The Inkvelo GTM Execution Playbook: Ten Ready-to-Run Go-to-Market Packages, a Package-Success-Probability Model, and a Named Target List

The Inkvelo GTM Execution Playbook: Ten Ready-to-Run Go-to-Market Packages, a Package-Success-Probability Model, and a Named Target List

The executable companion to From ProseCreator to Inkvelo (Strategy Paper v1.1)

Authors: Adverant Research Team Affiliation: Adverant Limited, Dublin, Ireland Document type: Execution playbook (companion to a strategy paper) · Status: Working paper, link-only distribution Version: 1.0 · Date: 7 June 2026 Domain: Digital Publishing Systems / Go-to-Market Execution & Marketing Science Companion paper: From ProseCreator to Inkvelo: A Quality-Gated, Near-Zero-Marginal-Cost Architecture… (Adverant Research, 2026 — the strategy paper this playbook executes)

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Abstract

This is the execution layer for the Inkvelo go-to-market. Where the companion strategy paper specifies why Inkvelo wins (an integrated, quality-gated, near-zero-marginal-cost publishing platform) and how to score its market plays (the Package Success Probability model of strategy-paper §11), this playbook specifies exactly what to do on Monday morning. It contains ten channel-based go-to-market packages, each fully executable from a standing start: an objective, an ideal-customer profile, and a novel creative angle; step-by-step mechanics; a mapping of every element to the specific NexusROS genesis skill that runs it at scale; a PSP scorecard (the seven factor sub-scores, the calibrated probability of success, CAC/LTV/ROAS, and a Monte-Carlo P10/P50/P90); ready-to-use sample assets (ad copy, a landing page, an email sequence, social and BookTok scripts, and creator/partner outreach); a 90-day project timeline; and a KPI monitoring scorecard. A portfolio view ranks all ten by PSP and shows a Thompson-sampling budget allocation across a $20,000 90-day pilot, and a Named Target-List appendix resolves every reach modality to actual, live-searched targets — specific BookTok and BookTube creators, subreddits, Discords, Facebook groups, podcasts, promo newsletters, library systems, bookstores, and serial-fiction communities — each with a reach metric, a fit/sentiment read, a contact path, and an estimated cost.

Every external benchmark is cited; figures use the [V]/[O]/[P]/[D] epistemic tags of the companion paper, and the 166 named targets are tagged verified or [unverified] per a live source-by-source pass on 7 June 2026. The PSP figures in every package scorecard are computed from a single shared assumptions ledger (companion-paper Appendix I), so the numbers reconcile exactly between this playbook and the strategy paper.

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How to use this playbook

The playbook is built to be picked up and run. Three reading paths:

• The operator running a single channel jumps to that package, reads §N.2 (mechanics) and §N.5 (assets), and starts; the PSP scorecard (§N.4) tells them what "success" means and what to watch.
• The decision-maker allocating a budget reads the portfolio view below — the PSP ranking and the Thompson allocation — to see where the first dollars should go and why.
• The autonomous engine (NexusROS Campaign Genesis, strategy-paper §6) reads the skill mapping (§N.3) of each package: every package element names the genesis skill that executes it, with a human-in-the-loop gate before any spend or publish.

Two conventions throughout. First, the reader-facing brand never leads with "AI" — it leads with story, trust, and a "Human-written · Quality-Verified" provenance signal; the AI machinery is the author's tool, surfaced to readers only as a quality and abundance benefit (free audiobooks, a credible Digital DNA score). Second, paid spend is gated on measured economics: a package's paid lane switches on only once its organic series-LTV is shown to exceed its cost per acquisition (companion §9.5). The whole plan is designed for a bootstrapped, zero-capital launch: organic and automated motions carry Phase 1, and paid acquisition is a self-funding accelerant, not a prerequisite.

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The scoring model in brief

Each package carries a Package Success Probability (PSP) — a 0–100 score and a calibrated probability of success — from the model specified in full in companion-paper §11. In one line: $\mathrm{PSP}=100\sum_i w_i f_i$ over seven factors (market pull $M$, news/timing $N$, sentiment $S$, quality-of-reach $Q$, ease $E$, unit-economics $U$, automation $A$), weights $(M,Q,U,E,S,N,A)=(.18,.18,.18,.14,.12,.10,.10)$, mapped to a probability by $P_{\text{success}}=\sigma\big(8(\mathrm{PSP_{raw}}-0.55)\big)$. Crucially, $Q$ and $E$ come straight from the live-searched per-segment reach study (companion §8.7) and $S$ and $N$ from the sentiment/news index (companion §11.3) — so a package's score reflects where its customers actually are and how they feel about AI, not assumption. The non-negotiables of strategy-paper §10.5 act as hard gates that cap a package's score if a trust or migration predicate fails.

Table 1 — PSP portfolio ranking (shared ledger; companion Table 11.3 / Appendix I).

Figure 1. The ten packages ranked by PSP, annotated with calibrated $P_{\text{success}}$. The high-intent, automatable demand machinery (search/retail ads, the owned email funnel, Meta, BookTok) tops the board; the AI-skeptical institutional trade channel sits last — correctly run as a patient trust-credential play, not a near-term acquisition bet.

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Package 1 — BookTok / Short-Video Flywheel

One-line: short-video (TikTok BookTok + YouTube BookTube) · genre-aligned readers + ARC reviewers · social_plan_compose · PSP 66.6.

1.1 Objective, ICP & the creative angle

Objective. Manufacture authentic, genre-aligned word-of-mouth video at scale — ARC-seeded first, paid only where a creator publicly runs sponsorships — so that Inkvelo titles become discoverable on the two channels that already drive book demand: BookTok and BookTube. BookTok-driven demand was credited with ~59M print book sales and ~$760M U.S. revenue in 2024 (WriteStats, citing Circana) [V]. We are not buying endorsements; we are arming creators who will already love a title with a fresh, native gimmick the rest of BookTok does not have.

ICP — the creator (primary). Mid-tier genre reviewers, 50K-500K, who convert better than mega accounts because of genre alignment and audience trust. They take ARCs and PR boxes, not cash, for reviews (community convention) and list a contact email or DM in bio. Genre alignment is the single biggest selector: romance/romantasy/fantasy skew highest on BookTok (Fantasy print +35.8%, Romance +9% in 2024 — Circana 2024 BookScan via Pages & Prose / Library Journal) [V].

ICP — the reader (the audience we are ultimately buying). Trope-driven genre readers who discover books socially and trust a creator's taste over an ad. They are also the cohort most vocal against AI slop — which dictates the angle below.

The creative angle — the DNA-Reveal hook. Inkvelo's 12-axis Digital DNA 0-100 quality score is not a back-office metric — it is native BookTok content. The video opens cold: the creator holds the book, the radar chart animates on-screen, and the hook lands — "The algorithm rated this an 88. I read all 412 pages to tell you if it's lying." The reveal/verdict structure (a number, then a human reaction to the number) is exactly the curiosity-gap, stitch-bait, duet-bait format the platform rewards. Crucially, the score is framed as a human claim to argue with, not an AI endorsement: the creator is the judge of the algorithm, never the other way round. Because BookTok is loudly anti-AI-book and anti-AI-cover (Ayman Chaudhary and others have made this explicit in the press), every asset leads with genre love and human authorship and surfaces the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge. The DNA score is the gimmick; human craft is the substance. Quality as incentive, not enforcement: a title only unlocks its free Kokoro audiobook and top discoverability by clearing the DNA gate, so the score the creator argues with is the same score that earned the book its perks — a story the creator can tell on camera.

