<h2 id="e44e7f30-14d6-4476-9399-c8750d6d1b91" data-toc-id="e44e7f30-14d6-4476-9399-c8750d6d1b91" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">You don't need a studio. You need a stack.</h2><p>Somebody asked me last week what software they'd need to buy before they could really get into building digital products. Just a few AI tools and a weekend of focused work can completely change your life. The barrier to building a real, sellable digital product is lower right now than it has ever been. The tools do the heavy lifting. You bring the expertise and the judgment.</p><h2 id="74a446c7-8870-4a49-abdd-12e61b89e54a" data-toc-id="74a446c7-8870-4a49-abdd-12e61b89e54a" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">The stack I reach for</h2><p>This is the exact lineup I use and recommend, roughly in the order you'd touch them on a real project.</p><ul><li><p><strong>Creator CoWorker</strong> for full cycle from product idea and format through product development. Including outlines, lesson plans, activities, workbook content, ebook chapters. This is the support team that walks with you every step of the way inside <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.cre8iveorigins.life/en/course-detail/course-creator-accelerator/42300/">Digital Products Creator</a>.</p></li><li><p>ChatGPT for marketing images (course cover, digital product image, etc) </p></li><li><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://lovable.dev/?partner_ref=DYA3N6TY">Lovable</a> - vibe coding unique learning experiences, industry-specific calculators, and other custom software solutions.  </p></li><li><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://polarbrowser.com/r/shannon-jj">Polar </a>for all admin support from setting up a new product in stripe, to building a list of potential leads, researching them, then drafting unique emails in your voice ready for your approval and send. </p></li><li><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://notebook.google.com/">Gemini Notebook</a> - Unpack large documents, grant opportunities, analyze and learn from your own analytics and use this learning to improve month over month.</p></li><li><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://try.gamma.app/69v0eyyyw2s7">Gamma</a> - one prompt website creation (upload a file, a brainstorm, or create a one line prompt and get an entire website built in seconds)</p></li><li><p>Video tools like <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://descript.cello.so/gxnsZVCsUis">Descript</a> for editing by transcript, AI studio sound, removal of filler words, and other AI one click wonders - and - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.heygen.com/">HeyGen</a> to create your clone or use one of their 1,000s of avatars if your product includes any teaching component, so you're not stuck re-recording every time you need to update content. </p></li></ul><p></p><h2 id="92c3c7a4-a3d5-4597-a8dd-b0d3dd3aab09" data-toc-id="92c3c7a4-a3d5-4597-a8dd-b0d3dd3aab09" style="text-align: left; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.2;">What AI is actually good for here, and what it isn't</h2><p>AI is excellent at compression, turning your knowledge into a structured first draft faster than you could type it yourself. It is not a substitute for your expertise. The products that sell are the ones where a person with real experience shaped the final product to align the best solution to the clear and present problem. AI jumpstarts your motion, based on your understanding of the problem and what you believe the right solution is. Then AI supports you as this takes form.</p><p>Which one of these tools are you already paying for and not using to its full potential?</p>

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