diff --git a/litgpt/scripts/convert_lit_checkpoint.py b/litgpt/scripts/convert_lit_checkpoint.py
index 67bd61fe89..bd5cfa0a8e 100644
--- a/litgpt/scripts/convert_lit_checkpoint.py
+++ b/litgpt/scripts/convert_lit_checkpoint.py
@@ -239,10 +239,11 @@ def check_conversion_supported(lit_weights: Dict[str, torch.Tensor]) -> None:
 
 
 @torch.inference_mode()
-def convert_lit_checkpoint(checkpoint_path: Path, output_path: Path, config_path: Path) -> None:
-    config = Config.from_json(config_path)
+def convert_lit_checkpoint(checkpoint_dir: Path, output_dir: Path) -> None:
+    config = Config.from_json(checkpoint_dir / "lit_config.json")
 
-    output_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    output_path = output_dir / "model.pth"
 
     if "falcon" in config.name:
         copy_fn = partial(copy_weights_falcon, config.name)
@@ -257,7 +258,7 @@ def convert_lit_checkpoint(checkpoint_path: Path, output_path: Path, config_path
     # initialize a new empty state dict to hold our new weights
     sd = {}
     with incremental_save(output_path) as saver:
-        lit_weights = lazy_load(checkpoint_path)
+        lit_weights = lazy_load(checkpoint_dir / "lit_model.pth")
         lit_weights = lit_weights.get("model", lit_weights)
         check_conversion_supported(lit_weights)
         copy_fn(sd, lit_weights, saver=saver)
diff --git a/tests/test_convert_lit_checkpoint.py b/tests/test_convert_lit_checkpoint.py
index f7995c79f2..8940940f72 100644
--- a/tests/test_convert_lit_checkpoint.py
+++ b/tests/test_convert_lit_checkpoint.py
@@ -20,20 +20,21 @@ def test_convert_lit_checkpoint(tmp_path):
 
     ours_config = Config.from_name("Llama-2-7b-hf", block_size=8, n_layer=2, n_embd=32, n_head=2, padding_multiple=128)
     ours_model = GPT(ours_config)
-    checkpoint_path = tmp_path / "foo.ckpt"
-    config_path = tmp_path / "foo.json"
+    checkpoint_path = tmp_path / "lit_model.pth"
+    config_path = tmp_path / "lit_config.json"
     torch.save(ours_model.state_dict(), checkpoint_path)
     with open(config_path, "w") as fp:
         json.dump(asdict(ours_config), fp)
-    output_path = tmp_path / "generated.bin"
+    output_dir = tmp_path / "out_dir"
 
-    convert_lit_checkpoint(checkpoint_path, output_path, config_path)
-    assert set(os.listdir(tmp_path)) == {"foo.ckpt", "foo.json", "generated.bin"}
+    convert_lit_checkpoint(checkpoint_path.parent, output_dir)
+    assert set(os.listdir(tmp_path)) == {"lit_model.pth", "lit_config.json", "out_dir"}
+    assert os.path.isfile(output_dir / "model.pth")
 
     # check checkpoint is unwrapped
     torch.save({"model": ours_model.state_dict()}, checkpoint_path)
-    convert_lit_checkpoint(checkpoint_path, output_path, config_path)
-    converted_sd = torch.load(output_path)
+    convert_lit_checkpoint(checkpoint_path.parent, output_dir)
+    converted_sd = torch.load(output_dir / "model.pth")
     assert "model" not in converted_sd
 
 
diff --git a/tutorials/convert_lit_models.md b/tutorials/convert_lit_models.md
index d4b88cf6fd..beba3b32e4 100644
--- a/tutorials/convert_lit_models.md
+++ b/tutorials/convert_lit_models.md
@@ -6,21 +6,19 @@ We provide a helpful script to convert models LitGPT models back to their equiva
 
 ```sh
 python litgpt/scripts/convert_lit_checkpoint.py \
-    --checkpoint_path checkpoints/repo_id/lit_model.pth \
-    --output_path output_path/converted.pth \
-    --config_path checkpoints/repo_id/config.json
+    --checkpoint_dir checkpoint_dir \
+    --output_dir converted_dir
 ```
 
-These paths are just placeholders, you will need to customize them based on which finetuning or pretraining script you ran and it's configuration.
+These paths are just placeholders, you will need to customize them based on which finetuning or pretraining script you ran and its configuration.
 
 ### Loading converted LitGPT checkpoints into transformers
 
-If you want to load the converted checkpoints into a `transformers` model, please make sure you copied the original `config.json` file into the folder that contains the `converted.pth` file saved via `--output_path` above.
 
 For example,
 
 ```bash
-cp checkpoints/repo_id/config.json output_path/config.json
+cp checkpoints/repo_id/config.json converted/config.json
 ```
 
 Then, you can load the checkpoint file in a Python session as follows:
@@ -30,9 +28,9 @@ import torch
 from transformers import AutoModel
 
 
-state_dict = torch.load("output_path/converted.pth")
+state_dict = torch.load("output_dir/model.pth")
 model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
-    "output_path/", local_files_only=True, state_dict=state_dict
+    "output_dir/", local_files_only=True, state_dict=state_dict
 )
 ```
 
@@ -105,9 +103,8 @@ python scripts/merge_lora.py \
 
 ```bash
 python litgpt/scripts/convert_lit_checkpoint.py \
-   --checkpoint_path $finetuned_dir/final/lit_model.pth \
-   --output_path out/hf-tinyllama/converted_model.pth \
-   --config_path checkpoints/$repo_id/lit_config.json 
+   --checkpoint_dir $finetuned_dir/final/ \
+   --output_dir out/hf-tinyllama/converted \
 ```
 
 
@@ -117,6 +114,6 @@ python litgpt/scripts/convert_lit_checkpoint.py \
 import torch
 from transformers import AutoModel
 
-state_dict = torch.load('out/hf-tinyllama/converted_model.pth')
+state_dict = torch.load('out/hf-tinyllama/converted/model.pth')
 model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-intermediate-step-1431k-3T", state_dict=state_dict)
 ```