1.2 Mechanics from zero (step-by-step)

1. Build the genre-segmented target list. Pull the addressable shortlist (~50-300 genre-aligned creators per launch) from Feedspot (80+ BookTok influencers, 100+ book YouTube channels), Reedsy (100+ BookTubers), and the named dossier targets. Tag each by genre, tier, reach, contact modality (in-bio email / DM / management / agency), and ARC-vs-paid posture. target_list_build.
2. Match the title to genre buckets. Route the launch by genre: SFF/epic fantasy → Daniel Greene (~568K) [V], Outlaw Bookseller (~17.3K) [V]; romantasy → Abby (~465.9K) [V], Kaven Hirning (~256.8K) [V], MacKenzie Markiewicz (~214.8K) [V]; thriller/horror → Sydney (~429.8K) [V], ChapterStackss (~47.8K) [V]; sapphic/LGBTQ+ → a sunny book nook (~47.4K) [V], Cait Jacobs (~313.9K) [V]; diverse romance → Kendra Keeter-Gray (~133.1K) [V]; literary/upmarket → Jack Edwards (1.56M) [V], Merphy Napier (~487K) [V].
3. Seed ARCs first (no cash). Send a personalized, trope-specific ARC + a one-page DNA card (the radar chart + the human-authorship badge) via in-bio email or DM. Physical PR box only for the highest-fit mid-tier reviewers ($5-$40/copy + shipping). This is the platform-native, authenticity-preserving play (dossier sentiment +0.5).
4. List on ARC platforms for review volume. Seed the title on NetGalley / BookSirens / Booktrovert under precise genre tags to build reviewer volume in parallel (~$10-$450+/title) [V].
5. Pitch BookTube for evergreen, paid-friendly segments. BookTube creators are far more comfortable with flat-fee sponsorships and dedicated review segments, and their videos keep converting for months. Pitch integrated segments to channels that publicly run sponsorships (Jack Edwards via Sixteenth; PeruseProject via gb-dm.com management; Book Roast / ChapterStackss via in-About Gmail).
6. Reserve paid BookTok for disclosed promos / authors-as-creators only. Never pay for a "review." Use TikTok Creator Marketplace or direct management for clearly-disclosed promo videos, and prioritize creators who are themselves authors (Cait Jacobs, Kaven Hirning, Jaysen Headley/Bindery) and understand the format.
7. Ship the DNA-Reveal brief, not a script. Give creators the hook structure, the radar asset, the badge, and three trope beats — then let them write in their own voice. social_plan_compose generates the brief + variant hooks; the human creator owns delivery.
8. Run the bandit. Track per-creator and per-hook CPA; reallocate the paid sliver weekly via budget_optimize Thompson sampling. ARC seeding is unmetered spend (time), so it runs continuously regardless of the bandit.

1.3 NexusROS skill mapping

1.4 PSP scorecard

PSP = 66.6. P_success = 0.717 (P10 0.638 / P90 0.783). CAC = $2.50 per reader · LTV = $5.24 · ROAS = 2.1x. 90-day units (readers): P10 625 / P50 993 / P90 1,575. P(units ≥ 794 target) = 0.733. Initial budget = $2,500, Thompson allocation $2,170 (10.9% share).

Success predicate (falsifiable): Within 90 days, this BookTok/BookTube flywheel acquires ≥ 794 readers (a "reader" = a unique person who claims a free quality-verified audiobook or buys a seeded title, attributed to a creator video via UTM/promo code), at a blended CAC ≤ $2.50. P_success = 0.717 attaches to clearing that ≥794-reader bar at-or-under-CAC.

Confidence note. Reach metrics are live-confirmed this pass (Pepper Agency, Vidpros, Feedspot, Wikipedia, Social Blade-class counters); the Daniel Greene count is re-confirmed (~568K). Confidence is lowered by three soft spots: (a) the BookTok-views headline was corrected down (~200B, not 370B) — demote any reach math relying on the old figure; (b) conversion-by-tier and ROAS benchmarks are flagged [unverified]; (c) Christine Riccio / polandbananasBOOKS subscriber count is [unverified]. Treat ARC seeding as the load-bearing, high-confidence engine and the paid sliver as the experimental, bandit-governed tail.

1.5 Ready-to-use assets

A. ARC seeding outreach (the primary, no-cash play) — copy-paste email

Subject: ARC for {Creator first name} — a {trope} {genre} that scored 88 on the quality grade

Hi {Creator first name},

I've watched your {specific recent video — e.g. "ACOTAR re-read"} and your read on {trope} is exactly why I'm reaching out. I'd love to send you a free ARC of {Title} by {Author} — a human-written {genre} with {trope 1}, {trope 2}, and {trope 3}.

One thing that might make a fun video: every title on Inkvelo gets a 12-axis "Digital DNA" quality grade, 0-100. {Title} scored {score} — I've attached the radar card. No pressure to like it; honestly, "the algorithm says 88 — is it right?" is the video. You be the judge.

It's human-written and human-edited (we lead with the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge), no exclusivity, and zero strings — ARC only, no payment, your honest take. Want me to send the e-ARC, a physical copy, or both?

— {Sender}, Inkvelo · {link to genre page}

B. BookTube integrated-segment pitch (paid-friendly) — copy-paste email

Subject: Sponsored review segment — {genre} title, scored {score}/100, fits your channel

Hi {Channel name},

Your {recent video} is exactly the audience {Title} is for. We'd like to book a dedicated, clearly-disclosed review segment (your honest verdict — positive or not). {Title} is human-written {genre}; it cleared our 12-axis Digital DNA grade at {score}/100, which is also what unlocks its free audiobook. The angle that's been performing: you react to the score, then tell viewers whether the algorithm got it right.

Could you share your flat rate for an integrated segment and your next available slot? ARC and DNA card attached either way.

— {Sender}, Inkvelo

C. The DNA-Reveal BookTok/Reels script (give as a brief; creator owns the voice)

FORMAT: 22-34s vertical. Native, handheld, no logos until end card.

HOOK (0-3s):  [Creator holds book to camera; DNA radar animates in over shoulder]
              "This book got an 88 from an algorithm. I read all 412 pages to
               tell you if the algorithm's lying."

BEAT 1 (3-10s):  "It says the strongest axis is TENSION — and chapter 19? I had
                  to put my phone down." [show the axis lighting up on radar]

BEAT 2 (10-18s): "But it dinged the PACING. Honestly... fair. Act two drags."
                  [creator disagrees/agrees with ONE axis — the authenticity beat]

BEAT 3 (18-26s): "Here's the part TikTok needs to know: it's HUMAN-written.
                  Real author, real editor — that badge is the whole point."
                  [show 'Human-written · Quality-Verified' badge]

CTA (26-34s):    "It's {trope1} + {trope2}. Free audiobook's on Inkvelo if the
                  score clears. Tell me — was the algorithm right? Duet your
                  number." [end card: title + genre page link]

ENGAGEMENT BAIT: pin comment "Reply with YOUR score before you read it 👇"
                 (drives duet/stitch — the score is the shareable object)

D. IG / X cross-posts

• IG caption: "An algorithm gave it 88. I gave it my whole weekend. 🩷 {trope} girlies — was it right? Human-written, free audiobook on Inkvelo. #BookTok #romantasy #{genre}"
• X post: "Books now come with a 12-axis quality score. This one hit 88/100. I read it to fact-check the algorithm. Verdict in the video 👇 (human-written, no AI slop — that's the point)"

E. Creator-facing landing page (the link creators send their audience)

+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|  INKVELO            [Human-written · Quality-Verified ✓]     |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|  {COVER}     "{Title}" scored 88 on the 12-axis Digital DNA  |
|              [ ◍ radar chart, 12 axes, score 88 centered ]    |
|                                                              |
|              ▶  CLAIM YOUR FREE AUDIOBOOK  (Kokoro TTS)      |
|              "{Creator} sent you — your honest review counts" |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Why free? Every title that clears the DNA grade unlocks a   |
|  free audiobook. Quality is the incentive, not a paywall.    |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|  ☐ Show me HUMAN-WRITTEN ONLY          [genre filter ▼]      |
|  Trope tags: {enemies-to-lovers} {slow-burn} {found-family}  |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|  CRO: creator-attributed promo code prefilled ({CREATOR10})  |
|       · email capture for launch-day reviewer list           |
|       · "67 readers claimed this today" social-proof counter |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

CRO elements: per-creator promo code auto-applied from the link (attribution + a reason to act), social-proof counter, single primary CTA (claim free audiobook), the Human-written only filter as a trust signal, and an email capture that recruits the next wave of reviewers. landing_page_compose.

