AI Instructor – Pricing and launching AI products

What the work is for

YPAI Learn runs live classes for founders and product teams working with AI. Your classes take learners from a product whose running cost they have never estimated to a cost model, a chosen pricing approach and a staged launch plan, and teach them to check how usage, model choice and heavy users move the cost.

The work

• Teach the live class “Estimate the usage cost of an AI feature and choose a pricing model”, 90 minutes, from the class kit.
• Teach the live class “Plan a staged launch for an AI product, from beta to general release”, 90 minutes, from the class kit.
• Show live how to estimate the cost of one request from input and output tokens, model choice, caching and retries, then project it for light and heavy users in a spreadsheet.
• Walk learners through subscription, usage-based and outcome-based pricing for the same product, then a launch plan with a private beta, usage limits and support ready.
• Help learners whose cost model leaves out retries, long conversations or free usage, or whose launch plan has no way to watch cost and quality after release.

What to expect

• You teach live online classes in English to founders and product teams around the world; the application also asks about other languages you could teach in.
• Each class comes with a kit: a minute-by-minute plan, slides, speaker notes, a demo of a cost estimate in a spreadsheet and a backup recording of the demo.
• Teaching happens remotely on your own computer, with a stable connection, a camera, a microphone and a spreadsheet app for the cost exercise.
• Before you lead your first class, you pass the instructor test for it.
• Before a teaching assignment starts, you sign an instructor agreement. It covers pay, confidentiality and how class material may be used.
• Each invitation states the class times and the price learners pay, and you see both before you accept.
• Already have a course on pricing and launching AI products, or want to make one? You can sell your own recorded course on YPAI Learn too. Bring a course you've built, or build one with our kit. It's the same application.

What you bring

• A pricing decision, cost model or launch plan you worked on for a software product, that you can explain without confidential figures.
• Experience teaching, advising founders, mentoring product managers or running go-to-market workshops.
• Patience with founders who are pricing a product for the first time.

You need

• Hands-on work pricing or launching a software product, including at least one product or feature built on AI models.
• Comfort reading usage data and building a cost estimate from token counts and request volumes in a spreadsheet.
• Fluent spoken English, the language the classes are taught in.
• 18 years or older.

Good to know

• Before you accept an assignment, arrange any approval for outside work that your employment contract requires.
• How much you teach depends on demand for the classes, and every invitation names the expected time commitment.
• There is no cost to apply, and you need not buy or take a YPAI Learn course.