Blueprintr guides

How to create a digital product

For coaches and consultants, the starting point is a method you already use with clients — not a list of fashionable product ideas.

1. Pick one buyer and one recurring problem

Choose a person whose situation you understand. Look at questions that repeat in your sessions, tasks clients struggle to complete and processes you explain again and again. Use anonymised examples; do not reuse confidential client material without permission.

For example, a coach supporting newly promoted managers could focus on preparing their first difficult feedback conversation. That is narrower and easier to organise than “become a better leader”. This is an illustrative example, not a customer result.

2. Define Point A and Point B

Point A describes the buyer’s current difficulty. Point B is a tangible output or capability. In the example, the buyer moves from an unstructured conversation to a prepared feedback plan, with examples, questions and a follow-up checklist.

3. Check the five Product Unlocks

  • Pain: what specific problem needs solving?
  • Worsening pain: what happens if it is left unresolved?
  • Transformation: what changes from Point A to Point B?
  • Specificity: who is it for, and in what situation?
  • Speed: how quickly can they reach a useful first milestone?

Blueprintr scores these areas out of 25 and requires at least 20 before product generation. The score helps refine an idea; it does not prove demand or guarantee sales.

4. Map your steps before choosing a format

Write down the sequence you actually use: assess the situation, choose examples, prepare the opening, rehearse responses and agree next steps. Give each milestone an action, a useful resource and a clear completion check.

Choose an ebook for explanation, a playbook or SOP for a repeatable process, templates for reusable working documents, a sprint for staged practice, or course scripts and slides for taught lessons.

5. Draft, test and prepare a pre-sale

Review every draft for accuracy, missing steps and usability. Ask a suitable reader to work through it. Prepare an offer that names the buyer, the problem, what is included and the delivery terms. A pre-sale can help test interest, but you still need to fulfil your commitments and follow applicable consumer rules.

Build from your own expertise

Bring your client method to Blueprintr for a guided interview, a scored blueprint and a product draft to review.

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