F. Creator discovery method. Feedspot live directory (80+ BookTok, 100+ book YouTube) and Reedsy (100+ BookTubers) → filter by genre → resolve contact (in-bio email, YouTube About Gmail, or management: Sixteenth for Jack Edwards, gb-dm.com for PeruseProject, blackbulb.com for a sunny book nook). For turnkey scale, PR by the Book / BookSparks / Ingram IMA run multi-creator campaigns ($3,000-$25,000+) [V] — efficient but adds margin and is less personal than direct ARC seeding.

1.6 90-day timeline

Owner key:  ◆ NexusROS skill   ○ human   ◇ HITL approval gate

WEEK                      1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12
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target_list_build ◆      ██
  approve list ◇          ◇
DNA radar + badge assets ○ ██ ██
social_plan_compose ◆      ██ ██
  approve brief ◇             ◇
ARC seed wave 1 ○ (email)        ██ ██
ARC platform listing ○            ██
BookTube sponsor pitch ○             ██ ██
  approve paid deals ◇                  ◇
landing_page_compose ◆               ██
creator videos go live ○                ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██
ab_plan_compose ◆ (hooks)                  ██       ██
budget_optimize ◆ (weekly)                 ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██
  approve reallocation ◇                    ◇  ◇  ◇  ◇  ◇  ◇
attribution_analysis ◆                        ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██
ARC seed wave 2 ○                                ██ ██
review/scorecard readout ○                                ██ ██
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1.7 KPIs & monitoring scorecard

Attribution math. Each creator gets a unique promo code + UTM-tagged genre-page link; attribution_analysis resolves a "reader" event (free-audiobook claim or seeded-title purchase) to (creator, hook variant). Blended CAC = total cash spend (paid placements + ARC fulfillment cost) ÷ attributed readers. Per-creator CPA = that creator's cash cost ÷ that creator's attributed readers; ARC-only creators carry near-zero cash cost, so their CPA is dominated by fulfillment ($5-$40 + shipping) and they structurally outperform paid placements on CAC.

PSP recompute cadence. Weekly, recompute Q (from realized creator acceptance + per-creator conversion), E (from realized outreach difficulty), and U (from realized CAC/LTV); hold M, N, S, A unless the market shifts. Feed updated factor scores → PSP → budget_optimize: the Thompson bandit treats each paid creator as an arm, samples from each arm's CPA posterior, and shifts the next week's paid sliver toward the lowest-CPA arms. ARC seeding is exempt from the bandit (time-cost, not cash) and runs continuously.

1.8 Budget & projected results

90-day budget = $2,500, of which the Thompson-allocated working spend is $2,170 (10.9% of the cross-package pool). Allocation logic: the overwhelming majority of volume comes from $0-cash ARC seeding (fulfillment + platform listing fees run ~$300-$700 of the budget); the bandit-governed paid sliver funds a handful of disclosed BookTube integrated segments and authors-as-creators promos, started small and concentrated only on arms whose realized CPA clears the $2.50 bar.

Projected results (from ledger):

P(readers ≥ 794 target) = 0.733. At P50, 993 readers on $2,500 → effective blended CAC ≈ $2.52, with ROAS 2.1x and LTV $5.24 per reader implying ~$5,200 of modeled lifetime revenue at P50 — consistent with the $5,211 rev_p50 figure.

How it scales. The engine scales on the cheap axis first: more genre-matched ARC seeds (every new launch reuses the target_list_build shortlist and the social_plan_compose DNA-Reveal brief at ~$0 marginal cash), then only widens the paid sliver where the weekly Thompson reallocation shows a creator-arm CPA durably below $2.50. Because the DNA-Reveal hook is title-agnostic and the free-audiobook unlock is a permanent structural incentive, each cleared title adds inventory to the flywheel without adding fixed cost — and BookTube's evergreen videos keep converting for months after the 90-day window closes, pushing realized LTV toward and past the modeled $5.24.

Package 2 — BookTuber / YouTube Creator Outreach

One-line: BookTube/BookTok creator ARC seeding · genre-aligned mid-tier reviewers + their book-buying audiences · target_list_build + social_plan_compose · PSP 60.6.

2.1 Objective, ICP & the creative angle

Objective. Convert genre-aligned mid-tier creators (50K-500K) into evergreen, authentic video endorsements that drive Inkvelo title discovery, reviews, and sales at near-zero cash cost — by leading with a free audiobook ARC and an on-camera "Digital DNA reaction" segment that gives the creator a novel, sponsor-grade content beat without compromising review authenticity.

ICP (who we pitch). Not the mega accounts. The sweet spot is the mid-tier reviewer who "converts better than mega accounts due to higher genre alignment and trust" (dossier summary). Two sub-profiles:

• BookTube channels (30K-500K subs): comfortable with flat-fee sponsorships and dedicated review segments, evergreen long-form that "keeps converting for months/years" (dossier). Genre-pure: Daniel Greene (~568K, SFF) [V], Merphy Napier (~487K, SFF/literary) [V], PeruseProject (~388K, YA/fantasy/romance) [V], Book Roast (~91.9K, fantasy/community) [V], ChapterStackss (~47.8K, horror/thriller) [V], a sunny book nook (~47.4K, sapphic/queer) [V], Outlaw Bookseller (~17.3K, SFF/horror) [V].
• Mid-tier BookTok reviewers (130K-500K), genre-locked: Sydney (~429.8K, thriller) [V], Cait Jacobs (~313.9K, fantasy/romance/LGBTQ+) [V], Kevin Norman (~261.2K, poetry/thriller/queer) [V], Kaven Hirning (~256.8K, fantasy) [V], MacKenzie Markiewicz (~214.8K, romantasy) [V], Kendra Keeter-Gray (~133.1K, diverse romance) [V].

The audience ICP behind them: genre readers in the BookTok-favored growth categories — Romance +9%, Fantasy +35.8% U.S. adult-print 2024 (Circana 2024 BookScan) [V] — who buy what trusted reviewers recommend (BookTok-driven demand: ~59M print books, $760M+ U.S. revenue in 2024, WriteStats/Circana) [V].

The creative angle — "DNA-score reaction." Pure book reviews are not paid in cash on these platforms (community norm; dossier), so cash buys nothing genuine. What we offer instead is content gold: an exclusive free audiobook ARC (self-hosted Kokoro TTS, zero marginal cost) plus the title's 12-axis Digital DNA breakdown — a 0-100 quality scorecard across prose, pacing, originality, structure, etc. The creator films a "react to the DNA score" segment: read the score live, agree/disagree, then read/listen and tell their audience whether the score held up. This is novel, native, and authenticity-preserving — the creator keeps full editorial control of the verdict; we only supply the artifact to react to. It dovetails with the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge: because BookTok is "vocal against AI-generated books," we lead with human authorship and craft, and the DNA score becomes proof of human quality, not automation. Evergreen by design — the reaction video keeps converting for months.

