Bring your own plan: let users pay for the AI with a subscription or key they already have

Split your price into a platform fee and model cost, then let users cover the model side themselves. v0 just did it with ChatGPT plans; here is the API-key version any solo builder can ship.

Sell to the agent: can listing your tool where AI agents shop really bring you users?

Composio, Apify, x402 and Claude's directory now let agents find and pay for tools per call. What the evidence says about distribution, and when it's just a new billing path.

The DIY holdout test: find out which of your channels actually make sales

Google's Conversion Lift needs $5,000 and 1,000 conversions. Here's the spreadsheet version for small lists.

AI won't overtake Google search in 2026: where creators should put their effort

EMARKETER's forecast checked against October 2026 traffic data, with worked examples, a checklist and a two-hour AI visibility test.

Can retention messaging help your unsub rates?

RevenueCat's data on 21,960,020 Apple retention messages puts the median save rate at 17%. Here is how to set it up on iOS and the web, with templates and the maths.

The 30-day upsell window: move your upgrade offers into month one

ChartMogul data on 10.5M purchases shows customers are up to 10x more persuadable in their first 30 days. Here's the sequence to build.

Publish Your Own Data on Living URLs So ChatGPT Cites You

ChatGPT is citing original and official sources over aggregators, so own the numbers in your niche on stable pages and refresh them quarterly.

Use LinkedIn Advice Sessions as paid discovery calls

Seven steps and copy templates for pricing a paid 1:1 session on LinkedIn, diagnosing the buyer's problem and quoting your productised offer within 24 hours.

The "Trojan Horse" Chrome Extension Engine

Turn a free browser tool into a lead-gen machine that captures emails while solving tiny daily annoyances.

The "Congress Tracker" Engine

Copy the trades of power—and build an audience doing it.

The "Review Arbitrage" Engine

Turn your waitlist into a G2/Capterra ranking weapon before you even launch.

The "Trojan Download" Engine

Turn a $0.99 PDF into first-page rankings for your $80 products.

The "Newsjacking" Engine

Turn viral moments into viral threads—automatically.

The "LLM Citation" Engine

Turn your content into training data that AI models actually reference.

The "Competitor Migration" Engine

Stop cold calling. Start scraping the intent signals that prove a prospect is actively looking for a solution like yours.

Build a Remote Jobs Dashboard for One Niche—Expose It as a Single API Endpoint

Here's a side project that solves a real problem: remote job seekers waste hours scrolling generic boards.

Build a Personal Health Report That Runs Itself

Here's a side project that solves a real problem: the average health-conscious person has data streaming from Apple Health, Fitbit, a blood pressure monitor

AI-Powered Network Targeting: Find Your Biggest Opportunities and Draft the DMs

The problem: Your network is full of potential — collaborators, clients, partners.

The AI-Powered Viral Side Project

Verse, a design app, just pulled 250,000+ users with a single trick: they built a free AI tool that creates personalized "internet bedrooms"...

Optimise for AI Citations, Not Keywords

What it is: Structure your content so AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude) cite you as the authoritative source when users ask questions in your niche.

The Voice Cloning Paradox

A Creator's Guide to Navigating AI Audio in the Age of Synthetic Hype.Where AI voice actually works, where it fails catastrophically, and how to build revenue without falling for the marketing myths.

2026 Predictions: Scale Is Losing Leverage, Community Is Currency

More than a dozen industry executives—from CAA to Night Media to Snap—shared their outlook for the creator economy.

Why a Million Vibe-Coded Apps Won't Save You From the Only Question That Matters

The bottleneck was never the code. It was—and still is—the customer.

The AI-First Research Stack

What it is: Replace your traditional research workflow with a multi-AI approach that cross-references Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Grok...

The Virality Score Pre-Publishing Filter

Before publishing any short-form video content, run it through AI-powered virality prediction tools that analyze hooks, pacing, and engagement patterns