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For senior leaders · CEOs · partners · operating presidents

The legacy book without the 18-month ghostwriter.

Capture the lessons you'd brief a successor on. Voice-matched from your existing writing. Print-ready when you're ready, and not a moment before.

Executive books made with Built & Written

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Executives showcase books modeled for this audience. Click any cover to inspect the interior, typesetting, and the kind of KDP-ready proof the finished workflow can produce.

THE EXECUTIVE WHO SKIPPED THE GHOSTWRITER

I had a $40,000 ghostwriter quote sitting in my inbox. Built & Written gave me the first real pass in minutes.
Daniel V.
Former Fortune 500 COO
Holding The Voice You Carry
Daniel V., Former Fortune 500 COO

Why executivesuse Built & Written

The three reasons executives put it off - solved.

The ghostwriter timeline is too long.

18 months on a ghostwriter is 18 months of interviews you don't have. Voice DNA replaces the first 60 days of the engagement in five minutes.

Privacy matters until it doesn't.

The book stays private inside the editor until you choose to export. No leaks, no early-PR risk, no board surprises.

The book has to sound like you on your best day.

Anything less reads as imposter. Wren matches the cadence of your actual writing - board memos, investor letters, op-eds - so the voice survives publication.

Built into every Wren run

Nine things Wren does so you don't have to.

Each one solves a specific reason executives give for not finishing their book. None of them require you to learn a new app.

VOICE DNA

Reads your existing writing, then writes new chapters in your exact voice.

Wren ingests your LinkedIn posts, podcast transcripts, newsletters, and notes. The voice profile updates as you write. The draft comes back recognizable to anyone who follows your work.
  • Pulls from any platform — even messy export files
  • Tone, cadence, banned phrases tracked per author

THE WIZARD

Five minutes from notes to a structured 200-page draft.

Paste in what you already have. Wren assembles an outline, fills the chapters, and hands you something you can read in the time it takes to make coffee.
  • Outline → first draft in minutes, not weeks
  • Stays in your voice profile from the first chapter

KDP EXPORT

Files that pass Amazon's checks the first time.

Interior PDF with the correct margins and bleed. Cover wrap with spine width calculated from your page count. ePub for Kindle. Upload, approve the proof, list it.
  • 6×9, 5.5×8.5, and other KDP trim sizes
  • ISBN, pricing, description checklist in one place

Six more things, while you're here

Everything else Wren ships out of the box.

Chapter regeneration

Rewrite a single chapter from your edits without restarting the whole manuscript.

Cover design

Three editorial concepts on first generation, refined with type and palette tweaks.

Print formatting

Correct margins, gutters, bleed, and page numbers. Calculated automatically.

Wren illustrations

Custom chapter art, diagrams, and infographics matched to your book's voice.

Outline builder

Drag, rename, delete. The structural decisions live on one screen.

Voice training

Wren refreshes your voice profile as your writing evolves over the months.

Your archive becomes the book

Decades of memos and op-eds. They're the manuscript already.

Wren ingests your existing writing - investor letters, op-eds, internal memos, keynotes - and surfaces the through-lines that become chapters. Your archive is closer to a book than you think.
  • Imports from Drive, Dropbox, Notion, plain text
  • Surfaces recurring themes as candidate chapters
  • Keeps the source material private - nothing leaves the editor
Decades of memos and op-eds. They're the manuscript already.

Editorial cover, not stock

Type and palette that survive a boardroom.

Wren generates three editorial cover concepts - austere, considered, the kind that look right on the same shelf as the books you already keep. KDP spine math automatic.
  • Editorial type pairings, no stock graphics
  • Refine palette and type without restarting
  • Print-grade resolution, KDP spine math automatic
Type and palette that survive a boardroom.

What it looks like from inside

An executive reviews the first pass before the day starts.

The book takes shape in the quiet 40 minutes before the day starts. Wren handles the first pass in minutes, then the executive decides what is ready for a board, successor, or the world.

Real session, real editor.

What executives said after the book printed

Executives proof and feedback.

Michael P.

Dropped my notes in. Walked away with a book.

Michael P.
Founder · early access
Holding Letters to a Founder
Dr. Sarah K.

It works exactly like they said. I came in skeptical.

Dr. Sarah K.
Executive coach · 6 months in
Holding The Trusted Mirror
James W.

I'd been writing the chapters in my head for years. This put them on paper.

James W.
Independent consultant
Holding The Retained Advisor
Maria R.

My clients ask if I'll sign their copies. I had to learn how to.

Maria R.
Life coach · 1 year in
Holding The Quiet Pivot
Elena C.

Sent it to three skeptical clients. Two of them rebooked the same week.

Elena C.
Business coach · 2 years in
Holding The Asking
Daniel V.