2.2 Mechanics from zero (step-by-step)

1. Build the genre-locked target list. Pull the dossier's named creators, tag each by genre fit and reach tier, and split into ARC-seed (free) vs. paid-placement (flat-fee) lanes. For a single launch, assemble ~50-300 genre-aligned creators (dossier addressable shortlist) drawn from Feedspot (100+ book YouTube channels, 80+ BookTok influencers), Reedsy (100+ BookTubers), and the named targets below.
2. Match title genre to creator genre — hard filter. A thriller goes to Sydney [V] / ChapterStackss [V]; epic SFF to Daniel Greene [V] / Merphy Napier [V] / Outlaw Bookseller [V]; romantasy to Cait Jacobs [V] / Kaven Hirning [V] / MacKenzie Markiewicz [V]; sapphic to a sunny book nook [V]; diverse romance to Kendra Keeter-Gray [V]; literary/upmarket to Jack Edwards [V]. No spray-and-pray (sentiment: -0.4 to spray-and-pray PR).
3. Generate the Digital DNA scorecard for the title (12-axis, 0-100) and produce a one-page "DNA dossier" PDF: the score, the axis breakdown, and the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" provenance statement. This is the reaction artifact.
4. Find the contact. BookTube: business email in the channel About tab (Daniel Greene, Merphy Napier, Book Roast, ChapterStackss, Outlaw Bookseller all list one per dossier) or management (PeruseProject via gb-dm.com; a sunny book nook via blackbulb.com; Jack Edwards via Sixteenth). BookTok: in-bio email / DM / cross-posted Instagram, or TikTok Creator Marketplace.
5. Send the personalized ARC pitch (template in 2.5) — lead with genre fit + free audiobook ARC + the DNA-reaction concept. Never lead with "AI." Disclose human authorship up front.
6. Fulfill instantly. Deliver the free audiobook (Kokoro TTS, near-zero marginal cost) + ebook ARC + DNA dossier within 24h of a yes. Optionally ship a low-cost physical PR box ($5-$40/copy + shipping; dossier) to top-fit creators.
7. Offer flat paid placements selectively — only to BookTube channels that publicly run sponsorships and to authors-as-creators, as clearly-disclosed promos (not paid reviews). Mid-tier flat rate ~$2,000-$4,000/video (LaunchPoint 2025-26) [V]; Book Roast / ChapterStackss / Outlaw Bookseller sit in the low-hundreds-to-low-thousands band.
8. Equip the creator with affiliate/UTM links (per-creator), the DNA dossier, cover/quote assets, and the "Human-written only" filter URL — but never a script for the verdict.
9. Harvest and recycle. Clip creator videos (with permission) into our own Reels/Shorts; pin best-converting clips; feed performance back into the budget bandit (2.7) to reallocate toward the highest-ROAS creators and genres.

2.3 NexusROS skill mapping

2.4 PSP scorecard

• PSP score: 60.6
• P_success: 0.6105 (P10 0.516 / P90 0.698)
• CAC: $2.20 · LTV: $5.24 · ROAS: 2.38 · unit: reader
• 90-day units (readers): P10 419 / P50 674 / P90 1086
• P(units ≥ target): 0.727 against sales_target 539
• Initial budget: $1,500 · Thompson allocation: $503 (2.5% share)
• SUCCESS PREDICATE (falsifiable): Within 90 days, this BookTuber/BookTube creator-outreach play acquires ≥ 539 readers (P_success ledger attaches here at 0.727), at CAC ≤ $2.20 and blended ROAS ≥ 2.38, driven by genre-aligned ARC-seeded reaction videos.
• Confidence note: Confidence is moderate (P_success 0.6105, band 0.516-0.698). The dominant downside risk is sentiment (S=0.50): if outreach reads as AI slop or as a paid-review ask, endorsements collapse — mitigated by leading with human-authorship disclosure and the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" frame. Several conversion benchmarks (sponsored-post conversion %, ROAS multiples, ARC sales-lift) are [unverified] in the dossier, so realized units may diverge from P50.

2.5 Ready-to-use assets

Creator outreach — discovery method. Source genre-locked creators from Feedspot (100+ book YouTube channels, 80+ BookTok influencers) [V] and Reedsy (100+ BookTubers) [V]; pull business email from each BookTube About tab or management (Sixteenth, gb-dm.com, blackbulb.com per dossier); for BookTok use in-bio email, cross-posted Instagram, or TikTok Creator Marketplace. Hard-filter by genre before any send.

Copy-paste ARC pitch (BookTube, dedicated review / DNA-reaction).

Subject: Free audiobook ARC + a "Digital DNA score" for you to react to — {genre}, fits {channel}

Hi {first name},

I've watched your {specific recent video, e.g. "fantasy disappointments" tier list} — your read on {genre} is exactly why I'm reaching out and not someone with a bigger channel.

{Title} is a human-written {sub-genre} novel ({comp 1} x {comp 2}). It's been independently scored on Inkvelo's 12-axis "Digital DNA" — a 0-100 quality scorecard (prose, pacing, originality, structure...). It scored {score}/100, and it carries our "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge.

Two things, no strings, no cash-for-reviews:

1. A free, full audiobook ARC + ebook — yours to keep.
2. The full DNA scorecard to react to on camera if you want a fresh segment: read the score, call it, then tell your audience whether it held up. Your verdict, totally your call.

Want me to send the ARC + scorecard today? Happy to tailor to your TBR timing.

{Name} · {Inkvelo} · ARC link: {url} · Human-written-only catalog: {url}

Copy-paste ARC pitch (BookTok DM, ≤ TikTok-friendly length).

Hi {first name}! Your {trope, e.g. enemies-to-lovers romantasy} reviews are spot on — that's why you, not a mega account. {Title} is a human-written {sub-genre} ({comp} vibes) that scored {score}/100 on Inkvelo's 12-axis Digital DNA quality score. Free full audiobook + ebook ARC, zero strings, no paid review. Optional fun bit: react to its DNA score on camera and tell your people if it earned it. Send it your way? 📚

Follow-up (T+5 days, if no reply).

Subject: Re: Free audiobook ARC for {channel} — still happy to send Hi {first name} — circling back once. No ask beyond: want the free {genre} audiobook ARC + DNA scorecard? One word and it's in your inbox today. If it's not your TBR right now, no worries at all.

Flat-fee placement script (BookTube channels that run sponsorships).

"We'd love a dedicated/integrated segment. ARC and the DNA scorecard are free regardless — separately, for a disclosed sponsored segment, we work in the mid-tier flat band (~$2,000-$4,000/video per current rate guidance [V]; smaller channels low-hundreds to low-thousands). Your verdict stays 100% yours — sponsorship buys placement and disclosure, never the opinion. Affiliate link on top so you also earn per sale. Rate for a dedicated review segment?"

BookTok/Reels DNA-reaction script (creator-facing concept, ~30-45s).

HOOK (0-3s):  "A book got a 91 out of 100 on a 12-axis quality score.
               Let's see if it deserves it." [hold up cover]
BEAT 1 (3-12): "It's called {Title}. Human-written {sub-genre}.
               This 'Digital DNA' thing scored its prose, pacing,
               originality... here's the breakdown." [show scorecard]
BEAT 2 (12-25): React live to 2-3 axes — "Originality 94? bold.
               Pacing 82, okay we'll see." [genuine reaction]
BEAT 3 (25-38): "I read it. Verdict: ___" [honest take — creator's call]
CTA (38-45):   "Free audiobook's on Inkvelo — link in bio.
               Filter 'Human-written only' if that's your thing."

IG / X cross-posts (creator or brand).

• IG: "Reacting to a book's 12-axis 'Digital DNA' score before I read it. Did a 91/100 earn it? 🧵 Free audiobook in bio. #BookTok #{genre}reads #humanwritten"
• X: "A 0-100 quality score for novels, across 12 axes. This {sub-genre} hit {score}. Human-written, quality-verified, free audiobook. Reaction video soon."

