Write With AI — Nicolas Cole's Substack community for writers using ChatGPT and Claude

Write With AI is a paid Substack newsletter run by Nicolas Cole, a writer and content strategist known for building large online audiences through disciplined content systems. The publication has grown to over 113,000 subscribers, making it one of the larger communities specifically organized around AI-assisted writing practice.

The focus is narrow: how to use ChatGPT and Claude as writing partners through effective prompting. Cole’s approach treats AI as a personal writing assistant that needs to be directed precisely rather than used as a general-purpose generator. Each issue tends to include specific prompts, examples of output before and after refinement, and notes on when AI assistance improves work versus when it homogenizes it.

The community attracts writers, content marketers, newsletter operators, and freelancers who want to increase output without losing voice. Cole is explicit that the newsletter does not support using AI to publish work without editorial involvement—the emphasis is on AI-assisted writing where the human retains creative control.

Topics covered include building prompt frameworks for consistent tone, using AI for structural outlines versus prose generation, repurposing existing content into new formats, and developing systems for recurring content needs like newsletters or social media.

Worth joining if you write regularly and want a community where AI writing practice is treated as a craft to be developed rather than a shortcut. The subscription cost is a signal filter: the community tends to draw writers who are serious about improving their work rather than looking for volume hacks.