Pickaxe Studio

Pickaxe Studio is a simple way to host and sell your AI tools. We’ve seen thousands of AI entrepreneurs create tools with Pickaxe and deploy them across the web to start businesses. While Pickaxe is an easy way embed AI into your website, 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!

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.

With Studio you can...

- Bundle tools

- Customize a webpage

- Add walkthrough videos to your pickaxes

- Set prices & sell your Pickaxes

- Set usage limits

- Create tiers with associated limits, prices, and access

- Create accounts

- White-label everything

- Create custom logins

- Monitor activity

- Organize tools in folders

- Host it at a custom domain

- & much, much more.

In this blog post I’ll cover the basic functionality of the Studio and how to do use it. Here is a detailed walkthrough video of Pickaxe Studio as well, if you prefer to watch a video.

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What is a Pickaxe Studio?

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. In other words, it lets you wrap one or multiple tools into a functional and monetizable app.

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

Here are a few examples of Pickaxe studios:

Shakespeare Helper (tools for english literature students)
CopyCoached (AI copywriting tools)
What The Verse (AI Bible Study tools)
Hinge Helper (AI tools for texting on dating apps)

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Bundle Tools

A Studio is a convenient way to bundle a group of related tools. For example, one Pickaxe user bundled together 5 marketing tools related to writing and promoting LinkedIn posts. 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 paperwork. A college application consultant bundled together tools for writing college applications-- two for free and two behind a paywall.

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

Examples of bundling pickaxes in Studio

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Set tiers

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

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

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

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

Pickaxe supports lots of customization of tiers. You can even change the currency of your Studio tiers (as long as no one has bought it yet).

Customize appearance

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

Color, font, & images

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

Customization in Pickaxe studio

Hosting it at a custom domain

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

If you want your Studio to be occupy a whole domain (like aiconsulting.com), you'll want to add an A Record.

If you want your Studio to be a sub-domain of an existing domain (like studio.aiconsulting.com) you'll want to add a CName.

This may sound complicated, but it's actually no harder than copy & pasting stuff around websites. Here's a simple walkthrough of how to host your studio at a custom domain.

Pop-ups & CTA text

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. Customizing text copy across Studio is easy!

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

Manage users

Under the Monitor 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.

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Studio Navigation

So that was the basics of Studios. Let's quickly cover what the four tabs are.

Pages
Design
Monitor
Access

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Pages Tab

Under the Pages tab of your Studio, you'll find all the settings to adding and managing discrete pages within your Studio.

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.

In addition to adding Pickaxes, you can also add custom content pages. With custom content pages, you can write text, add a privacy policies, embed Youtube videos, put instructional images, and more.

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.

Design Tab

Under the Design tab of the Studio, you can find all the settings for changing the styling of your Studio including coloring, typography, buttons, & more.

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, & more.

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Monitor

In the Monitor tab, you can see who is using your studio as well as view chat logs.

Access

In the Access 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.

Finally, you can also create and edit your pricing tiers here.

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Launch your tools as a Studio!

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! Create a studio now.

Pickaxe Studio: Sell your AI tools as services

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