2.6 90-day timeline

Owners: ◆ NexusROS skill   ○ human   ◇ HITL approval gate
Week →            1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  11  12
target_list_build ◆◇..............................................   build + approve shortlist
DNA scorecards     ◆◆..............................................   12-axis score per title
email_chain (pitch)   ◇◆◆◆..........................................   pitch wave + follow-ups
ARC fulfillment        ○◆◆◆◆◆........................................   audiobook+ebook+DNA dossier
PR-box ship (top fit)     ○○............................................   \$5-\$40/copy
flat-deal scripts          ◇◆◆.........................................   call_script (selective)
videos go live (evergreen)      ○○○○○○○○........................        creator-controlled
clip/recycle (Reels/Shorts)        ◆◇◆◇◆◇◆◇........................     ab_plan on hooks
attribution_analysis                ◆..◆..◆..◆..◆..◆..◆..◆          per-creator UTM/affiliate
budget_optimize (bandit)               ◇◆..◇◆..◇◆..◇◆               reallocate by ROAS
KPI review / PSP recompute             ○...○...○...○...○            biweekly cadence

2.7 KPIs & monitoring scorecard

Attribution math. Each creator gets a unique UTM + affiliate link; attribution_analysis maps conversions to creator and video. Blended CAC = (paid placement spend + PR-box/fulfillment cost) ÷ attributed readers. With CAC $2.20 and LTV $5.24, ROAS = 5.24 / 2.20 = 2.38. Because videos are evergreen, attribution windows stay open 90+ days and credit is assigned last-touch on affiliate click with a view-through backstop for branded-search lift.

PSP recompute cadence. Biweekly, recompute the 7 factors from realized data — Q from observed pitch→accept and creator conversion, E from realized outreach effort, U from actual CAC/LTV, S from sentiment of replies/comments — then re-derive PSP = 100·Σ w_i f_i and P_success = σ(8·(PSP_raw − 0.55)). Updated per-creator ROAS posteriors feed budget_optimize (Thompson sampling), which reallocates the $503 cohort budget toward the highest-converting genres/creators each cycle.

2.8 Budget & projected results

90-day budget. Initial allocation $1,500; Thompson allocation to this play $503 (2.5% of portfolio share). Because the core motion is free ARC seeding (audiobook = near-zero marginal Kokoro cost; ARC = $0 cash; PR box $5-$40/copy [V]), the $503 covers PR-box shipping to top-fit creators plus 1-3 selective disclosed flat-fee placements in the low-hundreds-to-low-thousands band (Book Roast, ChapterStackss, Outlaw Bookseller tiers); larger flat deals (mid-tier ~$2,000-$4,000/video [V]) are escalated only if early ROAS clears.

Expected outcome (ledger). 90-day readers: P10 419 / P50 674 / P90 1086, against target 539 with P(units ≥ target) 0.727. Revenue P50 ~$3,546. At CAC $2.20 / LTV $5.24, ROAS 2.38.

How it scales. The play scales on two near-free axes: (1) breadth — extend the genre-locked list toward the full addressable 50-300 creators per launch and across the Feedspot/Reedsy directories, since each incremental ARC is $0; (2) evergreen compounding — published reaction videos keep converting for months, so cumulative attributed readers grow without new spend. When the bandit confirms a genre/creator cohort clears ROAS ≥ 2.38, reallocate budget into selective mid-tier flat placements ($2,000-$4,000/video [V]) and, at higher scale, turnkey book-PR/influencer agency campaigns ($3,000-$25,000+ [V]) — only where realized LTV:CAC continues to clear.

Package 3 — Search & Retail Ads (Google + Amazon)

One-line: Amazon Sponsored Products + Google Search · series-intent and comparison-intent book buyers · ad_suite_compose + budget_optimize · PSP 73.5.

3.1 Objective, ICP & the creative angle

Objective. Capture demand that is already in-motion on the two marketplaces where AI-origin stigma is lowest — Amazon (a retail surface where readers judge a cover, blurb, and "Look Inside," not authorship debates) and Google Search (where intent is typed, not inferred). The play is read-through economics: spend pennies to acquire the first reader of a permafree Book 1, then harvest the margin downstream through series sell-through and Kindle Unlimited page reads (KENP). We are buying the top of a funnel whose true value lives 2-5 books deep.

ICP. The series-completionist genre reader — romance/romantasy, cozy mystery, and progression-fantasy buyers who, once hooked on Book 1, predictably buy or borrow Books 2-N. Two intent flavors: (a) retail-intent shoppers browsing Amazon category and competitor product pages, reachable via Sponsored Products at a Books-category CPC of $0.38 with CVR 18.0% [V] (Ad Badger, Mar 10 2026); (b) search-intent users typing "free audiobook," series titles, and "[competitor writing tool] vs" comparison queries on Google, where the closest fiction proxy (Arts & Entertainment) runs CPC $1.60, CTR 13.10%, CVR 4.84% [V] (WordStream/LocaliQ 2025).

The creative angle — comparison- and series-intent capture. Two coordinated motions:

1. Permafree Book 1 as a loss-leader ignition. Set Book 1 to $0.00 and run Amazon Sponsored Products against it. Acquisition cost per downloaded reader is near-floor because we pay the $0.38 CPC, not a sale price. The return is read-through: each engaged borrower generates KENP royalties at $0.004820/page (US, Apr 2026) [V] (Written Word Media KDP Global Fund tracker), and a meaningful fraction converts to paid purchases of Books 2-N. PublishRank's series-funnel math shows a 5-book series yields ~$11.25/subscriber at $0.0045/page versus ~$2.25 for a standalone [V] (PublishRank) — a ~5x lift from the same first-read. The Sponsored Products bias is canonical: Self-Publishing School confirms 80-90% of book ad budget belongs in Sponsored Products [V].

2. Google high-intent + comparison capture. Two query clusters: (i) "free audiobook" and "[genre] free audiobook" — Inkvelo's free, quality-cleared Kokoro TTS audiobook is a genuine differentiator that satisfies that exact query at zero marginal cost; (ii) comparison queries — "[competitor writing/publishing tool] vs", "[platform] alternative", "[platform] royalties" — where Inkvelo's 65-75% royalty, no-exclusivity, free-audiobook posture wins the head-to-head. On both marketplaces the "AI" objection is muted: Amazon shoppers buy stories, and the Google searcher is already shopping for the exact benefit we lead with — never "AI," always the free audiobook and the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" provenance badge.

3.2 Mechanics from zero (step-by-step)

1. Instrument first. Stand up KDP + Amazon Ads console and a Google Ads account. Install Google conversion tracking on the Inkvelo landing/store pages. Pull the live KENP rate ($0.004820/page, Apr 2026 [V]) and compute per-series read-through value before spending a cent.
2. Set Book 1 permafree. Price Book 1 to $0.99 on KDP, then price-match to $0.00 on competing retailers (or use KDP Select free days at launch) so Amazon follows to free. Confirm Books 2-N are full price and/or in KU.
3. Compute break-even bids. Use the canonical BookBub bid math as the template: at $4.99 / 70% royalty = $3.49/sale, max CPC is $0.70 (or CPM $10.47) at 1.5% CTR and 20% per-click CVR [V] (BookBub Insights). For KU titles, switch to KENP-Revised ACOS = Spend / (Sales + KENP royalties) [V] (Sellermetrics) so page-read income counts toward break-even; their worked example breaks even at 45.6% ACOS [V].
4. Launch Amazon auto-targeting. Open one Sponsored Products auto campaign at $10/day, bid ~$0.30-0.58 (Amazon auto range [V], Kindlepreneur). Let it run 7-10 days to mine converting search terms and ASINs.
5. Graduate to the 3-campaign structure. Following the Kindlepreneur blueprint [V]: (1) Auto (discovery), (2) Manual keyword (harvested terms), (3) Product/ASIN targeting against competitor and comp-title product pages. Move winning terms from Auto into Manual; negative-match the losers.
6. Build Google in parallel. Two ad groups: Free-Audiobook (exact/phrase "free audiobook," "[genre] free audiobook") and Comparison ("[tool] vs," "[platform] alternative," "[platform] royalties"). Start at $10/day, cap CPC near the A&E benchmark $1.60 [V], point to a query-matched landing page.
7. Seed reader volume cheaply. Where Sponsored Products alone is slow to fill the funnel, layer a Written Word Media free/bargain promo — Freebooksy romance lists run 347k-710k subs at $80-245 [V] (Written Word Media via Reedsy), the cheapest reach-per-dollar in the dossier, to spike Book-1 downloads and accelerate read-through.
8. Feed the bandit. Pipe daily spend/CVR/ACOS/KENP per campaign into budget_optimize (Thompson sampling). It reallocates toward the lowest KENP-Revised-ACOS campaign nightly; a human approves any reallocation that moves >20% of budget.

