Using ColorCraft with an AI assistant

Before you start

• Claude or ChatGPT: connect with the Connect button and sign in. Any ColorCraft account can connect; making books needs a plan or the free trial, as on the website.
• Claude Code, Cursor or your own agent: use an API key, which comes with a paid Creator plan or higher.
• A good first question is “What can I make with the pages I have left?”. Reading your account, your books and your reports is free.

What you can ask for

• Research: this week’s strongest niches, a report on a niche you name (demand, competition, price and page-count guidance, keyword ideas), and a book brief built from it.
• Create: plan and draw a coloring book, storybook, comic or puzzle book (sudoku, mazes, crosswords, word search, cryptograms), from a brief, a theme or your own page text, with your saved characters if you like.
• Finish: AI front-cover art, the cover’s title, author and back-cover text, the full cover wrap PDF (back, spine and front), the interior PDF, and an Amazon description with 20 keyword phrases.
• Your account: your balance, your books and how far along they are, and anything still drawing.

Walkthroughs

A niche and a coloring book, start to finish

“Find me a low-competition coloring book niche and make a 24-page book for it.”

1. 1

   It looks for a niche

   It checks this week’s opportunities, which are free to open, or researches a niche you name, which uses 1 research search (not pages). It tells you the verdict and why, so you can pick.

2. 2

   It plans the book, for free

   It turns the report into a brief and plans the book: a prompt for every page, and what drawing will cost (24 pages for 24 coloring pages). Planning uses 0 pages. Ask it to show you the page ideas and change any you don’t like before anything is drawn.

3. 3

   You say go, and it draws

   Drawing takes a few minutes and the assistant follows along. If the conversation ends, the book keeps drawing and shows up on Home; ask a new conversation “What’s still drawing?” and it picks up where it left off without paying twice.

4. 4

   Cover, listing and files

   Ask for the cover, the listing and both PDFs. New front-cover art uses 2 pages; the cover wrap, the interior PDF and the listing are free. Files come back as download links that work for about an hour. Ask again for a fresh link; the files are kept for 7 days.

A storybook, from plan to print-ready

“Plan a 24-page bedtime storybook about a shy fox who learns to swim. Show me the plan, then turn it into a print-ready KDP book.”

1. 1

   Review the plan

   The story is drafted page by page in the background. Read it, and ask for changes to any page before drawing. To keep a character the same across a series, name one you saved in My Characters.

2. 2

   Approve the preview

   Storybooks and comics of 8 pages or more draw 2 preview pages first and wait. The assistant shows them to you: say yes and it draws the rest, or stop it there. A look you don’t like costs 2 pages, not the whole book (24 pages).

3. 3

   Finish it

   The cover, the cover wrap PDF, the listing and the interior PDF, as for a coloring book.

A puzzle book

“Make a 20-puzzle word search book about ocean animals, medium difficulty.”

The assistant checks the options (difficulty, grid size, trim), plans the book and tells you the cost: 20 pages for 20 puzzles, with the solution pages free. The plan warns when a book would have fewer than KDP’s 24 interior pages, so you can add puzzles before it is made.

A book you already made

“Make a cover and an Amazon listing for my book Ocean Friends, then export the cover wrap and the interior PDF.”

The assistant sees the books in your account, including the ones you made on colorcraft.ai, and finishes them the same way.

What the assistant asks you to approve

• Spending. Before it draws, it can tell you what the book will cost. Every call that spends carries a limit, the most it may use; if the cost is higher, nothing starts.
• Previews. Storybooks and comics wait at their preview until you say yes.
• Things only you can do. Starting a plan or the trial, upgrading, getting more pages, accepting new Terms, raising a limit, or unlocking a trial book’s clean print file all happen in your browser. The assistant gives you a colorcraft.ai link and carries on once you’re done. It never takes payment.
• On the free trial. Trial downloads are watermarked previews. The print-ready file comes with your plan, or unlock one book for $24. The assistant gives you the link to unlock the book or start a plan.

How charges work

An assistant uses the same balance of pages as the website, at the same prices.

• Coloring page: 1 page. Storybook page: 1 page. Comic page: 2 pages. Puzzle: 1 page (solution pages free). New front-cover art: 2 pages.
• Free: planning and changing a plan, the listing, the cover text and layout, the cover wrap PDF and the interior PDF.
• Niche research uses research searches, not pages, the same allowance as Niche Research on the website.
• Pages are charged as they are drawn. If the same request reaches us twice, it is done and charged once.
• Pages aren’t given back because an assistant made a mistake, so check the plan before you say go.

Stay in control

Everything is on the Developer page, in the account menu.

• Choose what it may do. Research, Create (plan and draw books) and Finish (covers, listings and print files) are allowed separately for each app and key. Reading your account is always allowed.
• Set its limits. Each app and key has its own. A new one starts with: pages per call 120, pages per day 250, books started per day 5, books in progress at once 3, research searches per day 10.
• See what it did. Each app’s and key’s calls and pages over the last 7 and 30 days, its last 50 calls, and what is left of today’s limits.
• Stop it at once. Disconnect an app or Revoke a key. Removing ColorCraft inside the app only deletes the app’s copy, so disconnect it on the Developer page as well.
• Look after API keys. Give each key an expiry date, keep it out of chats and shared files, and revoke it at once if it leaks.

Tips

• Say “ask me before you spend anything” at the start, and ask to see the plan before it draws.
• Ask for a few niches and pick one yourself: a report is a guide, not a promise of sales.
• Licensed characters, brands and real people are refused, so describe your own.
• If a conversation drops in the middle of a book, start a new one and ask what’s still drawing before asking again.
• Download your files when they’re ready: a link lasts about an hour and the files are kept for 7 days.

What it can’t do

• It never uploads to KDP. Amazon KDP has no upload API, so you upload the interior PDF and the cover wrap and paste the listing yourself: Upload your book to KDP walks through it. Amazon decides whether to accept a book.
• Files are for KDP paperbacks.
• No ordering printed copies, no changes to your plan or payment details, and nothing you made is ever deleted.
• No uploading your own manuscript, photos or pictures, and no page-by-page editing. Use the app for those.