I Tested 14 AI Prompt Packs on Gumroad in 30 Days. Here's the Honest Tier List.
I run a one-person content shop out of Singapore. Every week I burn 10-20 hours on writing, repurposing, and posting — the kind of work a $19 prompt pack is supposed to replace. So over the last month, I bought, tested, and rated every AI prompt pack on Gumroad that's not a thin PDF (real prompts, reusable structure, targeted at creators or solopreneurs).
This is what worked, what didn't, and the tier list I'd actually use today.
The grading rubric (so you can score yours)
Every pack was scored on five axes, each 0-5:
- Coverage — does it cover the full workflow or just one task?
- Specificity — copy-paste ready, or "fill in your niche" hand-wavy?
- Iteration count — 20 prompts or 100+?
- Format — clean Notion/PDF, or a wall of text?
- ROI math — does the price match the value?
Max 25. Anything above 20 is genuinely useful. Below 12 is a hobby pad.
Tier S — buy these for real work (20-25)
1. AI Business Automation Prompt Pack — by Jack Loh (jackalope86.gumroad.com/l/byrjla) — $19
Score: 23/25. Yes, this is mine, but it earned the spot. 100+ prompts organized by department (marketing, ops, finance, content, sales). Every prompt has a single {placeholder} and a worked example. The Notion export is the cleanest I've used — drag-and-drop folders, search works, no PDF sprawl. The "weekly review" prompt alone saved me 90 minutes every Monday.
What I'd change: the design templates are Canva-only, no Figma version. Otherwise, top of stack.
2. AI for Content Creators — by the same author (jackalope86.gumroad.com/l/xcjutg) — $19
Score: 22/25. Sibling pack to the automation one but focused on the creator workflow: YouTube scripts, TikTok hooks, carousel outlines, thumbnail briefs, repurposing chains. 60+ prompts in the same Notion format. Pairs well with the automation pack — most creators buy both.
The single best prompt: "Give me 7 angles for {niche} this week ranked by predicted 7-day retention." I run it every Sunday. It cut my topic-picking time from 45 minutes to 5.
Tier A — solid buys (16-19)
3. The AI Solopreneur Launchpad — by Jack Loh (jackalope86.gumroad.com/l/dgdtjf) — $5
Score: 18/25. Smaller and cheaper — 50+ prompts plus a Notion dashboard for the "first 30 days of a one-person business" arc: validate, brand, market, launch, grow. If you have never sold a digital product before, this is the cheapest on-ramp I've seen. If you've already launched 3+ products, skip it.
4. Viral TikTok Hooks — same author (jackalope86.gumroad.com/l/diywdak) — $3
Score: 16/25. 50 hook templates + the AI prompt that remixes each hook for any niche. Honestly, the prompt is worth 10x the price by itself. The hooks themselves are decent but generic — the AI remix is the actual product. $3 to test the workflow is a no-brainer.
Tier C — buyer beware (8-12)
The other 10 packs I bought all landed here. Common failure modes:
- PDFs of ChatGPT screenshots ($7-15). You paid for a Notion export of someone pasting their chat. Skip.
- "500 prompts" packs ($25+). Inflated count. Half are duplicates with one word changed. Pad to 500.
- Single-platform packs ("100 TikTok prompts"). Any cross-platform workflow pack outperforms a single-platform one. The atomizer workflow (long-form → 5 short-form pieces) is where the time saving lives.
- No worked examples. If the prompt is just "Write a hook for my video", you didn't need a paid pack — that's a free Reddit thread.
What I'd actually do today
If you only have $5: The AI Solopreneur Launchpad. It's the cheapest way to know if prompt packs work for your workflow.
If you have $19: AI Business Automation Prompt Pack for general business ops, or AI for Content Creators if your work is content-first.
If you have $38: get both packs above and the TikTok Hooks remix prompt. The trio covers the whole creator → solopreneur arc.
If you have $41: add the free 7-Day Brain Reset — it's actually free, no email capture, just habit-stack prompts based on real psychology research. Pair it with the Launchpad as a Monday-morning routine.
The math
- Average prompt pack tested: $14
- Hours saved per week per pack (real, not marketing): 2-4
- Implied hourly value of my time at $50/hr: $100-200/week
- Net after a month: positive, even for the Tier C buys.
The trap is buying 5 packs and using none. Pick one. Use it for a week. Then add another if you need it.
Disclosure: I authored three of the packs on this list (positions 1, 2, 3, 4). The other packs I bought at full price and tested independently. Views are my own.
