Getting Started with the Design Assistant

The Design Assistant is the conversational way into Elistit. Instead of filling out a form when you already know what you want to make, you talk through what you’re considering and the assistant suggests products — backed by your sales history, your shop’s profile, and 8 live trend data sources.

This is how to use it productively in your first session.

When to use the assistant vs. Quick Create

Pick the assistant when:

• You’re not sure what to make next
• You want suggestions tied to actual market trend data
• You want product ideas that fit your shop’s existing aesthetic and audience
• You want to explore 5 ideas before committing credits

Pick Quick Create when:

• You already know exactly what you want to make
• You want to skip the discussion and go straight to production
• You’re producing a known winner (e.g., “another floral nursery print like the one that sold well last week”)

Most active sellers use both. Assistant for ideation; Quick Create for execution of known concepts.

Your first conversation

1. Open /assistant. The conversation starts empty — no form, no setup.
2. Tell it what you’re thinking. Plain language. Examples:
   • “I want to make something for spring weddings”
   • “What’s trending in nursery decor right now?”
   • “I have a wall art shop, surprise me with something I haven’t tried”
3. Review the suggestions. Each conversation produces up to 5 product suggestions, each with:
   • Product type (wall art, poster, clipart, sticker, SVG, custom)
   • Title and one-line product idea
   • Style direction
   • Quality tier recommendation
   • Strategy badge (Evergreen, Trending, or Seasonal)
   • Confidence score
   • The reasoning behind the suggestion
4. Approve, modify, or skip each one. Approving queues a suggestion for launch. Modifying lets you tweak any field before queuing. Skipping rejects it (and the assistant learns from the rejection).
5. Launch the queue. Once you’ve approved 1–5 suggestions, the launch bar at the bottom of the screen shows total credit cost. One click launches all approved suggestions as separate pipelines.

What the assistant draws on

Every suggestion is informed by:

• Your sales history — top performers, what’s converted, what hasn’t
• Your designer profile — style preferences, color palette, audience persona, niche
• Market trend data — live signals from Google, Pinterest, Apify-fetched Google Trends + TikTok + Amazon, Etsy competitive analysis, the seasonal calendar, and an LLM synthesis of the above
• Anti-repetition fingerprinting — the assistant avoids suggesting concepts too similar to ones you’ve already produced or rejected

If your shop is brand new (no sales history yet), the assistant leans more heavily on your designer profile and market trends. As you produce more, the personalization gets sharper.

What it costs

Conversations are free. You don’t pay credits to chat or see suggestions.

Credits are charged when you approve a suggestion and click launch. The launch bar shows total credits before you commit.

Tips that produce better suggestions

• Be specific about constraints. “Spring weddings, boho aesthetic, under $15 price point” produces sharper suggestions than “weddings.”
• Use the modify button instead of rejecting. If a suggestion is 80% right, edit the wrong 20% rather than skipping. The assistant learns more from edits than rejections.
• Reject genuinely bad suggestions. If a suggestion misses your aesthetic entirely, skip it. The rejection feeds back into future personalization.
• Have multiple short conversations rather than one long one. Each conversation is a fresh context — overlapping topics in one long chat can dilute the suggestions.

When suggestions miss

If the suggestions consistently feel off, two fixes usually help:

1. Update your designer profile. Settings → Branding → review style preferences, palette, and audience persona. The assistant relies heavily on this.
2. Try Quick Create for a few projects. If you produce 5–10 products through Quick Create, the sales history and feedback give the assistant much more to work with than an empty profile.

FAQ

Does the assistant work without an Etsy connection? Yes. Suggestions don’t require an Etsy connection — they pull from market trends and your designer profile. Connecting your shop adds sales history to the personalisation layer and enables automatic draft listing creation.

Can I start a pipeline directly from a suggestion without modifying? Yes. Approve and launch — the suggestion’s fields populate the pipeline automatically.

Is the assistant available on all plans? Yes. Conversations are free across all plans. Credits are only charged when pipelines launch.

Can I see past suggestions and outcomes? Yes. /assistant/history shows every past suggestion, whether it was approved/rejected/modified, and (if launched) the final pipeline outcome.

Will the assistant suggest things I’ve already made? No. Anti-repetition fingerprinting catches concepts too similar to your past pipelines (and to other recent suggestions in the same conversation).