Ten minutes. That's how long it takes to go from "I have a topic" to "I have a full course with 5 modules, 20 lessons, and a quiz." No writing. No editing. No structural work.
Here's exactly how, using Sikho Guru's Course Generator.
The Old Way (6-12 weeks)
To ship a single course traditionally:
- Outline structure (2-3 days)
- Research each lesson (1-2 weeks)
- Write lesson scripts (2-4 weeks)
- Record video (1-2 weeks)
- Edit + upload (1 week)
- Build quizzes (3-5 days)
- Publish + market (ongoing)
Most creators never finish step 2. That's why most online courses get started but never shipped.
The New Way (10 minutes for the skeleton)
Sikho.ai Guru's Course Generator collapses steps 1-3 + 6 into a 10-minute AI-driven workflow:
- Enter a topic. Literally a sentence. "How to fine-tune an LLM for customer support."
- Guru researches the topic. It pulls structured sources, reference implementations, commonly-asked questions.
- Guru drafts the course outline. 3-5 modules, 8-20 lessons, with explicit dependencies (module 4 needs concepts from module 2).
- Guru writes the lesson content. Full explanations, code examples where relevant, analogies, exercises.
- Guru generates the quizzes. Assessment aligned to learning objectives.
- You review + edit. This is where your voice, experience, and nuance go in.
Cost: 35 credits per course. The Learner tier ($15/month) includes 1,000 credits/month — so you can generate ~28 courses per month if you're going fast.
Three Course Types
When you generate, you pick the length:
- Micro — 2 modules, 5 lessons, 60-80 min. Good for a single technique or a tool tutorial.
- Intensive — 3-5 modules, 8-20 lessons, 4-10 hours. Good for a full skill path.
- Custom — define your own module count and lesson structure.
Four Creation Modes
- AI Generated — Guru does everything (what I described above)
- Your Materials — Upload PDFs, videos, docs. Platform structures them into course format.
- Materials + AI — Your content + AI fills gaps, generates quizzes
- Manual — Full control with the course editor (for when you want to author from scratch)
The Critical Part You Still Have to Do
Guru generates the skeleton. You provide:
- Your voice. Rewrite lessons to sound like you. AI defaults are clean but bland.
- Your stories. "When I was working at X, I hit this exact bug..." — AI can't do that.
- Your opinion. Every course worth taking has a point of view. AI plays it safe; you shouldn't.
- Your video. Record a talking-head intro per module. That's what sells.
The formula: Guru writes 80% of structure + knowledge, you write 100% of voice + opinion + video.
The Monetization Angle
Once your course is live on Sikho's marketplace, you keep 85% of every sale (15% platform fee). Payouts via Stripe Connect.
Compare:
- Udemy: 25-50% take-home
- Skillshare: watch-time royalties (pennies)
- Self-hosted: 100% but $50-300/month in platform fees
Break-even on the $15 subscription: $18 in sales. Most creators clear that in their first week after publishing.
AI Tutor Included
Every course you publish automatically gets a free 24/7 AI Tutor attached. No extra setup. Students who get stuck at 2am don't refund — they ask the tutor and keep going.
This compounds. Higher completion → higher reviews → more sales → more revenue.
Try It
- Open Guru AI — Course Generator is the first app in the list
- Browse existing courses to see the format + competition
- Pricing — Explorer tier is FREE forever, Learner is $15/mo to sell
- Read our blog for creator case studies
The Real Point
The bottleneck for course creators has never been ideas. It's time-to-ship. When ship-time drops from 6 weeks to one evening, creators who'd never have shipped... ship.
That's the shift. More courses get made, more knowledge gets packaged, more creators earn — because the first 10 minutes are AI-assisted.
Try Sikho.ai free. Generate a test course in the next hour. See if it's usable.
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