A Living Library proposal for Friends
The legacy of your life's work should be conversationally accessible - even when you're not in the room.
The Living Library turns everything you've built — every book, talk, article, interview, and idea — into a living, interactive entity that represents you 24/7.
Living Library Demo
Hey, thanks for stopping by. I'd love to show you what we build here, but it's way more interesting if I can relate it to you individually. So tell me — what's the body of work you've spent years building, and where does it all live right now?
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Follow along as Josh Galt's living library is being built, bugs and allThe Problem
You've spent years — maybe decades — building something real. Writing, speaking, teaching, creating. And your body of work is scattered.
Some of it lives on a website that hasn't been updated in years. Some is buried in podcast appearances most people will never find. Some sits on platforms you don't control — platforms that can change their algorithms, demonetise your content, or disappear entirely.
A new person finds you today. They land on a static page. They get fragments — not you. Not the full picture. Not the connections between ideas that make your work distinctive.
Meanwhile, your ideas are being discussed, shared, and sometimes misrepresented in spaces you can't monitor. Without a definitive, authoritative source that people can check against, others control the narrative.
The Solution
The Living Library is a ground-up build that takes your entire body of work and makes it conversational, searchable, and alive.
A visitor arrives at your site. They ask a question — by typing or speaking. The AI draws from everything you've ever published, synthesises an answer in your voice, and cites the source material. It doesn't make things up. It doesn't speculate. It connects ideas across years of work in ways that would take a human researcher hours.
Trained exclusively on your content — it speaks the way you speak, holds the positions you hold, and knows the boundaries of what you've said and what you haven't.
Your body of work stops being an archive. It starts being an experience.
Why This Matters — For You Specifically
The Living Library solves four problems that every creator, thought leader, and entrepreneur with a substantial body of work eventually faces.
1.The Discoverability Problem
People who already follow you know where to find things. Everyone else doesn't. Your best work is buried in old episodes, archived blog posts, and platforms with terrible search. The Living Library makes everything findable — instantly.
2.The Context Problem
Your positions evolve over time. A static archive treats everything as equally current. The Living Library distinguishes between earlier thinking and current positions — presenting your ideas with the nuance they deserve.
3.The Platform Risk Problem
Content on third-party platforms isn't fully yours to control. Algorithms change. Accounts get flagged. Platforms sunset features. A Living Library on your own infrastructure — your domain, your hosting — is inherently resilient.
4.The Scale Problem
There's only one of you. You can't personally answer every question from every reader, listener, or potential collaborator. The Living Library handles the 80% of questions you've already answered somewhere in your published content — freeing you to focus on the conversations that actually need you.
What You Get
The Essential Living Library package includes everything you need to launch.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Modern Website | Fast, mobile-optimised, professionally designed site built on your brand identity. Clean, modern, and built to load instantly. |
| Interactive AI Agent (Text + Voice) | Visitors ask questions by typing or speaking. AI responds using your published content with full citations. Trained on your voice, your positions, your boundaries. |
| Content Library | Organised, searchable archive of your published work — articles, interviews, talks, books, podcasts — all in one place. |
| About / Bio | Professional biography and background section. Your story, told properly. |
| Contact / CTA | Contact form, booking links, social profiles, and clear calls to action for visitors who want to engage further. |
| SEO Foundation | Technical SEO, meta tags, Open Graph images, structured data, sitemap, and analytics. Built to be found. |
| RAG Knowledge Base | Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that connects the AI to your full body of work. This is the engine that makes everything else possible. |
The Knowledge Base — What Gets Ingested
The AI is only as good as what it knows. We ingest everything relevant and structure it for retrieval.
| Source | What Gets Ingested |
|---|---|
| Website / Blog | All published articles and posts — structured by topic, date, and theme. |
| YouTube / Video | Full transcripts of all video content — talks, interviews, tutorials, commentary. |
| Podcasts | Your own podcast episodes and guest appearances — transcribed, indexed, and searchable. |
| Books / Publications | Full text ingested by chapter and theme. The AI can cite specific sections and connect ideas across chapters. |
| Interviews and Talks | Conference presentations, panel discussions, webinars, and media appearances — all transcribed and indexed. |
| Social Media | Long-form posts and threads (curated) — the substantive content, not the noise. |
| Newsletters | Full archive of published newsletters — searchable and connected to the rest of your work. |
How the AI Handles Your Content
The AI isn't a generic chatbot. It's trained to represent you faithfully — and to know its own limits.
