AI for Creators
14 courses · 100+ lessons · 39 downloadable assets

Be the whole band.

Everything I use to make, market and run my creative business with Claude and ChatGPT, taught step by step. Teach AI how you edit, then let it help you finish your Lightroom edits. Turn footage into finished reels. Handle your marketing, organise your week and run the business behind your creative work. Your work. Your style. More of it possible on your own.

New lessons every week, always including what’s trending.

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Photo Cutout Frame edit of the Eiffel TowerLouvre cover: the word LOUVRE behind the glass pyramid at dusk
Made with these lessons

See what you could make

Your photos. Your footage. Your taste. AI does the hours of editing in between. Every example here started as one of my own photos or clips, and the lessons show you how to do the same with yours.

AI edits your reels for you. Connect your drives, show it a reel you love, and it cuts your footage the same way, far faster than by hand.
Photo Cutout Frame edit of the Eiffel Tower, made with AI for Creators
Recreate this week’s trends in minutes. The week’s trending edits, rebuilt step by step with your own photos.
Get through your Lightroom back catalog. Teach AI your look once, then let it help with the shoots you never got round to.
Louvre cover: the word LOUVRE behind the glass pyramid at dusk, made with AI for Creators
Beautiful carousels, stories and covers. Slides, Stories and covers made from your own photos, with titles that sit inside the picture.
Bring your visuals to life with motion. Claude builds cinematic typography, layered movement and transitions from your shots.
Make research something people want to watch. Animated charts built from verified sources, so the numbers hold up.
Know every task on your to-do list. Claude keeps your tasks, deadlines and priorities in one list, so nothing slips.
Turn one shoot into a week of content. Plan the reels, carousels, Stories and newsletter from one set of photos and footage.
Write the newsletter people open. Plan, draft and send a weekly email to your own list, in your own voice.
Put your work on a page that sells. Write the page, build it in Framer with Claude, and check it every week.
Turn raw data into answers. Claude gathers the numbers, builds the spreadsheet and helps you spot what to do next.
Get to inbox zero. Sort the inbox, pull out the jobs and start each day with a short list.

One creative vision. More ways to bring it to life.

Edited in Lightroom, by AI

Your picture. Edited by AI.

I asked Claude to open a raw photo in Lightroom and edit it the way I would. I told it what I wanted in plain words and watched it work:

My O2 Arena raw at dusk, before and after Claude edited it in Lightroom
  • Applied my Cine profile and set the light.
  • Added masks to brighten the dome and tower, bring out the sky and darken the edges.
  • Removed what I didn’t want: a tree in the way, and dust spots in the sky.
  • Can crop and straighten too, to the composition I’d choose.
  • Fixed things one at a time when I said “lighter” or “the dome is part of the subject too”.

AI did the clicking. I decided when it was finished.

Where to start

Make it. Market it. Run it.

No editing experience needed. Just your phone, your clips and photos, and the AI you already use. Start wherever you need the most help, and the rest is there when you want it.

01
Make it

Shoot, edit and create photos, reels, carousels, motion graphics, covers and Stories that look like you.

02
Market it

Find your audience, write better content, build your website and emails, and get your work seen.

03
Run it

Set up your Playbook and to-do list, get to inbox zero and let AI handle more of the jobs behind the scenes.

Prompts, templates and assets

Your own system, ready from day one: four tools that work together, so your AI understands how you create, how you work and what you’re trying to achieve.

Your Style Kit

Your colours, fonts, look and voice, so everything your AI makes looks like you.

Your Playbook

It helps your AI understand you: who you are, how you work, what matters to you and how you like things done.

Your to-do list

With your Playbook behind it, your AI can run your week, your inbox and your brand deals the way you would.

Your Content Hub

Every idea you save lands in one place, sorted in To review, so you never start from a blank page.

The full list

Everything inside

You don’t need to work through everything in order. Start with the thing you want to make or the job you need to get done.

