Service 05 · AI & automation

AI-Powered Authority Systems

Voice-trained AI models, editorial workflows, and a knowledge brain built on your corpus — so a founder with a team of one to five can publish like a house of ten without sounding like a robot.

Investment

From $4,300

build, then $1,500/mo stewardship

Timeline

Four weeks to build, live automations from week five

Four-week build · then monthly stewardship

Best for

Expert founders

Expert founders with tiny teams who want leverage without handing their voice to a generic chatbot.

We fine-tune private models on your archive — essays, interviews, voice notes, transcripts — and wire them into the small systems that actually save hours: editorial AI workflows, knowledge retrieval with citations, and content-operations automation. Every output still passes a human editor — ours, then yours. Strategy without execution is theatre, so we build, train, and operate the system; the only thing your team has to do is think out loud.

What's included

  • —Voice-trained AI model on your corpus, privately hosted
  • —Editorial AI workflows in the tools you already use (Notion, Slack, Google Docs)
  • —Knowledge retrieval (RAG) brain over your past work — queryable, cited, no hallucinations
  • —Content-operations automation — briefs, scheduling, distribution, repurposing
  • —Prompt library for drafts, repurposing, and replies
  • —Lead capture and follow-up sequences on autopilot
  • —Team onboarding, recorded SOPs, and an editorial playbook
  • —Quarterly retraining and guardrail review

Example deliverables

What actually lands in your inbox.

01

Your voice model

A private model tuned on your doctrine, interviews, and past writing — with a written guardrail sheet for what it must never say.

02

Editorial AI workflows

Custom assistants for ideation, outlining, editing, and repurposing, built into the tools your team already uses.

03

Knowledge retrieval (RAG)

Your past work, research, and transcripts turned into a searchable brain your team can query in plain language — with citations, never hallucinations.

04

Content-operations automation

Briefs, scheduling, distribution, and repurposing handled by agents you trust — one essay becomes a newsletter issue, three posts, and a subscriber note.

Timeline

How it runs.

Four weeks to build, live automations from week five

  1. 01

    Build

    We stand up the voice-trained model, knowledge base (RAG), and editorial workflows — privately hosted, your data, your control. Brand and tone guardrails set before anything ships.

  2. 02

    Train

    We onboard your team — writers, ops, marketing — so the systems are used, not shelved. Light documentation, quiet rituals, recorded SOPs, and four weeks of office hours.

  3. 03

    Operate

    An ongoing editorial retainer — monthly model tuning, content QA, and a quarterly strategy review — so the practice keeps compounding instead of decaying.

Your part

What we need from you.

Time commitment

6–8 hours during the build and training window, then 1–2 hours a month in office hours if you stay on stewardship.

  • 01

    Provide the source material the system will be trained on (writing, transcripts, docs)

  • 02

    Nominate one internal owner who will actually run the system day to day

  • 03

    Attend the build review and the training session with your team

  • 04

    Approve the guardrails: what the system may and may not publish

  • 05

    Grant the tool access needed for setup (revocable at any time)

After you book

What happens next.

From application to published work — the exact sequence, so nothing is a surprise.

Start the process →
  • A reply with an honest read on whether AI fits your workflow right now, plus a link to a 15-minute conversation.

  • You grant revocable tool access and share the source material — writing, transcripts, docs — the system will learn your voice from.

  • We train the model, wire the workflows into your tools, and set the guardrails: what it may and may not publish. You review at each milestone.

  • Your team is onboarded with recorded SOPs and live office hours. Workflows get tuned against real briefs until the output holds your standard.

  • On stewardship, we retrain monthly on new writing, QA AI-assisted drafts, and review guardrails quarterly. You just use the system.

Pricing packages

Build, Train, Operate — your call.

Three tiers, from a one-off setup to a fully stewarded system. Each is a fixed scope agreed in writing before we begin.

Build

The one-off setup — your voice, your brain, your workflows.

From $4,300

fixed fee · four-week build

  • —Voice-trained AI model on your corpus, privately hosted
  • —Knowledge retrieval (RAG) brain over your past work
  • —Editorial AI workflows in your tools (Notion, Slack, Docs)
  • —Brand and tone guardrails set before launch
  • —Prompt library for drafts, repurposing, and replies
  • —Team onboarding + recorded SOPs

Best for — Founders who want the system live and want to run it themselves.

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Most chosen

Build + Train

The setup, plus a month of hands-on team enablement.

From $5,800

fixed fee · build + four weeks of office hours

  • —Everything in Build, plus:
  • —Four weeks of office hours and live coaching
  • —Editorial playbook and light documentation
  • —Workflow tuning against real briefs
  • —Hand-off with a working cadence in place

Best for — Small teams who want the system adopted, not just installed.

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Build, Train & Operate

The full system, stewarded month after month.

From $5,800 + $1,500/mo

build fee · then monthly stewardship

  • —Everything in Build + Train, plus:
  • —Monthly model retraining on new writing
  • —Content QA on AI-assisted drafts
  • —Quarterly guardrail and strategy review
  • —Lead capture and follow-up automations
  • —Priority turnaround

Best for — Founders who want the system compounding without lifting a finger.

Apply for Build, Train & Operate →

Questions

AI & automation,
answered.

What the work involves, how long it takes, and what we need from you. If a question isn't here, write to us — we answer every note ourselves.

What happens in the Build phase?

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Over four weeks we stand up your private, voice-trained model, the knowledge-retrieval (RAG) brain over your past work, and the editorial AI workflows inside the tools your team already uses — Notion, Slack, Google Docs. Brand and tone guardrails are set before anything ships, so the model can write in your voice but knows what it must never say.

What does Train actually involve?

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We onboard your team — writers, ops, marketing — so the systems get used, not shelved. That means light documentation, recorded SOPs, an editorial playbook, and four weeks of office hours. By the end your team can brief the model, query the knowledge base, and ship drafts through the workflow without us in the room.

What does Operate cover month to month?

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An ongoing editorial retainer: monthly model retraining on new writing, content QA on AI-assisted drafts, guardrail review, and a quarterly strategy session. Operate is what keeps the system compounding instead of drifting — the model learns your latest thinking, not last quarter's.

Does the AI write everything on its own?

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No. Every output still passes a human editor — ours first, then yours. The model does the heavy lifting of drafting, repurposing, and retrieval, but nothing publishes without a human reading it. The system is leverage, not autopilot.

Is my data private?

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Yes. Your model, knowledge base, and corpus are privately hosted — your data, your control. We never train shared models on your work, and you can export or delete everything at any time.

What if I already have content?

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Even better. We ingest your existing essays, newsletters, interviews, and transcripts as the training corpus and the RAG brain's source material. Past work becomes queryable knowledge and the voice the model learns from.

Do I need a technical team?

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No. The entire point is that a founder with a team of one to five gets house-of-ten leverage. We build, we onboard, we operate — the only thing your team has to do is think out loud and review drafts.

AI-Powered Authority Systems

Let's build the system that publishes at your standard.

Mention AI-Powered Authority Systems in your application and we'll come to the call with specific thoughts on your work — from $4,300, four weeks to build, live automations from week five.

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