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Studio Business-in-a-Box

Fully booked and still short? It's the math.

Runs the cost-of-doing-business calculation photographers skip, including the ~30 unpaid hours behind every wedding, then reprices your packages and writes your whole client email suite.

Get this skill — $19Type demo after install — watch it do the whole job first.

$19 one-time · instant download · works with Claude & ChatGPT

A Claude & ChatGPT SkillStudio Business-in-a-Box

Fully booked, and still short. It's the math.

You had the best year yet. The calendar was full from April to October, you turned work away, and somehow the bank balance never reflected any of it.

The reason is almost always the same, and it's arithmetic rather than talent: the eight-hour wedding is really about thirty-eight hours once you count enquiry emails, the pre-shoot call, travel, culling, editing, the gallery, the follow-up and the tax you owe on all of it. Price the eight and you lose money on the thirty.

The demo runs this for a photographer with a full calendar and finds her $3,900 package loses money at her own income goal. Then it tells her what to charge instead.

One skill. Four jobs.

Run the CODB

Every cost line, every formula written out, the whole required-revenue to true-cost-per-booking chain — grossed up for tax, ending in what you actually keep per hour.

› Price my work — here are my costs and income goal.

Rebuild your packages

Three tiers structured so the middle one sells, priced from your own math rather than from what the photographer down the road charges.

› Rebuild my packages. Middle one should be the obvious pick.

Write the client emails

Enquiry reply, booking, prep, gallery delivery, the review ask timed to the delight moment, and the referral note. All in your voice.

› Write my gallery-delivery email with the review ask.

Handle the hard ones

The four nobody wants to write: the price objection, the ghosted enquiry, the scope-creep extra-hours ask, and the price-rise announcement you'll need the day you reprice.

› A client says I'm too expensive. Write the reply.

You get the calculator, not just its answer.

Change one number next year and the whole chain updates:

Why not just ask the chatbot?

It counts the unpaid hours

Roughly thirty hours hide behind every eight-hour wedding. A general chatbot prices the shoot; this prices the job, which is the difference between a good year and a profitable one.

It grosses up for tax

Your income goal is what you keep, not what you invoice. Skipping that one step underprices a studio by 24–35%, and it's the step almost everyone skips.

It shows every formula

Not a number handed down. Each line is written out so you can challenge an assumption, change it, and watch the answer move.

Your first five minutes.

Install it, then type any of these. No prompt-writing, no setup screens.

  1. 1Price my work — here are my costs and income goal.
  2. 2Rebuild my packages. Middle one should be the obvious pick.
  3. 3Write my gallery-delivery email with the review ask.
  4. 4I'm raising prices. Write the announcement.
  5. 5demo — watch a fully-booked year turn out to be losing money.

Plug and play

From download to done in three steps.

i.

Buy & download

A skill folder and a one-page install guide. Claude and ChatGPT are both included.

ii.

Drop it in

About a minute, once. Then fill your profile — the same one every skill in the suite reads.

iii.

Just talk

Paste the brand's message. It runs the whole workflow and hands back a finished file.

What it won't do.

Every skill in the store ships with this section. If a tool won't tell you its limits, it's selling you something.

Questions.

How is this different from just asking Claude or ChatGPT?

A chatbot gives you a rate that sounds about right. This runs the full cost-of-doing-business chain with every formula visible, counts the unpaid hours behind each booking, grosses the result up for tax so your income goal is what you actually keep, and hands you the spreadsheet so next year's answer is one edit away.

I'm not in the US. Does the tax part work?

Yes. It works in your currency and treats GST or VAT as its own set-aside stream rather than assuming a US model. Where it needs a rate it asks rather than guessing.

What if my numbers are a mess?

That's the normal starting point. It walks you through the cost lines category by category, and anything you genuinely don't know gets a labelled estimate you can refine later rather than a blocked calculation.

Will it just tell me to charge more?

It'll tell you what the math supports, which sometimes means your prices are fine and your costs or booking count are the problem. It names which one.

Is it a subscription?

No. $19 once, yours to keep, updates included.

Works even better with the rest of the suite.

All 3 share one profile you fill in once. Get The Studio Suite for $39 and save $18.

Fully booked and still short? It's the math.

One held rate pays for this many times over. $19 once, yours to keep.

Get this skill — $19