Pricing

Pay for guides you finish

Every plan meters on builds, because a build is the thing you sell. The sample guide on this page listed at $14, so Starter is about two sales a month. Builds reset every cycle, and you can move up a plan whenever you need more.

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Starter

For your first few products.

$29/ month

About two $14 sales a month

25 idea searches a month
10 guide builds a month
30 AI page rewrites a month
Clean PDF and cover image, yours to sell
Listing kit: title, description, tags, price

Start Starter

14 days money back on your first subscription, even if you used your builds

Studio

For anyone selling guides on a schedule.

$59/ month

About four $14 sales a month

60 idea searches a month
25 guide builds a month
120 AI page rewrites a month
Clean PDF and cover image, yours to sell
Listing kit: title, description, tags, price

Start Studio

14 days money back on your first subscription, even if you used your builds

Press

For building a catalogue.

$129/ month

About nine $14 sales a month

120 idea searches a month
55 guide builds a month
300 AI page rewrites a month
Clean PDF and cover image, yours to sell
Listing kit: title, description, tags, price

Start Press

14 days money back on your first subscription, even if you used your builds

Or start free: one full guide, built start to finish, as a watermarked preview. $12 unlocks that guide to sell, or a plan exports every guide clean.

Start free

Cancel any time from your billing page. Your guides, their PDFs and their licenses stay yours.

Everything side by side

Feature	Free	Starter	Studio	Press
Idea searches	2 total	25 / mo	60 / mo	120 / mo
Ideas per search	8	20	20	20
Guide builds	1 total	10 / mo	25 / mo	55 / mo
If you run out	Upgrade to continue	Move up a plan	Move up a plan	Talk to us
AI page rewrites		30 / mo	120 / mo	300 / mo
Pages per guide	9 to 12	9 to 12	9 to 12	9 to 12
Cover options	3	3	3	3
Typographic themes	4	4	4	4
Photo swap and search
PDF export	Watermarked	Clean	Clean	Clean
Storefront cover image	Watermarked	Clean	Clean	Clean
Commercial license
Listing kit

9 to 12 pages on purpose: one idea per page and nothing padded. Short guides get finished and acted on, which is what keeps refund rates low for the person selling them.

Inside a finished guide

See what you are buying before you buy it.

Six pages of The 3AM Problem, out of 10, at the size they export. Nothing here was drawn for the website.

The 3AM Problem

Fourteen nights to stop waking at three and get back to sleep.

The promise

Waking up is normal. Staying awake is not.

Almost everybody surfaces two or three times a night. Most people never find out, because they turn over and go back under before any part of the brain gets involved. What you have is not a waking problem. It is a getting back problem.

That distinction decides everything, because the two have completely different fixes. Nothing in this guide tries to stop you waking at three. It works on the twenty minutes after, which is the part you can change, and on the morning, which is where the change gets locked in.

Fourteen nights. No supplements, no tracker, and nothing you have to buy.

The 3AM Problem02 / 10

02Chapter

If it has been twenty minutes, get up

You do not need a clock for this and you should not use one. Twenty minutes is roughly how long it takes to notice you have stopped drifting and started thinking. By the time you notice, you are past it.

Getting out of bed feels like the opposite of what you want at three in the morning. It is the entire method. Every night you spend awake in bed teaches your brain that this is a place where people lie awake. Every night you get up instead teaches it the opposite, and it learns quicker than you would expect.

Go back when you are sleepy, not when you are bored. Sleepy is heavy eyes and losing the thread of the page. Bored is looking at the clock again.

The rule, in full

Awake and thinking rather than drifting? Leave the bedroom
Somewhere dim, sitting up, no screen anywhere near you
Something dull enough to put you back under
Return only when your eyes are closing on their own
If it happens twice in one night, do it twice

The 3AM Problem04 / 10

03Chapter

Where to go, and what to do there

Pick the spot before you need it. Nobody makes a good decision at three in the morning, so make this one now: a chair, a lamp you can turn on without flooding the room, a blanket, and one book that lives there and goes nowhere else.

Keep the light low and warm. A single lamp at elbow height. Overhead lights and screens both tell your body it is morning, and you are trying to say the opposite.

Pick something genuinely dull. A book you have already read. Not the news, not a novel you want to finish, and never the phone. The hour is not meant to be enjoyable. You are trying to be bored back to sleep.

Do not get productive. Answering one email at three teaches your brain that the small hours are working hours, and it will start waking you on purpose.

The 3AM Problem05 / 10

04Chapter

The morning is where the fix actually happens

This is the part people skip and it is the part that works. What you do at three is damage control. What you do at seven decides whether three happens again.

One fixed wake time, seven days a week, including the bad ones. Especially the bad ones. Sleeping in after a rough night feels like fair compensation and it drags the whole system an hour later, so tonight starts late and you are back where you began.

