Here's an AI-generated Yelp review. It's a little stale. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64ba21074b4dac81d957fbec_AI_Converted_Text_example_5.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Eloquent enough, sure. </em></figcaption></figure><p id="">✅ Here's the converted version that attacks the perplexity and burstiness. It's got a lot more punch and personality. Maybe even too much. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64ba21a14b4dac81d958c1d8_AI_Converted_Text_example_6.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">If you own a restaurant, watch out for this guy!</em></figcaption></figure><h4 id="">LinkedIn Bio</h4><p id="">❌ Here's an AI-generated LinkedIn bio for our chef friend. This bio is a little empty and boring.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64ba224f4b4dac81d959a04d_AI_Converted_Text_example_8.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">These are boring phrases that trigger reading auto-pilot </em>🤖</figcaption></figure><p id="">✅ Here's a version we converted to sound less AI-generated. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64ba22bcfbc3a7ce6520d117_AI_Converted_Text_example_9.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">🍕 Now that's flavorful!</figcaption></figure><h3 id="">Conclusion</h3><p id="">It's important to remember your job is not done after you generate AI-text. In order to create impactful writing that engages viewers and isn't identified as AI-generated writing, you should transform your text to make it more human. We recommend rewriting your AI-text yourself according to the above principles or using an automatic <a href="https://studio.pickaxe.co/STUDIOPG82VD7AF2YLMV9/AI_Content_2_Human_Converter_PW5EN">AI text converter</a> that can rewrite text for you. Try out the embedded AI content rewriter below. </p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://embed.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=AI_Content_2_Human_Converter_PW5EN&mode=embed_gold&theme=dark&opacity=100&font_header=Real+Head+Pro&font_body=Real+Head+Pro&font_labels=Real+Head+Pro" width="100%" height="600px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>

How to convert AI-generated text with a simple process and converter tools.

How to Convert AI Text to Human Text | Pickaxe Blog

How to Convert AI Text to Human Text

<p id="">Pickaxe makes it easy to build an AI&nbsp;chatbot. But <strong id=""><em id="">designing</em></strong> <strong id=""><em id="">a chatbot</em></strong> is an art.Because the field is so new, there are not well-established best practices.</p><p id="">At Pickaxe, we’ve done a lot of high-profile contracts building custom chatbots for clients ranging from major television productions to government organizations. We’ve pioneered some of the best practices in chatbot design, and brought them back into our platform as an easy no-code interface. This makes Pickaxe’s <a href="https://pickaxe.co">no-code chatbot builder</a> the best place to make an AI-powered chatbot. Pickaxe also offers a variety of ways to deploy your chatbots, including <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-embed-ai-chatbots-into-your-website-a-step-by-step-guide#:~:text=%E2%80%8DEmbedding%20the%20chatbot%20into%20a,tool%20to%20fit%20your%20specifications.">embedding your chatbot into a website</a> directly through an iframe.</p><p id="">Here we will break down each part of Pickaxe’s chatbot builder and discuss best practices around designing chatbots.&nbsp;<strong id="">‍</strong></p><h2 id=""><strong id="">High-level understanding of the process</strong><br></h2><p id="">A chatbot is basically a conversation. It’s helpful to understand the structure of the conversation before we design our chatbot. The process begins with a high-level directive of how the chatbot should behave. Then the user sends the first message, to which the chatbot responds. The history is saved, and the process continues indefinitely. The chatbot has a limited memory, so as the conversation progresses, it eventually forgets the earlier parts of the conversation.</p><p id="">Here’s the structure of an AI-powered chat conversation below.</p><p id="">1. User sends a message</p><p id="">2. Chatbot looks at its high-level instructions and looks at the user message.&nbsp;</p><p id="">3. Chatbot generates a response and sends it back.</p><p id="">4. Both messages are added to a conversation history.</p><p id="">5. User sends a new message</p><p id="">6. Chatbot looks at its high-level instructions and the looks at the user message (within the context of the entire conversation history)</p><p id="">Pickaxe lets you control this process at every stage. You can write high-level directions, you can create an artificial conversation history, and you can even insert text into each user message without the user knowing! Pickaxe gives you complete control of the process&nbsp;in our no-code chatbot builder. Let's explore each part of the builder.<br></p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Role</strong>‍</h3><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65551ed8661611a1cb4ca11b_ChatbotBuilder_11.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">The role is where you give your chatbot high-level directions and describe a persona. It is where you write your prompt.&nbsp;<br></p><p id="">The&nbsp;<strong id="">Role</strong>, also described as the system, gives the AI an introductory starting point to do it’s job from. Describe it’s job, tone, point-of-view, etc.<br></p><p id="">You can keep it very simple:&nbsp;</p><blockquote id="">You are a coding teacher. Help the user with any question related to coding.&nbsp;<br></blockquote><p id="">You can make it more specific:&nbsp;</p><blockquote id="">You are a coding teacher who is an expert in python. Help the user with any question related to coding. Make sure you always respond with a plain English explanation of the solution, and then provide actual code. At the end recommend a follow-up question for them to ask to learn more.&nbsp;<br></blockquote><p id="">You can make it a <strong id="">persona</strong>:&nbsp;</p><blockquote id="">You are a surly bartender who’s seen the worst of humanity. Respond to the user in gruff short sentences that only use single syllable words. Always provide a pessimistic point-of-view.&nbsp;<br></blockquote><p id="">You can use templated headings to separate behavior into distinct sections. This is an increasingly popular method for writing prompts, advocated for top prompt engineers such as <a href="https://www.pickaxeproject.com/post/featured-prompt-designer-josh-wolf-examining-the-art-of-prompt-design" id="">Josh Wolf</a>. Using templated headings lets you write persona chatbots in an orderly, organized manner. See the below example. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:90%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="90%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6555201b99c7d2287785fa19_ChatbotBuilder_7.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">A persona prompt formatted with headings</figcaption></figure><p id="">There are many different ways to write a chatbot prompt. There is no right or wrong way, so feel free to experiment. We like using category headings because it makes it easier to go back and change specific behaviors later. It's also easy for others to read if you're collaborating on a chatbot! <br></p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Model Selection&nbsp;</strong></h3><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6555204645efcd1d7ed53e18_ChatbotBuilder_9.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">In the model selection section, you select which AI model will power your chatbot. ChatGPT is a great choice. It’s smart, fast, and cheap. The smartest model is GPT-4 but it’s a little slower. Over time, you’ll see more and more models appear here in the model dropdown menu.&nbsp;<br></p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Intro Message</strong></h3><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6555208c104f874bc9e45a88_ChatbotBuilder_13.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Screenshot of intro message. Whatever you set here will appear as the chatbot's first message.</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">Here you can set a message that will immediately greet the user when they open the chatbot. This intro message is for mostly for the user, so keep them in mind when you write it. </p><p id="">You can keep it simple with “<em id="">Hello</em>!” or use it as an opportunity to give specific directions. “<em id="">Tell me your industry, product, and sales goal. I will help you develop a marketing strategy</em>.”&nbsp;<br></p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Training Dialogue</strong>‍</h3><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:90%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="90%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65552102f56906a1c5205374_ChatbotBuilder_12.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Screenshot of training dialogue within the Pickaxe chatbot builder. This chatbot will likely be very terse in its answers b/c of the training dialogue.</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">Training dialogue is a way to create a fake chat history. Whatever you put here will be given to the chatbot as the beginning of the conversation. </p><p id="">Training dialogue is a good way to show examples of how you want to the AI to respond. It’s not perfect, but it’s a nice way to suggest a direction and cadence for the conversation.</p><p id="">For example, if you give three examples of the AI responding with one word, that will reinforce the idea for the chatbot that it should respond with one word.</p><p id="">Training dialogue&nbsp;is a way for you to inject the chat history with example queries and answers. The chatbot will learn from these examples and will align its performance based on the training dialogue’s guidance. So make them good!</p><p id="">Training dialogue is <em id="">completely optional</em> too.&nbsp;<br></p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Memory Buffer</strong>‍</h3><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65552187bdae36594289327f_chatbotbuilder_14.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Screenshot of memory buffer in Pickaxe chatbot builder</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">You can find Memory Buffer under the "Advanced Options" section of the chatbot builder. Memory buffer&nbsp;sets the amount of conversation that your chatbot will “remember”, beyond the length of the existing training dialogue.</p><p id="">This is sets how much of the conversation the chatbot will remember. The higher you set it, the more of the conversation the chatbot will remember and integrate into its response.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Importantly, maxed out memory isn’t always a good thing. The more memory a chatbot has, the less important each word in the memory is. If it’s remembering 3000 words, each word will be less important to it than if it’s remembering 500 words. We think 750 is a good balance, but every chatbot is unique.</p><h3 id="">‍<strong id="">Prompt Injection</strong><br></h3><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/655522bdbc413a9a13031dd2_chatbotbuilder_15.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Screenshot of prompt injection box inside. Use it to set a recurring prompt injection.</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">You can find Prompt Injection under the "Advanced Settings" section of the chatbot builder. Prompt Injection is a very powerful tool only available on Pickaxe. It allows you to interject between each user message and chatbot response. It is an opportunity to remind the chatbot how to behave or give it instructions about how to interpret the user’s message.&nbsp;<br></p><p id="">Prompt injection&nbsp;sets a consistent instruction that is invisibly added to the beginning of each user message. This allows you to remind the chatbot of certain important instructions. Only the AI will see this message.</p><p id="">Let's&nbsp;look at a simple exchange:</p><blockquote id="">User Message: What is the best way to cook salmon?<br></blockquote><blockquote id="">Chatbot Response: The best way to cook salmon depends on several factors including… blah blah blah (*typically long AI response)<br></blockquote><p id="">Now let’s include this prompt injection:&nbsp; “<em id="">Answer in a SUCCINCT manner in a single sentence</em>.” This prompt injection will be added to the beginning of the user message before it is sent to the chatbot. The user will not see this text, but the chatbot will. <br></p><p id="">Now the exchange will look like this:<br></p><blockquote id="">User Message: <strong id="">Respond to the following message in a SUCCINCT manner in a single sentence. ##</strong> What is the best way to cook salmon?</blockquote><blockquote id="">Chatbot Response: Grilling is the best way to cook salmon&nbsp;</blockquote><p id="">Importantly the bolded prompt injection CANNOT&nbsp;BE&nbsp;SEEN&nbsp;by the user. It is only seen by the&nbsp;AI&nbsp;system. It is a method to influence the each chatbot response and put some rails around the conversation. </p><p id="">Many chatbots <em id="">drift </em>from their original instructions the longer a user talks to them. Prompt Injection is our solution to always keep the AI on track. They are quite powerful, so use them sparingly!&nbsp;</p><h3 id="">Further Materials</h3><p id="">If you're curious, there's a lot more to learn about prompt design. It's a developing art and Pickaxe stays at the cutting-edge of the best techniques. To learn about how to use books and documents to inform a chatbot, check out this <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-use-books-and-documents-to-make-a-chatbot-building-a-charlie-munger-chatbot">guide about building a Charlie Munger chatbot</a> based on his books and transcripts. </p><p id="">‍</p>

Walkthrough of Pickaxe's no-code chatbot builder & best practices on designing a chatbot persona

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How to design an AI persona bot: Pickaxe chatbot builder walkthrough

<h2 id="">AI-Generated Text:&nbsp;Everything You Need to Know</h2><h4 id="">AI-written content vs. human-written content</h4><p id="">Everyone wants good writing for their blogs, websites, work emails, and school papers. And &nbsp;even better if you can generate good writing instantly with an AI model, right? </p><p id="">Well, as many people have discovered, AI-generated text has some hallmarks which makes it identifiably "AI". Advanced software can now detect the likelihood that a piece of writing was generated using AI, but more importantly human readers are starting to recognize when text is too measured and machine-like.</p><p id="">So, while AI has made it simpler and more efficient than ever to create content, you should know the full story. In this guide, we'll walk you through everything you need to know about AI-generated text and how to humanize it, including:</p><h6 id="">How to identify AI-generating writing<br>Differences between human writing and AI writing<br>How to make AI-content sound more human<br>(Bonus) A free AI content converter tool</h6><p id="">Let's dive in!</p><h2 id="">Notable traits of AI-written content</h2><p id="">AI is quickly becoming a part of our everyday lives, and because of this, we need to know how it works. With that being said, here is a simplified description of AI's two main aspects: <a href="https://medium.com/the-generator/the-dummy-guide-to-perplexity-and-burstiness-in-ai-generated-content-1b4cb31e5a81">perplexity and burstiness</a>. Together, they can help us understand how large language models write and some common traits that AI-generated content has.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><h4 id="">Perplexity&nbsp;</h4><p id=""><em id="">Perplexity</em> is a measure to see how well a language model is performing. It’s based on the idea of entropy, which measures how random a system is. In other words, perplexity means how well the model can predict what the next word is in a sequence of words. As you probably already know, AI-generated text is generated word-by-word. AI picks the most probable word in a sentence from a K-number of weighted choices in a sample.</p><p id="">Below is a screenshot of GPT-generated with probability-highlighted. The greener a word is, the more likely the model thought it was as 'the next word'. The redder a word is, the less confident the model was.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a7aae654a32332410dd808_AI%20Content%20Likelihood%20Picture.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">A screenshot showing how likely each token was as "the next word"</figcaption></figure><p id="">A lower perplexity score means that the language model is more effective at figuring out the most probable word in a given sequence, while a higher perplexity score means that the model is less accurate. To sum up, the lower the perplexity score, the more predictable it is, indicating better generalization and performance.</p><p id="">For example, take a look at the following sentence:</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">“I picked up the kids and dropped them off at…”</em></blockquote><p id="">A language model with a high perplexity score might end the sentence with “glacier”, “brooding”, or “thoughtful” but those aren't the best answers because they don't make sense.</p><p id="">In the middle of the perplexity spectrum, you might have a response like “the President’s birthday party”. While it’s pretty funny, the context of the sentence is somewhat unlikely but it does make for an interesting story.</p><p id="">However, a language model with low perplexity might answer “school” or “the park”, which is much more accurate and correct.</p><p id="">As you can see, there are varying degrees of plausibility and it’s often hard to predict which output you’ll get.&nbsp;</p><h4 id="">Burstiness</h4><p id="">Whereas perplexity is the complexity of words used in sentences, burstiness measures the length, structure, and variety of sentences&nbsp; throughout a piece of content. Human writers tend to write in spurts and lulls, naturally switching things up and writing varied sentences. If we're interested in a topic, we might get carried away by our own verbal energy and keep going.</p><p id="">AI models write in a more uniform and robotic manner. There is no intellectual curiosity driving the decisions. The model is just picking the most likely next token. The low burstiness of AI-generated text often accounts for the overly measured and even-handed feel that AI writing has. </p><p id="">Burstiness shouldn't be considered inherently good or bad. However, high burstiness is often correlated with exciting writing. The best human writers, for example, know how to be creative and improvise, grabbing their audience's attention and encouraging them to keep reading.</p><p id="">Now that we fully understand the concepts of burstiness and perplexity, consider the following benefits and downsides before using AI-generated content.</p><h2 id="">The benefits and downsides of AI-generated content</h2><h4 id="">The quality of AI-generated content can be spotty.</h4><p id="">The majority of AI tools are still under development and can only produce content based on data that already exists. In other words, it might not be able to create new and original material if there is a lot of existing human-written content on the subject.</p><p id="">An AI tool also can't think creatively on its own because it needs human input to do so. When it comes to quality, AI-generated content often lacks the level of detail and depth that come with human writing. If you're looking to create evergreen content, like product descriptions or FAQ pages, automation is the best way when it comes to quickly generate large volumes of material.</p><h4 id="">AI models can only work from existing sources of data.</h4><p id="">AI-based content creation has limitations since it can only use data from already-existing sources. In other words, it cannot create new data or material that isn't dependent on information that is already out there. A human writer may be able to write about a subject they have never seen before, but AI would not be able to understand what you have to say about it if there is nothing for it to "see" in your text.</p><p id="">It's also important to keep in mind that, while AI tools are excellent at analyzing large amounts of text and deriving meaning from it, they aren't perfect. AI tools can't understand something that is completely different from what we meant when we wrote it down. As a result, even though your message may come across clearly when you first wrote it, someone else who reads it might interpret it differently.</p><p id="">For instance, take a look when we gave ChatGPT this prompt:</p><blockquote id="">‍<em id="">Write brief creative copy for a soda brand. The copy should have a maximum of 200 words and the soda is named Nuke Cola</em></blockquote><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a74bcfda54e0a23846eeee_Human%20vs%20AI%20Content%20Blog%20Post.jpg" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">Even though ChatGPT's end copy is fine, it could be much better if it sounded more interesting and personable. </p><p id="">Now let's talk about how to make AI content sound more human by focusing on the benefits that human-written content has over AI-generated content.</p><h2 id="">How to make AI&nbsp;content more human</h2><h4 id="">What's unique about human-written content?</h4><p id="">Human writers can easily understand how creative content must be. Not only are they more personable and empathetic than machines, humans also have a deeper grasp of what drives us and how our lives interact. AI is unable to connect seemingly unrelated thoughts on their own, whereas humans are able to do so. Humans are also more perceptive about how others feel about particular situations or themes because they are aware that different things might garner different reactions from people.&nbsp;</p><p id="">AI-based systems are also capable of producing original material based on user preferences or user behavior data. For instance, if someone likes cats, they may receive an article about cats. This capability is not restricted to human-written content, but compared to human writers, artificial intelligence tends to lack human insight into various experiences. Human-generated content offers distinctive insights that AI simply cannot match because it is based on the writer’s own experiences. They are also better able to comprehend their audience and provide material that is intended just for them.</p><p id="">Most tangibly, text written by people often score noticeably different on perplexity and burstiness. An emotional sensibility is behind the writing that gives the writing a sporadic bounciness that would not typically be produced by weighted averages of the next likely word.</p><p id="">Returning to the soda ad text we got from ChatGPT, we can feed it into an <a href="https://studio.pickaxe.co/STUDIOPG82VD7AF2YLMV9/AI_Content_2_Human_Converter_PW5EN">AI Content Converter Tool</a> to convert and humanize ChatGPT AI-generated text into more human-sounding content without changing its meaning. Let’s see it in action:</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64a74cbccc4bcba76348a864_Human%20vs%20AI%20Content%20Blog%20Post2.jpg" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">Text that has been converted to sound less AI-generated</figcaption></figure><p id="">The tool has re-written the text with an emphasis on eliminating certain hallmarks of AI-generated text. </p><h2 id="">Free AI Content to Human Content Converter Tool</h2><p id="">If you're wondering how you can make your AI-generated writing sound more compelling and human, follow the steps below. By humanizing your AI-generated writing, the content will be more likely to bypass AI&nbsp;detection software, engage human readers, and stand out among other AI-generated writing. This AI&nbsp;text converter tool is an automatic way to rewrite content to score more 'human' on burstiness and perplexity. While there's no guarantees, this free tool is an easy way to quickly transform AI-generated writing into more human content. </p><h5 id="">Step 1</h5><p id="">Get some AI-generated text</p><h5 id="">Step 2 </h5><p id="">Copy it and paste it into an AI content converter tool</p><h5 id="">Step 3 </h5><p id="">Run the tool and copy your results. </p><h5 id="">Try for free!</h5><p id="">If you're curious you can try converting AI-generated content for free below. </p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://embed.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=AI_Content_2_Human_Converter_PW5EN&mode=embed&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="600px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>

A guide to AI-generated content, how to recognize it, how it differs from human content, and how to humanize it.

