Mindola for Authors
AI for authors with more to say than time to reply: Mindola turns your books, essays, and talks into a Digital Twin that answers readers in your voice, from material you approved.
Answers only from your material·Flags what it can't answer·Private and encrypted by default
Your readers don't wait for morning.
Your best answers live in your head. The rest are scattered across two books, a backlist of essays, interview transcripts, talk recordings, and the questions readers keep sending you by email. Mindola captures all of it, from manuscripts and links to notes and voice memos, into one private knowledge base, and turns it into a Digital Twin that talks about your work the way you would.
The twin speaks only from what you gave it. Ask it something you never taught it and it says so, then hands the conversation to you. This is a digital twin for an author that stays inside your own pages: no invented plot point, no promised sequel, no claim you never made.
Books, transcripts, links, notes, and voice memos all count as material. Nothing outside it reaches your twin.
While you slept
Readers finish books at midnight, and podcast bookers research guests across time zones. They close the last chapter, ask the questions they would never put in a contact form, and go quiet by morning. Your twin answers from your work, captures who they are and what they want, and leaves the judgment to you. You wake up to a conversation, not an email address.
Your twin keeps every conversation it has for you, threaded and summarized. You read what readers actually asked, in their own words, without wading through an inbox to find it. The questions it refused are collected separately, so you can see where your material has gaps and which parts of your books readers keep circling back to.
Every ask lands in one inbox, titled and summarized. The ones that keep repeating become your next essay, your next chapter, or a line in your FAQ. You stop guessing what your readers want to know next.
Readers and hosts are grouped by person, not by session, and marked as new, cooling off, or leaning in. You see who keeps coming back before you spend an evening on any of them.
Step into any thread as yourself. Your reply lands in the same conversation, clearly marked as you. Good answers can be saved back into your knowledge, so the twin gives them next time.
An afternoon on the wrong request is an afternoon the next book does not get back. Podcast hosts, journalists on deadline, book clubs, rights inquiries, all arriving in the same inbox with the same subject line. Your twin screens first. It answers what your material covers, asks what each person actually needs, and records who is asking.
You see each request as a person rather than a session: what they asked, how urgent it sounds, whether they are browsing or booking. They can call the twin and talk instead of type. When you do reply, you already know the show, the deadline, and the angle, so the first email is not spent finding them out.
Royalties arrive twice a year, and everything in between runs on speaking gigs that each cost you a week. A lens is the first thing you can offer that is made of your backlist but not your calendar. Put a monthly price on it and it becomes a reader circle: members get ongoing access to your thinking, and Stripe pays you out directly.
Use it as a lower tier for readers who will never book a talk or buy a course, or as a home for the audience a book leaves behind once the questions keep arriving. Your books and events surface inside the conversation when they are relevant, not as a popup.
The common approach is to point a general chatbot at the internet and hope it guesses well. AI for authors works the other way around: you upload your books, essays, and interviews, and your Digital Twin answers only from those, in your voice, at any hour. A contact form collects a message and waits for you; a lens answers what it can on the spot and tells you what a host or journalist actually needs. Anything outside your material it declines and hands to you.
It is a private knowledge base of your published work with a conversation on top of it. You give it your books, essays, transcripts, and notes, decide what each lens is allowed to see, and share one link where readers can chat with the author at any hour. There is no coding and nothing to host. It knows only what you taught it, and it says so when a question falls outside that.
No. The twin answers only from the material you gave it, and every reply stays inside those pages. Ask it about a plot point you never wrote, a claim you never made, or a book you have not published, and it says the question falls outside its material instead of guessing. Where a general chatbot fills gaps with fluent invention, a lens fills them with a refusal and hands the conversation to you. Fewer answers, none of them made up.
No, and it is not built to. The twin answers the questions a book raises, not the book itself: how an idea applies to a reader's situation, where to start, what you meant in a chapter they have already read. You choose what each lens can discuss, so it points people toward the book rather than substituting for it. In practice, the readers who ask the most questions are the ones who already own both books and want to go deeper.
No. It is useful from day one because it answers the questions your existing readers already have, whether that is a few hundred newsletter subscribers or a bestseller list. This is not a growth hack, and it will not find readers for you. What it does is make sure the reader who finishes your book at midnight, or the host who finds you on a Tuesday, can ask the author's twin and get a real answer, and that you see every one of those conversations.
Yes, completely. You decide what goes into your knowledge base and what each lens may discuss, and anything you mark off limits gets a decline and a handoff to you rather than an improvised answer. An unannounced sequel, a work in progress, or a topic you keep out of interviews stays off the record. Everything you upload is private by default and encrypted at rest, a lens can only reach the slices you point it at, and retiring a lens kills its link immediately.
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