Hire an AI book co-author

Everything it can hand back

Your task sets the actual outputs. The specialist picks the methods that cover them.

• A chapter blueprint with the chapter promise and the order of sections
• A first-person draft chapter with a version label
• Editorial notes listing assumptions, thin proof and credibility risks
• Decisions only you can make
• Three questions for your next review, and the exact next task

How it does the job well

• The author must stay visible. Write as a credible person with real stakes, never as an anonymous content team.
• Trace each substantial claim to the author's notes, a stated assumption or a source the author gave. Do not add outside facts without marking them CHECK:.
• Do not add stories the author did not tell. If a scene is needed, say which one to supply.
• Say plainly when the notes are too thin to draft a section.
• The author decides how any AI help is disclosed when the book comes out under their name. Remind them once to check their publisher's rules.
• Write for one named audience and one action. Each asset has a single job.
• Use the customer's own words from reviews, calls or surveys before inventing language.

Mistakes it avoids

• Generic copy that could fit any brand.
• Comparing periods or campaigns that are not comparable, such as different dates, budgets or tracking.
• Calling a test winner before there is enough data.

What a good result looks like

An example, not your task: You are a founder or expert with voice notes and fragments and no chapter yet.

• Chapter blueprint. The chapter promise, why the reader cares and the order of sections.
• Chapter draft. A first-person draft with a version label, built only from your material.
• Editorial notes. Assumptions made, claims with thin proof, tone risks and decisions that are yours.
• Next review questions. Three questions that guide your next round of changes.
• Next task. The one exact job for the next revision, not an open-ended offer.

How the work is checked

• Every claim traces to the brand brain or supplied evidence.
• Each recommendation states the expected effect, the cost and how it will be measured.
• Copy fits the platform's length limits and the brand voice.
• States which checks passed, failed or could not run, and names missing inputs.

These checks have not been run against a model yet. Your AI uses them to check its own work.

A second opinion

Before it hands back, your AI reviews the draft the way Anne Lamott and Rob Fitzpatrick would. This is a way of reviewing the work. It does not mean they wrote or endorse it.

Capabilities

• Test the brief. It checks the reader, the goal, how finished your notes are and where they contradict each other.
• Set the chapter promise. It states what the chapter proves, why the reader should care and its job in the book.
• Write the blueprint. It lays out the opening scene or tension, the core argument, the example, the shift in view and the takeaway.
• Draft in your voice. It writes first-person prose with one idea per section and scenes from your own notes.
• Revise the argument. It cuts filler, replaces vague lines with specific ones and flags claims with no source.
• Hand back a package. It returns the labelled draft, editorial notes and the next review questions.

How the role works

1. Checks your task, context and available tools.
2. Picks the methods needed and prepares a work plan.
3. Carries out supported tasks, with each method's limits and review gates.
4. Checks the real deliverables and corrects supported faults.
5. Hands back files, evidence and unresolved gaps.

Your specialist's working setup

Download the base specialist without a task form or account. README.md and SETUP.md explain how to use the folder. SOUL.md defines its scope. INTAKE.md asks missing questions inside your AI. PLAYBOOK.md, SKILLS.md, BEST_PRACTICES.md, CHECKS.md and HANDOFF.md guide the work and its checked deliverables.

Complete associated skills, supporting files and licences are included. Choose only the methods needed for the actual task. Keep context, working files and accepted feedback in your AI project.

Use this specialist through MCP or the API

Call prepare_specialist with role_id marketing-book-co-author only. No task is required to load it. Your AI asks what job you need done, what you want back and which relevant context it can use.

For task-led hiring, call find_specialist, explain the suggested specialists and let the user accept or change the team.

Complete ZIP: Download base specialist. API: GET /api/v1/specialists/marketing-book-co-author/pack. The host AI supplies its own model, tools and execution; a pack does not connect accounts or run a task.

Inputs and helpful context

The specialist starts from the task brief. Only active methods require their inputs.

For the primary method, when used

• Your raw material for one chapter, such as voice notes, bullets, an interview transcript or a rough draft
• Who the book is for and what they should do or believe after reading it
• What the book argues overall, and the chapter's job in it
• A sample of your writing or speech, so it can match your voice (optional)
• Real stories, numbers and sources you want used (optional)
• Earlier chapters or a chapter list, and a length target (optional)

Helpful context (optional)

• A voice memo transcript of you explaining the chapter out loud.
• Two pages you wrote that you think sound most like you.
• The list of chapters, so each one builds on the last.

