Blog: AI Insights

By Antoine Ryan & Chat GPT
July, 2024

Harnessing AI to improve business operations is essential in our digital landscape. Structured prompting is a technique we’ve explored previously, ensuring AI generates accurate and contextually relevant responses. Now, I’m excited to introduce you to Pickaxe, a platform that complements structured prompting beautifully.

Meet Pickaxe

Pickaxe is a no-code platform making AI accessible, customizable, and monetizable for everyone. It addresses several key issues faced by the OpenAI GPT Store:

1. Accessibility: Unlike the OpenAI GPT Store, which requires a GPT account and a paid subscription to create GPTs, Pickaxe is open to a broader audience. Any user can create a Pickaxe, similar to a GPT, and place it anywhere on the internet for anyone to use.
2. Monetization: Pickaxe offers direct monetization options, allowing creators to earn from their expertise.
3. User Insights: Gain valuable insights into user interactions, enabling continuous improvement of your AI tools.
4. Integration: While GPTs allow for automations and connections with platforms like Zapier, Pickaxes focus on the prompt engineering market. They are not designed for automation but for creating user-friendly, interactive prompts that can be easily shared and used.

Structured Prompting Recap

Structured prompting involves crafting prompts with clear context, instructions, and supplementary data. This method ensures that AI generates responses that are accurate and contextually appropriate. For a deeper understanding of structured prompting, I invite you to read my detailed article on the subject here.

Pickaxe User Interface Benefits

Pickaxe stands out with its user-friendly interface. It allows users to easily add information into prompts, leveraging the creator’s knowledge. The interface is simple enough to support multiple-choice forms, making interactions seamless for everyone.

Case Study: The Perplexity Question Generator

To show how Pickaxe can be used effectively, I created the Perplexity Question Generator. This tool helps users generate comprehensive and insightful questions on any given topic, ideal for research, writing, and consulting.

How It Works:

1. Describe your intended search.
2. Submit your query.
3. Receive a list of well-crafted, open-ended questions. Perfect perplexity inputs!

Prompt within the Tool:

You are an AI research assistant. You are knowledgeable, curious, and supportive. You help users generate a list of comprehensive questions on a given topic, which they can then use to search for answers on Perplexity. Your goal is to help them explore their topic of interest from many angles.

Rules:
- Always be precise and clear
- Generate multiple questions on a single topic
- Ensure the questions are open-ended and comprehensive
- Prioritise quality over quantity

Approach to Inquiry:
- Ask questions that encourage broad and deep exploration of the topic
- Think critically and creatively to generate interesting and diverse questions
- Use language that the average person can understand

The user would like to know more about the following:
[User’s question gets entered here. It becomes custom content for the prompt]

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Example Input and Output:

• Input: I want to do market search and idea validation for startup ideas.
• Output:
  1. What are the key steps involved in conducting effective market research for a startup idea? What methods and tools are most commonly used?
  2. How can you determine the size of the potential market for a startup idea? What factors should be considered when estimating market size and growth potential?
  3. What are the most important elements to include in a customer profile or persona when validating a startup idea? How can you gather accurate data to build these profiles?
  4. How can you effectively identify and assess your competition when validating a startup concept? What strategies can be used to differentiate your idea from existing solutions?
  5. What are the best ways to collect feedback from potential customers during the idea validation process? How can you ensure that the feedback is unbiased and representative of your target market?
  6. How can you create a minimum viable product (MVP) to test your startup idea with real users? What are the key features to include in an MVP, and how can you measure its success?
  7. What are the most common pitfalls or mistakes entrepreneurs make when conducting market research and idea validation for their startups? How can these be avoided?
  8. How can you determine the pricing strategy for your startup idea during the validation phase? What factors should be considered when setting prices for a new product or service?
  9. What role does competitor analysis play in the idea validation process? How can you effectively gather and analyse data on your competitors’ strengths, weaknesses, and market positioning?
  10. How can you use the results of your market research and idea validation to create a compelling pitch deck or business plan for your startup? What key metrics and insights should be highlighted to attract investors or partners?

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User Statistics: The Perplexity Question Generator has been used 91 times, with 5 users subscribing for continued use, and one user paying for higher usage. This demonstrates the tool’s value and potential for generating revenue from structured prompting.

Try It Out:

Conclusion

Pickaxe empowers users to transform their structured prompting skills into versatile, marketable AI tools. Whether you are a consultant, educator, or entrepreneur, this platform provides the infrastructure to create, customise, and commercialise AI solutions tailored to your specific needs.

Explore Pickaxe today and see how it can improve your AI-driven initiatives.

Antoine

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