My ghostwriter quote was forty thousand. This was a Saturday afternoon.

Daniel V.
Executive coach · 18 months in
Holding The Voice You Carry
Imani O.

I held it and stopped feeling like a fraud. That's the whole sentence.

Imani O.
Leadership coach · 3 months in
Holding The Premium Coach
Kenji M.

I'd been writing this in my notes app for three years. It took an evening.

Kenji M.
Operations consultant
Holding Quiet Operators
Aaron L.

Investors actually ask for this now. That never happened with a deck.

Aaron L.
Seed-stage founder
Holding Decisions Before Data
Priya N.

Stopped re-explaining my method on every sales call. I just send the book.

Priya N.
Strategy consultant
Holding The Consulting Edge
Thomas B.

I'd been talking about writing this book for six years. It took me a weekend.

Thomas B.
Performance coach · 22 years
Holding The Trusted Mirror
Naomi R.

Three of my Wednesday clients have already bought a copy. I didn't ask them to.

Naomi R.
Wellness coach
Holding The Body Listens
Carlos V.

Twenty years of features turned into a book over a weekend. Editors keep asking who my ghostwriter is.

Carlos V.
Investigative journalist · 18 years
Holding The Retained Advisor
Eduardo L.

I used to spend six months on a draft. Wren got the first pass there in 5 minutes. My catalog finally started moving.

Eduardo L.
Indie author · book #4
Holding Decisions Before Data
Beatrice O.

I always wanted to write the curriculum book my students kept asking for. I finally have it.

Beatrice O.
Retired teacher · 32 years
Holding The Asking
Ravi P.

I wrote it the way I'd brief a junior on day one. My team uses it as onboarding now.

Ravi P.
Senior engineer turned writer
Holding Quiet Operators
Hannah W.

Ten years of journals scattered across three notebooks. Now it's a book my mother can hold.

Hannah W.
Memoir writer · first book
Holding Letters to a Founder

EXECUTIVES WHO HELD THEIR BOOK

Three executives. Three printed copies. The book on the table.

Authority-grade memoirs that came out of the editor and into their hands. Tap any clip to hear them.

Eleanor V.

Eleanor V. · Former CFO

After The Boardroom

Theodore H. · Retired senior partner

Counsel in the Room

Lillian C. · Retired consulting partner

Partner Track

Reviews from Trustpilot & G2

What authors say after they hit “publish”.

Excellent · 4.7 of 5 · Based on 9 reviews
Most popular · what they're using
Built & Written · Entrepreneur

Brand-grade books on a steady cadence.

Experts turning content into a book pipeline. Priority queue, chapter regeneration, and pro exports (ePub & DOCX).

$23/mo, billed yearly
$276/yr · 2 months free vs $25/mo monthly
Everything in Entrepreneur
  • 6 books per month
  • Same advanced engine as Author — Advanced · Wren 5.4 Mini
  • All cover template styles
  • Up to 11 Wren cover generations per book per calendar month
  • Advanced formatting & heading styles
  • Chapter regeneration
  • ePub & DOCX export
  • Priority generation queue
4.7 of 5 · 9 reviews on Trustpilot
Recent reviews
Oleh Bilyk
Apr 14, 2026
US · 1 review

I've been thinking about writing a book...

I've been thinking about writing a book for a really long time. About my journey and building the business. But when I saw the ghostwriter bills I'd have to pay, I said nope to myself. And here we are, AI is a thing now. I just dropped in my notes and got a perfectly outlined, print-ready book. Did a few tweaks and now I'm printing it for myself and my clients. Really powerful tool.

April 14, 2026Unprompted review
Artem Kucherenko
Apr 8, 2026
US · 1 review

I wrote a book about kitchen

20 years as a head chef and the hardest part was never the food, its managing people. i had tons of notes about training cooks, handling rushes, dealing with no-shows, all that stuff nobody teaches you in culinary school. kept thinking id turn it into a book someday. pasted everything into builtwritten and it actually organized my rambling into real chapters. reads like me talking to a new sous chef which is exactly what i wanted. published on amazon in like a week. still kinda shocked i actually did it

April 1, 2026Unprompted review
tracy story
A day ago
US · 1 review

I love it very much

I love it very much

May 2, 2026Unprompted review
Randy Lashley
Apr 15, 2026
US · 1 review

It was fast generating after I told it...

It was fast generating after I told it exactly what I wanted in my book it built everything within about 10 minutes

April 15, 2026Unprompted review
Junaid Ahmed
Apr 20, 2026
PK · 1 review

It was super easy to go with the flow...

It was super easy to go with the flow with this website I really love it.

