Essential Platform Setup
Gmail
Free email from Google for managing business communication, signups, and account access.
AI Pay onboarding path
This is the beginner setup wizard for the AI Pay Citation Engine: choose a business goal, pick the right tool stack, follow the setup checklist, then grab the AI Pay Checklist to turn tools into a simple money path.
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Resources
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Ready
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Setup Required
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Tool links
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Decide whether you are building content, affiliate offers, email list growth, automation, ecommerce, or creator assets.
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Use the AI Tool Database to compare tools by score, cost, beginner fit, affiliate status, and confidence level.
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Set up the core accounts, content tools, workflow resources, and optional creator hardware without random-tool chaos.
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Connect your chosen tools to an offer, opt-in, follow-up path, and monetization workflow.
Start by goal
Verified resource links
Resource links are checked for obvious 404s, dead redirects, and broken affiliate destinations. “Ready” means the public tool/resource link is usable now; “Setup Required” means the tool usually needs an account, onboarding, connected channel, or approval before it becomes useful.
65 of 65 resources match
Built from Damon’s original AI Pay Checklist resource sheet.
The basic accounts and platforms a beginner needs before building an AI-powered income workflow.
Essential Platform Setup
Free email from Google for managing business communication, signups, and account access.
Essential Platform Setup
Community and chat platform for groups, masterminds, customers, and creator communities.
Essential Platform Setup
Social platform for pages, groups, audience building, retargeting, and community engagement.
Essential Platform Setup
Visual social platform for short-form content, brand building, reels, and creator discovery.
Essential Platform Setup
Video publishing platform for tutorials, reviews, shorts, search traffic, and long-form content.
Essential Platform Setup
Short-form social platform for posting ideas, tracking trends, and building a public content voice.
Core business tools for funnels, follow-up, site creation, lead capture, and offer delivery.
Essential Tools Setup
AI business platform for creating pages, funnels, automations, and marketing assets.
Essential Tools Setup
Marketing CRM and funnel platform for follow-up, pipelines, websites, automation, and client systems.
Essential Tools Setup
AI website builder for quickly launching simple landing pages and validating business ideas.
Essential Tools Setup
Creator research platform for finding video ideas, trends, and YouTube content opportunities.
Essential Tools Setup
Marketing automation platform for identifying, retargeting, and following up with website visitors.
AI and creator tools for content, video, voice, automation, analytics, ads, outsourcing, and distribution.
Content Creation Setup
Social media scheduler for planning, publishing, and managing content across multiple platforms.
Content Creation Setup
Chat automation tool for Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and lead-generation conversations.
Content Creation Setup
AI voice platform for text-to-speech, voice cloning, narration, and creator audio workflows.
Content Creation Setup
Model hosting platform for running image, video, audio, and open-source AI models through an API.
Content Creation Setup
Design platform for social graphics, lead magnets, presentations, thumbnails, and simple brand assets.
Content Creation Setup
AI video platform for generating, editing, and transforming video from text, images, or clips.
Content Creation Setup
OpenAI video generation platform for creating AI videos from prompts and visual concepts.
Content Creation Setup
Beginner-friendly video editor for shorts, captions, social videos, and quick content edits.
Content Creation Setup
Free screen recording and streaming software for tutorials, walkthroughs, and live broadcasts.
Content Creation Setup
AI-powered audio and video editor for transcripts, clips, captions, and quick content cleanup.
Content Creation Setup
YouTube research and optimization tool for keywords, titles, content ideas, and channel growth.
Content Creation Setup
AI music generator for creating songs, background music, jingles, and audio ideas from prompts.
Content Creation Setup
Hiring marketplace for finding virtual assistants, editors, designers, and other remote support.
Content Creation Setup
AI assistant for writing, planning, research, coding help, brainstorming, and workflow support.
Content Creation Setup
AI coding environment for building apps, editing code, and working with agentic development workflows.
Content Creation Setup
Persuasion is a core marketing skill for writing clearer offers, hooks, landing pages, emails, and CTAs.
Content Creation Setup
Custom versions of ChatGPT built around specific workflows, instructions, files, or repeatable tasks.
Content Creation Setup
Discord bot for moderation, engagement, leveling, roles, and community automation.
Content Creation Setup
Desktop scraping and SEO utility for collecting URLs, checking pages, and extracting web data.
Content Creation Setup
Outreach software for finding and submitting contact forms across websites.
Content Creation Setup
Automation platform for extracting data and automating prospecting tasks across web platforms.
Content Creation Setup
Facebook group tool for collecting member answers, emails, and onboarding data.
Content Creation Setup
Live chat moderation bot for YouTube and Twitch streams.
Content Creation Setup
AI answer engine for research, source discovery, and quick fact-checking.
Content Creation Setup
Internet speed testing tool for checking upload, download, and latency before recording or streaming.
Content Creation Setup
Website performance testing tool for page speed, Core Web Vitals, and optimization issues.
Content Creation Setup
Google Ads platform for search, display, YouTube, and paid traffic campaigns.
Content Creation Setup
Google monetization platform for earning ad revenue from websites and content properties.
Content Creation Setup
Meta advertising dashboard for managing Facebook and Instagram campaigns.
Content Creation Setup
Proxy service used for privacy, testing, scraping workflows, or managing multiple web requests.
Content Creation Setup
Virtual private server provider for hosting tools, scripts, automation, and web projects.
Content Creation Setup
Trend research tool for comparing search interest and finding timely content ideas.
Content Creation Setup
Spreadsheet tool for tracking tools, content plans, keywords, campaigns, and simple databases.
Content Creation Setup
Model comparison leaderboard for seeing how major AI models rank against each other.
Content Creation Setup
Website analytics platform for tracking traffic, behavior, conversions, and content performance.
Content Creation Setup
Google SEO tool for monitoring indexing, queries, clicks, pages, and search performance.
Content Creation Setup
Affiliate and partner program marketplace for SaaS tools and referral offers.
Content Creation Setup
Partnership management platform for affiliate programs, creator partnerships, and tracking.
Content Creation Setup
Digital commerce and affiliate network platform for software and online product programs.
Content Creation Setup
Digital product marketplace and affiliate network focused on online business offers.
Content Creation Setup
No-code automation platform for connecting apps and moving data between tools.
Content Creation Setup
AI ad creative platform for generating ad visuals, copy, and campaign assets.
Content Creation Setup
Campaign platform for giveaways, contests, rewards, email capture, and referral promotions.
Content Creation Setup
Investing app for stocks, ETFs, crypto, and simple portfolio tracking.
Content Creation Setup
Website behavior analytics tool for heatmaps, recordings, surveys, and conversion insights.
Content Creation Setup
People-search tool for public records, contact lookup, and identity research.
Content Creation Setup
VPN service for privacy, location testing, and secure browsing.
Content Creation Setup
AI logo generator for creating quick logo concepts and starter brand visuals.
Content Creation Setup
Business formation service for setting up an LLC and related legal documents.
Optional gear for creators who want better recording, production, and workflow control.
Setup Hardware
Camera gear for recording higher-quality videos, tutorials, livestreams, and product content.
Setup Hardware
Broadcast microphone commonly used for podcasts, voiceovers, livestreams, and studio recording.
Setup Hardware
Shortcut controller for speeding up recording, streaming, editing, and creator workflows.
Setup Hardware
Smartphone for recording content, managing social apps, and capturing mobile-first video.
Setup Hardware
Computer for editing, publishing, automation, AI tools, and managing your business workflow.
Next step
This page is the setup map. The AI Tool Database is where individual tools get deeper pricing, scoring, comparisons, and monetization notes.