3.3 NexusROS skill mapping

3.4 PSP scorecard

• PSP score: 73.5
• P_success: 0.8146 (P10 0.754 / P90 0.861)
• CAC: $2.40 / reader · LTV: $5.24 / reader · ROAS: 2.18x
• 90-day units (readers) P10/P50/P90: 790 / 1,243 / 1,958
• P(units ≥ target): 0.736 at a target of 994 readers
• Initial budget: $3,000 · Thompson allocation: $6,624 (share 0.331 of portfolio)
• SUCCESS PREDICATE (falsifiable): Within 90 days, paid Search & Retail spend acquires ≥ 994 net-new Book-1 readers at blended CAC ≤ $2.40, with ROAS ≥ 2.18x once KENP read-through is counted (KENP-Revised ACOS ≤ break-even). P_success = 0.8146 attaches to this exact predicate.
• Confidence note: Amazon Books benchmarks (CPC/CVR/ACOS/CTR) and KENP rates are verified-exact [V]; the Meta romance CPC and several read-through LTV deltas are flagged unverified in-source and were excluded from the LTV/CAC math, which rests on Books-category CVR 18.0% and the verified series-funnel multiplier.

3.5 Ready-to-use assets

Amazon Sponsored Products — ad copy (SP uses your title/cover/blurb; the lever is keyword/ASIN targeting + the auto-tagline shown on some placements):

• Headline-style taglines (for placements that render copy):
  • "Free Book 1. Then you won't stop."
  • "Binge the whole series — start free today."
  • "Human-written. Quality-Verified. Free to start."
• Manual keyword seeds: [genre] series, free romance ebook, [comp author] readers also bought, cozy mystery series book 1, romantasy series free.
• Product/ASIN targets: competitor comp-title detail pages + "Customers also bought" ASINs harvested from the Auto campaign.

Google Search — Responsive Search Ad copy:

Ad group: Free-Audiobook

Headlines (pin H1):
1. Free AI Audiobook, Any Story   2. Listen Free — Quality-Verified
3. Free Audiobook + eBook         4. Start the Series, Free
5. Human-Written · Verified       6. No App, No Catch — Listen Now
Descriptions:
D1. Every quality-cleared title comes with a free audiobook. Start Book 1 free today.
D2. 65-75% author royalties, no exclusivity. Free to start, free to listen.

Ad group: Comparison

Headlines (pin H1):
1. The {Competitor} Alternative   2. Keep 65-75% Royalties
3. No Exclusivity, Free Audiobook 4. Compare: Royalties & Reach
5. Quality-Verified Marketplace   6. Switch in Minutes
Descriptions:
D1. Higher royalties, no lock-in, a free audiobook on every cleared title.
D2. See why authors switch. Human-written-only filter for readers who care.

Landing page — query-matched (Free-Audiobook variant):

Section-by-section copy:

• Hero: "Start the series free — and the audiobook's free too." Sub: "Every quality-cleared book on Inkvelo unlocks a free, narrated audiobook. No app. No catch." CTA: Start Book 1 Free.
• Trust strip: "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge + "Human-written only" filter toggle + "65-75% royalties to authors."
• Proof: Digital DNA 0-100 score explainer ("a 12-axis quality score gates what you see").
• Series hook: "Loved Book 1? Books 2-N are one tap away." CTA: See the series.

ASCII wireframe:

+---------------------------------------------------+
| INKVELO            [Human-written only ▢]  Sign in |
+---------------------------------------------------+
|  Start the series free —                          |
|  and the audiobook's free too.                    |
|  Every quality-cleared book unlocks a free        |
|  audiobook. No app. No catch.                     |
|        [  Start Book 1 Free  ]   <-- primary CTA  |
+---------------------------------------------------+
| ✓ Human-written · Quality-Verified                |
| ✓ Free audiobook   ✓ 65-75% royalties             |
+---------------------------------------------------+
| [ Digital DNA 0-100 ]  How quality gates what you |
| ███████████░ 86       see + unlocks free audio    |
+---------------------------------------------------+
|  Loved Book 1?  Books 2-N are one tap away.       |
|        [   See the series   ]                     |
+---------------------------------------------------+

CRO elements: single primary CTA above the fold, query-echo headline (matches "free audiobook" search), trust badge before the fold, friction-free "no app/no catch" objection-killer, series cross-sell as secondary CTA.

Email sequence — 3-email post-download series-ignition (triggered when a reader claims free Book 1):

1. Subject: Your free Book 1 is in — and so is the audiobook. Body: "Welcome to Inkvelo. Your copy of {Book 1} is ready, and so is its free audiobook — listen in the browser, no app. Every title here is quality-verified and human-written. Hit play, or keep reading. → [Open Book 1]"
2. Subject: Most readers finish {Book 1} in {N} days. Then this happens. Body: "Readers who finish Book 1 tend to start Book 2 the same week — the cliffhanger does its job. Book 2 is waiting, and yes, it has a free audiobook too. → [Continue the series]"
3. Subject: Your next 4 books (and 4 free audiobooks). Body: "You're in a {N}-book series. Here's the full reading order, each with a free quality-verified audiobook. Want the boxset path? → [See the whole series]. Prefer human-written only? That's the only thing we shelve."

Creator/partner outreach — Written Word Media promo (discovery + template): Discovery: book Freebooksy/Bargain Booksy romance features at the genre list (347k-710k subs [V]) to spike Book-1 free downloads. Copy-paste brief to WWM/Reedsy-listed promo:

"Featuring a permafree Book 1 in a {N}-book {genre} series; free quality-verified audiobook included on every title. Target: romance/romantasy list. Goal: maximize Book-1 downloads to seed series read-through. Requested feature date: {date}."

3.6 90-day timeline

Owner: ◆ NexusROS skill   ○ human   ◇ HITL approval gate
Week                  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12
--------------------------------------------------------
Instrument KDP+GAds   ○○
Book1 permafree set   ○○
Break-even bid calc   ◆◇
Amazon AUTO launch     ◆◇━━
Harvest→Manual/ASIN       ◆◆◇━━━━━
Google RSAs (2 ag)        ◆◇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
ad_suite_compose copy  ◆◇   ◆◇      ◆◇         ◆◇
WWM promo feature             ○◇━
A/B bid+creative grid         ○◇◆◆◆◆◆◆━━━━
budget_optimize nightly          ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◇◆◆◆
attribution (KENP ACOS)          ◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆◆
PSP recompute / review              ◇    ◇    ◇
Scale review (gate)                              ◇

3.7 KPIs & monitoring scorecard

Attribution math. Primary metric is KENP-Revised ACOS = Spend / (Sales royalties + KENP page-read royalties) [V] (Sellermetrics), so a permafree Book 1 that "loses" on the click is correctly credited when its borrowers generate page reads at $0.004820/page [V]. Google conversions attribute to landing-page CTA completions; Amazon attributes via the native 14-day attribution window. Series value is computed as read-through × downstream book margin, benchmarked to PublishRank's ~$11.25/sub 5-book funnel [V].

PSP recompute cadence. Every two weeks (weeks 4, 6, 8, 10 review points on the Gantt), recompute the 7 factors from live data: Q from realized CTR/CVR vs benchmark, U from realized KENP-Revised ACOS and read-through, E from setup friction actually encountered. The refreshed PSP and per-campaign posteriors feed budget_optimize's Thompson sampler, which nightly shifts spend toward the lowest-ACOS / highest-read-through campaign; any reallocation >20% of daily budget routes to a ◇ HITL gate.

