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A book that actually converts strangers into high-ticket clients isn't written from a blank page — it's assembled from seven types of raw material a business already has, then handed to Claude.
Read if. Skip if.
READ IF YOU ARE…
- A coach, consultant, or expert with an existing offer who wants a book that funnels readers toward a higher-ticket program.
- Someone sitting on years of emails, sales calls, courses, or YouTube content who wants to turn that archive into a book instead of starting from a blank page.
- A business owner who wants Claude to draft in their own voice using real transcripts and testimonials, not generic AI prose.
SKIP IF…
- You're writing fiction, memoir, or a book with no attached business offer — this is a business-book playbook, not general authorship advice.
- You don't have any of the seven inputs yet (offer docs, ICP research, calls, courses, emails, or existing content) — there's nothing yet for Claude to work from.
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The claim: a book meant to sell a higher-ticket offer isn't drafted from scratch, it's assembled from material a business already has. Before writing a word, the author loads a Claude project with seven inputs — offer and sales material so the book mirrors what's actually sold, audience research and testimonials so it speaks to one specific reader, emails and newsletters for backlog stories, course or training transcripts for structure, call and presentation transcripts for authentic language, existing half-finished writing, and public content like YouTube or podcast transcripts. With all seven loaded, Claude can draft in the author's real voice, and most of the work becomes organizing material that already exists rather than writing anything new.
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00:00 – 01:12
01 · Cold open — the warning
Promise stated: front-load Claude with seven things or you'll draft the wrong book and have to redo it repeatedly.
01:12 – 02:30
02 · Ingredient 1 — Offer & Sales Material
Upload sales pages, offer docs, pricing sheets, VSL scripts, webinar slides, application forms — the book's concepts should match the offer being sold.
02:30 – 04:42
03 · Ingredient 2 — Audience Research & Testimonials
ICP documentation (demographics + psychographics: fears, desires, blocking beliefs) plus client testimonials, which double as source stories for chapters.
04:42 – 05:26
04 · Ingredient 3 — Emails & Newsletters
Years of ConvertKit/HighLevel email backlog holds tested stories and voice that otherwise vanish unused.
05:26 – 06:42
05 · Ingredient 4 — Courses & Programs
Course transcripts and slide decks can practically write the book's outline, but a book must shift beliefs, not just restate how-to steps.
06:42 – 09:04
06 · Ingredient 5 — Call & Presentation Transcripts
Zoom sales/client calls and webinar or stage transcripts are top-tier raw material; one client's 190 calls became a 2-million-word database.
09:04 – 10:36
07 · Ingredient 6 — Existing Writing
Any prior writing (half-finished manuscript, old outline, rough blog post) goes in the project, even if it needs a full concept rebuild.
10:36 – 12:44
08 · Sponsor break — Author Operating System
Pitch for the host's own book/funnel product ($4.99) plus a bonus AI Agent Skill Pack of prompts for working the seven inputs.
12:44 – 14:15
09 · Ingredient 7 — Social Links + recap checklist
YouTube, podcast, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Loom transcripts are often the single biggest source of material; closes with the full 7-item checklist recap.
14:15 – 14:45
10 · Sign-off
Frames the author's remaining job as editorial: steering concept, outline, and chapters once all seven inputs are loaded.
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- A book meant to sell a high-ticket offer should mirror the offer's own structure, so the table of contents doubles as a preview of what the reader would buy next.
- Selling a book through your own funnel can net roughly $32 per sale on average, versus the $4 to $6 an author earns per copy sold on Amazon.
- Amazon sales give an author no email address and no phone number, cutting off any way to follow up with the reader after the sale.
- One archive of 190 Zoom call recordings, once transcribed, produced a two-million-word database — enough raw material for three or four separate books.
- A book built purely from an online course reads like a manual, not a book, because books are meant to shift beliefs while courses are meant to give instructions.
- Feeding Claude a half-finished manuscript is useful raw material, but the concept and structure usually still need a full rebuild rather than a simple continuation.
- Writing style transfers best when Claude works from transcripts of real spoken talks, not written notes, because most people write more stiffly than they actually speak.
- A single Claude project can hit its context limit from just one client's archive, forcing the material to be split across multiple projects.
- Client testimonials do double duty in a book project: they reveal who the ideal reader really is, and several of them become the book's own stories.
- Skipping straight to writing without first loading the seven inputs produces a book that has to be redrafted over and over, because Claude wrote the wrong book the first time.
Assemble a business book from what you already have.
WHAT TO LEARN
A book that funnels readers into your higher-ticket offer isn't written from scratch — it's assembled from seven types of material most established businesses already possess, then handed to Claude to draft in your own voice.
02Ingredient 1 — Offer & Sales Material
- Upload your actual sales material (offer docs, VSL scripts, pricing sheets) before writing anything, so the book's concepts match what you actually sell.