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How to Identify AI-Generated Content: AI Text Converter Tool

<h3 id="">Implementing AI tools into a newly built website</h3><p id="">Artificial intelligence (AI) has grown into an important tool for many companies, but there's still a lot to learn about it and how it might benefit you or your business. </p><p id="">Your website serves as a digital first impression. If you don't have the right tools, your website may leave the wrong first impression, which could cost your organization important business.</p><p id="">The newest AI technologies can take your website to the next level, allowing your customers to have a better experience. If you used a no-code website builder like Webflow or Squarespace to make your site, it's pretty easy to add AI tools into it. <a href="https://pickaxe.co">Pickaxe</a>, a popular solution for creating AI tools to embed into websites, offers an easy no-code solution to quickly add AI tools to any website.</p><p id="">In this walkthrough, we'll talk about how you can use AI to your advantage by embedding your newly built AI tools on your website, depending on the website builder you've used.&nbsp;We'll cover how to embed AI tools into your website using 5 different popular website builders. </p><h5 id="">Table of Contents</h5><p id="">1. Notion </p><p id="">2. Webflow</p><p id="">3. Wix</p><p id="">4. Wordpress</p><p id="">5. Squarespace</p><p id="">Let's get started!</p><h3 id="">How to Embed AI&nbsp;Tools on Notion </h3><p id="">‍You can embed your AI tools into Notion with ease. Just add a new block by clicking the “+” button. Scroll down to the “Embed” option. Click it and paste it into your Pickaxe’s embed link!</p><h5 id="">Step 1</h5><p id="">Click the <strong id="">+</strong> that appears to the left when you hover over a new line. Choose <strong id="">Embed </strong>or one of the common embed types listed above. Press <strong id="">enter</strong>.</p><h5 id="">Step 2</h5><p id="">You can also type <em id="">/embed</em> or <em id="">/</em> followed by the name of the service (i.e. /codepen), then press <strong id="">enter</strong>.</p><h5 id="">Step 3</h5><p id="">In the menu that appears, paste your embed link&nbsp;</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64b5cb3869bcb4fcd222264e_Screen%20Shot%202023-07-17%20at%204.13.02%20PM.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Screenshot of embed process on Notion</em></figcaption></figure><h3 id="">‍</h3><h3 id="">How to embed AI Tools on Webflow</h3><p id="">You can just as easily put AI tools into your Webflow site. Adding an "embed element" on the add panel and putting the embed link into the box is all that's needed.&nbsp;</p><h5 id="">Step 1</h5><p id="">Copy the code from your Pickaxe that you’d like to embed </p><h5 id="">Step 2 </h5><p id="">Open the <strong id="">Add Panel </strong>and add an <strong id="">Embed element</strong> by dragging and dropping it onto your website</p><h5 id="">Step 3</h5><p id="">Paste the code that you’ve copied into the editor</p><h5 id="">Step 4</h5><p id="">Save and close the button</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64aa1131193adf43b75d3243_How_to_embed_6.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Screenshot of how to embed&nbsp;AI&nbsp;on Webflow</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><h3 id="">How to embed AI Tools on Wix</h3><p id="">If you made your website with Wix, you can add apps to it to make it even better. Here's how you can embed Pickaxes and other AI tools into your Wix site to make it even better.</p><h5 id="">Step 1</h5><p id="">Click <strong id="">Add Elements</strong> "+" in your Wix's editor</p><h5 id="">Step 2</h5><p id=""><strong id="">‍</strong>Click <strong id="">Embed Code</strong> then <strong id="">Popular Embeds.</strong>‍</p><h5 id="">Step 3</h5><p id="">Under Popular Embeds, click <strong id="">Embed HTML </strong>to add it onto your site</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64b5cc7643921da7a74db2e7_Blog_HowEmbed_4.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Screenshot of how to embed on Wix</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">Once you’ve added your embed, it’s time to implement your Pickaxe to your site.</p><ol id=""><li id="">Click the embed in your Editor and select HTML <br><br></li><li id="">Check off <strong id="">Code<br><br></strong></li><li id="">Click <strong id="">Enter Code</strong> and paste your Pickaxe code under <strong id="">Add your code here</strong>.<br><br></li><li id="">Click Apply to save your code</li></ol><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64b5ccb73c79589a07aa535a_Blog_HowEmbed_2.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><h3 id="">How to embed AI Tools on Wix</h3><p id="">Follow these steps to add the code from your Pickaxe to your Wordpress site. Make sure your site can use plugins before you do this:</p><h5 id="">Step 1</h5><p id="">To add a <strong id="">Custom HTML block</strong>, click on the <strong id="">+ Block Inserter</strong> icon and search for it, or type /html on a new line and hit enter. You can also type /html on a new line and press enter to quickly add a new Custom HTML block.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64b5ccf2c3d9e32328d60709_Blog_HowEmbed_6.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">‍</p><p id="">Once you’ve added the block, you can insert your code, edit, and preview it right within the editor.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64b5cd16247e865a43d8832c_Blog_HowEmbed_5.gif" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Example of how to embed on Wordpress</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><h3 id="">How to embed AI Tools on Squarespace</h3><p id="">If you want to make changes to your Squarespace site that aren't achievable with other blocks, code blocks are a good choice if you want to add tools or code from a third party. You may also employ code blocks to display code snippets or to render HTML and Markdown. To add a code block to your website:</p><h5 id="">Step 1</h5><p id="">Edit a page or post, click Add Block or an insert point, then click Code.</p><h5 id="">Step 2</h5><p id="">Open the block editor by clicking the pencil icon on the block.</p><h5 id="">Step 3</h5><p id="">Paste your code in the text field. If you're using the code block to display code snippets, switch the Display Source toggle on.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64b5cdc84530e75266769f2b_Blog_HowEmbed_1.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Screenshot of how to embed with Squarespace</em></figcaption></figure><h3 id="">What’s next?&nbsp;</h3><p id="">It's truly that simple to incorporate AI widgets into a website or workspace! Once integrated in your site, your pickaxe is quick, adaptable, and simple to administer. You can always modify the prompt and settings without changing the embed code. AI shouldn't be tough to integrate into your freshly built website, but Pickaxe gives you the extra freedom to continuously iterate in real-time.</p><p id="">In the meantime, if you want to get started on building your own Pickaxe, you can <a href="https://pickaxe.co">create an AI tool here</a> for free. The no-code builder is easy for anyone to get started with. Try our hand at it and see what you can make!</p><p id="">If you're looking for inspiration of how integrate AI&nbsp;into your business, check out how online coach and strategist <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/transforming-online-coaching-with-ai-wendy-breakstones-success-with-ai">Wendy Breakstone added AI to her online course</a>. </p><p id="">‍</p>

A detailed guide of how to embed AI tools on major website builders like Webflow, Wix, Wordpress, & more.

How to integrate AI to your website (Wix, Webflow, Squarespace, & Wordpress) | Pickaxe Blog

How to integrate AI to your website (Wix, Webflow, Squarespace, & Wordpress)

<p id="">At Pickaxe we've helped customers create and launch over 50,000 AI tools. We're well aware that AI chatbots are becoming increasingly common across the internet. Both for personal use and as commercial micro-SaaS products.</p><p id="">In some cases, builders find text-based chatbots limited. They want more multi-modality such as their end-users being able to upload files, links, youtube links, and yes, <strong id="">images too</strong>.</p><p id="">Fortunately, Pickaxe makes it very simple to turn a text-based chatbot into a vision chatbot by enabling image recognition. Giving your Pickaxe the ability to see and understand images is a simple process that can open up a lot of new use cases. </p><p id="">In this blog post, we'll walk through what vision-enabled chatbots mean, how you can enable image recognition in a chatbot, and even show you an example. You can also watch a step by step video tutorial that breaks <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM_jZIKiNVo" target="_blank">how to create an AI vision chatbot </a>in Pickaxe. </p><p id="">Let's get started. First off, let's break down what image recognition is and how it works. This quick understanding will help inform how to effectively use the feature in your Pickaxe. </p><p id="">Image recognition is a functionality provided by underlying AI&nbsp;vision models. These vision models are AI&nbsp;models that have been trained on massive sets of images and description captions. As a result these vision models have gained the ability <em id="">to understand images</em>. They can both understand the content of an image (i.e. the objects in the image) as well as recognize and read text within an image like a sign or website copy.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6705907e2d47b3853a12f150_67058d5e0ba71457be18e766_culurciello-deeplearning-612x345.jpg.webp" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">AI&nbsp;vision models can look at images and understand them.</figcaption></figure><p id="">For example, if you upload an image of a chef in front of a plate of spaghetti, the AI vision model will identify the spaghetti and the chef, as well as the setting, background elements, the tablecloth, even the expression of the chef (whether she is proud, disappointed, etc). </p><p id="">After the vision model looks at the image, it then generates a detailed text description of everything it “sees” in the image. These descriptions include a surprising amount of detail!&nbsp;Here's a vision model looking at a still from a Gordon Ramsay show. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6705907f2d47b3853a12f1bf_67058fd4e9d9600e84822b76_aaa.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">After the vision model produces a text description, the description is then given to the language model you're using in Pickaxe. Obviously some details may be lost in the translation from image to text, but the vision model captures a large amount of the image's essence. </p><p id="">You can achieve a lot of cool things leveraging this workflow. You can get the language model to write detailed critiques of paintings, write pick-up lines based on screenshots of dating profiles, etc. It can even write code to fix problems in website interfaces!</p><p id="">Next, let's look at an example of a simple vision-enabled chatbot and how it works. Then we'll dive into how to make a vision-enabled chatbot on Pickaxe. </p><h1 id="">Example: Landing Page Consultant</h1><p id="">Here’s a simple example of a chatbot with image recognition enabled that looks at website landing pages and then critiques them. We'll call it the <a href="https://studio.pickaxe.co/STUDIOPG82VD7AF2YLMV9/Website_Critic_ST26H">Landing Page Reviewer</a>. The functionality is fairly simple. Let's demonstrate by giving it a screenshot of the Craigslist interface. It will probably have more than a little of bit of design feedback!</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/670592a322210c8c41224b63_6705921a5892a0a84734dc30_aaaaa.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">As you can see, the functionality of this vision-enabled Pickaxe chatbot is very simple. It can:</p><ul id=""><li id="">Allow users to upload a screenshot of a website landing page.</li><li id="">Look at the uploaded screenshot with a point-of-view (UX design, marketing, branding, etc).</li><li id="">Use the uploaded screenshot to write a funny critique of it.</li></ul><p id="">Importantly, the Pickaxe does not just look at the image. On top of the vision model, there is prompt that instructs the LLM&nbsp;to look at the image with a certain point-of-view and to offer actionable insights.</p><p id="">Now let’s break down how to enable image recognition in&nbsp;Pickaxe and make a vision-based chatbot. </p><h1 id="">Step 1. Write the prompt</h1><p id="">As with every Pickaxe, the first step is to write a prompt in the builder. Writing a prompt for a vision chatbot is a fairly simple. The only difference is explaining in the prompt that the chatbot will “see” an image.</p><p id="">Here’s how we might write the prompt for the a version of our website review that critiques websites like an stand-up insult comic.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image " data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align=""><div id=""><img alt="" src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67058a5858f36dfa336c1e7e_1_rugNF2qzheoHT_XLfM4j_A.png" width="auto" height="auto" loading="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Prompt for vision-enabled chatbot on Pickaxe</figcaption></figure><p id="">As you can see the prompt is fairly standard. Nothing crazy. But in the prompt we add <em id="">explicit instructions </em>that it will be working with an image. We also wrote instructions for what it should do with the image. </p><h1 id="">Step 2. Enable Image Recognition</h1><p id="">The next step is to actually allow your chatbot to “see” images. To do this, you'll need to do two sime things.</p><ol start="1" id=""><li id="">Enable users to upload images</li><li id="">Select GPT-4o or GPT-4o mini as your model. </li></ol><p id="">This process is quick and painless on Pickaxe. To enable end-users to upload images, simply go to the <strong id="">Configure</strong> tab in the builder, and then click the check-box that allows users to upload their own files. Here's a screenshot below. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image " data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align=""><div id=""><img alt="" src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67058a57340a0d381b040ee4_1_r_hvdbRS9jRGK96eFZR1RQ.png" width="auto" height="auto" loading="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">Then you'll want to go into the <strong id="">Prompt </strong>tab and make sure the model you're using is GPT-4o or GPT-4o mini. Currently, those are the only two models that work with image recognition on Pickaxe. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6705c9127159c8d11843da26_6705bd4094975f47da81e45c_Screenshot%25202024-10-08%2520at%25204.15.48%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Make sure you use GPT-4o or GPT-4o mini for image recognition.</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">This will allow end-users to upload photos and images. Whenever a user uploads an image, it will be 'looked at', summarized in a descriptive caption, and then passed into your Pickaxe to be used in the context of your prompt. </p><h1 id="">Step 3. Testing &amp; Refining</h1><p id="">Next, you’ll want to test and refine your Pickaxe. Uploading images in the right-hand panel using the paperclip icon. </p><p id="">Take a look at the results and see if you like them. Adjust the prompt in the left-hand panel under the <strong id="">Prompt </strong>tab.<strong id=""> </strong></p><p id="">Your focus while testing should be to get the results you want. If you feel stuck, you can always post in the <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co/c/prompt-help">Prompt Engineering help section</a> of our community forum where users workshop prompts and talk about prompt design techniques. You can also check out prompt engineering websites like <a href="https://promptengineering.org/">https://promptengineering.org/.</a></p><p id="">As you text more and more, you might be surprised to see what a good prompt +&nbsp;image recognition can achieve together!</p><h1 id="">Step 4. Launch your Chatbot</h1><p id="">Finally, you’ll want to launch your chatbot so that people can actually use it!</p><p id="">When building an AI&nbsp;tool on Pickaxe, you have several options for launching it. You can deploy it as:&nbsp;</p><ul id=""><li id="">An axe page (standalone web-page at a Pickaxe URL)</li><li id="">An embedded Pickaxe (a white-labeled embed on a third-party website)</li><li id="">A <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/pickaxe-studio-sell-your-ai-tools-as-services">Studio</a> (a standalone white-labeled web-app at a custom domain)</li></ul><p id="">Determining how to deploy your vision chatbot all depends on how you want people to use it.</p><h1 id="">Making your own vision-enabled AI&nbsp;chatbot</h1><p id="">And that’s it! That’s all there is to the process. </p><p id="">To go over it again, simply:&nbsp;</p><ul id=""><li id="">Think of a concept</li><li id="">Write a prompt</li><li id="">Enable end-user upload (under the <strong id="">Configure</strong> tab)</li><li id="">Use GPT-4o or GPT-4o mini as your model</li></ul><p id="">If you follow those steps, you can make an AI&nbsp;chatbot with image recognition in the <a href="https://pickaxe.co/builder">Pickaxe chatbot builder</a> in a matter of mere minutes!</p><p id="">If you have any questions, please check out this community forum discussion about making <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co/t/how-to-make-a-pickaxe-that-can-see-vision-chatbot-walkthrough/1990">vision-enabled chatbots</a>. There you can ask questions about the process, share your own examples, and workshop prompts around the topic. </p><p id="">‍</p>

A guide on how to create an AI chatbot that can recognize and understand images that the end-user uploads.