14 courses · 100+ lessons · 39 downloadable assets
14 Courses
100+ Lessons
39 Downloadable assets
Weekly New lessons
01 Start HereSet up your AI around you and make your first post.
  1. Start here: your first week
  2. The Why
  3. Build your Style Kit
  4. Your first finished post in 30 minutes
  5. What do you want to do today?
  6. Introduce yourself
  7. How the group works
  8. Your AI stack and connecting your tools
  9. Get your photos, clips and music ready
  10. Your Content Hub: never lose an idea again
  11. My tools: what I use and how
02 Free WeekTry the latest edits and workflows on your own content.
  1. Claude edits your photos in Lightroom
  2. Rebuild a reel you love with your own footage
  3. Animated charts and stats
  4. Photo Cutout Frame Edit
  5. The Montage Reel
  6. Keep your computer on, run it from your phone
  7. Run your day from your to-do list
03 Trend LabLearn to recreate the latest creative trends with your own work.
  1. How Trend Lab works
  2. November challenge: one shoot, three pieces
  3. This week’s trends: Photo Cutout Frame Edit, Animated charts and stats, The Montage Reel
04 Edit Your PhotosTeach Claude your editing style and finish whole shoots in Lightroom.
  1. Claude edits your photos in Lightroom
  2. The Criss Finish
  3. Your look on every photo and video
  4. 1,000 RAW files to a finished gallery
  5. Find your photo look and edit every photo in it
  6. One photo, every format
  7. Photo to 3D video
  8. Photo Cutout Frame Edit
05 Make ReelsTurn your footage into polished reels, edited and finished with AI.
  1. Edit like an editor
  2. Your footage to a finished montage
  3. Rebuild a reel you love with your own footage
  4. Fix a reel that isn’t working
  5. The final 10%: your finishing checklist
  6. Export it properly: sharp on every phone
  7. The Montage Reel
06 Motion GraphicsMake animated titles, captions and graphics that bring your work alive.
  1. Animated hook titles
  2. Kinetic captions
  3. Text behind you, on video
  4. Animated charts and stats
07 Carousels, Covers and StoriesTurn your photos and ideas into posts that look unmistakably yours.
  1. Carousels in your own palette and fonts
  2. Covers and thumbnails that get the click
  3. Display your photos: grids and landscape sets
  4. Tell a story in ten slides
  5. Before and after carousels: the “Yes, but” format
  6. One idea to a finished ten-slide carousel
  7. Share every post to Stories
  8. A week of Stories
08 Hooks, Captions and ScriptsWrite stronger openings, better captions and scripts in your own voice.
  1. Hook Writer
  2. Caption Writer
  3. Write 20 hooks from one idea
  4. Make AI sound like you
  5. Write a reel script people finish
09 Email MarketingBuild your email list and write newsletters and emails people open.
  1. Set up your list in Kit
  2. Write your weekly newsletter
  3. Build a welcome sequence
  4. Send a launch email
  5. Write subject lines that fit a phone
  6. Read your results and clean your list
10 Websites and Landing PagesBuild a website that shows your work and helps sell it.
  1. Write a landing page that sells the work
  2. Build a page in Framer with Claude
  3. Write your About page
  4. Build your link-in-bio page
  5. The weekly site check
11 Research, Trends and Audience GrowthFind out what works, understand your audience and improve your content.
  1. Read your numbers properly
  2. Fix your last five posts
  3. Track trends in your niche
  4. Analyse another Instagram page
  5. Reverse-engineer a post that’s working
  6. Run a weekly competitor watch
  7. Analyse your own saves
  8. Research a topic before you post
  9. Find your content pillars
12 Run Your Business With AIOrganise your week, manage your inbox and keep work moving.
  1. Set up your system
  2. Inbox zero, the safe way
  3. Your daily to-do list
  4. Run your day from your to-do list
  5. Plan your week
  6. Your weekly numbers
  7. Plan a shoot
  8. Schedule your week with Metricool
13 Shoot With Your PhoneShoot better photos and footage, then make more from every moment.
  1. Set up your phone and gear
  2. Notice content everywhere
  3. Your first b-roll Reel
  4. Make the Reel feel better
  5. Shoot for the format: 9:16 and 4:5
  6. Reels with something to say
  7. Photos to carousel with Lightroom Mobile
  8. One moment, five posts, plus content bank
  9. Finish and publish
14 Work Smarter With Claude and ChatGPTLearn to direct your AI, hand off tasks and improve results.
  1. Keep your computer on, run it from your phone
  2. Slow down to speed up: think, direct, plan
  3. Talk to it: use your voice
  4. Ask it to find the gaps
  5. Go back and forth, one change at a time
  6. Get a second opinion from another AI
  7. Knowing when it’s finished
  8. Know why you create
  9. Being seen is part of the work
  10. Performance is information, not identity
  11. Show up anyway, and sell without shame
  12. AI and the Planet: the creator’s factsheet

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Membership

More than lessons

You’re not buying a set of videos. You’re joining a library I keep up to date, with me in the group to answer your questions. The tools change every week, so the library does too.