- A business book works as the appetizer to a higher-ticket offer, so its structure should mirror your offer's own components and outline.
03Ingredient 2 — Audience Research & Testimonials
- Give Claude both demographics and psychographics for your ideal reader — income and role alone aren't enough, you also need their fears, desires, and blocking beliefs.
- Client testimonials do double duty: they sharpen who the book is for, and several of them become the stories that fill its chapters.
04Ingredient 3 — Emails & Newsletters
- Years of sent emails and newsletters are a backlog of tested stories and voice — pull them into the project instead of letting them sit unused.
05Ingredient 4 — Courses & Programs
- Existing course transcripts and slide decks can practically write a book's outline for you, but a book still needs to shift beliefs, not just repeat how-to steps a course already covers.
06Ingredient 5 — Call & Presentation Transcripts
- Sales calls, client calls, webinars, and live talks are some of the best raw material available — one archive of 190 Zoom recordings produced a two-million-word database, enough for several books.
- Don't worry about including too much material or something irrelevant — sorting the good from the noise is a later editing step, not a reason to hold back at intake.
07Ingredient 6 — Existing Writing
- Any past writing — a half-finished manuscript, an old outline, even a long blog post — belongs in the project, even if it ends up needing a full rebuild rather than a simple continuation.
09Ingredient 7 — Social Links + recap checklist
- Transcripts of your own YouTube videos, podcast appearances, and other public content are often the single biggest source of usable material — sometimes hundreds of videos' worth.
- Feeding transcripts of your actual spoken words, not written notes, is what makes AI-drafted writing sound like you instead of generic AI prose.
- Once all seven inputs are loaded, your job shifts to editorial judgment — steering the concept, outline, and chapters — rather than writing from scratch.
Terms worth knowing.
- ICP (Ideal Client Profile)
- A documented description of who a business's best customers are, covering demographics like income and role alongside psychographics like their fears and objections.
- VSL
- Video Sales Letter — a scripted video pitch used to sell an offer, often mined for language about how a business explains and sells itself.
- Book funnel
- A dedicated sales page and checkout flow that sells a book directly instead of through Amazon, typically bundling bonuses and upselling a higher-ticket offer afterward.
- High-ticket offer
- The expensive core product or service a business sells, which a book is designed to lead readers toward rather than compete with.
- Claude Project
- A persistent Claude workspace that holds uploaded files so every conversation in it can reference the same source material without re-uploading it each time.
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01:00
“If you do not take the time to get these seven things into Claude before you start writing your book, you're basically going to write the wrong book and have to redraft it over and over and over again. Ask me how I know.”
07:28
“We built this massive 2,000,000 word database of information. And he honestly had enough in there to write, like, three or four books.”
11:22
“When someone buys your book on Amazon, you as the author are only gonna get 4 to $6. And even worse, you don't get their email or their phone number.”
13:51
“Once you've got these seven things into Claude, your job is to be like the puppet master that's pulling the strings from above.”
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00:00I've written dozens of books with Claude for my expert coach and consultant clients that have grown their business by 6 and even 7 figures in some cases. There's a way to construct a book that makes you stand out in the market and shifts the beliefs of readers and actually causes them to to ascend to the higher ticket items that you want to sell them.
00:26You can write a book with Claude that does all those things, but you need to front load it with the seven things that we are going to go over in this video. When you do that, Claude has everything that it needs. It can write you a great book in your voice authentic to you telling your story writing the book that only you can write and the one that also acts as a real sales asset for your business.
00:52If you do not take the time to get these seven things into Claude before you start writing your book, you're basically going to write the wrong book and have to redraft it over and over and over again. Ask me how I know. I did this the wrong way for a long time.
01:07I'm here to save you a lot of trial and error today. So without further ado, let's jump in.
01:13The first thing you wanna upload to Claude is the actual offer that it is that you sell. Like, if you help people do stand up paddleboard yoga or something random like that, then your book's gonna be about sandal paddleboard yoga.
01:29And so the book and the high ticket offer, the concepts are supposed to match. So when you upload your actual offer material to Claude, it helps you conceptualize and write the correct book that , which is your high ticket thing.
01:47Another reason you wanna add this is your offer often consists of components. You know, like mine is writing the book and building the funnel and running traffic to it, right, to get clients with a book.
01:59And so my book consists of those components in terms of the actual outline of the book, like part one, two, three.
02:07Your book is going to be structured in the same way that your offer is. You're gonna see there's tons of overlap here between your entire business, your entire brand, and what goes in your book, and this is a big part of it.
02:21That's why we wanna go ahead and give Claude everything you possibly can about the current offer that you sell now. Now number two is just as important.
02:31The person that you write the book for needs to be crystal clear before you ever type a single word. Books are not for everyone.
