5 Ways to Make Money With ChatGPT Sol in 2026

OpenAI just dropped Sol inside of ChatGPT and the benchmarks have it running head-to-head against the most expensive AI models out there at roughly a third of the price. Within days, the gurus were already selling courses promising a $10,000-a-month Sol business by Friday — on a tool nobody has real numbers on yet. Alston has made money online for years without any of it. You can wait for their course, or you can build your first product before this video ends.

If you are watching this after a shift and wondering whether everyone else is already ahead of you — they are not. Sol is brand new. And the money was never in the AI tool itself. It is in what you already know from your job. Sol just turns that into something a stranger would actually pay for. Alston has made roughly $176,000 selling products built from job skills, and the first sale was $7. All of it happened before Sol existed. The tool got cheaper and faster. What you do with it has not changed.

What You’ll Walk Out With

The exact 4-step formula that turns any job skill into a sellable digital product
All five product types from the video walked through with the real prompts Alston typed
Price ranges for each product type, from a starting price to a dialed-in ceiling ($19 to $99)
The “week-one buyer” framework: who pays, why they pay, and what they actually need from you
The step almost nobody does after building: generating a full sales page in 30 seconds
The one mistake that kills an otherwise good product before it ever sells
Why the AI model barely matters — your lived job experience is the real product
A free tool to find your specific product idea based on what you already know — start at finder.platformproof.com

The 4-Step Framework (The Whole Thing)

Before getting to the five ways, here is the whole system in four steps. Step one: name a skill you already have. Step two: describe the problem it solves like you are texting a friend. Step three: Sol builds it. Step four: you price it and sell it. That is it. There is no step that requires code, no step that requires tech knowledge, and no step that requires a course. The framework is the same whether you have driven trucks for twenty years or managed restaurant staff for three.

Every sentence Alston typed in the video is in a free worksheet at notes.platformproof.com, word for word. The five ways below are five different jobs run through that same four-step loop. Find the one that matches what you already know, or use it as a template to find your own.

Way 1: Truck Driver — 90-Day Survival Guide ($19 to $69)

Say you have driven a truck for years. There is something you have never charged for: you know what the first ninety days on the road actually feel like, right down to the stuff no one tells you at orientation. The guy who just passed his CDL last week and is quietly terrified about the next three months — that is your buyer. He pays because that fear is real and nobody at the company is holding his hand.

The prompt Alston typed: “Build me a first 90-day survival guide for a new trucker, plus a clean log book and an hours of service cheat sheet for the cab.” Sol produced a full charted guide, the log book, and the cheat sheet — all laid out like something you would actually pay for. It came from one sentence.

Why nobody can undercut you on it: they have not sat where you sat for those first ninety days. A first version could go for $19. If it has your own routes and your hard-earned mistakes baked in, a guide like this could sell for $69 a copy. The catch is that Sol only formats it. Your lived details are the real value. Feed it generic information and that is what it hands back.

How you sell it: post one three-minute video answering the exact question new drivers type into YouTube, drop your link under it, and a few buy without you ever needing to talk to them. That is the distribution model, and it works the same way across all five.

Way 2: Contractor — Renovation Estimate Calculator ($29 to $79)

If you have been a contractor long enough to price a job in your head, you have something most new guys in the trade are desperate for. Most new contractors cannot price correctly and it is bleeding them dry. Homeowners want to know whether a quote is fair before they sign. Both of those people are buyers waiting for this product right now.

The prompt: “Build me a renovation estimate calculator a homeowner or green contractor could fill in to price a job without under-bidding.” Sol built a working calculator — plug in square footage, materials, labor, and your margin, and it hands back a number you can stand behind. The under-bidding that sinks new guys is completely gone.

Starting out, this sells for $29. With your regional numbers dialed in, a calculator like this could climb toward $79. One important catch: sanity-check the math yourself against one job you have already sold. A calculator that is wrong even once is dead on arrival. Sol builds the sheet. You eyeball it against real work you have already done.

Not sure what product to build from your skills?

Answer a few questions and get a specific product idea plus the sentence you need to build it, free at finder.platformproof.com.

Way 3: HR Manager — Interview Prep Mini-Course ($27 to $59)

Picture the person sitting in the parking lot before their first big interview, sick to their stomach. That is a buyer with a whole paycheck on the line. If you are the HR manager who has sat through a thousand interviews from the hiring side, you already know what separates the people who get the call from the people who do not.

The prompt: “Outline an interview prep mini-course for someone about to face their first real job interview, with a lesson list and a slide for each one.” Sol drafts the entire outline, lesson by lesson, slides and all. Buyers pay because the job they are chasing is worth thousands of dollars over the years. They do not blink at $27 to $59 when the alternative is fumbling the interview.