April 20, 2026Unprompted review
Shruti Pandey
Apr 23, 2026
IN · 1 review

awsome

awsome, what a website, fabulous and easyto use, everyone must try this at once

April 23, 2026Unprompted review
Rekha arasu
Apr 22, 2026
IN · 1 review

Very good I didn't have to do much

Very good I didn't have to do much, all of it was taken care by the app

April 22, 2026Unprompted review
Rehmat Amjad
4 days ago
PK · 1 review

To much ai

To much ai , word limit

April 30, 2026Unprompted review
Reply from Built & Written
3 days ago

Hi Rehmat! Fair point. Voice DNA is the part of Wren built to fix exactly that. It reads your existing writing first so the book sounds like you, not a generic voice. We'd love to show you what the draft reads like once Voice DNA has trained on your samples, and we'll dig into the word-limit issue too.

Verified User in Writing and Editing
04/28/2026
✓ Validated Reviewer✓ Verified Current UserReview source: Organic

Polished Manuscripts, in Half the Time

|Built & Written

I use Built & Written as a sophisticated governance layer that allows me to audit my narrative flow, automate the tedious mechanics of punctuation, and refine the structural layout of my manuscript. It bridges the gap between raw, philosophical reflection and a polished, print-ready product by handling the administrative friction of formatting and organization. I appreciate its role as a digital editor, providing a high-level architectural view that simplifies the finalization process into a logical sequence of checkpoints. This perspective shift helps maintain creative vision while ensuring the architectural integrity of the final book. The simplicity of the platform makes the daunting process of finishing a book feel achievable, boosting my confidence to keep moving, and allowing me to focus on the heart of my message while the software handles the complexities.

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Pricing

One subscription. A real KDP-ready book.

Yearly quietly pays for two bonus months. Flip plans anytime before you check out.

Author

KDP-ready without the ghostwriter bill

First-time authors publishing on Amazon.

$15/mo
Billed $180/yr · or $19/mo billed monthly
Advanced · Wren 5.4 Mini
  • 2 books per month
  • Sharper prose & structure — Advanced · Wren 5.4 Mini
  • 3 cover template styles
  • Up to 11 Wren cover generations per book per calendar month
  • KDP-ready PDF & ZIP export
  • PDF & KDP download included
  • Full formatting control
  • Sequential mode — chapters stay connected

Export print & ebook files. 14-day money-back guarantee.

Start your book

14-day money-back · cancel anytime

Most popular
Entrepreneur

Brand-grade books on a steady cadence

Experts turning content into a book pipeline.

$23/mo
Billed $276/yr · or $25/mo billed monthly
Advanced · Wren 5.4 Mini
  • 6 books per month
  • Same advanced engine as Author — Advanced · Wren 5.4 Mini
  • All cover template styles
  • Up to 11 Wren cover generations per book per calendar month
  • Advanced formatting & heading styles
  • Chapter regeneration
  • ePub & DOCX export
  • Priority generation queue

Priority queue, chapter regeneration, and pro exports (ePub & DOCX).

Start your book

14-day money-back · cancel anytime

Authority

Top prose quality & fastest lane

Serial authors scaling a catalog.

$79/mo
Billed $948/yr · or $99/mo billed monthly
Flagship · Wren 5.4
  • 10 books per month
  • Best-in-class drafting — Flagship · Wren 5.4
  • Everything in Entrepreneur
  • All cover styles + unlimited templates
  • Highest priority queue
  • Up to 50 Wren cover generations per book per calendar month

Flagship model + highest priority when every chapter has to land.

Start your book

14-day money-back · cancel anytime

All plans include

AI book structure & outline
Full chapter content generation
AI cover art generation (per-book monthly limits)
Professional KDP formatting
PDF download & KDP export
14-day money-back guarantee

Cancel anytime. Files stay yours. ISBN, royalties, and Amazon listing belong to you, not us.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

  • Yes. Manuscripts are private by default. Nothing leaves the editor until you choose to export. You can write the whole book without a single person inside or outside the company seeing it.

  • Voice DNA is the unlock. Ghostwriters spend the first 60-90 days learning your voice through interviews. Wren learns it from your existing writing in under five minutes. The 18-month timeline collapses.

  • Yes. The Authority plan supports collaborator access. Many executives draft with Wren and hand chapters to a chief of staff for fact-checking before final review.

  • Only if you choose. The default frame is your lessons, your voice, your name on the cover. The company can stay in the margins as evidence or be omitted entirely.

  • You don't have to. The same files that publish to KDP also work as a beautifully typeset PDF you can print privately and hand to a successor, a board, or a few peers.

When you're ready

You've been writing the chapters in your head.
Wren puts them on paper.

Companion-mode if you're starting from scratch. Editor-mode if your manuscript is already done. Either way, the next click is a draft on screen.