02:40They're only for a specific type of person. And so what you wanna do is give Claude all of the data that you have on your ICP, your ideal client profile.
02:50Some people call it your customer avatar. You should have documentation that really spells out who that person is specifically.
02:59Like, they are accountants that make at least $250,000 a year. Maybe they're within a certain accounting vertical.
03:08And then just as important as the demographics of your ideal client, you also want the psychographics. And that is like, what are their fears?
03:17What are their desires? What are the different beliefs that they have that are preventing them from moving forward and taking action and changing their lives and implementing your thing?
03:29Most of my clients who are already doing 6, seven, or even 8 figures will have all this documentation prepared. And so what I do is I get them to send that to me so that I can upload it to the Claude project.
03:42And then when it writes the book, it knows exactly who it's writing it for. It knows exactly how to speak to them about the things that they're currently concerned about, the things that they want, and that's how you write a book that actually resonates with the reader.
03:57Now another thing that I'll go ahead and ask clients for at this stage is testimonials because that really gives more information about both the demographic and the psychographic of the customers. People will have, you know, one minute, like, quick testimonials, written testimonials.
04:15They'll even have long YouTube interviews where they're interviewing, like, a successful client that they had. We wanna pull all those transcripts and stuff them into clog because that is not only great information for this step, those stories are also going to make it into the chapters in the book.
04:33And then those testimonials are also a perfect thing to include inside of the book funnel that you build as well. Ingredient number three is emails and newsletters. So, you know, I have a backlog between, like, my ConvertKit account and HighLevel of so many emails that I've sent over the years, and a lot of people have put tons of time into writing emails and newsletters over the years that share the customer testimonials, that share, like, the, you know, breaking down the false beliefs of the reader.
05:06They put all their heart and soul into these emails, and then they basically just vanish into the abyss. This is why it's cool to take the time to organize all this, and you can get more bang out of your buck by turning these into a book.
05:19Now step four, this one's massive. Okay? So most people will have some kind of online course or training that they've put together.
05:26It could be for their whole offer or even just a segment of their offer. And either way, you wanna take all the transcripts and the slide decks and everything and stuff it into Claude. You know, I wrote a book for one of my clients who's a very successful real estate investing coach.
05:43He gave me the login to a couple of really in-depth online courses before we started, and I was able to go in and get all those transcripts and put them in the Claude project.
05:54And the book practically wrote itself because he had already spent all the time to organize that online course and to make it very thorough and good. And the book was essentially a shorter version of that online course, but you do wanna avoid the mistake of making a book that's just a bunch of how to information.
06:16Books are more designed to shift beliefs and paradigms and change the way someone thinks. And, like, an online course is more here's what to do. So you want to put the course information in there.
06:29But just as a warning, like, don't write a book that's just an online course written down because that is not the way that people like to consume how to information. Number five, this is a massive one that everyone overlooks. So, you know, I'm on Zoom calls all the time with either a prospect, someone who might become a client, or clients, people that I'm already working with.
06:53And so I have my AI agent automatically scrape my Zoom transcripts and add them to my main database so that it's always updating with the things that people are saying to me on sales calls and on client calls.
07:09And that is some of the absolute best data that you can get to then put into your book. So, you know, I had a client that had a 190 Zoom call recordings in his account.
07:22He gave me the login. I got all the transcripts out of there, and we built this massive 2,000,000 word database of information.
07:31And he honestly had enough in there to write, like, three or four books. I mean, 2,000,000 words, and a book is on average, you know, 30 to 60,000 words. Obviously, a lot of it was fluff.
07:42It was, like, years and years of coaching calls. But, like, people forget this one all the time, so you definitely wanna go ahead and grab all of your Zoom transcripts. And then also kind of related to this is all the presentations you've done over the years.
07:57I wrote a book for a very well known nutritional doctor with a massive company, and his book's now very successful. We started his book with six hours of webinar presentations that he had already given.
08:13And he had slide decks for these. They were very thorough, very well done. It also showed his voice very well, which we're gonna get to in a minute, inside of those webinar presentations because you're supposed to write like you speak.
08:26And so we were able to discern, like, writing style from that. We uploaded all those transcripts into Claude, and Claude was able to, you know, framework out the book from the six hours of webinar presentations. Anything you've done, like, even if you've given a speech live in person on stage and you have the transcript from that, you wanna stuff it all into Claude.
08:48You're going to trust AI to discern what goes in the book and what doesn't, and this is where you're gonna apply your layer of human judgment.
08:57Right? So there's no danger in giving it too much information or something that's potentially irrelevant because you're gonna be able to sort that out later.
09:06Number six is really important too because we want to make sure that Claude writes in your style, and the only way for it to really know how to do that is to either see actual writing that you've done or to hear speaking that you've done. And like I mentioned, you want to write like you speak.
09:28This is very, you know, well known writing advice. This really fixes the whole, like, AI doesn't write like me.