What makes this strong: the buyer’s upside is huge, so the price rarely gets questioned. A simple version starts at $27. Record your voice on top of it — with your war stories from fifteen years of watching people pass and fail across that desk — and it could sit at $59 a copy. One warning: Sol drafts the structure, but you record your voice on top. Nobody can copy the fifteen years you spent in that chair. You are not creating knowledge from scratch. You are handing over what you already know in a form someone can actually follow.

Way 5: Restaurant Manager — Opening and Closing Operations System ($25 to $49)

Alston saved Way 4 for last, so Way 5 comes here. If you run a restaurant or manage one, the entire opening and closing routine lives in your head — and every new manager handed the keys for the first time is quietly terrified about missing a step on day one.

The prompt: “Build me an opening and closing checklist plus a staff scheduling system a new restaurant manager could run on day one without missing a step.” Sol produces the opening checklist, the closing checklist, and the scheduling template as one complete system. The buyer is every new manager who wants to look like they have run the place for years. Owners buy it too, to hand to every new person they put in charge.

Early on, this sells for $25. Made for one specific kind of kitchen, a system like this can hold steady at $49. Here is where most people mess up: a checklist for any restaurant is worth nothing to everyone. Make it for one kind of kitchen, one kind of shift. And no, buyers will not make their own — for the same reason they do not cook every meal at home. They will pay $25 to skip the headache.

Distribution works the same way: post a short video answering what new managers type into YouTube, drop one link under it. A restaurant manager Facebook group or a subreddit can provide backup, but your own channel is the engine that sells this consistently. Day one, keys in hand, nobody can tell it is the new manager’s first real shift.

Way 4: Finance or Spreadsheet Person — Cash Flow Forecast Tool ($39 to $99)

This is the one Alston saved. You do not have to be a financial analyst. You just need to be the person at work who is good at spreadsheets and everyone knows it. The buyer is every small business owner flying blind — one slow month away from missing payroll — who has no idea whether the numbers are about to get bad until they already are.

The prompt: “Build me a cash flow forecast tool a small business owner with no finance background could fill in to see whether they’re about to run out of money.” Sol builds a working tool, color-coded in plain language, forecasting twelve months out, and flagging the month they hit zero before they get there.

A custom build like this used to cost thousands in developer fees plus weeks waiting for someone to actually finish it. It got built in plain English in about a minute on screen. That is the part that should make you stop for a second. This is the most valuable product on the list because it takes what every business owner is most afraid of — running out of money — and puts it on a screen as a number they can actually act on.

Starting out, this sells for $39. Built out for one specific kind of business, a tool like this can reach $99 a copy once it is dialed in. The catch is simple: keep it to just one problem. If you make it do everything, it does nothing right. Sol builds the sheet. You are handing an owner the thing that flags the trouble before it hits. The owner who was one slow month from missing payroll finally sees it coming.

The Step Almost Nobody Does: Write the Sales Page Too

Once Sol builds the product, most people stop there. That is a mistake. You also need something that sells it. Alston typed one more sentence: “Write me a simple one-page sales page for this. A headline, three bullet points, and a price.” Sol drafted all of it in about 30 seconds. A headline, the bullet points, the price — the whole thing.

Now you have the product and the page that sells it, and you have not touched a single line of code. That sentence is in the free worksheet too. This step is the difference between a product that sits on a hard drive and a product someone can actually find, read about, and buy.

Real Numbers: What This Has Actually Made

Alston is not guessing at any of this. Here is what the numbers actually looked like before Sol ever existed, back when the tools were far slower and clumsier:

First sale: $7. That is where it started. One product, one buyer, $7.
Best single month: $8,477.95. That is not a projection. That is a real month from a real sales dashboard, achieved before Sol, before most of the current tools, with far more manual effort than this requires today.
Total earned: approximately $176,000. Across years of building and selling products built from skills he already had.
None of it required Sol. The tool got cheaper and faster. The underlying method — turn a job skill into a product someone with that exact problem will pay for — has not changed.

The cynic’s objection in the video is real: “Somebody pays $29. Big deal.” The answer is that $29 sales stack. The $8,477.95 month was a stack of small sales, not one big one. The $176,000 was a stack of months. It started with $7.

Honest Drawbacks

Sol is brand new. At the time the video was filmed, it had been out for less than two weeks. That means nobody — including Alston — has real Sol-specific numbers. The $176,000 and the $8,477.95 month came from older, slower, more expensive tools. Sol should make the product-building step faster. Whether it changes what people buy and how much they pay is still unknown.

