Figure Out What to Charge

What you'll need

• Your costs (time, materials, overhead)
• What competitors charge, if you know
• Any AI chat assistant

The steps

1. Estimate your time and any material/overhead costs for the job.
2. Paste the prompt and fill in the brackets.
3. Sanity-check the suggested range against your gut and your market.
4. Pick a number and stick with it.

Help me figure out what to charge.

What I'm pricing: [product/service]
My time involved: [hours, roughly]
My hourly rate goal or minimum: [amount, or "not sure"]
Materials/overhead costs: [amount, or "none"]
What competitors charge, if known: [range or "not sure"]

Walk me through a simple pricing calculation, give me a suggested price or range, and tell me the one factor most likely to make me under-price this.

If a customer said this price was too high, what's a fair way to respond that doesn't mean cutting my price?

What you'll get

A price (or range) grounded in your actual costs and time — with a heads-up on what might make you undercharge.

If it's not quite right

• Service-based and hard to estimate hours? Add "Help me estimate hours for a job like this first."
• Selling a product? Add "Include a markup percentage in the calculation."