| Scenario | How the AI Responds |
|---|---|
| Topic covered extensively | Synthesises across multiple sources. Provides a comprehensive answer with citations to specific articles, chapters, episodes, or talks. |
| Topic not addressed | States clearly that you haven't covered this topic in published work. Does not speculate or generate an answer. |
| Position has evolved | Presents your most recent position first, then flags that your thinking has evolved — with citations to both earlier and current work. |
| Mischaracterisation attempt | Redirects to your actual words. Provides direct citations so visitors can verify for themselves. |
| Hostile or bad-faith question | Responds calmly and factually, drawing from published work. Does not engage with provocation or editorialise. |
| Visitor speaks a different language | Responds in the visitor's language (with Multi-Language add-on). Your ideas, their language. |
Pricing
Essential Living Library
$3,333 deposit · $5,555 on delivery
$222/month Covers hosting, AI API costs, content ingestion pipeline, ongoing maintenance, SSL, and domain management.
Introductory pricing available for select projects — ask about Friends & Family rates.
Optional Add-Ons
AI responds in the visitor's language — not just translation, but culturally contextualised responses drawn from your original content.
Gated content area for courses, premium material, or membership-based access. Includes user authentication and payment integration.
Sell books, merchandise, digital products, or courses directly from your site. Integrated with Stripe for payments.
Email capture, automated sequences, and newsletter management. Built into the site — no third-party platform required.
Embedded podcast player with episode archive, show notes, and transcript search. All episodes indexed by the AI.
Public calendar for upcoming events, speaking engagements, and appearances. Booking requests routed to your inbox.
Timeline
Week 1
Kickoff call. Content handoff. We begin ingesting your published material and structuring the knowledge base.
Week 1–2
Site build begins. AI persona and knowledge base configured. Design aligned with your brand identity.
Week 2
Review and test. You interact with the AI, flag anything that needs adjustment — tone, boundaries, citation accuracy.
Week 2
Launch. Site deployed to your domain. DNS configured. SEO baseline established. Monitoring begins.
Ongoing
New content automatically ingested as you publish. Monthly maintenance, performance monitoring, and AI refinement.
Our Process To Start Your Living Library
30-minute kickoff call
We need to understand your voice, your priorities, and the boundaries of what the AI should and shouldn't say.
Access to existing content
Blog posts, YouTube channel, podcast feed, books, newsletters — everything the AI should know about. We handle the ingestion.
Brand assets
Logo, headshot, brand colours, and any existing style guidelines. If you don't have these, we'll work with what you have.
Domain access (DNS credentials)
So we can deploy the site to your domain. If you need a new domain, we'll help you choose and register one.
1–2 hours of review time
To test the AI, review the site, and flag anything that needs adjustment before we go live.
About Anabasis Intelligence
Anabasis Intelligence is an AI implementation firm that helps traditional businesses, sovereign entrepreneurs, and personal brands deploy production-ready AI systems that create compounding competitive advantage. Founded in 1999, relaunched in 2025 with an AI-first focus. The firm combines 25+ years of operational and life experience across 70+ countries and 9 specialized industry verticals with deep AI implementation expertise. Based in the western hemisphere, serving North America and global clients.
Your work already speaks for itself. Now it can speak for you.
Every book you've written, every talk you've given, every article you've published, every interview you've done — it all sits in archives that most people will never dig through.
The Living Library changes that. It takes everything and makes it accessible, conversational, and alive.
Not a replacement for you — an extension of you. Available to anyone, anytime, in any language. Representing your ideas faithfully, with full citations, on your own infrastructure.
If you're interested, reach out. We'll show you a demo, walk through your specific use case, and tell you exactly what your Living Library would look like.