How to Make a Chatbot with Image Recognition | Pickaxe Blog

How to Make a Chatbot with Image Recognition

<p id="">Generative AI is a great way to make your website smarter.&nbsp;That means turning 'static content' like webpages or videos into dynamic content that can talk back to a user. Enhancing brands by embedding GPTs into websites is a use case we see repeatedly from customers. More specifically FAQ&nbsp;bots (chatbots trained to answer reliably on a specific body of knowledge) are a very common use case on Pickaxe. </p><p id="">Today we're going to show you how to create a reliable and accurate FAQ&nbsp;bot for your website or business. It involves just three simple steps. We'll cover each one in detail: </p><ul id=""><li id="">Writing a good prompt</li><li id="">Uploading a curated Knowledge Base </li><li id="">Keeping a 'Known Answer Directory'. </li></ul><p id="">This is the same strategy we recently used to create our <a href="https://studio.pickaxe.co/STUDIO73CVEX31DUTEC3J/The_Pickaxe_Doorman_U5F8E">Pickaxe Doorman</a>, a friendly website greeter who answers hundreds of user questions a day. We go over this same strategy in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a388Wr-RgBs">video tutorial on building FAQ&nbsp;bots</a>. Let's break it down below. </p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Why Add an FAQ&nbsp;Bot to your Website?</h2><p id="">It's important to understand the value you want from your FAQ&nbsp;bot. Why build one in the first place? </p><p id="">The reason is an FAQ&nbsp;bot can save a LOT&nbsp;of time and help scale high-quality customer support to all your website's visitors at once. If you run a high-volume business you probably end up answering the same handful of questions over and over and over. </p><p id="">A common solution is to make an FAQ page on your website that lists commonly asked questions and the answers to them. But you'll notice that customers STILL&nbsp;email you the same few questions over and over. The reason is that static content often feels boring or impersonal. People want to feel like they are getting <em id="">their unique question </em>answered specifically for them.&nbsp;It's just human nature.</p><p id="">And fortunately, you can do that! With FAQ bots trained on your website material. Then you can embed this chatbot on your website so customers can interact with it. You'll find that a LOT of people take it for a spin. </p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id=""><strong id="">Step 1:&nbsp;Writing a Prompt</strong></h2><p id="">The first step, as with any AI agent or chatbot, is to write the prompt that will power it. This prompt is basically a set of instructions describing who the AI is and how it should behave. </p><p id="">Here's a very simple template for an FAQ&nbsp;bot. You very well may want to add all sorts of special rules and other information. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fc650cb4893fa3d4b5e06e_66fc610b2b959d21472a1aed_Screenshot%25202024-10-01%2520at%25201.51.06%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Basic prompt for an&nbsp;FAQ&nbsp;bot</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">Once you have a simple prompt, you can start adding information and testing it. For example, you might want to add a rule like "Whenever possible give out a blog article URL in reference to an answer". Or you may want to create a section called "Approved URLs to give out" with a list of a links and a special instruction to "never give out a weblink except for the ones in this section".</p><p id="">The sky is the limit for your prompt!&nbsp;Whatever you want your chatbot to do, just describe it in simple, clear language. That's the whole art of prompt engineering! </p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id=""><strong id="">Step 2:&nbsp;Adding a Knowledge Base of documents &amp; webpages</strong></h2><p id="">A <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co/t/knowledge-base-and-costs-of-content-tokens/296/2">Knowledge Base</a> is a central repository of information related to your business or website. Anything that describes your business or services can and should be included in this Knowledge Base. For example, in the case of the Doorman’s Knowledge Base we included:&nbsp;</p><p id="">- Blog posts</p><p id="">- Community forum posts (good ones)&nbsp;</p><p id="">- Youtube videos</p><p id="">- All our informational pages&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p id="">Adding these documents and webpages significantly improve the accuracy and relevance of your FAQ bot's responses.&nbsp;As a result of feeding it high-quality information and documents, it knows a LOT&nbsp;more about your business and service. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fc650cb4893fa3d4b5e064_66fc6385c514cd2f61b58cd2_Screenshot%25202024-10-01%2520at%25202.02.39%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">You can upload files to the Knowledge Base in the Learn tab.</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">You can add documents to the Pickaxe Knowledge Base in the <strong id="">Learn</strong> tab of the builder. You can upload documents via the "upload files" button. You can add webpages by the "Upload Webpage" button. </p><p id="">Adding documents is pretty straightforward. You can upload text files, word files, PDFs, even power points and CSV files. Files must be less than 100mb to be uploaded. </p><p id="">Adding webpages is a little different, but still simple. When you paste in a URL and try to add it, the system attempts to look for and scrape all child pages as well.&nbsp;You can also <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co/t/can-i-train-my-ai-chatbots-on-youtube-videos/227">add Youtube videos to your chatbot</a> too. When you add a youtube video, the system will automatically grab the audio transcript of the video. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fc650cb4893fa3d4b5e071_66fc64412e829e464efd4095_Screenshot%25202024-10-01%2520at%25202.05.33%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">You can select/deselect webpages here.</em></figcaption></figure><p id=""><br>For example, I didn’t want to add the <em id="">entire community forum-- </em>there are thousands of posts there of unverified quality. I&nbsp;only wanted to add some of the posts. So I just added the URL for the <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co/c/how-to-guides">How To Guides section</a> of the community forum. This is a section where only approved users can post. All the posts are instructional posts with high quality information. So it's very nutritional for our FAQ&nbsp;chatbot. When I added that base URL, the system automatically pulled all the posts in the How To Guides section for me.&nbsp;It grabbed 31 pages total. I un-checked a lot and chose just a handful of them. </p><p id="">Importantly, I also want the <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co/t/how-do-i-auto-update-website-content-in-my-ai-knowledge-base/398">Knowledge Base to automatically grab updates</a><strong id=""> </strong>from these pages as well. So&nbsp;I'm going to request that the FAQ&nbsp;bot re-visit and re-scrape the webpages at regular intervals. Doing so is quite simple in Pickaxe. At the bottom of the <strong id="">Learn tab, </strong>you<strong id=""> </strong>just find the Refresh Web-Based Content section and set it to whatever cadence you want. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fc6a7f4a4db8c90a02edde_66fc65c1bf97a74cc42dc0f1_Screenshot%25202024-10-01%2520at%25202.11.37%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Setting the refresh regularity of web-based content.</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">The FAQ bot will absorb all the information in these pages. Whenever it's asked a question, it will quickly refer to the entire Knowledge Base and see if there is any relevant information to use in the answer. You can learn more about how the Knowledge Base system absorbs and references knowledge in <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-upload-documents-into-a-chatbot-on-pickaxe">this Knowledge&nbsp;Base blog post</a>. You can read more about the <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co/t/how-many-documents-can-you-add-to-an-ai-chatbot/397">file upload limits in Pickaxe here</a>.</p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id=""><strong id="">Step 3:&nbsp;Review Answers to make a Known Answer Directory</strong></h2><p id="">If you've written a good prompt with detailed instructions and added a lot of quality information into the Knowledge Base, your FAQ&nbsp;bot should be in pretty good shape.&nbsp;It should be able to provide answers to expected questions. </p><p id="">But how can you make it better? How can you prepare it for tough questions? And outliers?</p><p id="">By curating what's called a "Known Answer Directory". </p><p id="">What exactly is that?&nbsp;It's basically a running list of questions and answers. By adding examples of known questions and answers, you help build the FAQ bot's ability to handle variations of those questions.</p><p id="">There's no trick to making a Known Answer Directory. Just review questions in the chatlogs of your FAQ&nbsp;bot and copy/paste over any questions that you felt were answered poorly or incorrectly. Then write your own version of an answer. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fc6a7f4a4db8c90a02edf3_66fc6827857553c27f53850f_Screenshot%25202024-10-01%2520at%25202.21.42%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Chat logs of the Pickaxe Doorman chatbot</figcaption></figure><p id="">At first adding a document with only 3 question/answer pairs on it may seem silly, but gradually you'll get a long document with a ton of information.</p><p id="">Once you've created this document, simply upload it into the Knowledge Base. </p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id=""><strong id="">Step 4:&nbsp;Adding Actions/Integrations (advanced)</strong></h2><p id="">Now you should have a very powerful FAQ bot that accurately answers user's question. And using the Known Answer Directory method, every time the chatbot gets an answer wrong or half-right, you have an opportunity to improve your chatbot. &nbsp;</p><p id="">For many users, their journey making an FAQ&nbsp;bot is over. But for advanced users, there's still more to do. </p><p id="">The next step is to connect your&nbsp;FAQ bot to Actions that allow it do things like email users, send slack notifications, and hook up to your larger system.</p><p id="">Let's take the example of connecting your FAQ&nbsp;bot to your Slack channel to send you messages when users need special help. </p><p id="">To do this, simply:&nbsp;</p><ul id=""><li id="">Go to the <strong id="">Act tab </strong>of the builder</li><li id="">Find the Slack action and click <strong id="">Connect</strong></li><li id="">Enter your Slack API&nbsp;endpoint</li></ul><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fc6a7f4a4db8c90a02edf6_66fc6984b5444115df1ca795_Screenshot%25202024-10-01%2520at%25202.27.52%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Available Actions for your FAQ&nbsp;bot</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">You'll then be prompted to explain when you want the Action to be triggered in the "Trigger prompt" section. This logic can be explained in normal, plain-spoken English. The default setting is to send a slack notification when the conversation appears to have ended. But you can rewrite it to be whatever you want. In the screenshot below, you'll see that I wrote a custom instruction to send a summary of the conversation to the Slack if they want to talk to an admin. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fc6a7f4a4db8c90a02ee03_66fc6a31d3a8a05211015068_Screenshot%25202024-10-01%2520at%25202.31.17%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Connecting the Slack action in an AI chatbot.</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><h2 id=""><strong id="">Embed your FAQ&nbsp;Bot into a Website</strong></h2><p id="">Once you've created an FAQ&nbsp;bot, you'll want to deploy it to your website. Pickaxe makes it easy to <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-embed-ai-chatbots-into-your-website-a-step-by-step-guide">embed your AI&nbsp;chatbot</a> into your website quickly and with no-code. </p><p id="">After you've finished creating the chatbot on Pickaxe, simply click on the <strong id="">Deploy </strong>button, them <strong id="">Embed. </strong></p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fc7294ed658a6f30b76496_66fc72487234077102e9ba33_Screenshot%25202024-10-01%2520at%25203.05.42%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Embedding AI tools via Pickaxe is easy.</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">Then you'll be on an embed customization page. You can customize things like the coloring, sizing, fonts, and placeholder texts of the embed. Once you're ready you can quickly copy/paste iFrame code for the FAQ bot and embed it on your website. Or if you want to be more advanced, you can embed it with javascript. </p><p id="">You can learn more about<a href="https://pickaxe.co/ai/embeddable-chatbot"> embedding AI tools</a> into your website through Pickaxe by perusing our website. It remains one of the most popular ways to launch chatbots and integrate them into businesses. </p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id=""><strong id="">Get Started Building Today!</strong></h2><p id="">Hopefully this post clarified what an FAQ&nbsp;bot is, why you want one for your website/business, and how to create one quickly. </p><p id="">If you have questions about this topic, join the <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co/t/how-to-make-an-faq-bot-based-on-your-documents-knowledge/1859">community discussion about FAQ bots</a>.</p><p id="">If you're eager to create an AI&nbsp;chatbot, get started <a href="https://pickaxe.co/">creating AI tools on Pickaxe</a> for free. Just write your prompt, upload some documents, and start iterating! </p><p id="">‍</p>

A walkthrough of how to create an FAQ bot based on your website, materials, & documents with best practices included.

How to make an FAQ bot to answer questions for your website | Pickaxe Blog

How to make an FAQ bot to answer questions for your website

<h2 id="">Embedding AI Tools in Websites for Lead Generation</h2><p id="">We encounter a LOT of use cases for generative AI at Pickaxe. Customers create AI tools for all sorts of reasons here-- from selling them directly as an additional revenue stream to using them as internal tools for their team. A very popular use case is <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-embed-ai-chatbots-into-your-website-a-step-by-step-guide" id="">embedding AI chatbots in their website</a> as a way to engage users. </p><p id="">Getting traffic to a website is often difficult. And once you have the traffic, keeping the visitors engaged is important! You need visitors to find you, stay engaged, and take action. A great way to achieve this is by embedding AI tools and chatbots directly into your website.</p><p id="">In this blog post, we want to explore how <a href="https://cograder.com/" id="">CoGrader</a>, an ed-tech startup, used Pickaxe to embed AI tools on their website and drive lots of new traffic to their site. Their approach is simple and easy to mimic!</p><p id="">Gabriel from CoGrader made a few simple but <em id="">specific</em> Pickaxes around high-search volume terms, embedded them into webpages on his website, and now enjoys a steady and growing inflow of traffic on those webpages. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66e9f4220241b09795032f54_66e9f0c4e615fd5281a1d018_cograder%2520thing.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Ed-tech company CoGrader, run by Gil Flores &amp;&nbsp;Gabriel Adamante</figcaption></figure><p id="">Let's explore how CoGrader used Pickaxe to embed lead-producing chatbots into their website!</p><h2 id="">Strategy </h2><p id="">CoGrader used a simple strategy for generating more traffic to their website. We'll go over it here, step by step. </p><h3 id="">1. Create useful AI tools for your audience</h3><p id="">CoGrader is in the ed-tech space. It's full of students and teachers who have specific problems that they want answers for FAST-- before the test, before the homework is due, etc. Education is also full of tasks that can be simplified with AI tools.</p><p id=""> CoGrader created a series of straightforward tools around tasks like summarizing text, converting text from one level of reading comprehension to another, translating one type of writing into another type, and more. </p><p id="">Importantly they kept it simple. And even more importantly, they made the tools <strong id="">specific</strong>. Simple and specific is a winning combination in SEO!</p><h3 id="">2. Create Webpages optimized around the tool</h3><p id="">Next CoGrader spun up a single webpage for each tool. The webpages were simple, but optimized specifically for that tool.&nbsp;The URL contained the tool's name, the title of the page contained the tool's name, and a brief description explained what the tool did and why it was useful. </p><h3 id="">3. Embed the AI into the webpage</h3><p id="">Finally, CoGrader embedded their Pickaxes into each page. They simply got the iframe code for each Pickaxe and copy-pasted it into the webpage where they wanted the tool. Nothing else to it!&nbsp;</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66ea032e0fb2a9c0a8fc331f_66ea0165ec6d0dce9e482dc0_Screenshot%25202024-09-17%2520at%25203.23.10%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Pickaxe's Embed customization page</figcaption></figure><h3 id="">4. Give away as a free tool!</h3><p id="">The most important part is they let visitors use the tool for <strong id="">free</strong>! When a random stranger on the internet landed on their page, they stayed because the tool was useful and totally free. They were able to start using it immediately. </p><p id="">Of course, you don't want give away <em id="">unlimited free use</em> on your own dime. To limit the amount of times visitors could use the embedded pickaxes, they made sure <a href="https://community.pickaxeproject.com/t/how-to-set-usage-limit-on-embedded-pickaxes/565" id="">to set usage limits</a> on their embedded Pickaxes. Limiting the amount of uses people can use your Ai tool is a powerful feature Pickaxe offers with a super simple no-code slider. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66e9fc92490fe0a665fbb78c_66e9f603205275d108383f52_cograder-embedded-aitool-example.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Cograders' AI reading level converter tool</figcaption></figure><p id="">Embedding AI in a website is an easy way to put dynamic content right into your website, with minimal setup time. Of course, Pickaxe makes it simple and straightforward to <a href="https://pickaxe.co/ai/embeddable-chatbot" id="">embed chatbots and GPTs</a> into your website. Once you create a tool, you can embed it into your website with only a few clicks. Visitors can start using your tool right away with no strings attached. </p><h2 id="">Example Tool:&nbsp;Reading Level Comprehension Conversion</h2><p id="">Let's take a deeper look at one of Cograder's free AI edtech tools. This <a href="https://cograder.com/reading-level-conversion" id="">reading comprehension converter tool</a> takes text and transform it between reading levels. Teachers often need to adjust text complexity for various student levels. And LLMs are great at this because they can analyze and rewrite text very quickly! CoGrader’s reading level converter is simple and super functional. It’s what many teachers need and may even be searching for online.&nbsp;And therefore, when they find it a free one, it keeps them on the page.&nbsp;A few months after publishing this page, it's now one of their most visited landing pages!</p><h2 id="">How to make AI work for your business or niche</h2><p id="">If you have a website in a specific niche, you can use the same strategy as Cograder to attract and engage website visitors. All you need to do is create a chatbot or AI tool around a certain use-case and then create a webpage around it. </p><p id="">For instance, let's use the case of a popular <a href="https://bluemoonbeats.com/" id="">Austin wedding DJ</a> who provides event services for weddings and receptions. Obviously, they want to attract attention from anyone planning a wedding. </p><p id="">In that case, you could create an AI tool that helps couples plan their wedding playlists. Or a free tool that writes best man toasts for wedding. Think of any AI tool that would be fun or useful to people planning a wedding and may be searched-- chances are it's a good idea for a free AI&nbsp;tool!</p><p id="">When someone searches for "wedding playlist ideas" or "wedding playlist generator", they will land on the AI tool, use it, and check out the rest of your website or services. Finding an interactive tool that not only helps them but also showcases your expertise can keep users on your site longer, increasing the chance they'll book your services.</p><h2 id=""><strong id="">The Strategy:&nbsp;Keep it simple!</strong></h2><p id="">Putting free AI tools into your website provides fast, real value to strangers on the internet. What better way to get leads! It's important to remember you don't need to reinvent the wheel to provide value. Sometimes the most valuable services are simple LLM functionality pulled out into a specific tool.</p><p id="">For example, one of the most popular tools on Pickaxe to date is the <a href="https://shakespeare.tools/0BGI08DC0IAP5EBYNBXU" id="">Shakespeare Translator,</a> which is a very simple tool-- it translates Shakespearean english into modern english. The tool is very simple but very specific. And everyday thousands of people search for something like that and land on the page. To date it has over 1 million uses!</p><p id="">Don't underestimate the power of building AI tools that address specific, niche needs. The goal isn't always to create a complex AI with every feature imaginable. Sometimes the goal is to create a simple, effective tool that people want. CoGrader didn’t try to build a comprehensive grading system. They built specific tools that solves real problems for their target users. This simple strategy is why they rank high in search results by using embedded Pickaxes as a major SEO driver!</p><h2 id="">Conclusion</h2><p id="">I hope the lessons here are clear: </p><p id="">- Pickaxe is an easy way to make specific AI tools quickly. </p><p id="">- Pickaxe is an even easier way to embed these tools into your website</p><p id="">- People LOVE anything free. Free AI tools are major value offers!</p><p id="">I hope you can learn from CoGrader's effective use of Pickaxe on their website as a lead magnet and SEO&nbsp;enhancer. You can create an AI tool and embed it into your website for FREE today. Get started today with our free <a href="https://pickaxe.co/builder">no-code form builder</a>.</p>