Trending lessons every week

The edits everyone’s asking about, rebuilt within days.

Lessons updated

Existing lessons refreshed weekly as the AI moves.

New units

A steady stream of new courses and sections.

Ask me, every fortnight

Bring your work and questions to a live Q&A with me.

01
I update and manage it myself

This isn’t a course recorded once and left. I run the library myself, every week.

02
A live Q&A every fortnight

Bring your work and your questions, and we go through them together.

03
Ask me anything in the group

Post a question at any time and I’ll answer it. Members help each other too.

04
A community making the same things

See what other members are making, share yours and get feedback.

05
The Editor Pack

Sounds, overlays and Lightroom looks your AI adds to your edits. Free with membership.

Christina John, founder of Criss Films, with her camera
Why I built it

Hi, I’m Christina

I’m the founder of Criss Films, a creative with a very systematic way of thinking. I love making things, but I’m just as interested in figuring out how to make them work as well as possible.

I spent 15 years in the corporate world, running a CEO’s office and rolling out AI inside large companies long before these tools became accessible to everyone. I was fascinated by the technology, but over time I became disillusioned with the corporate world itself. Everything felt slower and more complicated than it needed to be, and I’ve always been someone who values freedom and independence.

I knew I wanted to build something of my own. What I hadn’t quite figured out was that I didn’t want to build a traditional business either. I wanted to create, experiment and make things happen, without spending my days managing people, running payroll or getting buried in the day-to-day work of running a company.

The idea of building something entirely on my own had always appealed to me. But for a long time, there was a gap between what I could imagine and what I could realistically do by myself.

I finally believe that, in the age of AI, we have the power to close that gap.

AI for Creators is everything I use to build that life. The tools, systems and techniques that help me create, work smarter and build a business on my own terms, without needing a team behind me.

It’s been built on a belief that we’re all capable of more. There’s been a lot of trial and error, endless experimentation, and more nights working until the sun came up than I care to count. But that’s what happens when you find something that genuinely moves you. And I consider myself incredibly lucky to have found it.

I hope it helps you build whatever it is you came here to build. 🩷

Try it free for a week
$88 a month after your free week
  • All 14 courses, 100+ lessons and 39 downloadable assets (cheat sheets, templates and packs), open from day one of your free week
  • New lessons every week, always including what’s trending
  • Your Content Hub, Style Kit, Playbook and to-do list
  • The Editor Pack: sound effects, overlays and transitions, and Lightroom looks, ready for your AI to add to your edits
  • A Q&A every fortnight
  • Cancel any time

Free Week is your trial. Trend Lab is the weekly trending lessons, and it’s inside the free week too.

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Questions

Good to know

What exactly will I be able to make?

Reels edited by AI, this week’s trending edits, a cleared Lightroom back catalog, carousels, Stories and covers, motion graphics, newsletters, landing pages, spreadsheets, a clear inbox and a to-do list that knows every task. Every lesson shows you how, step by step.

Can I use Claude or ChatGPT, or do I need both?

Either, you don’t need both. The lessons show both, and wherever a tool costs money there is a free route too.

Do I need paid AI subscriptions or other software?

No, not to get started. Wherever a lesson uses a paid tool, it shows you a free route too. Once you see what it can do, I think you’ll want a paid Claude or ChatGPT plan, because it gives you far more room to work.

Do I need any editing or AI experience?

No. You need your phone, your clips and photos, and the AI you already use.

What do I get on day one?

All 14 courses, plus your Style Kit, Playbook, to-do list and Content Hub, ready to set up.

What’s included in the free week?

Everything. All 14 courses and every lesson are open from day one, and your free week is the trial. If it isn’t for you, cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.

How often is new content added?

Every week. New lessons follow what’s trending, and I keep the older ones up to date as the tools change.

Can I ask questions and get help if I’m stuck?

Yes. Post in the group any time and I answer, and there is a live Q&A every fortnight.

How is this different from a course?

A course is recorded once and left. This is a library I run and update myself every week, with new lessons that follow what’s trending, and me in the group to answer your questions.

Can I cancel any time?

Yes. Cancel any time.

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Be the whole band, with new lessons every week, always including what’s trending.

Try it free for a week →

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