Frontlist

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Your AI book launch strategist.

The Problem

Launching a book is a full-time job. Authors spend months on marketing plans, content calendars, audience research, and launch strategies — or pay agencies thousands to do it. Most self-published authors skip it entirely and wonder why nobody buys their book.

Millions

of books self-published yearly

Thousands

spent on agency launch packages

Most

self-published books never find an audience

Months

of launch prep — if you even do it

How It Works

Three steps. That's it.

1

Describe your book

Genre, audience, themes, goals. Pilot builds a complete profile and figures out your positioning in the market.

2

The triad gets to work

Draft writes the first version — fast, creative, not precious. Critic tears it apart constructively. Forge takes the feedback and builds the final version. Every piece of content goes through all three.

3

Launch and learn

The system tracks what works and feeds outcomes back into the learning loop. Your second launch is smarter than your first. Your third is smarter than your second.

Under The Hood

Technical architecture.

# What happens when you ask for a launch plan

"I'm launching a thriller set in Lagos. Target: 25-40, urban African readers."

→ Pilot analyses the brief, decides on the approach:

"This needs a social content series, an email sequence,

and a pre-launch audience strategy."

→ For each piece, the triad runs:

├─ Draft writes a Twitter thread about Lagos noir

├─ Critic: "Too generic. Lean into the setting. Add a hook."

└─ Forge rewrites: punchy, specific, shareable

→ Pilot queues the next piece

Every launch outcome improves the next one.

DraftWrites the first version. Fast, creative, not precious about it.
CriticTears it apart (constructively). Checks tone, strategy fit, audience alignment.
ForgeTakes the feedback and builds the final version. The quality gate.
PilotDecides which agents to call and when. Adapts the plan as it goes.

Impact

4

Named agents

Triad

Create → Critique → Forge

Adapts

Pilot adjusts the plan live

Learns

Every launch improves the next

Why This Matters

Pioneering in Africa.

Draft doesn't try to be perfect. It tries to be fast. Perfection is Forge's job — after Critic has had its say.

The triad pattern means nothing ships without review. Every social post, every email, every strategy doc goes through create → critique → synthesise.

Pilot doesn't follow a script. It reads the brief, decides what's needed, and adapts as it goes. Different books get different strategies.

The learning loop means Frontlist gets better with every launch. What worked for a Lagos thriller informs the next one — and the romance novel after that.

Interested in Frontlist?

Whether you want to use it, partner with us, or build something similar — let's talk.