
Explore the pricing framework of value, cost, and price, and how the gaps between them create consumer surplus and margin. Learn to balance price to motivate customers and your business.
Identify the red ocean in crowded markets where price sensitivity is high and offerings seem interchangeable, and learn how competition-based pricing constrains your price to rivals.
Master fundamental pricing strategies: value-based, cost-based, and competition-based pricing as the core. Learn advanced tactics like market penetration, loss-leader, and dynamic pricing that build on the foundations.
Price AI products by value delivered to customers, not by cost to produce. Quantify value, set prices near the value ceiling, and leverage blue ocean opportunities.
Set prices at or below competitors' levels to compete in a red ocean where price is the primary decision factor, while understanding costs and value to maintain margins.
Welcome to How to Price AI Products: The Fundamentals
Thank you for joining. Pricing is one of those things that seems straightforward, until you actually have to do it.
You've built an AI product that solves a real problem, but when someone asks "what do you charge for it?" the answer isn't so clear.
This course will give you a structured framework to answer that question with confidence—using real numbers instead of guesswork.
What You'll Learn
You'll explore the relationship between value, cost, and price, and how your market position (Blue, Purple, or Red Ocean) shapes which pricing strategies actually work. Then we'll get practical:
Calculate Value using the Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework to quantify what your AI is worth
Estimate Costs from the bottom up using Work Breakdown Structure methodology
Build Financial Models that show your pricing options clearly
Turn Your Pricing into Sales using value selling techniques that help customers see the ROI
By the end, you'll have a complete toolkit: a value model template, WBS framework, financial pricing model, and value selling approach you can apply directly to your own product.
How to Get the Most Value
This course is designed to be practical and actionable. Feel free to pause, work through the exercises with your actual product, and revisit sections as needed. The framework works best when you apply it to something real.
If you have questions along the way, post in the Q&A—I'm here to help.
Beyond the Fundamentals
The fundamentals we cover will handle most pricing situations. But if you encounter trickier scenarios—penetration pricing, product bundles, loss leader strategies—I've created How to Price & Position AI Products: The Masterclass as a follow-up. You'll find it in the course catalog when you're ready to go deeper.
Need Personalized Support?
If your project would benefit from hands-on guidance—pricing reviews, custom value modeling, cost analysis, or AI product strategy—I also offer consulting services. Reach out anytime at [your contact details].
Start with what you learn here. Pick an AI product you're working on, build the value model, map the costs, and run the numbers. See what price comes out.
Good luck with your pricing.
Arsedian Ivan