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What are the margins for building an AI writing tool and does Copy.ai's 60-65% gross margin accurately reflect the costs involved?
Chris Lu
Co-founder at Copy.ai
OpenAI charges for input and output tokens, and if you're really smart about it, you can actually save a lot.
Today we sell words, but not all words are created equal. The perfect headline for a company that's three words long could be a lot more valuable than a 1,000 word blog, and so per-word is not a really great way of characterizing value unless you're in blog writing.
The margin profile is pretty solid.
