Five Pricing Mistakes
A ten-minute read for founders
Lead magnet, 3,735 words, 17 pages
Editorial look, artwork cover
Open full sizeThis book was written from one paragraph.
Chapbook turned the brief below into 43 typeset pages: a digital PDF, an EPUB 3 and a KDP-sized cover, unedited. Write yours and read chapter one free.
Free: a working title, the outline and one chapter, typeset, with a watermarked cover. An account to read it, a card only for the whole book.
The paragraph it came from
A repeatable method for pricing software: customer interviews, a value metric, tiering, and setting numbers you can defend. Promise: A repeatable method for setting a price you can defend to customers, investors and yourself, validated by ten customer interviews in a week. Reader: A founder who priced by guessing or by copying a competitor and now has to defend or change the number. Voice: Direct second person with occasional first person; worked examples with fictional companies; tables where they clarify; no invented statistics or named studies: reason from mechanics and examples.
That is the whole brief, as typed into the app's guided fields.The outline it produced
- 43 pages
- Digital PDF, 381 KB. Fonts embedded, clickable contents, running heads.
- 9,862 words
- EPUB 3, 107 KB, with a navigable table of contents. Validated against EPUBCheck.
- Cover JPEG at 1600 × 2560, the size Amazon KDP asks for.
four more books, opened flat. Turn them.
Open them full sizeThe Pricing Playbook above is one of seven samples, each generated from its own brief and exported unedited. Here are four of the others, in three interior themes, each with its own generated cover. Every leaf is a render of the PDF you can download, and all seven are on the examples page.
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Warm look, artwork cover
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Find Your First 100 Readers
A 30-day workbook
Workbook, 5,850 words, 24 pages
Editorial look, artwork cover
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The Welcome Sequence
Seven emails that turn a subscriber into a reader
Lead magnet, 3,626 words, 17 pages
Modern look, artwork cover
Open full sizeThe files, in the formats stores ask for.
- Digital PDFapplication/pdf
- Fonts embedded, clickable contents, title and copyright pages, running folios. US Letter or 6 × 9 in.
- EPUB 3application/epub+zip
- Reflowable, with a navigable table of contents. Every build of the pipeline is validated against EPUBCheck in CI.
- Cover JPEG1600 × 2560
- 1600 × 2560 pixels, the ebook cover size Amazon KDP asks for. Generated from your brief, or upload your own.
- Publishing checklistbefore you upload
- Title, description, categories, keywords, the file checks to run, and the AI-content disclosure Amazon KDP requires.
Sell it where you already sell. Or give it away.
Sold as a file
- Amazon KDP ebook
- Etsy
- Gumroad
- Lemon Squeezy
- Payhip
- Your own site
Traded for an email address
- Your newsletter
- Substack
- A landing page
- Link in bio
A lead magnet is the same PDF; it goes out for an email address instead of a price. We do not upload or send it for you — you download the files and publish them under your own name and account, with the checklist to hand.
Four steps. You approve the outline first.
Write the brief
Pick a lead magnet, a workbook or a nonfiction book. Say who it is for, what it promises and how it should sound. Add notes, PDFs or web pages as sources if you have them.
Read the free outline, a sample chapter and the cover
Chapbook proposes titles and a chapter-by-chapter outline you can reorder and rewrite. Then it drafts one chapter of up to 2,500 words and a watermarked cover, so you can judge the voice before paying anything.Uses up to 10 credits
Subscribe when the sample reads right
Paid plans have the same features and differ only in monthly credits. Top-up credits never expire.
Generate, edit, export
Draft up to 40,000 words chapter by chapter in the background; a closed tab loses nothing. Rewrite, expand or shorten a passage, or ask for a read-through of the whole book. Export the PDF, the EPUB and the cover.Uses up to 320 creditsfor a full 40,000-word draft. Credits reserved for words that were not written are refunded.
Plans sized to how much you write.
Free
$0
60 Book Credits, once. No card.
Creator
$29 / month
300 Book Credits a month
Covers a 25,000-word book in one month
Author
$49 / month
750 Book Credits a month
Studio
$99 / month
2,000 Book Credits a month
Sold direct at $14.99, two copies cover a month of Creator. Arithmetic for your own site or Gumroad, not a forecast; store royalties differ.
Full pricing: top-ups, what each credit buys, and a calculator →
What it does not do yet.
- English only. Left-to-right English at launch.
- Nonfiction only. Lead magnets, workbooks and nonfiction books. No fiction yet.
- Digital only. No print interiors, wraps or spines yet.
- You upload. We prepare the files and the checklist; the store account and the upload are yours.
- No OCR. Scanned PDFs are not read at launch. Text PDFs, notes and web pages are.
- Disclose AI content. Amazon KDP requires it when you publish; the checklist reminds you. We do not promise sales, rankings or acceptance by any store.
Questions people ask before starting.
What do I see before I pay?
The complete outline, one drafted chapter of up to 2,500 words and a watermarked cover, on the free plan's 60 credits. If the chapter does not read the way you want, change the brief or the outline and draft it again before you subscribe.
How much of the book do I write myself?
The brief and the decisions. You describe the reader, the promise and the voice; you approve or rewrite the outline; then you read each chapter as it lands and rewrite, expand or shorten what you want changed. The drafting is done for you, chapter by chapter, against the outline you approved.
Can I bring my own notes and research?
Yes. Add up to 10 sources: PDFs, text or web pages. Extracting them is free; an AI summary of a source costs credits. Chapters can cite a source inline, and the read-through flags any claim that no source supports.
Will it make things up?
It can, like any model, so the workflow assumes you will check. The read-through flags figures and claims with no supporting source, citations that do not match their source, contradictions between chapters and promises from the brief the text did not keep, naming the chapter and quoting the sentence. Fact-checking before you publish stays your job.
What does a credit buy, and what if a chapter comes out short?
Every action has a fixed price you see before it runs: 10 credits for titles, an outline or a research plan; 1 per 125 words drafted, rewritten, expanded or shortened; 1 per 1,000 words for a read-through; 20 per AI cover candidate, so 40 for the batch of 2 a cover job produces. Text actions reserve credits for the length you asked for and refund the difference if fewer words arrive. Editing by hand, previews and source extraction are free.
Can I sell it, and do I own it?
Yes to both. You own the manuscript, the cover and the exported files, subject to the Chapbook terms; we claim nothing. Sell it under your own name, at your own price, on any store or your own site. Amazon KDP requires you to disclose AI-generated content when you publish, and the checklist reminds you.
Do you upload it to Amazon for me?
No. You get a digital PDF, an EPUB 3, a cover JPEG at 1600 × 2560 and a checklist of what to fill in and check before uploading. You upload with your own account. We do not guarantee acceptance by any store.
What happens to my books if I cancel?
Everything you exported stays yours, your manuscripts stay editable, and top-up credits keep working for AI actions. Only creating new clean exports needs an active subscription; resubscribing restores it.
Read a chapter of your own book before you pay for it.
The outline, one sample chapter up to 2,500 words and a watermarked cover are free: 60 Book Credits on sign-up, no card.