An Anabasis Product
A conversational AI platform trained exclusively on a person's body of work. For authors, thought leaders, and experts with decades of content scattered across platforms they don't control.
For business knowledge capture, see the Company Know-How Library. For everything else we build, see What We Build.
What Is a Living Library?
Your entire body of work, made conversational and available 24/7. Visitors ask questions and get real answers from your actual content, cited back to the source. Not summaries. Not guesses.
Not a chatbot bolted onto a website. Trained exclusively on YOUR books, talks, and research — it responds in your voice and cites your material. It's you, around the clock.
Text and voice. Multilingual. And it gets smarter as new content is ingested — articles, interviews, podcasts, internal documents.
For Thought Leaders, Authors & Experts
Turn Your Body of Work Into a Conversational Living Library
Decades of books, talks, podcasts, and articles — scattered across platforms you don't control, buried in feeds nobody scrolls back through. A Living Library brings it all onto your own domain, where anyone can ask a question and get an answer drawn from your life's work, cited to the source.
AI Brains for Companies
Your Company's Best Knowledge Shouldn't Live in One Person's Head
Your most valuable asset is what your best people know — stored in their heads, with no backup. The plant manager who knows Machine #3 pulls left when humidity tops 60%. The chef who adjusts by feel. When they leave, decades of expertise vanish overnight. The Know-How Library captures that knowledge and makes it permanent, searchable, and conversational.
The Know-How Library is the knowledge layer of a full company brain — the same foundation powers costing, pricing, and scheduling engines, and fuels every agent you deploy. Capture it once; leverage it everywhere.
How It Works
Kickoff Call
We learn your brand, your voice, your goals (30 min)
Content Ingestion
We import your books, talks, articles, podcasts, interviews
AI Persona
We craft your AI to match your voice and boundaries
Review & Launch
You test it, we refine, then deploy to your domain
Ongoing
New content auto-ingested. Your Library gets smarter over time.
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.
Every book, talk, article, interview, and idea — turned 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?
talk to me!
Follow along as Josh Galt's living library is being built, bugs and allThe Problem
You've spent decades building something real — and it's scattered. A stale website. Podcast appearances nobody will find. Platforms you don't control that can change algorithms or disappear entirely.
A new person finds you today and gets fragments — not you.
Meanwhile, your ideas get discussed and misrepresented in spaces you can't monitor. Without an authoritative source to check against, others control the narrative.
The Solution
The Living Library makes your entire body of work conversational, searchable, and alive.
A visitor asks a question — typing or speaking. The AI draws from everything you've published, answers in your voice, and cites the source. No making things up. No speculating.
Trained exclusively on your content, it holds your positions and knows the boundaries of what you've said.
Your body of work stops being an archive. It starts being an experience.
Why This Matters — For You Specifically
Four problems every creator with a substantial body of work eventually faces.
1.The Discoverability Problem
Your best work is buried in old episodes and archived posts. The Living Library makes everything findable — instantly.
2.The Context Problem
Your positions evolve. A static archive treats everything as equally current. The Living Library distinguishes earlier thinking from current positions.
3.The Platform Risk Problem
Algorithms change. Accounts get flagged. Platforms die. A Living Library on your own domain and hosting is inherently resilient.
4.The Scale Problem
There's only one of you. The Living Library handles the 80% of questions you've already answered somewhere — freeing you for 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. |
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
An AI implementation firm deploying production-ready systems for businesses, sovereign entrepreneurs, and personal brands. Founded in 1999, relaunched in 2025 AI-first. 25+ years of operational experience across 70+ countries and 9 industry verticals, serving North America and global clients.
Your work already speaks for itself. Now it can speak for you.
Everything you've written, said, and published sits in archives most people will never dig through. The Living Library makes it accessible, conversational, and alive.
Not a replacement for you — an extension of you. Anyone, anytime, any language, with full citations, on your own infrastructure.
Interested? Reach out. We'll show you a demo and tell you exactly what your Living Library would look like.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Bottom Line
The "clone yourself" space is crowded with self-serve chatbot tools. A serious body of work deserves more than a chat widget. Our philosophy:
- Depth over breadth. A small number of serious people, not a million generic users.
- Curation over self-serve. We do the work — ingestion, persona engineering, design, deployment, maintenance.
- Sovereignty over platform dependency. Your domain, your infrastructure.
- Complete digital home over embeddable widget. Website, content library, AI, and SEO — one platform.
Your life's work deserves better than a chatbot. Let's make it a Living Library.
For organizations & teams
Looking for institutional knowledge for your business team? See the Know-How Library →