Galley

For published authors with a backlist

The intelligence layer for your book.

AI will not write your book. It will bring your book to life. Upload your catalog and every title becomes a coach your readers can text: it answers in your voice, works them through the material, and opens the door to your next offer.

PDF · DOCX · EPUB · Google Docs — no title ingested without your license

The problem

The reader finishes. The relationship ends.

A book is a one-way, static artifact. It is also the strongest relationship-builder you own, and right now it hands that relationship to no one.

01The book goes quiet
A reader closes the back cover and the conversation is over. Everything you built across three hundred pages stops at the colophon.
02Publishers keep the data
You do not know who your readers are, where they live, or what they wanted next. The sales channel belongs to the publisher, and the publisher shares almost nothing.
03The back-of-book CTA converts near zero
“Visit my website” on the last page is the only bridge from the book to your course, your coaching, your keynote. It has never carried the weight.
04The backlist sits inert
Years of accumulated work, in print and in the world, generating no ongoing engagement and no ongoing income.

How it works

From upload to launch kit in four steps.

  1. 01 · Catalog

    Upload your catalog

    PDF, DOCX, EPUB, or a Google Doc per title. Every chapter is indexed for retrieval; replies quote bounded excerpts, never chapter dumps. You confirm ownership and grant the license first.

  2. 02 · Voice

    Capture your voice

    Connect your socials, podcast, and channel. The bot learns your tone, vocabulary, and recurring themes, so it reads like your work and not like a chatbot.

  3. 03 · Offer map

    Map your offers

    Courses, coaching, speaking, the next book. Each offer gets a link, a price, and a trigger. No map yet? The platform interviews you and drafts one.

  4. 04 · Launch kit

    Print the launch kit

    A QR code, a custom URL, a phone number, and a print-ready insert page for the book itself. Your galley is ready.

The reader side

Readers text the book. The book answers.

No app, no account. A reader scans the QR code on the last page and is in conversation with your work in seconds. The bot coaches from the material and surfaces an offer only when the reader’s need genuinely matches one. A bot that pitches on every third message burns your brand; this one fires on fit.

The Marginal Hour · web chatSession 2 · returning reader
Finished chapter 4 last night. The hour ledger felt brutal. Do I really have to log every evening for two weeks?
Two weeks is where the ledger stops flattering you. Most people see the pattern by day ten: the hour is not missing, it is being spent in slivers. Keep the log through day fourteen, then run the chapter 5 audit against real entries instead of guesses.
Is there a way to do this with other people? I fall off when it’s just me.
Chapter 6 was written for exactly that fall-off, and yes: the author runs a small live cohort each quarter. Four sessions, ledger reviews included. Want the dates, or shall we set up your own check-in here first?
Plate I · Web chat, free tier · Replies drawn from ch. 4–6 in bounded excerpts

Insights dashboard

Reader data no publisher ever handed you.

What readers ask, clustered by theme and chapter. Where they live, city by city. Which titles spark conversation, and a funnel from QR scan to conversation to conversion. The opportunity feed turns it into moves: demand for a workshop, an inbound keynote, a press inquiry waiting in the message inbox.

Opportunity feed · last 30 daysLive
14 readers · Austin, TX
Workshop demand, this month
3 speaking inquiries
Captured and flagged to your inbox
Ch. 4 · The Hour Ledger
Most-discussed chapter, all titles
31% of QR scans
Start a conversation
Plate II · Insights dashboard, opportunity feed · Aggregated and anonymized

Pricing

From one title to a whole list.

Basic

$49/mo

One title, brought to life.

  • 1 title
  • Web chat
  • Standard intelligence
  • Insights lite

Pro

Most authors

$199/mo

The whole catalog, on every text channel.

  • Full catalog
  • SMS, WhatsApp & Telegram
  • Advanced intelligence
  • Full insights dashboard
  • Receptionist skills: messages, calls, speaking inquiries

Premium

$499/mo

Frontier models, voice, and courses.

  • Everything in Pro
  • iMessage & inbound voice calls
  • Frontier intelligence
  • Author voice cloning, opt-in
  • Course Generator

Publisher

Custom

Provision an entire list.

  • Bulk onboarding across imprints
  • Imprint-level analytics
  • Co-marketing tools
  • SLA

Reader subscriptions ($5–15/mo, set by you) carry a 15–20% platform share; you keep the rest. Voice minutes are metered on the top plan.

Wake up the backlist.

Design-partner seats are open for a first cohort of authors: hand-onboarded, across genres, live within days. Bring one title or the whole shelf.

Your galley is ready in minutes, not months