💌 Time Well Spent: How I'm training my AI emissaries 🤖

. . . with six million words from the last two decades of publishing online

Mar 07, 2025

Hi Friends,

I’ve been geeking out building Delphi.ai clones this week, with thanks to my friend Tim Grahl for the nudge to dive in. Cue an eye roll at the landing page tech jargon, but here’s the gist:

“Delphi allows you to build the digital version of you to scale your expertise and availability, infinitely.”

You can train it on your voice, sync RSS feeds for importing, upload affiliate links for products and services to promote, and even monetize the bots if you choose.

Although you can create project folders on other AI platforms like NotebookLM, ChatGPT, and Claude by uploading a tranche of your own materials to aid business-related tasks like drafting newsletters, posts, or even internal process documents, Delphi creates a sophisticated chatbot that others can interact with.

🤖 Here are a few ways that I’m setting mine up:

One for my entire body of work: Actually, so I don’t completely humiliate myself with 20-year-old cringe content from my early twenties, it mainly draws on the last ten years of publishing; that’s over six million words from two of my books (Pivot & Free Time), 750+ podcast episodes across the Pivot & Free Time podcasts, who-knows-how-many newsletters, online courses, and more.
One for corporate licensing clients: Drawing only upon official Pivot materials like the Train-the-Trainer facilitator guide, book manuscript, and LinkedIn Learning courses, this bot will help newly minted Certified Pivot Trainers and Pivot coaches answer questions as they prepare to lead sessions for the first time.
Your new business bestie: Trained only on Rolling in D🤦🏻‍♀️h with Jenny Blake, my personal essays about the stickier sides of running a small business, this one is explicitly told not to be an expert or give advice, just to relate and refer to related resources for fellow solo+preneurs going through a tough time.

I’m a little nervous to share these with you as I’m still working out awkward kinks (like calling one early tester “honey” 😬), but if you want to give them a spin and help provide feedback, here are the links!

🤖 Chat with my JB clone »

🍩 Chat with Dohnut »

💻 Check out Delphi to build your own »

✍️ For Aspiring Writers: New Rules Studio

“What if writing just felt . . . easier? And—what if you had a place to do it that was critic-free, judgment-free, competition-free?”

My friend Terri Trespicio, who graciously emceed the Free Time book launch party, has been practicing the Gateless Method of writing for over a decade. She has now created a brilliant writing community around it—and I just joined!

There are twelve open sessions each month where you can drop in (no reservation required) and write in real time for anywhere from 15-25 minutes, guided by an optional prompt (and optional feedback).

Learn more and join for the free open house on the first Monday of every month:

New Rules Studio: Writing Open House »

🍩 New at Rolling in D🤦🏻‍♀️h

A three-part series on NYT–bestselling author Luvvie Ajayi Jones’ generous sharing about how she navigated her toughest year in business, “The Crumbling.”