How you can embed AI tools into webpages as a way to boost organic traffic and SEO

How to use AI chatbots for organic traffic & leads | Pickaxe Blog

How to use AI chatbots for organic traffic & leads

<h2 id="">Actions Walkthrough Guide</h2><p id="">Pickaxe is an easy platform for creating AI chatbots and tools. One of the first things many users want to do with their Pickaxe, is connect it to another piece of software, like Zapier or Make.com. Many usersalso want their Pickaxes to do things beyond generating text and images, like sending the output via email or generating a PDF containing the result.</p><p id="">Large Language Models cannot do these things. LLMs like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 are simply models that can read and write text. But Pickaxe, through a powerful feature called Actions,&nbsp;can connect these models to external pieces of software. That's what we'll talk about today, Pickaxe's powerful API&nbsp;Actions. </p><p id="">Actions are basically an easy way to teach your Pickaxe how to use other pieces of software on the internet.&nbsp;</p><p id="">In this guide, we’ll give you a step by step walkthrough of how to connect Actions to your tools. If you prefer watching rather than reading, here's a video that offers a basic overview of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKrC3LTnfcA">connecting existing Actions to your Pickaxe. </a></p><p id="">First, let’s quickly explain what an <strong id="">Action</strong> is.&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">What is an Action</h2><p id="">An Action is a connection to another piece of software (i.e. Zapier, Mailchimp, ElevenLabs) that has been configured in a way where your Pickaxe can reliably use it when contextually appropriate.&nbsp;</p><p id="">The Action has some code under the hood, but all of this is hidden from both you and from your Pickaxe. You can think of it as a simple button that your Pickaxe can press when appropriate. </p><p id="">How does it know when to use an Action? Or how to use an Action? You explain in simple, plain language.&nbsp;Just like a prompt. Consider it a branch of prompt engineering. </p><p id="">Your Pickaxe can also pass information to through an Action (like an email address or a summary of the conversation). Your Pickaxe can also receive information back from an action (like an image or results from a query)&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Understanding Examples of Actions</h2><p id="">Before we jump into setting up an Action, let’s clarify what Actions can do. Let's go over three examples.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6718358a4640d6c6ec82a0f9_671830d2309eff923d98dd64_Screenshot%25202024-10-22%2520at%25204.09.30%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id=""><strong id="">Slack Action</strong>: This Action lets your Pickaxe send a message to a predetermined Slack channel. The Slack channel where it sends a message to would be set up beforehand by the owner. The information it sends to the Slack channel would be defined when you set up the Action. And the trigger for when it sends information to the Slack channel would be also be defined by you as well (i.e. every time a certain subject it mentioned, or anytime the user says they want to contact support).&nbsp;</p><p id=""><strong id="">Send Email to Owner</strong>: This Action sends an email to you. When you configure the action you would determine where it sends the email&nbsp;(i.e. ian@example.com), when it sends the email, and what's in the email. </p><p id=""><strong id="">DALL-E Action</strong>: This Action sends a request to DALL-E 3 and then returns an image that DALL-E generates into the chat.. When you configure this action you would add some details about how you want the image to look and you would also enter your OpenAI&nbsp;API&nbsp;key.&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Step 1: Open the Act Tab&nbsp;&nbsp;</h2><p id="">For all actions, the first step is to open up the Act tab of the builder.&nbsp;</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6718358a4640d6c6ec82a0f0_67183233898b1c3a97147a6a_Screenshot%25202024-10-22%2520at%25204.07.10%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍</p><p id="">In this tab, you can all the Actions currently connected to your Pickaxe, browse existing Actions, connect new Actions, and even build your own custom Action.&nbsp;</p><p id="">First, we'll focus on how to connect an existing Action to your Pickaxe. </p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Step 2: Connecting a New Action&nbsp;</h2><p id="">Let’s go over connecting our first Action. Let’s use the example of an Action that sends an email to the owner.</p><p id="">First, you'll browse the "Community Actions" section of the page. These are Actions that already been built, meaning someone else wrote all the code to set it up. But don't worry, you can still customize it to fit your situation. You'll get a chance to do that shortly. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6718358a4640d6c6ec82a0ed_671833014640d6c6ec808030_Screenshot%25202024-10-22%2520at%25204.17.59%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">Look for the Action you want to connect. In this case, we're looking for <strong id="">Sends Summary Email to Owner. </strong> Then click "connect".&nbsp;</p><p id="">Next you'll &nbsp;see a pop-up window that asks a few questions. This window is where we configure the action to work the way we want. In this case, we want specify where the Actions sends an email to, the name of the tool, and what it includes in the email.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6718358a4640d6c6ec82a0fd_67183474ad065f3c828295ef_Screenshot%25202024-10-22%2520at%25204.24.59%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">Each Action has a slightly different pop-up window. Some ask for a lot details, like API&nbsp;key and webhooks. Others have almost nothing!</p><p id="">In this case we’ll put in the email address of wherever we want the summaries to be sent.&nbsp;</p><p id="">For Tool Name, we'll just put the name of the tool. This field helps me stay organized, so that when&nbsp;I get an email, I'll know what tool triggered the email. </p><p id="">Finally, there is a <strong id="">trigger prompt</strong>. This is a very important field. It is basically the instructions to your Pickaxe about when and how to use the Action. In this box, you can write, in natural language, some brief instructions about the Action. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6718358a4640d6c6ec82a100_671835500231bf1d8e61b77b_Screenshot%25202024-10-22%2520at%25204.29.00%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">In the Trigger Prompt, we’ll specify that we want the action to send a summary of the conversation. It’s important to note we could change this to whatever we want. We could have it send a summary, send a mood assessment of the user, even send a report on whether the customer is warm or cold lead. Your Pickaxe will look at these instructions before using the action and will follow them, so you can write the same way you would write a prompt.&nbsp;</p><p id="">In this case, we’ll keep it simple. Just a summary.&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍</p><p id="">After you've filled out all the fields, simply click <strong id="">Connect.</strong></p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Step 3: Testing the Actions</h2><p id=""><sup id="">‍</sup></p><p id="">Now that we connected the Action. Let’s test it!&nbsp; Simply use the chat in the right side of the builder.&nbsp;</p><p id="">You’ll always know an Action is running when you see this spinning circle.&nbsp;When you see that spinning circle, that means that the Pickaxe has decided to use an Action and is waiting for the result. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67184a0ea0e2ce15ceb392b3_671847c7135fc41fc95e28f8_Screenshot%25202024-10-22%2520at%25205.44.48%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">If you've connectex more than one Action and can't tell which Action ran, you can always click on the magnifying glass underneath response.&nbsp;This will bring up a pop-up that contains <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co/t/message-insights-look-at-knowledge-base-citations/2025">message insights</a> about the response including token counts, Knowledge Base citations, and any Actions used!</p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Step 4: Editing Actions</h2><p id="">If the result isn’t quite what you expected you can edit the Actions and modify how it behaves. Maybe the email summary missed key information. Or maybe the Action did not trigger when you wanted it to.&nbsp;</p><p id="">To edit the configurations of an Action, go into the “Act” tab, look at your connected Actions, and click the three dots and click “Edit”.&nbsp;</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67184a0ea0e2ce15ceb392b9_67184851ea07206bf0973714_Screenshot%25202024-10-22%2520at%25201.32.37%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">This will allow you to edit all the configurations you made when you first connected it. If an Action isn't behaving quite how you want, usually the culprit is in the <strong id="">Trigger Prompt </strong>section. We recommend looking there first. </p><p id="">&nbsp;</p><h2 id="">Step 5: Connecting Multiple Actions</h2><p id="">You can connect even multiple Actions to a single Pickaxe. You can always see what Actions are connected to your tool in the “Act” tab. Free accounts are limited to one connection per, Gold accounts are limited to two connections per tool, and Pro accounts can have unlimited connections. You can always remove an Action.&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Step 6: Creating your own Action&nbsp;(ADVANCED)</h2><p id="">Pickaxe has many existing Actions to offer and we’re adding more Actions all the time. You can browse them in the Act tab and search for specific actions.&nbsp;These are easy to set up because we've already built the code part. All you have to do is fill in some form fields to personalize the Action to yourself. </p><p id="">But oftentimes you may want to build your own Action. Pickaxe supports this through our custom Action builder.&nbsp;</p><p id="">To build your own Action from scratch, scroll to the bottom of the page and look for the <strong id="">Build new action</strong> button.&nbsp;Click this to get started! </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/67184a0ea0e2ce15ceb392b6_67184911e214838a3e418c11_Screenshot%25202024-10-22%2520at%25205.53.27%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">Next a pop-up will appear that lets you create your own Action. This tutorial video walks you through <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3oNk9prTjs">how to build your own Action</a> from scratch.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-video w-richtext-align-center" style="padding-bottom:33.723653395784545%" data-rt-type="video" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="" data-rt-max-height="33.723653395784545%" data-rt-dimensions="854:480" data-page-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3oNk9prTjs"><div id=""><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O3oNk9prTjs" title="Advanced Actions Building on Pickaxe - (API Integrations for AI chatbots)"></iframe></div></figure><h2 id="">Conclusion</h2><p id="">And there you have it! With these steps, you've unlocked the ability to utilize Actions in your Pickaxe chatbots, enhancing their functionality and interactivity. Whether it's sending messages to Slack, generating images, or creating PDFs, you now have the tools to create a more dynamic chatbot experience.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Give it a try, and let your creativity flow! If you have any questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask. Happy bot building!</p><p id="">‍</p>

A step by step guide on how to connect APIs to your Pickaxes through Actions.

How use Actions: Connecting APIs to your Pickaxe | Pickaxe Blog

How use Actions: Connecting APIs to your Pickaxe

<h2 id="">Turning Documents to Chatbots</h2><p id="">Do you have a bunch of documents (books, transcripts, essays, etc.) that you want to turn into a queryable chatbot? A common use case of chatbots is to build personas based on text and bodies of knowledge.&nbsp;Many important figures have done us the favor of leaving behind many writings that contain their knowledge.</p><p id="">Let's say you wanted to make anAristotle chatbot. Well, what is Aristotle if not the books he wrote? And the books other authors wrote about him?&nbsp;By turning documents into a chatbot, we can effectively turn any historical thinker into a queryable AI&nbsp;model. </p><p id="">With AI technology, it's possible to turn documents into chatbots so that users can effectively query the chatbot and learn anything through conversation that they could have learned through reading.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" style="max-width:50%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright" data-rt-max-width="50%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65763aeb29004f0811152fbb_81HHPBQH9dL._AC_UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><h2 id="">Charlie Munger Chatbot</h2><p id="">For this blog post, we'll go through the process of building a persona chatbot based on a body of documents. Together we'll use legendary investor and Berkshire Hathaway partner Charlie Munger and create a <a href="https://studio.pickaxe.co/STUDIO5PGGFG9YFYHSN7E/Charlie_Munger_bot_CXQZP">Charlie Munger chatbot</a> based on books like the Tao of Charlie Munger, Poor&nbsp;Charlie's Almanack, and several others.</p><p id="">To do this we will write a <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-design-an-ai-chatbot-pickaxe-chatbot-builder-walkthrough">persona chatbot</a>. And then we will create a system to filter document information through the persona. </p><h2 id="">What is a persona chatbot?</h2><p id="">AI can effectively retrieve information from texts. However these results will be a little flat. </p><p id="">The solution is to write a persona that emulates Charlie Munger's famous personality. This way the information will be filtered through aan opinionated personality.</p><p id="">We will combine these two practices (document retrieval &amp; persona prompt) into a simple pipeline. The result will be a realistic chatbot that &nbsp;feels both objectively and subjectively <em id="">real</em>.</p><p id="">Today we’ll break down how to create a document-based persona bot.</p><h2 id="">Step 1 - Gathering sources</h2><p id="">To build a good chatbot, we need to get a variety of documents. For the example of Charlie Munger, we have several great books.</p><p id=""><strong id="">Poor Charlie’s Almanack</strong><br>A compilation of speeches and wisdom from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's long-time business partner, offering insights on investment, business, and life philosophy</p><p id=""><strong id="">Tao of Charlie Munger</strong> <br>A curated collection of quotes and wisdom from Charlie Munger, organized thematically to provide insights into his philosophies on business, investing, and life, offering readers a structured guide to his pragmatic thinking.</p><p id=""><strong id="">Miscellaneous Charlie Munger transcripts</strong><br>A smattering of Charlie Munger speeches, quotes, and video transcripts.</p><p id="">We download all these resources as PDFs.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright" data-rt-max-width=""><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65763b40c741f24f5814330f_416YRkOeatL.jpg" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><h2 id="">Step 2 - Chunk text and turn in a vector database.</h2><p id="">Now that we have our text, we need to transform it into a format that a large language model can easily digest and search. Pickaxe offers an easy no-code way to turn documents into chatbots. When you upload a document, the system will convert it into small chunks that a chatbot can easily access. This process will allow the chatbot to retrieve pieces of related data.</p><p id="">Importantly, this is not the AI&nbsp;model searching the text for certain keywords. The embedding process it allows it to search <em id="">semantically. </em>For example, if we search for "soft drinks", we will get text chunks of Charlie Munger talking about Coca-Cola stocks, even if he never said "soft drinks" specifically. </p><p id="">Pickaxe handles this all behind the scenes with our easy document upload.&nbsp;For the sake of education, however, let's discuss the technical process that powers Pickaxe's document interrogation system.</p><p id=""><strong id="">Chunking</strong><br>First, the document is converted into a series of uniform text chunks. These chunks are plain text. They can be any size, but good practice is about 250 words. So a 100,000 word book could be turned into 400 chunks. </p><p id=""><strong id="">Embeddings</strong><br>Next, you turn the text chunks into <a href="https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings">embeddings</a> with OpenAI’s embedding library. This is a complicated process, but we handle all of it for you. Essentially every chunk is turned into a series of numbers that the AI&nbsp;model understands more thoroughly. This allows the AI to semantically search the text in milliseconds. </p><p id="">‍</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/657ced7a01e08fcd61591e1d_Chatbot_Builder_Document_Upload.png" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div><figcaption id="">You can upload documents directly into a chatbot within the Pickaxe chatbot builder</figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Step 3 - Design a Persona</h2><p id="">Now that have our knowledge base loaded up, we need to write a persona. For more information on how to design a chatbot persona you can check out <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-design-an-ai-chatbot-pickaxe-chatbot-builder-walkthrough">chatbot builder walkthrough</a>.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6576337906df4fc2fbe3a43b_Screenshot%202023-12-10%20at%201.53.42%E2%80%AFPM.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id="">A snapshot from the Charlie Munger bot prompt</figcaption></figure><p id="">How do you write a convincing persona? Here you get to exercise creative freedom! We suggest you play around and experiment. Generally you want to provide a description of the character's attitude, their favorite topics, and how they speak. Make sure to specify how you want the outputs to look (really long, very short, full of historical anecdotes, etc.)</p><p id="">You can also use our persona prompt writer tool. Enter a famous person and a few details and it will auto-generate a prompt for you. Then copy and paste the output, and start iterating on it. </p><p id="">Be sure to specify anything you want to see in the outputs. If you want to address specific problem, we suggest adding a heading for it. For example, if the Charlie Munger bot is behaving too much like a friendly schoolteacher, we can add the below section </p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Step 4 - Test, Iterate, &amp;&nbsp;Improve!</h2><p id="">And we're done!&nbsp;Now the chatbot is retrieving high quality information and filtering it through a persona. </p><p id="">However, there's always room for improvements. Try asking your chatbot a wide variety of questions. Send it to friends and challenge them to try its limit. </p><p id="">Are some answers bad?&nbsp;Do any feel out of character? Is the chatbot answering factual questions incorrectly? </p><p id="">Go back and improve the persona prompt. Look for more documents to fill in the holes in its knowledge. &nbsp;</p><p id="">You can get stated building your own <a href="https://pickaxe.co/builder">document-based chatbot</a> for free here. No coding experience necessary!<br></p>

A walkthrough of how to use documents and books to create a chatbot.

How to use books and documents to make a chatbot: Building a Charlie Munger chatbot | Pickaxe Blog

How to use books and documents to make a chatbot: Building a Charlie Munger chatbot

We reverse-engineered OpenAI's GPT Builder prompt. This post is a detailed walkthrough of it.

