How Individuals Can Achieve AI Commercialization

Why Focus on Individual AI Commercialization

Let's talk about how individuals can achieve AI commercialization. Why not talk about enterprises? Because it's a bit far from individuals. And why not talk about the workplace? Well, in a workplace environment, you can't really carry out commercial operations. At most, you can just improve work efficiency or master an extra skill.

There's a big difference between a skill and a sellable product. Take what you're good at, like making buns. Just being good at making buns doesn't mean you can make money from it. They're two completely different things.

Using the Bun Shop Example

Let's use the bun shop as an example. If you used to make buns in a breakfast shop and now plan to go solo, what else do you need? First, you need a qualification certificate. Second, you need a shop and equipment. Third, you need start-up capital. Fourth, you need customers. Fifth, you need someone to sell the buns.

If you were to combine AI with a bun shop, what would you do?

The Key to AI Commercialization: Increasing Profits

When using AI for commercialization, you must create an increment, that is, increase profits. How can you increase profits? You can either expand your turnover while keeping costs under control, which means increasing traffic or conversion rates, or you can reduce costs.

What Can AI Do?

AI can be used to create content, like text, audio, pictures, and videos. It can also do analysis, such as analyzing data, language materials, and text. And it can do retrieval, like searching for questions, providing answers, and offering solutions. You'll find that what AI can do is usually related to data and content.

Using AI to Get More Customers

From the perspective of increasing profits, how can you use AI to get more customers? You can either use AI to create better-quality content, like super cool AI pictures or videos, or increase the speed of content output.

You'll notice that the current good and usable AI products or solutions are all centered around using AI to create content to attract customers.

Personal AI Commercialization: Getting Traffic First

When it comes to personal commercialization, the first thing to do is to find ways to combine AI to get traffic. AI itself attracts traffic, and it can also lower the threshold of content output and improve efficiency.

Can You Make and Sell AI Products?

You can, but it's not very suitable for individuals. If you don't have enough traffic, you won't be able to sell the products even if you make them. Moreover, it's hard for individuals to bear the cost of product R & D, and they have limited energy and can't compete with other teams in terms of ability.

What Individuals Can Do Now

Currently, what individuals can do is to develop some tool websites, apps, and mini-programs through AI programming and take the route of independent developers. But the key is to solve the problems of traffic and promotion first.

Ways of Commercialization

Commercialization actually means making money, that is, selling things. So there are mainly the following ways of commercialization:

1. Use AI to get traffic or conduct sales to increase the sales of existing products.
2. Use AI to polish existing products better, increase the product price, or reduce the product R & D cost to get more profits.
3. Use AI to develop new products and open up a new business route.

Currently, the first two ways are more common, and the third way is relatively more difficult.

You can either do some projects with relatively low thresholds that already existed before, like taking writing orders. Or you can choose some projects that are in the spotlight, as these projects naturally have more traffic.

After this analysis, I personally recommend choosing the first way. First, focus on getting traffic and make money with existing products to increase profits. After you've done this well, then consider the second and third points. This will have a better effect.

Daily Reading & Writing by Xiaolu 2025.06.16 [day651]