Mini-course Built With Claude, Sold Through Paid Ads With a Coaching Upsell
Originally published Sep 22, 2026 — Tanner Chidester
Tanner Chidester · Laziest Ways To Make Money With Claude AI ($26,000/Day) ↗
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You turn knowledge you already have, such as sales, fitness or real estate marketing, into a short course; the creator suggests feeding competitors' course outlines from Udemy, Alison or the Facebook Ads Library to Claude to plan modules, lessons, scripts and worksheets, then recording the training yourself. For selling, he describes two models: a low-ticket funnel ($47-$97 course, then $197 and $497 add-ons, aiming for about 3% and 10-20% conversion at each step) or a high-ticket route where ads lead to an opt-in page, a video and a sales call for a program around $5,000. Buyers can be upsold group calls or one-on-one coaching.
He recommends this as his top pick because courses are easier to sell than templates and can be paired with coaching to raise the price. He argues the high-ticket call model is actually easier for beginners because it needs fewer polished sales pages.
People with real expertise and some budget for ads who are comfortable recording lessons and holding sales calls.
Tanner Chidester sells coaching for business owners through links in the description, and the $26,000-a-day figure is a hypothetical funnel calculation, not results from this product. His model assumes paid ads at scale ('99% of us are going to have to'), and the conversion rates are rules of thumb, not guarantees; ad spend can be lost before a funnel works. Selling a $5,000 program on calls is real sales work, and the course must deliver results to avoid refunds. Using competitors' outlines as a starting point is fine, but copying their content is not.