OpenAI GPT Builder's Prompt & Instructions - (Prompt Design Walkthrough) | Pickaxe Blog

OpenAI GPT Builder's Prompt & Instructions - (Prompt Design Walkthrough)

<p id="">Pickaxe Studio is a simple way to host and sell your AI tools.&nbsp;We’ve seen thousands of AI entrepreneurs create tools with Pickaxe and deploy them across the web to start businesses. While Pickaxe is an easy way <a href="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/tools/embed-ai" id="">embed AI into your website</a>, there are some important limitations to embedding Pickaxe into your website. You can’t see who uses your tool, you can’t monetize tools directly, and importantly, you need to already have a website or app!&nbsp;</p><p id="">A 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.&nbsp;</p><p id="">With Studio you can...</p><p id="">- Bundle tools</p><p id="">- Customize a webpage</p><p id="">- Add walkthrough videos to your pickaxes</p><p id="">- Set prices &amp; sell your Pickaxes</p><p id="">- Set usage limits</p><p id="">- Create tiers with associated limits, prices, and access</p><p id="">- Create accounts</p><p id="">- White-label everything</p><p id="">- Create custom logins</p><p id="">- Monitor activity&nbsp;</p><p id="">- Organize tools in folders</p><p id="">- Host it at a custom domain</p><p id="">- &amp; much, much more.&nbsp;</p><p id="">In this blog post I’ll cover the basic functionality of the Studio and how to do use it. Here is a detailed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ-u8r_Mbsg">walkthrough video of Pickaxe Studio</a> as well, if you prefer to watch a video.</p><p id="">‍</p><h1 id="">What is a Pickaxe Studio?</h1><p id="">A 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.&nbsp;In other words, it lets you wrap one or multiple tools into a functional and monetizable app. </p><p id="">If you want to share your pickaxes with other people, charge money, and run a business-- Studio is the best way to do it!</p><p id="">Here are a few examples of Pickaxe studios:</p><ul id=""><li id=""><a href="https://shakespeare.tools/">Shakespeare Helper</a> (tools for english literature students)</li><li id=""><a href="https://studio.copycoached.com/">CopyCoached</a> (AI&nbsp;copywriting tools)</li><li id=""><a href="https://studio.pickaxeproject.com/STUDIO09MY3WUDMCUIKE2/Inductive_Bible_Study_RJEG2">What The Verse</a> (AI&nbsp;Bible Study tools)</li><li id=""><a href="https://hingeassistant.com/Message_Coach_0ER8L">Hinge Helper</a> (AI tools for texting on dating apps)</li></ul><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Bundle Tools</h2><p id="">A Studio is a convenient way to bundle a group of related tools. &nbsp;For example, one Pickaxe user bundled together 5 marketing tools related to writing and promoting LinkedIn posts. Another 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&nbsp;paperwork. A college application consultant bundled together tools for writing college applications-- two for free and two behind a paywall. </p><p id="">Studio lets you add multiple tools, re-sort them, put them into folders, and more! </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:90%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="90%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fe2c4b836351336746e340_6605094a2f72a3d6c955b6ad_a_blogpost_1.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Examples of bundling pickaxes in Studio</figcaption></figure><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Set tiers</h2><p id="">Inside Studio, you can control how people use your tools, how often, and at what price.</p><p id="">Out of the box, we offer three tiers. But you can add more. "<strong id="">Guests</strong>" 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. "<strong id="">Members</strong>" are users who have signed up with an email to your Studio. Similarly, you can give them any amount of uses. "<strong id="">Premium</strong>"&nbsp;are users who pay for your Studio. You can set the price and the associated uses. You can always add more tiers later. And you can rename these tiers as well. </p><p id="">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 <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/how-to-set-up-monetization-in-pickaxe-studio-with-stripe">walkthrough on setting up monetization for your Studio</a>. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:90%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="90%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fe2c4b836351336746e33a_66050acc878b67763d1d7023_aa_blogpost_2.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Set up account tiers, prices, and usage limits inside Studio.</figcaption></figure><p id="">Pickaxe supports lots of customization of tiers. You can even <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co/t/how-to-change-currency-of-prices-in-studio/1337">change the currency</a> of your Studio tiers (as long as no one has bought it yet). </p><h2 id="">Customize appearance</h2><p id="">Studio is your personal storefront for AI tools. You can customize it to look and feel like your brand.&nbsp;Inside the "Design" tab, almost every part of the Studio is configurable and customizable. Let's briefly go over the core elements.</p><h3 id="">Color, font, &amp;&nbsp;images</h3><p id="">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 Pickaxes down to line widths. Change the fonts across the tools to match your preferences. Make it your own!</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:90%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="90%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fe2c4b836351336746e336_66050f627e2dde43902815b1_aa_blogpost_5.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Customization in Pickaxe studio</figcaption></figure><h3 id="">Hosting it at a custom domain</h3><p id="">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. </p><p id="">If you want your Studio to be occupy a <strong id="">whole domain</strong> (like aiconsulting.com), you'll want to add an A Record.</p><p id="">If you want your Studio to be a <strong id="">sub-domain</strong> of an existing domain (like studio.aiconsulting.com) you'll want to add a CName. </p><p id="">This may sound complicated, but it's actually no harder than copy&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;pasting stuff around websites. Here's a simple walkthrough of <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co/t/walkthrough-how-to-host-studios-at-custom-domain/507/4">how to host your studio at a custom domain</a>. </p><h3 id="">Pop-ups &amp;&nbsp;CTA text</h3><p id="">We also let you customize every pop-up to users. These pop-ups include the message a Studio end-user gets when they're prompted to sign up, to log-in, even the message they get to upgrade when they run out of uses. It’s all easy to configure and customize within Studio. <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co/t/how-to-customize-all-copy-content/1648">Customizing text copy across Studio</a> is easy!</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:90%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="90%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fe2c4b836351336746e343_66050df2c38b7fadb4c15f4e_aa_blogpost_3.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Customize messaging to fit your content, style, &amp; even language!</figcaption></figure><h2 id="">Manage users&nbsp;</h2><p id="">Under the <strong id="">Monitor</strong> tab, you can see all the activity in your Studio in a simple dashboard. Here you can see your stats, your users, their activity, and more.&nbsp;</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:90%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="90%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fe2c4b836351336746e33d_660510507e2dde439028f6f8_aa_blogpost_7.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍</p><h1 id="">Studio Navigation</h1><p id="">So that was the basics of Studios. Let's quickly cover what the four tabs are. </p><ul id=""><li id="">Pages</li><li id="">Design</li><li id="">Monitor </li><li id="">Access</li></ul><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fe2ffae4284b7d86175406_66fe2c9716a5229778af622e_Screenshot%25202024-10-02%2520at%252010.32.34%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Pages Tab</h2><p id="">Under the <strong id="">Pages </strong>tab of your Studio, you'll find all the settings to adding and managing discrete pages within your Studio. </p><p id="">The Pages tab is where you go to add/remove Pickaxes from your Studio. You can the styling or end-user facing copy of Pickaxes here, such as their title, description, or icon. </p><p id="">In addition to adding Pickaxes, you can also <a href="https://community.pickaxe.co/t/announcement-add-custom-content-pages-to-studios/1812">add custom content pages</a>. With custom content pages, you can write text, add a privacy policies, embed Youtube videos, put instructional images, and more. </p><p id="">The Pages tab is also where you can manage all your non-tool utility pages such as your Landing Page, Pricing Page, Account Page, Payment Confirmation page, and all your pop-ups. To edit any of these pages, simply hover over it in the left-hand panel and click on the pencil icon. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:40%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="40%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fe2ffae4284b7d86175414_66fe2dd4a1d31e76c8b7b2fc_Screenshot%25202024-10-02%2520at%252010.37.29%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><h2 id="">Design Tab</h2><p id="">Under the Design tab of the Studio, you can find all the settings for changing the styling of your Studio including coloring, typography, buttons, &amp;&nbsp;more. </p><p id="">Importantly in the Design tab under "Content", you can find a host of very important design settings such as language, white-labeling, and setting a logo for the studio. Here you can set a global language to all copy across the Studio for buttons, CTAs, &amp; more. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:30%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="30%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fe2ffae4284b7d86175409_66fe2e591c789ebfa241ec1a_Screenshot%25202024-10-02%2520at%252010.40.26%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍</p><h2 id=""><strong id="">Monitor</strong></h2><p id="">In the <strong id="">Monitor</strong> tab, you can see who is using your studio as well as view chat logs. </p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:80%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="80%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66fe2ffbe4284b7d86175424_66fe2fc2c6931aa7f5d025ff_Screenshot%25202024-10-02%2520at%252010.46.26%25E2%2580%25AFPM.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><h2 id=""><strong id="">Access</strong></h2><p id="">In the <strong id="">Access</strong> tab, you can manage a few, very important global settings for your Studio. Here you can set whether your Studio is public or private. You can also set whether your Studio is free, requires one-time payments, or requires recurring subscription payments. </p><p id="">Finally, you can also create and edit your pricing tiers here. </p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Launch your tools as a Studio!</h2><p id="">Getting started with Studio is easy and free to start. Launch your tools as a studio and start monetizing your expertise through AI prompts today! <a href="https://pickaxe.co/">Create a studio now</a>.</p>

A walkthrough of Studio features and how to start selling chatbot services

Pickaxe Studio: Sell your AI tools as services | Pickaxe Blog

Pickaxe Studio: Sell your AI tools as services

A guide on how to use Pickaxe with detailed instructions and images.

Pickaxe User Manual: How to do everything in Pickaxe | Pickaxe Blog

Pickaxe User Manual: How to do everything in Pickaxe

<p id=""><em id="">To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s. In the first case you are a man, in the second you’re no better than a bird.</em></p><p id=""><em id="">-Fyodor Dostoevsky</em></p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">Intelligence vs Obedience</h2><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright" data-rt-max-width=""><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/66369ffbcfc7123a4955fddb_a1edc05d1fbdfa9e66e4c7ca48833824ba04fd18-1250x1648.webp" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Evaluating a model using a test like this only gets at half the picture</figcaption></figure><p id="">No one doubts that generative AI is improving at a rapid pace. Improvements in language models break down into two broad categories. Gains in <em id="">general intelligence</em>, and gains in <em id="">model pliability.</em></p><p id="">Most of the standard tests we perform on generative models evaluate the first component. Whether we’re tracking a model’s performance on the <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/03/15/2023/how-gpt-4-performed-in-academic-exams">GRE</a>, or if it can recall specific facts <a href="https://aibusiness.com/nlp/openai-s-gpt-4-surpasses-rivals-in-document-summary-accuracy">without hallucinations</a>, we’re assessing the generic concept of intelligence as a raw commodity.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Model pliability is often overlooked. In a world where open source models are proliferating, many believe in a future populated by thousands (or perhaps millions) of custom tuned models. These models will be trained at their very core on piles of data we provide them. Ten thousand unique examples is presently the absolute minimum to start affecting this part of the model’s architecture.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Shakespeare, across all his written work, produced a little under 900,000 words. If we use 300 word examples of his writing, that corresponds to only 3,000 unique chunks of content to feed the model. Of course there are ways to expand that corpus, both using similar human generated content, and artificially generated variations, but the point remains that even the most prolific individual writers provide scant material to train models on.</p><p id="">The solution is optimizing for model pliability. Train a model on everything you can find, but when it comes time to generate, optimize for complete deference to the user’s prompt. This provides the benefit of a broad base of knowledge for general human understanding, while allowing for laser focused specificity in outputs. Training a custom model that locks you into a certain set of behaviors can seem right for certain applications. But when it comes to embedding human expertise in AI, the one constant is change. Expectations are constantly changing, and as they do, your models must adapt.&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">You are the Golden Goose</h2><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatleft" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatleft" data-rt-max-width=""><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6636a1355df6162d4837c261_Shakespeare.webp" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Shakespeare and his young apprentice</figcaption></figure><p id="">It is wrong to think that raw data is the most valuable asset in providing a valuable, differentiated generative experience. We see this type of thinking everywhere, even <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/the-data-dividend-fueling-generative-ai">McKinsey</a> is onboard the data train. Your accumulated works are valuable, yes. They are a brilliant reflection of your expertise, your insights, your creativity, and your identity. One might even say they’re worth their weight in gold.&nbsp;</p><p id="">But that makes you the golden goose. Your process for producing content is unequivocally <em id="">absent</em> from your content itself. And throwing that content to a training process expecting results is like reading a few Shakespeare plays and expecting to become a world famous playwright.&nbsp;</p><p id="">On the other hand, what if you could apprentice yourself to Shakespeare? What if you worked under him for years, watched him write, even had a few long drunken nights discussing his deepest thoughts? It’s not certain you’d become the most famous playwright in the world, but it’s credible that you’d be a contender.&nbsp;</p><p id="">In generative AI, prompting is the epitome of process transparency. When you can see clearly, in natural language, the frameworks guiding generation, you kick off a virtuous cycle improving clarity into your own creative process.&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">You don’t start with the answers, you find them along the way…</h2><p id="">Iterative prompt design not only allows us to embed expertise into a model, it allows us to discover for the first time the processes we ourselves are engaging with to create. Processes we may not fully understand at the outset.&nbsp;</p><p id="">In iterative prompt design, you start with a blank slate. You shape your tool slowly, using example questions and user feedback as your guide. As your tool encounters new situations, you augment the prompt, providing increasingly more nuance.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Over time, your prompt starts to become a more thoughtful outline of your process than you’ve ever had. And the best part is, you’re <em id="">conscious</em> of the entire experience. A prompt is the densest possible surface area of control, and that control is completely transparent to you.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Even players that demonstrably have the resources to train custom models for every little task opt to use general purpose models with complex prompt design. OpenAI <a href="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/post/openai-gpt-builders-prompt-instructions-prompt-design-walkthrough" id="">notoriously</a> uses elaborate prompts at various stages.&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍</p><h2 id="">AI vs Creativity</h2><p id="">Generative AI is only a creativity killer for those that lack the ability to engage with it creatively. We’ve already thrown pretty much all the written data humanity has ever produced at these models. Now, it’s time to stand alongside them and move forward together. As more people engage with the process of iterative prompt design, they will unlock components of their creativity they never realized they had.&nbsp;</p><p id="">A joke I heard recently from an OpenAI employee goes a little like this. “They say OpenAI is going to take everyone’s job. We’ll do that just as soon as we can hire someone to tell us what all the jobs are.” It turns out that there isn’t a finite list of all jobs. The process of telling generative AI what all the jobs are will never be complete.&nbsp;</p><p id="">A new type of economy is emerging that we call the GPT economy. All that means is that going forward, we will not only be responsible for our creations, we will also be responsible for our processes. This world will be driven by self aware humans shaping the behavior of <em id="">pliable</em> general purpose models with prompts that reflect those processes.&nbsp;</p><p id="">To take the first step towards this future, <a href="https://pickaxe.co/builder">build a tool for yourself</a>. It takes 5 minutes. Share it with others, improve it, and you’ll be well on your way.&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍</p>

Discover how iterative prompt design empowers you to shape generative AI with precision and creativity, unlocking the full potential of your expertise and processes.

Prompt Design vs Fine Tuning: A fight for control | Pickaxe Blog

Prompt Design vs Fine Tuning: A fight for control

A detailed guide to semantic prompt design, complete with examples and templates.

