EmpowerAi™
What if your readers could have a conversation with your book?
Explore The AI Book Companion™ Field Guide and discover how readers can ask questions, explore your ideas and apply them to their own lives.
A book with its own AI Book Companion™, so you can experience it for yourself.
Try the Companion
Every book is different.
Its Companion should be too.
The role of a Companion comes from the book, the author’s approach and what readers need to explore or put into practice.
Early client experience
The Mindset Diet
One client used the Companion to explore questions between sessions, then brought what she noticed back into her work with Caroline.
Beta reader feedback
From Shadows to Self-Love
Some readers returned when everyday situations made the book’s ideas relevant again, beyond the moment of reading.
Designed for reflection
The Unrushed Woman
Grace offers readers space to pause around an idea and explore what it might mean in their own lives, at a pace that reflects Bernie’s work.
Designed for application
The Book Launch Playbook™
A Companion designed to help readers apply Ben’s methodology to their own books, while keeping the boundaries of his approach clear.
A few practical questions
Questions authors ask
Before creating a Companion, you’ll want to understand how it works with your book and what your readers can expect.
Can I create one for an already published book?
Yes. The Companion sits alongside your book, so you don’t need to rewrite or republish it. We agree what it should help readers do and check that you have permission to use the material.
What do I need to provide?
We start with your manuscript and any supporting material we agree to include. We also meet to define the Companion’s role. I then create a job description for you to review before building begins. Your involvement continues through setup and testing, so decisions about your work stay with you.
How do you keep it faithful to my work?
We agree what the Companion is there to do, which material it can use and where its boundaries sit. I build it around your ideas, frameworks and approach, then test how it responds to difficult or unexpected questions. When your material doesn’t support an answer, it should acknowledge that limit. It shouldn’t invent your views, pretend to be you or reproduce chapters of your book.
Is my book used to train the AI?
Your book is provided with your permission as source material for the agreed Companion. Whether that material may also be used to train or improve an AI model depends on the services involved and their terms and settings. We need to check both the platform and the AI provider when the Companion is created, so you understand what you’re agreeing to.
How accurate can the Companion be?
Generative AI can make mistakes, so I wouldn’t promise complete accuracy. Clear source material, an agreed role and careful testing help reduce errors. Testing includes vague questions, challenges to the book’s ideas and situations the author hasn’t covered. The Companion should recognise when it doesn’t have enough information, and readers still need to use their own judgement.
What happens to readers’ conversations?
That depends on the platform and how the Companion is set up. Conversation storage, memory between visits, creator access and model training can have separate controls. Readers need clear information before they begin, including whether conversations may be reviewed during testing and what they should avoid sharing. We shouldn’t promise privacy, confidentiality or anonymity without checking the particular setup.
Does the Companion need maintaining?
Periodic review helps check that it is still doing its agreed job. A new edition, changes in your thinking, reader feedback or a significant change in the underlying technology may mean it needs updating and testing again. A Companion that is working well doesn’t need constant adjustment simply for the sake of it.
The person behind the Companions
Meet Wendy Kier
I’m the founder of EmpowerAi™ and the creator of AI Book Companion™ and the ENCODE methodology.
I work with authors, publishers and expert-led businesses to help readers explore and apply the knowledge within their books. Each Companion starts with the individual author’s work, their voice and the boundaries around what it should do.
This matters to me personally. I’m dyslexic, and I know what it is like to have ideas in your head but struggle with the written word. I’m interested in how AI can give people another way into the knowledge a book contains.
The AI Book Companion™ Field Guide grew out of my experience of creating, testing and refining Companions with authors and their books.