09:37It doesn't sound like me. If you use transcriptions of, you know, online courses or webinars that you've already given, you can basically have Claude rewrite what you said without changing many of the words so that it's not really AI written.
09:54It's just a transcription of what you said, but AI is obviously gonna go in and polish it and take out the ums and ahs and, you know, slice and dice just like you would in any type of editing that you do. Sometimes clients come to me with, like, a half written book, and it is the book that we're gonna finish. So, obviously, we wanna step that in there as well.
10:14Usually, it needs some major restructuring and the concept needs to change, So we don't, like, actually use the half written book as is, but it's great to add to the project as well. Now last but not least is number seven.
10:28This is probably one of the most massive sources of raw material for your book that you could possibly add to your Claude project. It often ends up being where most of my clients' books come from.
10:42Before we get into number seven, I just wanna say that what we're talking about today, writing a book with Claude, is just one part of the overall framework for writing a book that actually generates clients and customers for your business.
10:58You also want to build a book funnel. A book funnel is where you can sell your book in addition to Amazon. You can give people a bunch of cool bonuses, show off testimonials, and, critically, you can upsell other things inside of the funnel that increase the average value of every book sale.
11:18Like, when someone goes through my book funnel, they spend on average, like, $32. When someone buys your book on Amazon, you as the author are only gonna get 4 to $6. And even worse, you don't get their email or their phone number so that you can follow-up with them.
11:31And then you wanna make sure that you have an irresistible high ticket offer behind your book so that the book and the funnel lead to a place where 95% of your money comes from. And once that's all set up, you simply make content like this video where you run ads and you point people to your book funnel.
11:51It does the rest of the work to warm that person up, to build you a list of buyers, to convert those buyers to high ticket clients. If you want the full system on how I have generated multiple 7 figures off of the back of my books and much more than that for my clients, you can grab my book, the author operating system.
12:12It comes with a ton of bonuses. It's cheaper than a cup of coffee. A link for that is down in the description in the pinned comment.
12:20This AI agent skill pack actually contains all of the prompts so that when you do go and you upload all of the things we've talked about in today's video into Claude, The prompts are the guardrails that tell Claude how to work with the raw material to actually produce the book that's going to get results for you and your business.
12:43Alright. Finally, number seven. So this is an amazing thing to add to your book.
12:49I just did this for a client. I went and got the transcripts for 528 YouTube videos that he'd already published, and I put all of that into the Claude project.
13:04I mean, I've maxed out Claude projects before. That's how much information we sometimes put into these. And you have to make more than one, and it gets a little complicated.
13:13But you can use different, like, API scraper tools like Apify API f y is one that will allow you to, you know, just go and get the transcript from every single video on a YouTube channel.
13:28You can also do it for podcasts, Instagram posts, LinkedIn posts. If you've got Loom videos in your account, you wanna go ahead and pull all of that.
13:37I help lots of my clients write books from their YouTube channel content. You've probably also been interviewed on podcasts before if you've been doing this expert or coaching thing for a while.
13:51Some of those interviews are absolute gold for your book, So you want to make sure you get all those transcripts and stuff them into that Claude project. So once you've got these seven things into Claude, your job is to be like the and making sure that it's producing the right book concept, then the right book outline, and then the right chapter material, and you kind of go down that assembly line to write a book, make sure that it's writing in your voice a 100% before you have it write the whole book because you're gonna have to regenerate the whole thing again.
14:26Right? So there's obviously a process to this, but this stuff that we just talked about in this video is 90% of the work.
14:33You've already written your book. It's just in raw material. You need to assemble it.
14:38I hope this is helpful. Drop a comment down below and let me know what questions you have. I appreciate you being here, and I'll see you in the next
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
Brian Ellwood ghostwrites books with Claude for coaches and consultants doing six and seven figures, and he opens with the failure mode: skip the setup and you'll draft the wrong book, over and over. What follows is the exact intake — seven categories of material — he loads into a Claude project before any chapter gets written.
Named ideas worth stealing.
01:12list
The 7 Things to Feed Claude Before Writing
- Offer & Sales Material
- Audience Research & Testimonials
- Emails & Newsletters
- Courses & Programs
- Call & Presentation Transcripts
- Existing Writing
- Social Links / Public Content
A pre-writing intake checklist: load each category into a Claude project before drafting so the book matches the offer, speaks to a specific reader, and sounds like the author instead of generic AI prose.
Steal forAny pre-writing intake for a business book, or restructured into a client discovery-call checklist.
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“Claim Your Digital Copy Today... Access The Book Plus Five Amazing Bonuses For Just $4.99”
Mid-video pitch for the host's own book (The Author Operating System, $4.99) shown as a screen-recorded sales-page walkthrough, bundled with a bonus AI Agent Skill Pack, before returning to finish ingredient 7.
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