Then get outside. Daylight in the first hour after waking is the strongest signal your body clock takes, and it sets what time you get sleepy tonight. Fifteen minutes is enough, and a grey morning still counts.

The fourteen days, as numbers

Wake timeSame daily

Weekend alarmYes

Daylight after waking15 min

NapsNone

Last coffee2pm

Last drink4h before bed

Nights before you judge it14

The 3AM Problem06 / 10

05Chapter

Four things that make three o'clock much worse

None of these cause the waking. All of them decide whether you get back down.

A drink in the evening. Alcohol puts you under quickly and then pulls the second half of the night apart as it clears. In people who otherwise sleep fine, this is the most common single cause of a three o'clock wake.

Coffee after the early afternoon. Half of it is still in you six hours later. You will fall asleep on it. You will not stay asleep on it.

The clock face. Seeing the number is what turns a wake into a calculation. Turn the phone over and the clock to the wall.

Catching up. An extra hour on Saturday, an early night on Sunday, twenty minutes on the sofa on Wednesday. Every one of them spends the pressure that would have put you under tonight.

The one to fix first
If you drink most evenings, move that before you change anything else. Two weeks without it will tell you more than two weeks of anything else on this page.

The 3AM Problem07 / 10

Then three files land in your folder.

10 pages · US Letter

A print-ready PDF

Fonts embedded, rendered from the exact pages you approved. It prints at home or at a copy shop without a line moving.

1632px · JPG

A storefront cover

Page one as a JPEG with your title on it, big enough for Etsy, Gumroad, Shopify or your own site to crop as they like.

Title · Tags · SEO

A listing kit

Title, description, tags, a suggested price and the SEO title and description, in the guide's voice. The description copies as plain text for Etsy, Gumroad, Payhip and Ko-fi, and as HTML for Shopify.

Questions

The things people ask first

Yes, and short is the format that sells. On Etsy, focused printable guides list between $5 and $15. A short guide gets finished and acted on, and a guide that gets acted on rarely comes back for a refund. That is why Octavo writes 9 to 12 pages, one idea per page, instead of padding, and why the listing kit prices each guide inside the band its niche pays.

Yes. Gumroad, Payhip and Ko-fi have no restriction on AI-assisted work. Etsy allows it and asks sellers to be honest about how an item was made when listing it; guides made with Octavo are your ideas, written with AI assistance, using real licensed photography, which is exactly what you disclose. Selling them is normal practice on every one of these platforms.

The listing kit is built for that moment: the title, tags and SEO fields are written the way marketplace search actually matches, so the guide is findable from day one. Start on a free storefront (Gumroad or Payhip take minutes and cost nothing up front), paste the kit in, and share the link once anywhere your audience already is. One honest post next to a well-made cover outperforms a week of setup.

Yes, on every paid plan, and on any guide you unlock for $12. The license is worldwide, perpetual and royalty free. Sell it at any price on any storefront, bundle it, give it away, rewrite it. It does not expire when a subscription ends. The free plan is for trying the tool, so its export carries a watermark and is not licensed for resale.

Yes, for your first one. Build it on the free plan, then unlock it for $12. That removes the watermark from the PDF and the cover, adds the commercial license for that guide, and includes its listing kit. The free plan is one build, so a second guide needs a plan, and a plan is cheaper than unlocks from the third guide in a month anyway.

No, and that is deliberate. Every photograph is a real one taken by a person, pulled at full resolution from Pexels, free for commercial use and needing no attribution. Generated imagery still gives itself away in hands, in text on signs, in faces that are almost right, and a reader who spots it starts doubting the writing too. Octavo runs every image in a guide through one warm grade instead, so a set from different shoots reads as a single commission.

That is the part we spent the most time on. Copy is written against a house style that bans AI vocabulary, inflated symbolism, three-item lists where one would do, invented statistics, fake testimonials, and em dashes. Then it gets a second editing pass before you ever see it. You can still rewrite any page in your own words.

One build is one complete guide: the copy, the page architecture, the photo sourcing, and three cover comps. Revisions and re-exports of that same guide do not spend another build, so you can keep refining something you already made. If you use up a month's builds, your allowance refills at the start of the next cycle, and you can move up a plan at any point to get more right away.

Every word. Edit any heading, paragraph or checklist row directly, or describe the change you want and have the page rewritten for you. The same works on the whole guide at once. Swap any photograph for another from the library, and move the guide between four typographic themes at any point.

Three things. A print-ready PDF at US Letter, a cover image sized for a storefront with your title already set on it, and the listing copy: title, description, tags, a suggested price and the SEO fields. Nothing to reformat, nothing to export twice.

Your guides and their PDFs stay downloadable. You keep the commercial license on everything you built while subscribed. You just stop getting new builds.

Starter is about two sales a month.

The sample guide listed at $14. Starter is $29 a month for ten sellable guides, with 14 days money back on your first month, even if you used your builds.

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