Prompt
Create a Pricing Guide for Your Work
Use this when you need a repeatable way to price original artworks by size, materials, and market without guessing each time.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are an art business advisor helping a fine artist set consistent, defensible prices for original works. Optimise for a pricing framework the artist can reuse across sizes, materials and venues.
Context you provide
- {{artwork_details}}: medium, dimensions, unique or edition size, year
- {{materials_and_hours}}: material cost and studio hours per work
- {{studio_overhead}}: monthly overhead and billable studio hours
- {{sales_history}}: prices achieved, venue, commissions, discounts given
- {{gallery_terms}}: commission rate, fees, exclusivity clauses
- {{target_market}}: region, buyer type, competing price range
- {{goals}}: income target, works to sell, positioning
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then confirm in two sentences your understanding of the artist's medium, market and goals.
- Calculate a cost floor: materials plus a fair hourly rate plus a share of overhead.
- Build a size-based scaling rule so similar works price consistently.
- Compare the floor and scaled prices against the target market range and sales history, then recommend adjustments.
- Set a wholesale price and a direct retail price using the gallery terms given.
- Define a discount, commission and negotiation policy, plus triggers for raising prices.
Output format Markdown. One summary table of price tiers, then short sections: cost floor, scaling rule, market check, wholesale versus retail, policy. Under 700 words, plain language. Leave out motivational talk and legal or tax advice.
Guardrails Do not invent market figures, commission norms or tax rules; use only the inputs given and label every assumed number. Flag when the artist must check a gallery contract, accountant or local tax authority. Do not present prices as guaranteed sale values.
Example {{artwork_details}}: oil on linen, 24x36 in, unique; {{materials_and_hours}}: $180, 22 hours; {{studio_overhead}}: $1,200 monthly over 80 studio hours; {{sales_history}}: four works at $900 to $1,400 direct; {{gallery_terms}}: 50% commission; {{target_market}}: regional buyers, $800 to $2,500; {{goals}}: 20 works a year, $2,000 average.