Getting Started with the AI Assistant

The Assistant is the conversational way into Elistit. Rather than filling in a form when you already know what you want, you talk through what you are considering, and it comes back with product ideas grounded in your sales history, your shop profile, and current market signals.

It is the chat side of your AI Shop Manager, which also includes your Briefing (a read-only feed of recommendations) and your Plan (a batch of prepared actions you approve).

Who can use it

The Assistant works your shop on paid plans. On the free plan it is read-only: you can look around and read your Briefing, but it will not chat, suggest products, or launch them for you. The page says as much before you try, so there is no surprise at the point of use.

Every plan also carries a daily allowance for chats, idea sets, and launches. When you are close to a limit, the remaining counts appear under the chat box.

When to use the Assistant, and when to use Create

Use the Assistant when:

You are not sure what to make next
You want ideas tied to real market signals rather than a hunch
You want ideas that suit the shop you already have
You want to think out loud before spending credits

Use Create when:

You already know exactly what you want to make
You are repeating something that sold well
You want to skip the conversation and go straight to production

Most active sellers use both.

Your first conversation

Open the Assistant. If you have chatted before, it reopens your most recent brief. Use “New brief” to start fresh, or “Recent” to move between past ones.
Say what you are thinking, in plain language:
- “I want to make something for spring weddings”
- “What is worth trying in nursery decor right now?”
- “I sell wall art, suggest something I have not tried”
Read the suggestions. Each one carries a product type, a title and idea, a style direction, a strategy badge (Evergreen, Trending or Seasonal), a confidence score, the reasoning behind it, and the estimated credit cost.
Launch, modify, skip or save. Launching sends that idea into production after a confirmation showing the credits it will use. Modify lets you edit the details first. Skip rejects it, and the rejection feeds into later suggestions. Save keeps it in your opportunities list for another day.

Suggestions launch one at a time, so you never commit credits in bulk by accident.

Make and Advise

Two modes, switched from the header:

Make is the default. It stays on one shop and focuses on what to produce next.
Advise steps back and looks across all your shops: where to focus, where revenue is leaking, how your catalogue matches the market. With a single shop it still works, it simply has one shop to talk about.

The Assistant sometimes moves to Make on its own when you ask for something launchable. It tells you when it does.

Memory

The Memory tab holds what your assistant remembers about a shop between conversations: your goals, your preferences and constraints, decisions you have made, and things it has observed.

Four things worth knowing:

Those notes are read at the start of every chat, briefing and plan, so correcting something here changes what you get everywhere.
Only so much memory travels with each request. Pinned notes are kept first, so pin anything that must never be dropped.
Notes you write stay until you delete them. Notes it worked out on its own can fade if they stop holding true.
Memory belongs to the shop you have open. Switching shops switches the memory, and nothing leaks between them.

What it draws on

Your sales history: what has sold, what gets viewed, what is not converting
Your shop profile: style, palette, audience, niche
Live market signals: trend and seasonal data collected from several sources
What you already sell: it avoids concepts too close to ones you have produced or turned down

If your shop is new, it leans on your profile and on market signals. The more you produce, the sharper it gets.

What it costs

Chatting is free of credits. You are not charged to talk, or to see suggestions.

Credits are charged when a product actually launches, and the confirmation shows the estimated cost before you commit.

Tips for better suggestions

Give it constraints. “Spring weddings, boho, under $15” beats “weddings”.
Modify rather than reject when an idea is close. Edits teach it more than rejections do.
Reject what genuinely misses. That feeds back too.
Keep briefs focused. Several short conversations usually beat one long one that wanders.
Correct the Memory tab whenever it has something wrong about your shop.

When suggestions miss

Check your Memory tab and your branding. Both feed the suggestions heavily.
Connect your Etsy shop if you have not already. Real sales history changes the quality of the advice considerably.
Make a few products through Create. Sales history and feedback give it far more to work with than an empty profile.

FAQ

Does it work without an Etsy connection? Yes, but with less to go on. Without a connection it works from your profile and market signals. Connecting a shop adds your real sales and listings, and lets finished products go straight to a draft listing.

Is it available on every plan? No. Active use is paid only. Free accounts get a read-only view and their Briefing.

Can I launch straight from a suggestion? Yes. Launch it, confirm the credits, and the details carry into production automatically.

Where do my past conversations live? In the header. “Recent” lists your past briefs, and lets you reopen, rename or delete any of them.

Will it suggest something I have already made? It tries hard not to. New ideas are checked against what you have produced, and against the others in the same conversation.