For authors & publishers
Scan a printed book.
It answers back.
This Book's Alive puts a living layer inside a printed book. Readers scan a mark on the cover, a chapter, or a single passage and get your notes, bonus scenes, photos and video — and a conversation with an AI that knows that chapter and works from your own materials.
Change any of it after the book ships. No app for readers. No reprint for you.
Author note: the trap line that started it all.
Ask the author →Try it now
Point your phone here. It's a real, published novel.
This is the mark printed on the cover of The Doorway Buck by CM Sackett — 27 chapters, each one alive. No app needed.
On a phone already? Open the book →“Isn't this just a QR code?”
No. A QR code goes to a page. These marks go to a living book.
It keeps changing after print
A QR code points at something fixed. Each mark points at content you can update for as long as the book is on a shelf.
A mark per moment, not per book
The cover, every chapter, even a single passage gets its own mark and its own experience.
A conversation, not a landing page
Readers talk with an AI that knows exactly where they are in the story — and works from the author's own materials.
You see every scan
Chapter-by-chapter scans show where readers lean in and where they stop.
The headline act
An AI that only knows as far as the reader has read.
Scan Chapter 3 and ask anything. The conversation is scoped to that chapter and built from the author's own notes, so it can go deep on the story without spoiling what comes next.
For fiction, that changes everything: readers can stay inside the story longer, and the author's voice is there at every turn.
You stay in control
Your voice. Your approval. Very little work.
- Control
You approve what the AI can say
It works only from materials you provide and sign off on — nothing goes to readers in the author's name without you.
- Print
Marks arrive print-ready
We hand your designer finished marks for the cover and each chapter. Your print workflow doesn't change.
- Effort
You supply the manuscript
We build the layer from it. Add notes, photos or video whenever you like — before launch or years after.
For brands & authors with products
Chapters that sell. Scenes that link to real things.
A chapter can link to the actual product in the scene — the gear, the place, the book's own merchandise. Readers find it at the moment they care most.
Shoppable and sponsorable chapters turn the living layer from a cost into a new revenue line for the book.
Live now
One novel. Every chapter, alive.
The Doorway Buck carries a mark in every chapter. Readers scan as they go and unlock what belongs to that part of the story.
See all 27 chapters →
Start with one book
Make one of your books alive.
We'll mark one finished title end to end — cover, chapters, AI conversation — just like The Doorway Buck. See what readers do with it, then decide.
Start a pilot