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CS-04 // Dossier

AI Book-Summary Writer

A custom-built AI web app that interviews an author one question at a time and writes their structured book summary for them — turning a coach-assisted worksheet into a self-serve product.

Exhibit // CS-04

R-02 · interface redrawn from the live build — zero client pixels

Redrawn exhibit — AI book-summary writer: chat interview question and answer bubbles beside a streaming summary card
Client
R-01SEALED UNDER NDA. SPECIFICS WALK THROUGH LIVE. → BOOK
Industry
Author-coaching program
System
AI Book-Summary Writer
Stack
Next.js · OpenAI · Vercel AI SDK · Product design
Trigger
An author sits down to start their book summary
Metrics
System scope

01 // The problem

New authors stalled at the first big task — writing a structured summary of their book. The existing worksheet was manual, intimidating, and ate coaching time walking people through it.

02 // The system

Redrawn — no client data

The system

AUTHOR STARTSBLANK PAGEAI INTERVIEWERONE QUESTION AT A TIMETEACHING OR MEMOIR?STREAMED DRAFT5 → 10 PARAGRAPHSPASTE-READY SUMMARY

03 // The delta

Before and after go-live

Before

  • New authors stalled at the first big task
  • The worksheet was manual and intimidating
  • Coaching time spent walking people through it by hand

With the system

  • Blank page to a paste-ready summary in one guided sitting
  • Coaches freed from walking every client through the worksheet
  • The client got a real AI product, not just a workflow

04 // What got done

4 entries

  1. B-01Designed and built a standalone Next.js app — App Router, React, Tailwind, and the Vercel AI SDK with OpenAI — branded to feel native to the client's main product
  2. B-02Built an AI interviewer that asks one question at a time, with separate paths for teaching-style books and memoirs
  3. B-03Streamed a paste-ready structured summary — 5 paragraphs, expandable to 10 — the author can drop straight into the main platform
  4. B-04Handled the API key server-side only and deployed on Vercel

05 // Outcome

System scope — capability metrics, honestly labeled

→ Scope
guided AI interview
0 sitting
→ Scope
paragraph paste-ready output
0→10
→ Scope
designed, built, shipped
Custom app

06 // The result

From the build log

  • Authors go from blank page to a finished, paste-ready summary in one guided sitting
  • Coaches freed from walking every client through the worksheet by hand
  • The client got a real AI product, not just a workflow
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