3.8 Budget & projected results

90-day budget. Initial allocation $3,000 [P], biased ~60-70% to Amazon Sponsored Products per Self-Publishing School's 80-90% SP guidance [V] (we trim toward 60-70% to fund Google comparison capture). Indicative split: Amazon SP ~$1,900; Google RSAs ~$800; one Written Word Media feature ~$80-245 [V] (Freebooksy/Bargain Booksy romance).

Expected outcome (from ledger).

• Readers acquired — P10 790 / P50 1,243 / P90 1,958.
• P50 revenue $6,532; ROAS 2.18x; blended CAC $2.40, LTV $5.24 (LTV:CAC ≈ 2.18:1).
• P(readers ≥ 994 target) = 0.736.

How it scales. This is the portfolio's highest-conviction paid lane, so the Thompson sampler escalates it from the $3,000 seed toward a $6,624 allocation (share 0.331 of paid budget) as live KENP-Revised ACOS confirms break-even. Scaling levers, in order: (1) widen Manual/ASIN keyword sets from the Auto campaign's converting terms; (2) raise bids toward the $0.70 break-even ceiling [V] (BookBub) only while ACOS holds under 19% [V]; (3) add WWM promo features to re-spike Book-1 volume; (4) extend Google comparison ad groups to every named competitor. Because marginal cost on the free audiobook is near-zero (self-hosted Kokoro TTS), each incremental reader carries full downstream read-through margin — the economics improve, not erode, with scale.

Package 4 — Meta / Instagram Paid + Organic

One-line: Meta (Facebook + Instagram) paid lookalike + organic Reels · romantasy/fantasy buyers and their lookalikes · ad_suite_compose + social_plan_compose · PSP 66.9.

4.1 Objective, ICP & the creative angle

Objective. Build the top-of-funnel demand engine that the lower-funnel intent channels (Amazon, BookBub) cannot: manufacture demand among romantasy/fantasy readers who are not yet searching, convert them with a zero-risk offer (free Book 1 or free audiobook), and pull them into the Inkvelo reader-magnet funnel where Digital DNA quality scores and series page-reads compound the LTV. Meta is positioned here as the scaling engine for romance — creative-led, where the creative does the targeting (verified: Meta is the "scaling engine for romance; creative-led," Meta Ads Manager dossier entry).

ICP for this play. The romantasy/fantasy binge-reader — predominantly Kindle Unlimited subscribers and series completists who discover books visually (BookTok/Bookstagram aesthetic) rather than via search. They respond to vibe, trope, and "if you loved X you'll love this" framing. Within Meta we reach them two ways: (1) interest+behavior seed audiences (Kindle, romance authors, KU, comparable-author fandoms), then (2) 1%-3% lookalikes built from the highest-value seed — the free-Book-1 downloaders and audiobook unlockers, fed back from the funnel. The lookalike off purchaser/downloader data is the durable asset; the interest seed is only the bootstrap.

The creative angle — provenance-forward, story-first. Every asset leads with story (the hook, the trope, the stakes) and carries the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge as the trust mark. The word "AI" never appears in reader-facing creative — the only AI on the page is the free Kokoro audiobook, framed as a gift ("Listen free, narrated"), never as the product. The provenance badge is the differentiator no romance advertiser on Meta currently runs: in a feed saturated with suspected-AI slop, "Human-written" + a 0-100 quality score + a "Human-written only" filter is a pattern-interrupt that earns the click on trust, not just trope. The conversion event is deliberately not a sale — it is the free Book 1 / free audiobook, a reader magnet that (a) crushes friction at a $14.19 CPM where every cent of CVR matters, (b) seeds the lookalike, and (c) routes readers into a KU series where the real money is page-reads at $0.004820/page (US KENP, Apr 2026, verified — WWM KDP Global Fund tracker).

4.2 Mechanics from zero (step-by-step)

1. Stand up the funnel destination first. Build a fast landing page whose only job is the free-Book-1 email capture / free-audiobook unlock (see 4.5). Wire the Meta Pixel + Conversions API; define the standard events Lead (email captured) and CompleteRegistration (audiobook unlocked).
2. Instrument the feedback loop. Create a Customer List custom audience that auto-syncs every downloader/unlocker. This is the seed for lookalikes — without it the channel is just interest targeting and will not scale.
3. Bootstrap the seed audience (cold). While the custom-list is too small (<100), launch interest+behavior targeting: KU, Kindle, romance/fantasy comparable authors, Bookstagram behaviors. One broad ad set, creative-led — let Meta's optimizer find the readers (this is the documented "creative-led" posture for romance, Meta dossier entry).
4. Run the creative slate. Launch 4-6 creatives day one (see 4.5): a Reel (UGC-style trope hook), a static "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge card, a carousel (3-book series ladder), and an audiobook-gift variant. Objective = Leads, optimizing for the free-download event.
5. Set bids/budget to the break-even ceiling. Model the economics on the verified break-even math: at $4.99 @ 70% royalty = $3.49/sale, max CPC $0.70 / max CPM $10.47 at 1.5% CTR & 20% per-click CVR (BookBub Insights, verified). Meta median CPM is $14.19 (verified), above that ceiling — so the free-magnet + series page-read LTV must carry the math, not a single front-book sale. Start at $10-20/day per the Meta dossier estimate.
6. Cross the lookalike threshold. Once the custom list passes ~100-500 matched downloaders, build a 1% lookalike (purchaser/downloader source) and a 3% expansion. Shift budget from interest → lookalike as the lookalike's cost-per-lead beats interest.
7. Layer organic Reels (zero-cost) in parallel. Post 3-5 Reels/week from the same trope-hook scripts; the winners become paid creative (organic-validated creative lowers paid CPM risk). This is the social_plan_compose lane and it costs $0.
8. Feed page-reads back into LTV. Track KENP page-reads at $0.004820/page (verified) per acquired reader; recompute LTV weekly. A 5-book series funnel is worth ~$11.25/sub vs ~$2.25 for a standalone (PublishRank, verified) — this is the entire reason the free-Book-1 magnet clears at a $14.19 CPM.
9. Weekly HITL review + bandit reallocation. Every Sunday: human approves new creative/audiences, then budget_optimize (Thompson sampling) reallocates spend across ad sets and across the wider channel portfolio.

4.3 NexusROS skill mapping

4.4 PSP scorecard

PSP = 66.9. P_success = 0.7215 (P10 0.64 / P90 0.789). CAC = $3.80 per reader · LTV = $5.24 · ROAS = 1.38. 90-day units (readers): P10 493 / P50 783 / P90 1,238. P(units ≥ 627 target) = 0.73. Initial budget $3,000; Thompson allocation $2,366 (11.8% of the cross-channel portfolio).

Success predicate (falsifiable): Within 90 days, Meta paid+organic acquires ≥ 627 readers (free-Book-1 downloaders/audiobook unlockers tracked via Pixel/CAPI Lead+CompleteRegistration) at a blended CAC ≤ $3.80, with channel ROAS ≥ 1.38 once series KENP page-reads are attributed. If at day 45 CAC > $5.00 or the lookalike cost-per-lead fails to beat interest targeting, the channel is throttled and budget reallocated by the bandit.

Confidence note. Moderate-high. The biggest uncertainty is U: Meta's $14.19 CPM (verified) and the absence of any confirmed Meta romance CPC (the often-cited "2% CTR @ $0.34 CPC" is a BookBub case study mis-attributed to Meta — verified mis-citation, BookBub Insights) mean front-book ROAS cannot be assumed; the predicate explicitly attaches to LTV after page-read attribution, which is where the verified series-funnel ROI ($11.25/sub, PublishRank) lives.

4.5 Ready-to-use assets

Ad copy — Meta (Facebook + Instagram), Leads objective, free-Book-1 / free-audiobook event.