Semantic Prompt Design: A comprehensive guide | Pickaxe Blog

Semantic Prompt Design: A comprehensive guide

<h2 id="">The Year the Future Came into Focus</h2><p id=""><em id="">This post was authored by Pickaxe evangelist and prompt designer Josh Wolf. </em></p><p id="">In just about one year’s time the world of AI leapt from the realms of science fiction, and obscure research labs into a reality that previously seemed impossible. At first it was the sudden popularity of image creation tools like MidJourney and DALL-E over the summer of 2022 that hinted of this&nbsp; once far-off future, but the release of ChatGPT at this time last year was a definitive milestone.</p><h2 id="">‍<strong id="">My First Encounter with ChatGPT</strong>‍</h2><p id="">I don’t remember exactly when I first heard about ChatGPT, but it looks like I didn’t actually get a chance to try it out until sometime in January of 2023. My first query was to ask ChatGPT to “Write a quick memo about who Andrew Tate is.”&nbsp;</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65766259f909b41b7978ebf5_Josh_Wolf_intro_blog_1.jpg" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">I’m not sure what I was expecting, but after providing the context that he was an entrepreneur and former MMA fighter, I received a very superficial biography bereft of anything that makes Andrew Tate a beacon of controversy. I&nbsp; then asked ChatGPT “Tell me more about why he is controversial.”</p><p id="">“I’m sorry,” said ChatGPT, “but I don’t have any information about Andrew Tate’s controversy.” And that was basically my first conversation with ChatGPT.</p><p id="">Over the next month I found myself exploring everything that ChatGPT could do along with better understanding its limitations. I asked it to explain why it felt BitCoin wasn’t a Ponzi scheme, and I asked it to plan menus and craft recipes. In less than 30 seconds I had it duplicate a computer program I wrote in elementary school that calculates one’s weight on each of the nine planets.&nbsp; I used it to write marketing copy for my Airbnb, and explored its potential for poetry and to wax philosophically on its own existence. I was hooked.</p><p id="">“How should I go about getting a job working in machine learning or ai integration without any background in coding or tech companies on my resume?” I asked ChatGPT in one of these early conversations before immediately following up with, “Please write up 5 savory recipes using maraschino cherries.”</p><p id="">While I didn’t exactly print out its response for future reference, when I revisit its almost year-old advice, it’s encouraging to see that I’ve managed to follow it and achieve success. Perhaps I should give that recipe for Cherry Glazed Pork Chops a try as well.</p><h2 id="">‍<strong id="">My Journey in Media and Technology</strong>‍</h2><p id="">Perhaps it's worth taking a moment to introduce myself. I'm Josh Wolf, a freelance journalist, prompt engineer and now the PickAxe Evangelist. But my journey with AI is as much about my past as it is about the future.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" style="max-width:50%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright" data-rt-max-width="50%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6576626afcf807e5be7473e0_Josh_Wolf_intro_blog_2.jpg" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">My path in the world of media and technology was never conventional. Back in July 2005, I was in the thick of things, videotaping an anti-G8 anarchist protest in San Francisco for my videoblog The Revolution Will Be Televised. Back then YouTube was still unheard of and videoblogs were web sites running Blogger or YouTube with embedded videos uploaded to the Internet Archive or people’s personal servers.</p><p id="">July 8, 2005, wasn't just another day for me. It marked the beginning of a profound chapter in my life, one where my camera became more than just a tool—it became a symbol of journalistic integrity and the fight for free speech.</p><p id="">I remember editing the footage late into the night, posting it to both my blog and Bay Area Indymedia, a local activist news website. The video captured raw, unfiltered scenes from the protest, including tense moments where a protester was choked by a police officer. Little did I know, this footage would soon place me at the center of a national debate on the rights and responsibilities of journalists in the digital age.</p><p id="">In 2006, I faced a decision that would test my resolve. A Federal district court demanded that I hand over my videotapes. It was a moment where my principles as a journalist were in clear conflict with the law. I stood firm, choosing to protect my source material. This decision led to <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/journalist-josh-wolf-returns-to-prison-2551213.php">226 days in federal prison</a>, a record for a journalist in the U.S. for protecting their sources or unpublished outtakes.</p><p id="">Before YouTube's emergence, the world of videoblogging was less about the platform and more about the people. It was a time when the internet was transitioning from a text-dominant medium to a multimedia powerhouse. This shift was more than technical; it was a cultural revolution in online video.</p><p id="">In that era, we were not mere content creators. We were the architects of a new digital expression, crafting the aesthetics and technical forms of short-form digital films. Our community was marked by a deep camaraderie and a shared spirit of innovation, as we explored the then-uncharted realms of digital storytelling together.</p><p id="">That pioneering spirit of early video bloggers was a precursor to today's transformative wave of Generative AI. Just as we revolutionized digital storytelling with videoblogging, AI is now expanding the horizons of creative potential</p><h2 id="">Finding&nbsp;Pickaxe </h2><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/657662957df9aae152320311_Josh_Wolf_intro_blog_3.jpg" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">After the release of GPT-4, I began crafting 'system messages' or prompts, transforming ChatGPT into specialized tools with distinct purposes. My first creation as a prompt engineer was 'JobGenie,' a tool I built to streamline my job search and automate the crafting of unique cover letters after tirelessly jettisoning job applications into the great abyss.</p><p id="">Before long, my Notes app brimmed with these ingenious 'recipes,' but I needed a way to share them with a broader audience. My attempt to develop a web app revealed the limits of my technical skills, leading me to discover Pickaxe, where I've since created nearly 100 PickAxes.</p><p id="">Pickaxe offered an innovative solution to my quest: a <a href="https://pickaxe.co">no-code platform</a> where I could train AI on my expertise, using my own documents, data, and directions to create powerful AI applications​​.</p><p id="">The Pickaxe platform was intuitive and user-friendly, designed specifically for non-technical users, and it enabled me to develop my skills as a prompt engineer and to share my creations without having to build customized solutions.</p><h2 id="">‍<strong id="">The Art of Evangelism</strong>‍</h2><p id="">When I think about the essence of what it means to be an evangelist, my mind invariably turns to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Kawasaki">Guy Kawasaki</a>, a pioneer I first encountered during my video blogging days. His talk on his tenure at Apple was a masterclass in turning a product into a cultural phenomenon. Kawasaki didn’t just push a product; he cultivated a movement.</p><p id="">Kawasaki’s role at Apple transcended traditional marketing. He was a storyteller, an advocate, and most importantly, a community builder for the Macintosh. He didn’t simply aim to sell; he aimed to convert. His focus was on creating a base of users who were as passionate about the Macintosh as he was. This passion fostered a sense of belonging among users, turning them into advocates for the brand. This strategy of creating a movement, rather than a customer base, profoundly impacted how I view my work in the digital space.</p><p id="">Today, as I step into my role at Pickaxe, I carry with me Kawasaki’s lessons. It's not just about developing AI tools; it's about fostering a community that believes in their transformative power, much like Kawasaki did with the Macintosh.</p><p id="">His method was rooted in the belief that a product should be so compelling that it naturally draws people in. This philosophy aligns perfectly with my vision for Pickaxe, where we're not just offering AI tools, but inviting users into a new era of digital creativity and problem-solving.</p><h2 id="">‍<strong id="">A Community Centric Approach</strong>‍</h2><p id="">Central to Kawasaki's strategy was the role of community. He understood that building a loyal, passionate community was key to sustained success. At Pickaxe, I plan to emulate this by creating a platform where users are not just consumers but active participants.</p><p id="">We envision a space to encourage our users to contribute their ideas, share their experiences, and collaborate on improving Pickaxe. This community-centric approach does more than just promote our product; it fosters a shared sense of ownership and investment in the future of AI.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/657662d2c6eb715cea832c86_Josh_Wolf_intro_blog_5.jpg" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><p id="">In many ways, Kawasaki’s evangelism is about inspiring trust and belief – in the product, the brand, and the vision. As the Pickaxe Evangelist, my goal is to instill a similar belief in our users. I aim to create not just a user base, but a community of enthusiasts who are just as excited as we are about the potential of AI and the tools we are building at Pickaxe.</p><p id="">OpenAI's recent Dev Day <a href="https://openai.com/blog/new-models-and-developer-products-announced-at-devday">announcements</a> have profound implications for the AI landscape and particularly for how they align with the vision of Pickaxe Project.The introduction of GPT-4 Turbo, supporting a 128K context window, significantly enhances the model's capabilities, making it more efficient and capable of handling complex tasks​​. The ability to handle larger contexts and more nuanced interactions makes GPT-4 Turbo an ideal fit for the kind of customizable AI applications that Pickaxe aims to empower users to build.</p><p id="">I am thrilled to be part of a team that is not just at the forefront of AI innovation, but also deeply committed to making these powerful tools accessible to everyone. The future of AI is not just about technological advancement; it's about empowering individuals and communities, unlocking creative potentials, and solving real-world problems.</p><p id="">I invite you to be a part of this thrilling journey. If you have any feedback for me in my new role, send us an email at <a href="mailto:info@pickaxeproject.com" id="">info@pickaxeproject.com</a>. We are looking forward to announcing our plans for launching a community forum that will serve as a catalyst for invigorating discussions and collaborations in AI, and we want you to be the first to know about everything coming to Pickaxe.</p><p id="">And if you haven't already signed up for Pickaxe, use the discount code “JOSH” and save 15 percent on your first three months of membership.</p>

Prompt Engineer and Pickaxe Evangelist Josh Wolf gives us an overview of the last historic year of 2023.

The Year the Future Came into Focus | Pickaxe Blog

The Year the Future Came into Focus

<h4 id="">Prompt Design Contest</h4><p id="">This June we launched our first ever <a href="https://pickaxe.co">Prompt Design contest</a> to search for the most creative, useful, and clever prompts out there. We know that the quality of AI&nbsp;prompts drastically shapes the output of AI&nbsp;models. Our contest challeneged our users and the internet at large to write the best prompts and submit them for cash prizes. Of course, all prompts were submitted as pickaxes, and so not visible to anyone but the creator.</p><p id="">We got 100s of pickaxes—from nursing assistants, to intricate games, to mentoring chatbots, to muses. We saw a range of diversity and creativity that was truly inspiring. It confirms our belief that we stand before a new era of wild innovation. Prompt design is a real skill. And well engineered prompts have a lot of value.</p><p id="">In this article, we present the best prompts submitted to our contest. Here are the top ten submissions ordered by unique number of users:</p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">AI Passion Project Generator, by<a href="https://twitter.com/dyllennellis" id=""> @dyllennellis</a></h4><p id="">This pickaxe provides personalized passion project ideas to help students with their college applications. Dyllen runs a <a href="https://collegeessayadvice.com">whole business</a> around college essays and applications.</p><p id="">‍</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://embed.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=AI_Passion_Project_Generator__Unlimited_XO4NN&mode=embed_gold&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="800px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">Hi I’m CaaSper!, by<a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljgroup" id=""> @michaeljgroup</a></h4><p id="">This pickaxe is an AI&nbsp;consultant that helps you understand how to use AI in your business more effectively. Caasper ai is an <a href="https://caasper.ai" id="">AI coaching service</a>. </p><p id="">‍</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=Hi_Im_CaaSper_5QJLO&mode=embed_gold&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="600px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">Prodigy Pete, by<a href="https://twitter.com/prodigypromos?lang=en" id=""> Prodigy Promos</a></h4><p id="">This pickaxe answers questions about Prodigy's services and products.&nbsp;<a href="https://prodigypromos.com" id="">Prodigy</a> is an agency that provides customized swag for your business. </p><p id="">‍</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=Prodigy_Swag_Bot_DYYKI&mode=embed_gold&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="600px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">InterviewMentorAI, by<a href="https://twitter.com/AlmethaFor62454" id=""> @almethaFor62454</a></h4><p id="">This AI&nbsp;chatbot helps prepare you for a job interview by simulating the interview experience. </p><p id="">‍</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=InterviewMentorAI_0A3GC&mode=embed_gold&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="700px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">IntelliBotique, by<a href="https://twitter.com/intellibotique" id=""> @intellibotique</a></h4><p id="">This AI&nbsp;chatbot helps you design prompts to create chatbots. <a href="https://www.intellibotique.com" id="">Intellibotique</a> offers boutique bot creation and access to helpful, niche chatbots.</p><p id="">‍</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=IntelliBotique_Catalog_VCCZS&mode=embed_gold&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="600px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">Reverse Prompt Engineer, by<a href="https://twitter.com/ian_eck" id=""> @ian_eck</a></h4><p id="">This pickaxe <a href="https://home.pickaxeproject.com/prompt-reverse-engineer" id="">reverse-engineers prompts</a> from bits of writing. Input any text and it will generate the AI prompt that could produce it.</p><p id="">‍</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=Reverse_Prompt_Engineer_PRYIJ&mode=embed_gold&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="600px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">Talk to a Muse, by<a href="https://aberrantmuse.com/" id=""> Circe</a></h4><p id="">This AI&nbsp;chatbot is a sensory integration expert that assesses your sensory profile and helps you better regulate your sensory experience. </p><p id="">‍</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=Talk_to_a_Muse_6X5JI&mode=embed_gold&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="600px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">Mind Game adapted from "Ender's Game", by<a href="https://twitter.com/intellibotique" id=""> @intellibotique</a>‍</h4><p id="">This AI&nbsp;chatbot is another entry from Intellibotique and is a virtual Dungeon Master for a game based off of Orson Scott Card's book Ender's Game.</p><p id="">‍</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=Mind_Game_adapted_from_Enders_Game_OIM7C&mode=embed_gold&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="600px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">Home Nurse</h4><p id="">This pickaxe is an AI&nbsp;nurse that offers medical advice and preliminary assessments based on symptoms.</p><p id="">‍</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=Home_Nurse_DIQ9R&mode=embed_gold&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="800px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">Intro to IT/AI/MLL, by<a href="https://twitter.com/caasper_ai" id=""> @caasper_ai</a></h4><p id="">This AI&nbsp;chatbot is another entry by caasper ai. This chatbot teaches you key concepts about AI.</p><p id="">‍</p><div data-rt-embed-type='true'><iframe loading="eager" src="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/axe?id=Intro_to_ITAIMLL_YPGUC&mode=embed_gold&theme=light&opacity=100" width="100%" height="600px" onmouseover="this.style.boxShadow='0 2px 2px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2)'" onmouseout="this.style.boxShadow='none'" style="border:0;transition:.3s;" frameborder="0"></iframe></div>

The top ten submissions to our Prompt Design contest

The Top 10 Prompts from our Prompt Design Contest | Pickaxe Blog

The Top 10 Prompts from our Prompt Design Contest

<h3 id=""><strong id="">Wendy Breakstone's Story</strong></h3><p id="">For online entrepreneurs, learning how to efficiently scale your time is a key to success. The company lives and breathes off of <em id="">your</em> time. At Pickaxe, we see hundreds of online businesses use AI models in intelligent ways to transform their operation, from embedding AI tools into their customer-facing websites to creating internal dashboards of AI widgets for their team.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:20%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="20%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64b06aa138984942dbd531fb_wendy-breakstone1.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Wendy Breakstone, coach &amp;&nbsp;strategist leveraging AI in her course creation.</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">In this blog post we’re featuring Wendy Breakstone, an online marketing strategist and coach who is leveraging AI to move faster, smarter, and more efficiently. In addition to coaching clients, Wendy runs her proprietary <a href="https://ceosimple.io/">Micro Audio Summit® System</a>, a successful program that teaches people how to add hundreds of leads to their email list in just six weeks. Today we’ll be sharing how Wendy integrated Pickaxe into her business to serve more customers, more thoughtfully.</p><p id="">So let’s explore how Wendy supercharged her online course with AI.</p><h3 id=""><strong id="">AI &amp; Online Coaching</strong></h3><p id=""><strong id="">‍</strong>There are many things to sell in the economy. Food, cars, software, but one of the most valuable commodities is human expertise. It takes a long time to acquire it and a lot of work to sell it, but it’s one of the most valuable services a person can offer. “Professional Services”, as it’s commonly called, are occupations where people offer their expertise and time.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64b30be6785a220d15e4911a_Professional-Services-Large.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">"Professional Services" cover a large swath of industries.</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">Traditionally, the limiting factor of a business like Wendy’s has been <em id="">her time. </em>However, AI changed that. AI models, specifically Large Language Models (LLMs) offer the ability to scale previously unscalable activities like coaching. If you can teach AI some basic frameworks for, say, writing a specific type of email, it can then emulate that fairly well.</p><p id="">While AI is a scary word for some coaches, others see a lot of value in it as a super-scaling work multiplier. The smartest coaches understand it’s better to use advantageous technology, share knowledge about it, and teach others how to use it. For many consultants and people working in professional services, the more value you provide clients, the more you become a value center for them, a resource they will return to over and over again.</p><p id="">That's certainly how Wendy thinks. So obviously, AI felt like it could be big for her clients.</p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Adding ChatGPT to Online Courses</strong></h3><p id="">Wendy Breakstone works as a <a href="https://wendybreakstone.com" id="">coach and strategist</a><strong id="">. </strong>Like all good coaches, Wendy wants to offer more value to her clients at a more scalable rate - so they get results faster. She doesn’t just want to feed her clients a fish. She wants to teach them <em id="">how to fish</em>.</p><p id="">Wendy's exploration of AI began here— out of a desire to offer real value to her clients. She was looking for a way to make her Micro Audio Summit System faster and more repeatable, ensuring more people could benefit from the results.</p><p id="">Like many coaches and course creators, Wendy was intrigued by AI and what it could offer her business. Her first step was to use <strong id="">ChatGPT</strong> to speed up her own process— to generate content and ideas, which she then passed on to her clients.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" style="max-width:40%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width="40%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64b38c8b117a410f5adbeeda_AI%20for%20online%20course%20blog.png" loading="lazy" alt="ChatGPT tool for online courses" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><p id="">The clients were thrilled- but Wendy didn't stop there.&nbsp;Using AI for your own processes is just the beginning. Wendy knew she could teach her clients the same processes.</p><p id="">As mentioned before, Wendy wanted to teach her clients how to fish. So she taught her clients how <em id="">they</em> could use ChatGPT. She gave them prompts to generate content, instructions for how to use the prompts, and a basic rundown of ChatGPT <a href="https://pickaxe.co/post/anatomy-of-a-good-prompt-the-basics-of-prompt-design">prompt design best practices</a>.</p><p id="">This process made the clients self-sufficient, but it still wasn’t optimal. It required a lot of hands-on education with clients. Clients also had to jump between her course and OpenAI. Ideally, Wendy wanted to keep her clients within her ecosystem - to create a seamless, uninterrupted process that made the most of technology without taking away from the personal touch that is so integral to her service.</p><p id="">Wendy needed a way to offer her clients guided ChatGPT experiences while keeping them in her ecosystem and focused.</p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Using Pickaxe to Embed Tools</strong></h3><p id="">Then Wendy was introduced to Pickaxe. Pickaxe let her turn her prompts into what she calls, "mad libs style, fill in the blanks" templates. This allowed Wendy to share her prompts with all their intricacies in a way that was easy for her clients to customize with their own details.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64b38e85081800ca3edeb122_Pickaxe%20User%20Input%20Interface.png" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Screenshot of the Pickaxe tool builder</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">But the real benefit was the ability to seamlessly integrate her Pickaxes into her website. Instead of giving her clients prompts and sending them off to OpenAI, she <a href="https://pickaxe.co/ai/embeddable-chatbot">embedded the prompts</a> into her website as AI Content Generators. This allowed her clients to easily use her prompts in the form of pre-built Pickaxes without ever leaving her website.</p><p id="">Wendy’s Micro Audio Summit System instantly became two-times faster for her clients, as well as a more cohesive experience. As each module explained an aspect of producing a Micro Audio Summit, she made an accompanying&nbsp; AI Content Generator to create the necessary content. And of course, Wendy had dialed in all the Pickaxe prompts so that they generated high-quality content according to her specifications. The course worked perfectly. As one module of the course outlined how to do proper outreach, an accompanying Pickaxe embedded in the module could write emails for them.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-normal" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="normal" data-rt-max-width=""><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64b06a56a605dcee52bcabd5_Wendy_BreakStone_Screenshots_2.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div><figcaption id=""><em id="">Examples of&nbsp;Wendy's AI&nbsp;Content Generators</em></figcaption></figure><p id="">The results were great. Clients were working faster and producing Micro Audio Summits more efficiently. And Wendy was spending her time more effectively. She was taking less calls, doing less 1-on-1 AI coaching, and feeling more confident in her clients’ independence. She was able to spend her time focusing on higher leverage actions than sharing prompts and explaining how ChatGPT worked.</p><p id="">The nature of coaching is personal and time-intensive, but with Pickaxe, Wendy was able to scale her time without ever compromising value or personal touch.</p><p id="">Wendy Breakstone's case is a fantastic example of a customer success story. It showcases how building AI tools can transform the way your website or online course offers value to customers.</p><p id="">As she continues to scale her services and replicate her expertise through AI emulations, Wendy is an early pioneer of AI in the coaching and course-creation space, and has set a wonderful example of how AI can be used to amplify and enhance - not replace - human-centric services like coaching.</p><h4 id="">Adding AI to your Online Cours<em id="">e</em></h4><p id="">Curious about building your own AI&nbsp;tools? Want to enhance our online course with AI content generators? <a href="https://pickaxe.co/builder">Create an AI&nbsp;tool</a> on Pickaxe for free.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" style="max-width:5%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="5%"><a href="https://www.pickaxeproject.com/" target="_blank" id=""><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6491e2d25d079d2252e2ae8d_logo.png" loading="lazy" alt="Logo of pickaxe Ai tools" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></a></figure><p id="">‍<br></p>

A case study of how coach and strategist Wendy Breakstone used AI to enhance her online course.