Sol sits on the paid version of ChatGPT at about $20 a month. That is not a hidden cost you find out later — it is the cost up front. If that feels like a risk, the free worksheet covers the prompts, and the method works on other AI tools too. Sol is just the fastest current option for the formatting step.

The other drawback is the one the video is direct about: Sol only formats the product. If you feed it generic information, that is what it hands back. A trucking guide built from what you read online is not worth $69. A trucking guide built from the hard-earned mistakes of your first ninety days on specific routes might be. The AI does not create the value. Your experience does. If you have been doing a job for years and feel like it is nothing special, that feeling is wrong — but it is a feeling you have to work past on your own before the tool becomes useful.

Distribution also requires consistency. A three-minute YouTube video dropping a link is simple in theory. In practice, most people post once, get no sales, and quit. The ones who stay with it long enough to build an audience are the ones who see the numbers compound. That part has not changed either.

Find Your X

The most common question Alston gets is: “What’s mine?” Not everyone immediately sees which of their skills turns into a product. If you are stuck on that question, the free tool at finder.platformproof.com takes what you tell it about your job or side gig and hands you a specific product idea, plus the exact sentence to type to build it. That is how Alston found these five. He ran the same experiment and these came out. It is free and it takes about two minutes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need the paid version of ChatGPT to do this?

Sol is on the paid version of ChatGPT, which runs about $20 a month. The method works on other AI tools too — free or paid — but Sol is the fastest current option for the formatting step Alston demonstrates in the video. If you want to test the concept before paying, try the free tier with a different model first, then upgrade when you are ready to build the actual product.

Won’t there be too much competition since everyone can do this?

The product is not the AI output. The product is your experience baked into the AI output. Anyone can type a prompt about trucking. Only the person who drove a truck for ten years and knows what the first ninety days actually feel like can add the routes, the mistakes, and the details that a terrified week-one driver will pay for. Generic prompts produce generic products. Your specificity is the moat.

How do I actually sell the product once it’s built?

The method in the video is a short YouTube video answering the exact question your buyer types into search, with a link to your product in the description. You are not chasing customers directly. You are placing a signpost where they are already looking. A Facebook group or subreddit for your niche can add backup volume, but your own channel is the engine Alston recommends building from the start.

What if my job doesn’t feel valuable enough to sell?

That feeling is the most common objection Alston hears, and the most consistently wrong one. The buyer for the trucking guide is not comparing your guide to a Harvard course. He is comparing it to nothing — because nothing else exists for that specific fear in week one. The value of your experience is not absolute. It is relative to what the buyer is facing right now. If you have solved a problem that a specific group of people is actively experiencing, you have a product.

Which of the five ways makes the most money?

The cash flow forecast tool (Way 4) has the highest ceiling — up to $99 per copy when built for one specific business type — because the buyer’s cost of the problem (missing payroll) is very high. The renovation estimate calculator (Way 2) and the interview prep course (Way 3) also have strong buyer motivation for the same reason: the cost of getting it wrong is much higher than the product price. Higher buyer stakes generally mean higher willingness to pay.

What is the total time investment to build and list one product?

Alston describes finishing a product and having it priced before dinner in one sitting after work. The Sol step itself takes about a minute for the product and thirty seconds for the sales page. Writing the sales page prompt, reviewing the output, and listing it on a platform adds another hour or two. The limiting factor is not build time — it is the quality of the experience and detail you feed into the prompt. That part requires thinking, not typing.

Do I need a website or store to sell these products?

Not to start. The sales page Sol drafts can be hosted on a simple free page. Platforms like Gumroad, Stan Store, or Payhip handle the checkout and delivery without requiring you to build or maintain a site. The YouTube video with a link in the description is all the storefront you need in the early stages. You can build a proper site later when you know which products are actually selling.

Is there a risk of the tool hallucinating wrong information in the product?

Yes, and the video is direct about this. The renovation estimate calculator specifically requires a sanity check — you run the math against one job you have already sold before listing it. The same principle applies to every product type. Sol formats and structures. You verify that the output actually matches reality before selling it. A calculator that is wrong even once is dead on arrival. You are not outsourcing your judgment, just your formatting time.

Sources

Alston Godbolt, “5 Ways to Make Money With ChatGPT Sol in 2026” — YouTube video transcript, hiB5m-_jecw
Revenue figures cited by Alston in the video: $176,000 total, $8,477.95 best single month, $7 first sale — all stated as pre-Sol earnings
Product price ranges stated in video: trucking guide $19-$69, estimate calculator $29-$79, interview course $27-$59, restaurant system $25-$49, cash flow tool $39-$99
ChatGPT paid subscription cost cited in video: approximately $20 per month

Helping 1 million working adults make their first $3,000 online with the skills they already have. Alston Godbolt, Platform Proof.