Frequently asked

It's the business side of our card apps. We started with birthday-cards.ai, where people make one-of-one AI cards from a photo or a single detail about someone. custom-cards.ai is where a shop or brand sets up that same engine under its own name - your page, your branding, your customers making the cards. Everything you can try on this site is a live sample of what your page would do.

We stand up a card page branded for your shop - your name on the page and on the cards, on your own domain if you want it there. Your customers upload a photo or share one detail, and the engine designs a one-of-one card around it. You don't build or maintain anything. We run the engine; you send people to the page.

The pilot is free. We build a branded sample page for your shop, you try it with real customers, and there's no charge to see it working. If you decide to keep it, we shape pricing around your shop and how you want to sell the cards. No contracts to start.

A one-of-one card designed around a photo or a detail they share - no templates, no clip art. It takes about 2-3 minutes and comes out as an image plus a print-ready PDF. They can print it at home on cardstock, or you can print it in the shop and sell it at the counter with their order.

Yes. Cards generated through your page are yours to print and sell - at the counter, with an order, however it fits your shop. We add no watermark and take no cut of what you charge for a printed card; the pilot and the plan that follows cover the page itself. Individuals making a card for someone can keep doing that for free too.

Almost none, and we mean that literally. Your staff asks one question at the counter: want a card to go with the flowers? The flower types go into the page, the card designs itself in about 2-3 minutes, and it comes out as a print-ready PDF that goes straight to your printer. No design skills, no software to learn, no inventory to stock - your side of the setup is a color printer and cardstock.

Not yet. Today your branded page stands on its own, which is part of why it takes nothing to run. If enough shops want it, a Shopify app that puts the card right into your online checkout is the natural next thing for us to build - tell us if that is you.

Anywhere a card naturally rides along with a purchase. Flower shops are one clear fit - our flower card page is a live example of the kind of page a shop gets. Frame shops are another: customers create the art in the shop and it sells as a card or as a framed print. Bakeries, gift boutiques, and event venues make sense too. If your customers buy things for the people they love, a personal card belongs next to the order.

Hi, I'm Gabriel. I run GLF Analytics, a data and AI consultancy in LA, and I built the card engine behind birthday-cards.ai. 500+ cards have been created across our card apps to date, and the thing people keep telling us is that the cards land because they're personal - no template behind them, better than what's on the shelf. custom-cards.ai is where I work directly with shops and brands that want that engine under their own name. I even wrote about building it.