Transforming Online Coaching with AI: Wendy Breakstone's Success with AI | Pickaxe Blog

Transforming Online Coaching with AI: Wendy Breakstone's Success with AI

<h2 id="">Translating Hamlet</h2><p id="">Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” can be hard to understand for many readers because the language contains so many unfamiliar words and phrases. Do you want to actually understand Shakespeare’s Hamlet with a modern translation of the language? Do you want to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words? Well, withAI technology, now you can generate simple paraphrasing of Shakespeare’s play Hamlet instantly! Pickaxe’s <a href="https://shakespeare.tools/0BGI08DC0IAP5EBYNBXU">Shakespeare’s Translator tool</a> lets you translate any line into common, plain-spoken English instantly. The tool is free to use and offers unlimited usage. For Shakespeare beginners or readers looking for a Hamlet translation, this tool can help make the Bard more accessible.</p><p id="">Why would you want to create a modern English translation of Hamlet in real-time? It’s very valuable to transform intricate Old English texts into easy-to-understand language. It lets you appreciate the characters like the contemplative Hamlet, the poignant Ophelia, the wise Polonius, or the scheming Claudius in a relatable manner. This Shakespeare to English translator app is ideal for students and educators. The simple english translations simplify complex speeches about the themes of revenge, loyalty, and mortality. By reading the Hamlet in simple english, Shakespeare's classic is more accessible. With this user-friendly, free Shakespeare translation tool, dive into the depths of "Hamlet" without the barrier of archaic language, and experience how its enduring themes continue to resonate in the modern era.</p><p id="">You can use the <a href="https://shakespeare.tools/0BGI08DC0IAP5EBYNBXU">Shakespeare to English translation tool</a> for free here. Below are ten examples of famous lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet translated to simple english with using our tool powered by a large language model AI.</p><h2 id="">Famous Hamlet Quotes</h2><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6552d3188ad10a3890724a1e_Shakespeare_hamlet_lines.png" loading="lazy" id="" width="auto" height="auto" alt=""></div></figure><h5 id="">Hamlet Quote:</h5><blockquote id="">Yet I, a dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,<br>Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,<br>And can say nothing</blockquote><h5 id="">Modern Translation:</h5><p id="">What would he do if he had the same reasons and motivation as me? He would cry so much that the stage would be flooded with his tears. He would shock everyone with his terrifying words, making even the guilty feel crazy and scaring those who are innocent. He would confuse those who don't understand and truly astonish everyone's senses of sight and hearing.</p><p id="">‍</p><h5 id="">Hamlet Quote</h5><blockquote id="">The lady protests to much, methinks.</blockquote><p id="">The lady is overly insistent, I believe.</p><p id="">‍</p><h5 id="">Hamlet Quote:</h5><blockquote id="">To be, or not to be, that is the question:</blockquote><blockquote id="">Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer</blockquote><blockquote id="">The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,</blockquote><blockquote id="">Or to take arms against a sea of troubles</blockquote><blockquote id="">And by opposing end them</blockquote><h5 id="">Modern Translation:</h5><p id="">The famous question is whether it is better to exist or not. Is it nobler to endure the hardships and challenges that life throws at us, or to fight against them and put an end to our troubles through our own death?</p><p id="">‍</p><h5 id="">Hamlet Quote:</h5><blockquote id="">Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t.</blockquote><h5 id="">Modern Translation:</h5><p id="">Even though it may seem crazy, there is still some reason behind it.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" style="max-width:50%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright" data-rt-max-width="50%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6555518ca0d97df5becb9e20_hamlet-translator-map.png" loading="lazy" alt="William Shakespeare's face as a map" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><h5 id="">Hamlet Quote:</h5><blockquote id="">There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio,</blockquote><blockquote id="">than are dreamt of in your philosophy.</blockquote><h5 id="">Modern Translation:</h5><p id="">There are more things in life than your knowledge would lead you to believe.</p><p id="">‍</p><h5 id="">Hamlet Quote:</h5><blockquote id="">This above all: to thine own self be true,</blockquote><blockquote id="">And it must follow, as the night the day,</blockquote><blockquote id="">Thou canst not then be false to any man.</blockquote><h5 id="">Modern Translation:</h5><p id="">Above all else, the most important thing is to be true to yourself. If you do that, everything else will fall into place, just like night follows day. When you are true to yourself, you cannot deceive or betray anyone else.</p><p id="">‍</p><h5 id="">Hamlet Quote:</h5><blockquote id="">Doubt thou the stars are fire;</blockquote><blockquote id="">Doubt that the sun doth move;</blockquote><blockquote id="">Doubt truth to be a liar;</blockquote><blockquote id="">But never doubt I love.</blockquote><h5 id="">Modern Translation:</h5><p id="">Question whether the stars are made of fire, whether the sun moves, whether truth can be false; But do not question my love.</p><p id="">‍</p><h5 id="">Hamlet Quote:</h5><blockquote id="">God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.</blockquote><h5 id="">Modern Translation:</h5><p id="">You have been given a natural appearance, but you choose to present an artificial one.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" style="max-width:50%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright" data-rt-max-width="50%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/65555257aac354cc42e86151_hamlet-translator-4.png" loading="lazy" alt="Shakespeare sea of trouble" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><h5 id="">Hamlet Quote:</h5><blockquote id="">My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:</blockquote><blockquote id="">Words without thoughts never to heaven go.</blockquote><h5 id="">Modern Translation:</h5><p id="">Words are ineffective without corresponding actions and thoughts.</p><p id="">‍</p><h5 id="">Hamlet Quote:</h5><blockquote id="">To die, to sleep –</blockquote><blockquote id="">To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub,</blockquote><blockquote id="">For in this sleep of death what dreams may come…</blockquote><h5 id="">Modern Translation:</h5><p id="">To die is to sleep, and perhaps in that sleep we dream. That's the catch though, because we don't know what kinds of dreams might come in the eternal sleep of death once we've left behind our life here on earth. This uncertainty makes us stop and think.</p><p id="">‍</p><p id="">If you're reading Hamlet and want to automatically read the text as modern english, try using AI generated translations of the text. It is a fast, great way to make reading Hamlet easier and more accessible!</p>

Famous lines from Hamlet translated into modern english through an AI Shakespeare Translator app

Translating Shakespeare's Hamlet to Modern English | Pickaxe Blog

Translating Shakespeare's Hamlet to Modern English

<p id=""><em id="">Introduction</em></p><p id="">Step aside, scholars. Artificial intelligence (AI) has turned its gaze to the world of literature and is now capable of helping us decipher the often convoluted and mystifying language of Shakespeare. Enter Pickaxe, an innovative AI tool that is making language translation fun, engaging, and incredibly insightful. One of the fascinating applications of Pickaxe is its capacity to translate modern English into Shakespearian English and vice versa. Let's delve into how you can use Pickaxe to create your very own Shakespeare translator bot!</p><p id=""><strong id="">Understanding the Basics of Pickaxe</strong></p><p id="">Pickaxe, an advanced AI tool, has been making waves in the realm of language modeling and translation. It's trained on vast volumes of data, enabling it to understand and generate text in a variety of languages and styles - including the iconic style of Shakespeare's English. What makes it ideal for building a translator bot is its ability to take on complex tasks involving contextual understanding, language processing, and even creative flair.</p><p id=""><strong id="">Building Your Shakespeare Translator Bot</strong></p><p id=""><em id="">Step 1: Establish Your Bot's Purpose</em></p><p id="">Before you start, it's crucial to determine your bot's primary function. Do you want it to translate entire plays or just help users understand specific phrases? Maybe you want it to help users generate original content in Shakespearean style? Once you have this in mind, you can proceed with the design process more effectively.</p><p id=""><em id="">Step 2: Train Your Bot</em></p><p id="">The most essential part of creating a successful Shakespeare translator bot with Pickaxe is training it on Shakespeare's works. Luckily, there's a wealth of text available, including plays, sonnets, and poems, all of which are in the public domain. Feeding these into your Pickaxe model will allow it to understand the intricacies of Shakespeare's language, from his unique phrases to his poetic meter.</p><p id=""><em id="">Step 3: Test and Refine</em></p><p id="">Once your bot is trained, it's time to test its capabilities. Run several phrases or passages through the bot to assess its translation skills. You'll likely need to make adjustments and refine the model. Remember that Pickaxe learns and improves over time, so regular testing and refinement are critical steps in your bot's development.</p><p id=""><em id="">Step 4: Integrate into User-Friendly Platform</em></p><p id="">After fine-tuning your translator bot, integrate it into a user-friendly platform that your target audience can easily access. This could be a mobile app, a website, or even a social media messenger service. The key here is to make your Shakespeare translator bot as accessible as possible to attract a wide range of users.</p><p id=""><strong id="">Conclusion: Making Shakespeare Accessible and Enjoyable</strong></p><p id="">With Pickaxe and a bit of patience, you'll be able to craft a Shakespeare translator bot that not only deciphers the Bard's archaic English but also helps users engage with his works in a more profound and enjoyable way. Whether you're a student trying to understand a complex soliloquy, a teacher wanting to make lessons more engaging, or just a Shakespeare enthusiast, this innovative application of AI is a game-changer. With the continuous evolution of AI, who knows what other literary horizons we might conquer next?</p><p id="">‍</p>

Leveraging the power of artificial intelligence, the AI tool Pickaxe can be used to create a Shakespeare translator bot, transforming how we interact with the Bard's works.

Unleashing the Bard: Using AI and Pickaxe to Build a Shakespeare Translator Bot | Pickaxe Blog

Unleashing the Bard: Using AI and Pickaxe to Build a Shakespeare Translator Bot

<p id="">Ever stared at the Pickaxe dashboard and wondered which AI engine will actually fit your project? With so many choices these days, it’s a bit like picking your own superpower. Here’s a look at the real strengths and quirks behind each AI model you can plug into Pickaxe. The goal? To help you pick the brain that actually makes sense for your build.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-floatright" style="max-width:50%" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="floatright" data-rt-max-width="50%"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/687473206da904c8d23c7ac4_Picture1.png" loading="lazy" alt="__wf_reserved_inherit" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div></figure><h3 id=""><strong id="">OpenAI: The All‑Rounders</strong></h3><p id="">Think of these models as the multitool of this lineup. They’re versatile and dependable, no matter what you throw at them. </p><p id="">OpenAI offers two kinds of models. Regular models (those starting with 4.1 or 4.0) are best if you want your AI to complete tasks, like sending emails, fetching data, calling APIs, or running actions. Meanwhile, reasoning models (look for 03 or 04) are the thinkers – they’re designed for deep analysis and complex problem solving. They’re a bit slower and can be pricier, but if your use case is about logic and nuance, these are the ones to reach for.<br></p><p id="">OpenAI’s models are also strict about what they’ll say. Their built-in filters can sometimes be too sensitive, which is good for safety but sometimes frustrating in professional contexts. On the bright side, OpenAI gives you some of the biggest context windows out there. Feed them massive files, and they’ll still keep up.</p><p id="">Cost is flexible, too. Prices range from premium to surprisingly affordable, depending on your choice. If you want stability and aren’t chasing every new release, OpenAI’s slower update pace can be a plus.</p><p id=""><strong id="">When to choose:</strong> If you're looking for a reliable tool with solid guardrails and stable output, these are the models for you.</p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Claude: The Language Virtuoso</strong></h3><p id="">Claude really shines when it comes to language and style. If you want your AI to write with personality or pick up a specific tone, this is where Claude wins out. The model is available in both regular and reasoning versions, similar to OpenAI, but the magic is in its ability to sound more human. However, Claude isn’t the best at function-calls or integrating with lots of external systems, so if your workflow is action-heavy, you might want to look elsewhere.</p><p id=""><strong id="">When to choose:</strong> Go with Claude for projects where the words matter most. Writers and marketers love it.</p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Gemini: The Rapidly Evolving Powerhouse</strong></h3><p id="">Gemini is the new kid on the block, but it’s quickly making waves. Its biggest flex is the ability to handle truly massive context windows (up to a million tokens and, in some cases, even two million). This means it’s not scared of long-form content or big data dumps.</p><p id="">Gemini is also strong in general intelligence, function calling, and can even take on a bit of personality when you need it to.</p><p id=""><strong id="">When to choose:</strong> Pick Gemini for big content jobs, research, or workflows that need a lot of context at once.</p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Mistral: Speed and Openness</strong></h3><p id="">If you value speed, check out Mistral. These models are tuned for low latency. Responses come fast, making them great for any app that needs to feel instant. Mistral is also closer to open-source than most and usually costs less, so it’s a good fit for high-traffic or experimental projects. Just keep in mind, general intelligence isn’t quite as high as the others, but the trade-off is worth it if you care about speed.</p><p id=""><strong id="">When to choose:</strong> For simple tools with fast-paced output.</p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Grok: The Real Time Maverick</strong></h3><p id="">Grok is the wild card here. Built by xAI and wired directly into X (formerly Twitter), Grok pulls in real-time data and isn’t afraid to say what’s on its mind. With looser guardrails, it gives you that edgy, unfiltered vibe that some projects crave. But be careful – this freedom means Grok has landed in hot water before, including incidents of extreme or conspiratorial content that led to bans and regulatory headaches.</p><p id="">The model changes fast, sometimes overnight, which makes it a playground for developers but a headache for anyone needing consistency. If you use Grok, make sure you’ve set up content monitoring, filters, and fallback plans.</p><p id=""><strong id="">When to choose: </strong>For real-time, bold, and raw interactions (if you’re ready to keep an eye on things).<br><strong id=""><em id="">When to pause</em>: </strong>Anything public, regulated, or reputation-sensitive. Build safety nets first.</p><h3 id=""><strong id="">DeepSeek: The Community Favorite</strong></h3><p id="">DeepSeek has a loyal following, especially among users looking for something different. This open-source model from China has found its place on Pickaxe by popular demand. It is probably most similar to Mistral in its capabilities, but with potentially slower speed and arguably better language ability. DeepSeek is a great option if you want to explore beyond the usual Western models or are interested in open AI ecosystems.</p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Explore Every Top AI Model with One Account</strong></h3><p id="">Pickaxe puts the best of AI right at your fingertips. No need to juggle different subscriptions or pay separate fees to every provider – Pickaxe makes it easy and affordable to dive into everything thatAI has to offer. &nbsp;Sign up for free and instantly try out a wide range of leading models on one easy-to-use platform. If you want the freedom to find your perfect model, Pickaxe gives you the space to explore.</p><p id="">‍</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-video w-richtext-align-center" style="padding-bottom:33.723653395784545%" data-rt-type="video" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="" data-rt-max-height="33.723653395784545%" data-rt-dimensions="854:480" data-page-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idyzq8zA9FA"><div id=""><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Idyzq8zA9FA" title="OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or Grok - Choosing a model for your GPT"></iframe></div></figure>

An overview of each of the model options available on Pickaxe.

