AI Instructor - Pricing and launching AI products

Teach live online classes on reasoning about what an AI product costs to run, choosing a pricing model that fits that cost, and planning the launch. You teach in English from a ready class kit, remotely, and you are paid for each class you teach.

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.

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.

Pay

$8–$22/hr. Rate shown is for your country.

YPAI pays every two weeks for approved work via PayPal, Wise or bank transfer. Work is by invitation after your profile is reviewed.