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Part V: The Tool Landscape | Chapter 20

The Workshop — Platforms, Automation and Your Own AI Studio

The Workshop — Platforms, Automation and Your Own AI Studio

The Goal

By the end of this chapter you will know the three levels of working with AI tools: ready-made apps, platforms that connect apps, and the open workshop where you run AI models yourself. You will know when each level pays off, what renting a powerful computer by the hour really costs, and how to keep that cost under control. At the end you will put all the tool costs of a project on one sheet for your offer.

Understand: three levels

CHAPTER 20THE WORKSHOPThree levels of working with AIMore control means more learning time. Most projects never need the third level.1Ready-made appsYou use a service as it isMost tools in this book2Connecting platformsApps pass work toeach other by themselvesMake, n8n (Chapter 8)3The open workshopYou run open AI modelson your own or a rented GPUComfyUI, RunPodmore control, more learning timeRule 5 first: is there a simpler way?
CHAPTER 20THE WORKSHOPThree levels ofworking with AIMore control means more learning time. Mostprojects never need the third level.1Ready-made appsYou use a service as it isMost tools in this book2Connecting platformsApps pass work to each other bythemselvesMake, n8n (Chapter 8)3The open workshopYou run open AI models on yourown or a rented GPUComfyUI, RunPodmore control, more learning timeRule 5 first: is there a simpler way?

Most projects never need the third level. When they do, it gives you something the apps don’t: full control over every step, the same character in hundreds of images, and no monthly subscription to a service that might change its rules tomorrow.

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