Choosing Your AI Brain: A Guide to Pickaxe Models | Pickaxe Blog

Choosing Your AI Brain: A Guide to Pickaxe Models

<h2 id="">The Evolution of Semantic Prompt Design</h2><p id="">AI has always had a consistency problem. It’s powerful, yes. It’s versatile, yes. But for most of its history, it’s also been frustratingly unpredictable. Ask the same AI model the same question two different ways, and you might get two entirely different responses. Ask it something slightly ambiguous, and you might get an answer that sounds confident but is completely wrong.</p><p id="">Developers had no choice but to experiment. If a prompt wasn’t producing the right results, they would adjust the wording, add more context, or restructure their request—hoping something would stick. But this process was more art than science, and even small changes could have unintended effects.</p><p id="">By 2023, AI models had grown significantly more advanced, but the prompting problem hadn’t gone away. Developers across different industries were arriving at the same realization: AI needed a more structured way to communicate.</p><p id="">The solution was already forming in research communities, but in December 2023, Josh Wolf helped define it. In a blog post for Pickaxe, he described a methodology that took the guesswork out of prompting. He called it <a href="/post/evolution-of-semantic-prompt-design">Semantic Prompt Design</a>.</p><p id="">The framework wasn’t just about getting better responses. It was about making AI conversations predictable, reusable, and adaptable.</p><h3 id="">The Core Ideas Behind the Framework</h3><p id="">At the heart of Semantic Prompt Design is a simple idea: AI needs structure to perform well. The way a prompt is written determines whether AI produces an answer that is relevant, clear, and useful—or one that is confusing, misleading, or nonsensical.</p><p id="">The methodology organizes AI interactions into predictable, structured components. Rather than treating prompts as freeform text, it breaks them down into discrete sections with defined purposes.</p><p id="">At the start of an interaction, an introduction protocol sets expectations. AI tells the user what it can and cannot do. A legal AI assistant, for example, might say:</p><p id="">“I can summarize case law and provide references, but I am not a lawyer and cannot provide legal advice.”</p><p id="">This small adjustment prevents confusion. It ensures the AI stays within its intended role.</p><p id="">From there, the framework relies on contextual adaptation. AI should not follow a rigid script—it should adjust its responses dynamically based on what the user says. A troubleshooting assistant, for example, should respond differently to a hardware issue than it would to a software problem.</p><p id="">Another key feature of the methodology is modular prompt architecture. Instead of designing AI conversations from scratch every time, developers create reusable building blocks that can be combined in different ways. This allows AI systems to scale across multiple industries, languages, and use cases without having to reinvent the structure every time.</p><p id="">And finally, built-in quality control mechanisms ensure accuracy. AI doesn’t just generate a response—it checks itself against predefined standards. A medical chatbot, for instance, might have a rule that says:</p><p id="">	•	If the user reports a fever above 104°F and confusion, escalate to emergency care.</p><p id="">	•	If the user reports mild fatigue and a cough, suggest rest and hydration.</p><p id="">By incorporating logic-driven validation steps, the methodology reduces AI errors and makes interactions safer.</p><h3 id="">How Semantic Prompt Design Became a Standard Practice</h3><p id="">Long before the methodology had a name, researchers were already experimenting with ways to make AI more reliable.</p><p id="">Some companies developed internal heuristics-based prompting methods. Others shared best practices in AI research communities. But no formal framework tied everything together.</p><h4 id="">The Pickaxe Blog Post (December 2023)</h4><p id="">Josh Wolf’s article wasn’t the first time structured prompting had been discussed, but it helped define the principles in a way that developers could apply systematically.</p><p id="">By clearly outlining how AI conversations should be structured, it provided a model that businesses and researchers could adopt.</p><h4 id="">Enterprise Adoption in 2024</h4><p id="">The methodology quickly moved from theory to practice.</p><p id="">Customer service AI systems started using modular prompts to improve response consistency. Legal AI tools integrated structured case law summaries to prevent misinterpretations. Even robotics engineers began applying the same structured logic to voice-controlled AI assistants.</p><p id="">The framework was proving its value across multiple industries.</p><h3 id="">Expanding the Framework: New Applications and Innovations</h3><p id="">As the methodology gained traction, researchers started refining and expanding it.</p><p id="">In legal and compliance AI, structured prompts led to a 30% reduction in errors when summarizing case law.</p><p id="">In robotics, structured prompting helped AI assistants complete physical tasks 31% more efficiently.</p><p id="">In creative AI, structured storytelling prompts helped AI generate more coherent screenplays and interactive narratives.</p><p id="">And in AI-assisted research, structured prompts allowed AI to categorize sources, identify biases, and generate summaries that followed academic standards.</p><p id="">The framework was evolving. And it was proving to be more than just a way to structure conversations—it was becoming a cornerstone of AI reliability.</p><h3 id="">What's Next? Challenges Ahead</h3><p id="">Despite its success, Semantic Prompt Design still faces obstacles.</p><p id="">Different AI platforms interpret structured prompts in slightly different ways, making cross-platform consistency a challenge.</p><p id="">Striking the right balance between structure and adaptability remains difficult. Over-structuring prompts can make AI rigid. Under-structuring them brings back unpredictability.</p><p id="">The next phase of research is focused on automated prompt optimization—where AI can refine its own structured prompts in real time.</p><p id="">Another frontier is multimodal AI, where structured prompts guide not just text-based AI, but also voice, image, and action-driven AI systems.</p><p id="">And as AI becomes more deeply embedded in everyday life, the need for industry-wide standards in structured prompting will only grow.</p><h3 id="">The Future of AI is Structured</h3><p id="">Semantic Prompt Design has already transformed AI communication, making it clearer, more predictable, and more useful.</p><p id="">But this is only the beginning.</p><p id="">As AI continues to evolve, the framework will evolve with it—expanding into new industries, new modalities, and new levels of intelligence.</p><p id="">The challenge ahead is ensuring that AI remains reliable, adaptable, and aligned with human expectations. And as long as AI is part of our world, the need for structured, thoughtful, and intentional prompting will never go away.</p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">Annotated Works Cited</h4><p id="">Primary Sources on Semantic Prompt Design</p><p id="">Wolf, Josh. Semantic Prompt Design: A Comprehensive Guide. Pickaxe Blog, December 11, 2023.</p><p id="">	•	The foundational article that formally described Semantic Prompt Design and structured AI prompting techniques.</p><p id="">	•	Available at:<a href="/blog" target="_blank"> Pickaxe Blog</a>.</p><p id="">Microsoft Learn Documentation. Semantic Kernel: Prompt Engineering Concepts. 2024.</p><p id="">	•	Covers modular prompting strategies similar to Semantic Prompt Design.</p><p id="">	•	Available at:<a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/concepts/prompts/" target="_blank"> Microsoft Learn</a>.</p><p id="">Huang, J.-H., Yang, C.-C., Shen, Y., Pacces, A. M., &amp; Kanoulas, E. Optimizing AI Prompt Structures for Legal Document Analysis. arXiv, 2024.</p><p id="">	•	Examines AI-driven legal text summarization using structured prompts.</p><p id="">	•	Available at:<a href="https://arxiv.org/html/2407.19041v1" target="_blank"> arXiv</a>.</p><p id="">Yujian Li et al. SPELL Algorithm: Semantic Prompt Evolution via LLM Optimization. arXiv, 2023.</p><p id="">	•	Introduces machine-learning-based AI prompt refinement techniques.</p><p id="">	•	Available at:<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01260" target="_blank" id=""> arXiv</a>.</p><p id="">Toyota Research Institute. Semantic Prompting in Robotic Task Completion. 2024.</p><p id="">	•	Demonstrates structured prompting in robotics, showing a 31% increase in task efficiency.</p><p id="">	•	Available at:<a href="https://www.tri.global/research/semantic-properties-word-prompts-shape-design-outcomes" target="_blank" id=""> Toyota Research</a>.</p><p id="">‍</p>

A history of Semantic Prompt Design, the popular framework for writing structured prompts. How did it start, how did it develop, and what's next.

Evolution of Semantic Prompt Design | Pickaxe Blog

Evolution of Semantic Prompt Design

<p id="">At Pickaxe, we're always pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI. We're thrilled to share some powerful new features that will help you connect your Pickaxes to more tools, streamline your workflows, and unlock even more amazing potential. Let's dive into the exciting potential of Model Context Protocols (MCPs), the new Pickaxe API, and the versatile Studio API.</p><h2 id=""><strong id="">Model Context Protocols (MCPs): Connecting Your Pickaxes to the World</strong></h2><p id="">Ever wished your Pickaxes could talk to other tools more easily? That's exactly what Model Context Protocols (MCPs) are all about! Don't let the fancy name fool you – MCPs simply make it easy to connect your Pickaxes to other platforms. </p><p id="">Inside the Pickaxe builder, head over to the 'Actions' area. You'll find some ready-to-use MCPs we've built for you, plus the option to add your own MCP servers along with many additional community-generated actions. With all these building blocks, your Pickaxes won't just behave in a certain way; they'll be able to reach out, grab information from the real world, and even make changes. </p><p id="">Take our OpenAI web search MCP, for example. This built-in tool lets your Pickaxe browse the web and visit pages, which is a huge step up from previous integrations. Now, your Pickaxe can actually dig into online content. Imagine asking it to research a topic, find pricing details across different websites, or even pull specific info about a company. It's smart enough to navigate pages, extract what's important, and even give you links to check things out yourself. </p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Extending Capabilities with External MCPs: The Notion Example</strong></h3><p id="">Pickaxe gives you the flexibility to connect with external MCP servers too. Services like Smithy act as a bridge, letting you integrate with a growing number of platforms. A cool example is the Notion MCP: your Pickaxe can now chat with your Notion documents! Just pop your Notion API key into Smithy, and it'll generate the simple JSON needed to get your Pickaxe connected.</p><p id="">This means your Pickaxe can now access, retrieve, and even update information right inside your Notion databases. Think about it: your AI tool could find pricing details from your internal Notion docs or update project statuses automatically. MCPs open up a whole new world of possibilities for automating tasks and keeping your information organized within your AI workflows. The real power of MCPs is their ability to add, get, and change information across all sorts of connected environments, giving you incredible control over your data and processes. </p><h2 id=""><strong id="">The New Pickaxe API: Integrating Your AI Tools Everywhere</strong></h2><p id="">Good news for Pro users! The new Pickaxe API is here to change how you use your Pickaxes. It lets you take your AI tools beyond the Pickaxe platform and plug them directly into your existing workflows. </p><p id="">Imagine you have a Pickaxe that drafts email responses for customer inquiries. While it might already be hooked up to an email service like Front, the Pickaxe API lets you connect it to almost any other service out there. By creating an API deployment for your Pickaxe, you get all the instructions and a unique link to make that integration happen. </p><p id="">Connecting it is pretty straightforward. For example, if you use a tool like Make (formerly Integromat), you can set up a simple HTTP POST request to your Pickaxe API endpoint. Just include the necessary authorization header and send your message as a JSON payload. YourPickaxe will process it and send back a response, ready for your integrating service to use. This means your AI tools can now be triggered and used in a huge variety of platforms and automation scenarios. </p><p id="">We're working on a native Make integration that will make this even easier, but for now, the HTTP method gives you immediate flexibility. It lets you weave your Pickaxes into complex integration flows, turning them into super versatile components that can work with all your other applications. This really expands what your AI tools can do and where they can go! </p><h2 id=""><strong id="">The Studio API: Advanced Management of Your AI Studios</strong></h2><p id="">&nbsp;</p><p id="">For our Pro users, the latest and greatest addition to Pickaxe’s API family is the Studio API. This is a game-changer for anyone looking for serious control over their AI studios. It lets you manage everything from documents to users and even user memories, all programmatically. </p><p id="">With the Studio API, you can:</p><p id="">●&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Manage Documents: Easily add, remove, or tweak documents in your studio. This is super handy for keeping your knowledge bases fresh and making sure your AI tools always have the latest info. </p><p id="">●&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Automate User Management:Automatically invite or remove users from your studio. If you’re already managing users through another service, this makes it a breeze to keep yourPickaxe studio in sync. </p><p id="">●&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Control User Memories: Create and adjust memories for your users right through the API. This means you can build personalized AI experiences that learn and adapt based on how each user interacts. </p><p id="">Getting started with the Studio API is similar to the Pickaxe API. You’ll generate an API key, then set up your external service (like Make) to send POST requests to the Studio API endpoint. Just include the necessary authorization and data. For example, inviting a new user to a studio can be as simple as sending their email address in the request. <br></p><p id="">This level of programmatic control over yourAI studios opens up huge possibilities for automation and customization.Whether you’re running a big team, connecting with your CRM, or building slick user onboarding flows, the Studio API gives you the tools to streamline your operations and deliver truly tailored AI experiences. </p><h3 id=""><strong id="">Keep Evolving with Pickaxe</strong></h3><p id="">Pickaxe continues to grow and improve with every update. These new capabilities are just the start. Harnessing MCPs to tap live data, leveraging the Pickaxe API to embed AI in your workflows, and using the Studio API to programmatically manage your tools—each one empowers you to build smarter and more connected solutions.</p><p id="">Give these features a try today and let us know what you create. Join the conversation and share your experience in thePickaxe Community Forum. Your feedback, tips, and ideas fuel the community and help shape what Pickaxe becomes next.</p><p id="">Let’s keep pushing the boundaries together and ignite what’s possible with AI and Pickaxe.</p><p id="">&nbsp;</p><p id="">‍</p>

A simple explanation of new Pickaxe features.

Pickaxe's Latest Capabilities: MCPs and the Pickaxe API | Pickaxe Blog

Pickaxe's Latest Capabilities: MCPs and the Pickaxe API

<p id="">Writing a good prompt is easy, but not immediately intuitive. </p><p id="">And the difference between a good prompt and a mediocre prompt is HUGE. </p><p id="">Here are five tips to internalize for writing better ChatGPT and GPT-4 prompts.</p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">What is Prompt Design?</h4><p id="">Prompt design is the art of writing instructions for a generative AI model (like GPT-4, ChatGPT, Google Bard, etc.) that produce the results you intended. </p><p id="">This is often called Prompt Engineering, but here are at Pickaxe we prefer the term prompt design because it's not an exact science. It's an art. </p><p id="">The same instruction written two different ways can get very different results. Writing a good prompt comes down to structure, examples, and being specific. </p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">1. Separate Instruction &amp; Context</strong></h4><p id="">There is a difference between the instruction “do x” and the context “do it using Y”. Don’t combine the two. When writing a prompt, you should separate <strong id="">instruction</strong> (what you’re telling it do) and <strong id="">context </strong>(the details &amp; circumstances). Try writing the instruction as a sentence and the context as data.</p><p id="">❌ A First-time user might write a prompt like:</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64929d0bdac5954a757f3f40_1_MZXEeH0XY1O0nkZnFv2IpA.webp" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">✅ But a prompt designer would write:</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64929d84ba32e319ddd25118_1_6M6t0bvpyE3JDxqSlhQ7lA.webp" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">Separating the instruction and the context makes the prompt much cleaner. </p><p id="">Additionally, it’s easier to change later. If you want to add more context such as neighborhood or renovation history, it’s very easy to add them with muddying your prompt.</p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id=""><strong id="">2. Specify details you want</strong></h4><p id="">If you want something specific, tell the machine. Otherwise it won’t know. </p><p id="">This may seem obvious, but somehow it’s not.</p><p id="">Let’s say you want a tweet about the superbowl. Think about <em id="">what type </em>of Tweet you want. Call out the recognizable traits of what ‘<em id="">a tweet’</em> means in your head. Because the machine's idea of a tweet may be much broader than yours.</p><p id="">❌ First-time user:<br></p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64929de504b5f3c57d1cdbdd_1_TSjqNzvRKit3Kdjydq56fw.webp" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">✅ Prompt Designer:</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64929e0cbfcc54669c969332_1_1PdyIpQn9QLVG6FNtK2riA.webp" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">3. Use examples to guide style</h4><p id="">Not getting an output you like? </p><p id="">Feed the machine samples of what you like. You can guide the output by feeding it examples. The machine is smart. It will pick up on patterns.</p><p id="">❌ First-time user:</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64929e4916eed3fa15ce20c8_1_1kIr3KjpWkHyrTJwgBHOKQ.webp" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍<br>✅ Prompt Designer:</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64929e5a4ef774c71749d0d6_1_vD7X73m-VwhlPNIefLvjZA.webp" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">Don’t forget, you can further improve the above prompt by using techniques around structure/context and specificity. </p><p id="">Keep improving your prompt until you get results you like.</p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">4. Use examples to guide formatting</h4><p id="">If you want your output particularly formatted, use examples to teach the machine.</p><p id="">❌ First-time user:</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64929e8339fcf6a7201f4a96_1_Zzbd3esxco83jXRnHEECaw.webp" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍<br>✅ Prompt Designer:</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64929e9a04b5f3c57d1da854_1_qBtCSeeSC5WPd1077vtaRw.webp" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">5. Use ALL CAPS to designate labels</h4><p id="">Sometimes you want to label parts of your prompt. </p><p id="">For example, you might want to label DESIRED FORMAT, or EXAMPLES, or CATEGORIES. It’s helpful to mark these in a special way so the machine understands you’re labeling something. </p><p id="">Using all caps work, so do other unique markers like ##Double Hashtags## or //code commenting//.</p><p id="">❌ First-time user:</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64929f0024f87f95923dcf70_1_OpMFiH1IrC6AvWnO0Dpt1g.webp" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍<br>✅ Prompt Designer:</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64929f0dd771e6ed6229b510_1_QdUxoGV7zqlXShVAYX3d8w.webp" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍</p><p id="">Remember, LLMs function as <em id="">auto-complete engines. </em>While it’s important to separate instruction and context, the last few words really influence what comes next. Never forget this!</p><p id="">If you’ve written a good prompt but still aren’t getting what you want, consider stacking the deck. </p><p id="">Pack some extra explicit instruction at the very end.</p><p id="">Here's an example of a satirical twitter chatbot intended to write funny, mean tweets in response to new headlines. </p><p id="">🫤 Here was the first draft of the chatbot prompt:</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64929f4fd9bfcd3d8ed2600b_1_n6Tu_6wsIU5GJCV9MdMiGA.webp" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍<br></p><p id="">✅ Here it is a little more caustic:<br></p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/64929fa7dac5954a7582641f_1_YKX2IZnQzEGT9yO84fDmOA.webp" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">Those final three words in the capitalized direction make a big difference.</p><p id="">And, remember LLMs function like <em id="">auto-complete! </em>They’re trying to guess the next word. You can lead it into certain answers.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6492a02c16eed3fa15d07b27_1_5-HEDcUk1hOmnuj5VXfb1w.webp" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div></figure><p id="">‍<br>Even your own mental auto-complete model knows where a letter that starts “Unfortunately,” is headed…</p><p id="">‍</p><h4 id="">Experiment! The model holds mysteries…</h4><p id="">Above all, test your prompts! Test them over and over until you’re getting results you like.</p><p id="">Try stuff out. We are dealing with LLMs, Large Language Models. You are communicating with these machines through natural language, not code. Just like humans, there is a variety of methods for communicating clearly. Some people are very structured and dry, others are very expressive and figurative. You might find you like using examples. There are no absolute rules like programming.</p><p id="">A great way to experiment is with prompt frames — places where you create a prompt, punch holes in it, and run the same prompt with slightly different inputs. <a href="https://beta.pickaxeproject.com/" target="_blank" id="">Pickaxe prompt builder</a> lets you create prompt frames and play with them endless.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6492a0da379758884a4be498_1_9pLHJTfVLVgbTnHIRA1RMQ.gif" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Building a "prompt frame" in Pickaxe</figcaption></figure><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="/assets/images/Blog_images/6492a141238d1c4a6a89b77c_1_NTzo1kDxA2EEN4BAej_N5w.gif" loading="lazy" width="auto" height="auto" alt="" id=""></div><figcaption id="">Testing different inputs in a pickaxe</figcaption></figure><p id="">The only advice left is to start writing and testing your prompts. </p><p id="">Go forth, young prompt designer!</p><p id=""></p><p id="">‍</p>

Some best practices for designing and writing effective prompts.