01 · YOUR DIGITAL EMPLOYEES
Digital employees that do the work.
Not chatbots. Named digital employees with photos, titles, and jobs they own, trained for bookstores. They draft, send, book, follow up, and learn your business in your voice, 24/7.
NEWAI FOR INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES
Curate the shelf. Skip the inbox.
A trained team of digital employees and custom AI apps that books author events, runs the subscription box, manages reader recommendations, and grows institutional accounts.
IvyReader Recommender
TheoEvents Coordinator
PhoenixSubscription Lead
MarcusInstitutional Sales
/HOW TO USE AI IN YOUR BOOKSTORES BUSINESS
Digital employees. Plus custom AI apps. Built for your bookstore business.
Not a chatbot. Trained digital employees plus custom AI apps, shaped to how your bookstore business actually works.
02 · CUSTOM AI APPS
AI apps built for your business.
Software used to be for tech companies. Not anymore. Describe what your bookstores business needs (a quiz, calculator, intake, portal) and BuildAI builds it. With database, payments, and users included. Your digital employees run it for you.
1 Describe
2 Build
3 Launch
/THE WORK YOU'RE DOING MANUALLY
Every week, regulars want recommendations the staff can't keep up with.
Book recommendations stack up. Author event RSVPs unmanaged. Subscription box not converting. Library / school accounts dormant.
01Answering 'what should I read next?' DMs~6 hrs / week
02Running author event RSVPs~3 hrs / week
03Managing book subscription box signups~3 hrs / week
04Sending hold-list notifications~3 hrs / week
05Reaching out to schools and libraries~3 hrs / week
/MEET YOUR DIGITAL EMPLOYEES
Your shop digital employees. Always reading.
Four trained digital employees who curate, recommend, and grow.
Ivy
Reader Recommender
- Answers "what should I read next?" DMs
- Pulls from in-stock recommendations
- Tracks customer reading history
- Logs to Square / Bookmanager
Theo
Events Coordinator
- Runs author event RSVPs
- Sends pre-event info
- Coordinates book signings
- Tracks per-event turnout
Phoenix
Subscription Lead
- Sells monthly book box subscriptions
- Curates by reader profile
- Sends preview reveals
- Tracks per-member retention
Marcus
Institutional Sales
- Pings schools and libraries quarterly
- Sends catalog updates and bulk pricing
- Books visiting-author events
- Drives wholesale revenue
/CUSTOM APPS · BUILT FOR YOU
Apps that keep shelves moving.
Describe what your shop needs. We build it. Your team runs it.
INTAKE
Book Recommendation Quiz
Captures recent reads, genres, mood. Ivy returns tailored picks.
yourshop.com/recommend
What's next?
Recent lovesTomorrow x3 · Demon Copperhead
AvoidRomance · thrillers
MoodLiterary · slow-burn
MEMBER
Subscription Box Hub
Subscribers see this month's pick, customize next.
yourshop.com/box
Welcome back, Sam
PlanLiterary Reader · monthly
This monthCurated by Ivy · ships Apr 15
PORTAL
Event RSVP Hub
Customers see upcoming author events, reserve, get pre-event info.
yourshop.com/events
April events
Author signing · Apr 12Done
Reading group · Apr 22
Kids storytime · weeklyUp next
/HOW THEY WORK TOGETHER
From DM to subscription regular. Without the staff overwhelmed.
Your team recommends, runs events, grows subscriptions, and grows wholesale.
01 · RECOMMENDIvy
IvyIvy answers reading-recommendation DMs
02 · EVENTTheo
TheoTheo runs author event RSVPs
03 · BOXPhoenix
PhoenixPhoenix grows subscription box
04 · WHOLESALEMarcus
MarcusMarcus grows school + library accounts
05 · LOOPIvy
IvySubscribers become regulars become institutional buyers
/HIRE A TEAM. OR HIRE THIS ONE.
The team you'd hire to keep the shelves moving.
Square, Bookmanager, your booklist tool — all keep working. You'd still need humans on recommendations, events, subscriptions, wholesale.
Hire the team yourself
Real salaries. Real recruiting. Real onboarding time.
- Bookseller Lead~$42k/yr
- Events Coordinator~$42k/yr
- Subscription Manager~$45k/yr
- Institutional Sales~$48k/yr
Plus recruiting + onboarding$177k/year+
VS
Hire your BuildAI team
WORKS WITH YOUR STACKPlugs into the tools you already pay for.
- Ivy · Reader Recommenderincluded
- Theo · Events Coordinatorincluded
- Phoenix · Subscription Leadincluded
- Marcus · Institutional Salesincluded
All four, live in 60sFrom $39/mo
/ WORKS WITH WHAT YOU ALREADY USE
Keeps the tools you already use.
Connect what you want, when you want. Nothing to rebuild, nothing to move over, and you stay in control of what goes out.
InstagramSquare
Shopify
Bookmanager
MailchimpBookshop.org
...and many more. If you use it, chances are we connect to it.
Logos via Logo.dev
/WHAT YOU'LL SHIP
From DM recommendation to subscription regular, on every shelf.
Recommendation DMs answered.
Ivy returns in-stock picks within an hour.
Author events selling out.
Theo runs RSVPs so events fill before posting.
Subscription box growing.
Phoenix turns one-time customers into monthly subscribers.
/ROI MATH
1 school account a month pays for the year.
Avg. school account$4,200/yr
BuildAI (1 year)$468
Hours saved / month~18 hrs
Break-even≤ 1 account
Your shop is 60 seconds away.
No credit card. No contracts. Hire Ivy today, answer this week's DMs by Friday.
NO CREDIT CARD · 60-SECOND SETUP · MADE BY HUMANS