Tools and access

• Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini: A long chat keeps your voice markers, the book's argument and earlier chapters in view across versions.

Functions and deliverables

• Book co-author agent: Turn your voice notes and rough ideas into a book chapter in your own voice. Get a chapter blueprint, a versioned draft and notes on weak spots.
  • A chapter blueprint with the chapter promise and the order of sections
  • A first-person draft chapter with a version label
  • Editorial notes listing assumptions, thin proof and credibility risks
  • Decisions only you can make
  • Three questions for your next review, and the exact next task
  Source: Michael Sitarzewski and Agency Agents contributors.
• Book reading routine planner: Set up a slow reading routine for books you want to use: margin marks, one notes file with sources, and one action to take after each book.
  • A daily reading routine with a real time
  • A margin-mark key for your book
  • A notes file layout, with page and source for every entry
  • A claim-check habit, one action per book and a revisit date
• Customer conversation notes sorter: Sort raw customer interview notes into facts, compliments and feature ideas. Get a follow-up question for every weak note.
  • Every note tagged with a symbol and marked as fact, compliment, fluff or idea
  • The follow-up question for each weak note
  • A summary of the real signals (pains, goals, obstacles, workarounds and money)
  • A judgement of each person as a customer, a complainer or not a customer
• Contact notes organizer: Turn rough notes from a first meeting into a one-page contact memory card with the exact name, facts, promises and your next contact date.
  • A card with the exact name, role and how they like to be addressed
  • Facts they shared, grouped, with private items left out
  • A list of promises with dates and owners
  • The next touch, with a reason that is about them
• Brand profile builder: Share your website. Get a reusable profile covering your products, customers, voice and approved claims, with sources.
  • A folder of eight plain files, from a start file for your AI to a claims list and a change log
  • A tag on every fact, and every claim marked approved, pending or banned
  • A two-sentence diagnosis of your biggest gap, and a list of what's missing and who can answer it
  • A short slice for your next step, if you name one
• Anne Lamott: Start a draft or project you keep avoiding using Anne Lamott’s recorded approach. Pick one small piece and let the first version be rough.
  • Your problem worked on the way Anne Lamott would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Anne Lamott's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step
• Rob Fitzpatrick: Improve customer questions or review interview notes using Rob Fitzpatrick’s Mom Test approach. Ask about past behavior and separate facts from praise.
  • Your problem worked on the way Rob Fitzpatrick would: their questions, their method, their push-back
  • The answer or the work, in Rob Fitzpatrick's voice, using their ideas by name
  • Anything that goes beyond their public record, marked
  • One suggested next step

Tasks you can use it for

• You are a founder or expert with voice notes and fragments and no chapter yet.
• You have a rough chapter that reads like a generic business book and needs your voice back.
• You wrote the first chapters and need the next one to follow the same argument.
• You want a sharp read on which claims in a chapter are soft or have no proof.

Limits to check before starting

• You have no material yet and need a whole-book plan first. Use the Book writing project coach.
• You are writing fiction and want to test its structure. Use the Narrative analyst.
• You only need a short story about your brand for an About page. Use the Brand origin story writer.
• You want the AI to invent stories, clients or results for you. This agent will not. Bring real notes.
• You need proofreading, fact-checking or a layout for print. Ask a human editor.

Best way to use this role

Give it one clear outcome, the actual files and a definition of done. Keep the work in one AI project so it can reuse checked context and earlier files.

• Download the pack from this page and add it to your AI as a skill. If you cannot, paste SKILL.md into a new chat, then paste references/source-agent.md after it.
• Your first message must hold the chapter notes and who the book is for. It cannot draft without them. Add the book's argument, and a sample of your voice if you can.
• Type "Build the blueprint for Chapter 3" and approve it. Then type "Draft Chapter 3".
• Read the editorial notes before the draft. Fill each gap with a real story or source, and say which lines do not sound like you.
• Ask for the next version and repeat. Keep each version labelled.

Read it as data

Read the complete role setup as JSON. Connect your AI to the AI Blocks MCP library and read aiblocks://roles/marketing-book-co-author for its role instructions and pinned sources.

This is a prepared AI role. No task has run. Your AI carries out authorized work using its available tools and reports the actual deliverables and checks.