Launch plan
Plan at a glance
How Ad Shots becomes a paid product: who pays for what, what the customer gets, and what has to be built.
The idea
People pay $99 a month for Ad Shots and make as many ads as they like. The AI work runs on the customer's own Claude or ChatGPT subscription, or on their own API key, so an ad costs you nothing in AI fees. Two things do cost you money each time they are used, and those are sold as credits: Photoroom backgrounds and Arrow 2 vectors. Each customer has an account holding all their ads and products. A one-time concierge service sets up their product lineup and brand.
Who pays for what
| Cost | Paid by | How |
|---|---|---|
| The AI agent | The customer | Their own Claude or ChatGPT plan, or their own API key |
| Photoroom backgrounds | The customer, through you | Credits |
| Arrow 2 vectors | The customer, through you | Credits |
| 3D rendering | Nobody | It runs on the customer's computer |
| Storage and the backend | You | Covered by the $99 subscription |
This is why "unlimited ads" holds up. Nothing you pay for grows with the number of ads, except credits, which the customer buys.
What a customer gets
- The desktop app on macOS and Windows.
- An account, signed in with Google or email and password, with optional two-factor.
- A private library of every ad and product they have made.
- 50 credits a month for backgrounds and vectors (proposed), with more for sale.
- The option of concierge setup.
Prices
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Subscription | $99 a month |
| Free trial | None |
| Annual | $990 a year |
| Credit packs | $15, $50, $100 |
| Concierge, 1 to 5 products | $995 one time |
| Concierge, 6 to 10 products | $1,795 one time |
| Concierge, 11 to 25 products | $2,495 one time |
Details: Credits and Pricing and concierge.
What has to be built
None of this exists yet. Today the app has no accounts, and each user types their own keys into Settings.
- Accounts and sign-in.
- The subscription and paywall.
- Credits, with Photoroom and Arrow 2 moved behind your backend.
- The cloud library.
- Claude on the customer's subscription.
- ChatGPT sign-in, once approved.
- Concierge checkout and delivery.
- Grok, if xAI confirms it is allowed.
Details: Build order.
The two things outside your control
- OpenAI has to approve Sign in with ChatGPT for a commercial app.
- Anthropic should confirm that a paid app may run Claude Code on a customer's own plan.
Both are on Applications. The plan is ordered so the app can launch on customers' own API keys before either answer arrives.
Updated 2026-11-14. Built 2026-11-15.