Creative A — Trope-hook Reel (primary scaling unit):

• Primary text: "She bargained her name to the Fae prince who burned her kingdom. She did not expect to want him to keep it. Enemies-to-lovers, a court of knives, a debt paid in heartbeats. Start Book 1 free — and listen free, narrated."
• Headline: "Human-written · Quality-Verified"
• Description: "Free Book 1. No app. Free audiobook included."
• CTA button: Download

Creative B — Provenance badge static (trust pattern-interrupt):

• Primary text: "Tired of guessing what's real? Every Inkvelo story carries a Human-written · Quality-Verified badge and a 0-100 quality score — so you always know a person wrote it. Filter to Human-written only. Start Book 1 free."
• Headline: "Real authors. Verified."
• CTA button: Learn More

Creative C — Series-ladder carousel (3 cards):

• Card 1: "Book 1 — Free. The bargain that started a war." Card 2: "Book 2 — The throne she never wanted." Card 3: "Book 3 — Everything has a price." Primary text: "Binge the whole court. Book 1 free, free audiobook included — read or listen on Kindle Unlimited."
• Headline: "Start the series free."
• CTA: Download

Creative D — Audiobook-gift variant:

• Primary text: "Don't have time to read? We narrated it for you — free. Press play on a human-written romantasy and let it carry you through the commute. Book 1 + audiobook, free."
• Headline: "Listen free, narrated."
• CTA: Download

(All four run as one ad set, creative-led; Meta optimizes delivery — the documented romance posture, Meta dossier entry.)

Landing page — the reader magnet (free Book 1 / free audiobook).

Section-by-section:

1. Hero: trope-hook headline + cover + single field email capture. Sub: "Free Book 1. Free audiobook. Human-written · Quality-Verified."
2. Badge bar: the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge + 0-100 Digital DNA score + "Human-written only" filter mention.
3. The hook: 3-sentence stakes paragraph (the bargain, the war, the want).
4. Proof: 2-3 reader pull-quotes + quality-score visual.
5. The gift: "Every quality-clearing title ships with a free audiobook — narrated, yours to keep."
6. Series ladder: the 5-book ladder, "free starts here."
7. Capture CTA repeat.

+--------------------------------------------------+
|  [cover]   A COURT OF KNIVES                      |
|            She bargained her name. She didn't     |
|            expect to want him to keep it.         |
|            [ email__________ ] (Read Book 1 free) |
|            Human-written · Quality-Verified  92/100|
+--------------------------------------------------+
|  ★ Human-written only filter · 0-100 quality score|
+--------------------------------------------------+
|  THE HOOK  | "Enemies-to-lovers, a court of       |
|            |  knives, a debt paid in heartbeats." |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|  PROOF: ❝Couldn't put it down❞  ·  ❝Read in a day❞ |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|  THE GIFT: 🎧 Free audiobook, narrated, yours.    |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|  SERIES LADDER:  [1 FREE]→[2]→[3]→[4]→[5]          |
+--------------------------------------------------+
|         [ email__________ ]  (Start free →)       |
+--------------------------------------------------+

CRO elements: single-field capture above the fold; one CTA color repeated; badge as trust anchor; no "AI" anywhere; mobile-first (Meta traffic is ~all mobile); exit-intent "just send me the free audiobook" fallback.

Email reader-magnet sequence (post-download, 4 emails).

• E1 (instant) — Subject: "Your free Book 1 (and your audiobook) are inside." Body: "Welcome. Here's A Court of Knives — yours free. Prefer to listen? Your free narrated audiobook is here too [link]. One thing that makes Inkvelo different: every story carries a Human-written · Quality-Verified badge, so you always know a person wrote it. Happy reading. — The Inkvelo team"
• E2 (Day 2) — Subject: "Did you reach the bargain scene yet?" Body: "No spoilers — but Chapter 7 is where readers say they stopped breathing. If you're loving it, Book 2 is waiting (and it's on Kindle Unlimited). Reply and tell me your favorite character; I read every one."
• E3 (Day 5) — Subject: "The whole court, in one binge" Body: "You finished Book 1 free — here's the rest of the series, all human-written and quality-verified, all with free audiobooks. Start Book 2 → [link]."
• E4 (Day 9) — Subject: "If you only read one more this month…" Body: "Two reader favorites that match what you just finished — same enemies-to-lovers energy, same verified-human guarantee. Pick your next → [link]. (And tap the Human-written only filter anytime — it's your shortcut to the real stuff.)"

Organic social — BookTok/Reels script (the social_plan_compose lane, $0).

HOOK (0-2s):  "POV: you found a romantasy and the
              author is actually a human."  [badge flash]
BEAT 1 (2-6): trope stack on screen — "enemies to lovers /
              fae bargain / one bed / he falls first"
BEAT 2 (6-12): cover reveal + "and Book 1 is FREE"
BEAT 3 (12-18): "+ a free audiobook. narrated. zero dollars."
BEAT 4 (18-24): quick quality-score reveal "92/100 verified"
CTA (24-28):   "free Book 1 in bio — go before you spoil
              yourself reading the comments"

• IG caption: "Human-written. Quality-verified. Free Book 1 + free audiobook. Your next obsession is in bio. 🗡️ #romantasy #booktok #bookstagram #enemiestolovers #fae"
• X post: "We score every book 0-100 and badge it Human-written · Quality-Verified. Then we give you Book 1 free + a free audiobook. No AI in the story — just in the narration, and only because it's free. Link below."

4.6 90-day timeline

Owner key: ◆ NexusROS skill · ○ human · ◇ HITL approval gate

Week:                         1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12
Landing page + pixel/CAPI   ◆◇○ █  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Custom-list feedback loop   ○  █  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Creative slate (4-6) build  ◆◇  █  .  .  ▒  .  .  ▒  .  .  ▒  .  .
Interest-seed launch        ◇○    █  █  ▒  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Organic Reels 3-5/wk        ◆◇○      █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █
A/B test (badge vs trope)   ◆◇        █  █  ▒  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Lookalike build + shift     ◆◇○            █  █  █  ▒  .  .  .  .
Email sequence live         ◆◇○      █  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Weekly bandit realloc       ◆◇          █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █
Attribution + LTV rollup    ◆              █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █
Day-45 throttle gate        ◇                    ◇  .  .  .  .  .
Scale / pause decision      ◇○                            .  .  ◇

█ active · ▒ refresh/iteration · ◇ gate

4.7 KPIs & monitoring scorecard

Attribution math. Each Lead/CompleteRegistration is stamped with ad-set + creative via Pixel/CAPI. Revenue per acquired reader = front-book royalty + Σ(KENP pages × $0.004820) + series sell-through; the 5-book ladder targets ~$11.25/sub (PublishRank, verified) vs ~$2.25 standalone — the gap is the LTV that lets a $14.19-CPM channel clear. ROAS = attributed revenue ÷ spend, computed at the cohort (not click) level so page-reads accruing weeks later are credited.

PSP recompute cadence. Weekly: refresh Q (lookalike reach quality from actual CPL deltas), E (operational friction observed), and U (realized CPM/CVR vs the $10.47 ceiling and realized page-read LTV). Recomputed factor vector → updated PSP → P_success → posterior reward estimate that budget_optimize (Thompson sampling) uses to set next-week's allocation across ad sets and across the channel portfolio (this channel's current share = 11.8%).

4.8 Budget & projected results

90-day budget. Initial channel budget $3,000; Thompson allocation $2,366 (11.8% of the cross-channel portfolio). Per the Meta dossier estimate, deploy at $10-20/day ($300-600/mo) on paid, with organic Reels run at $0 via social_plan_compose — so the bulk of the $2,366 funds paid acquisition and creative iteration while organic compounds for free.

Expected outcome (from the ledger). Readers acquired over 90 days: P10 493 / P50 783 / P90 1,238, against a 627-reader target with P(≥627) = 0.73. P50 revenue $4,108, at CAC $3.80, LTV $5.24, ROAS 1.38 (revenue is page-read-inclusive; the front-book is free by design). At P50, $2,366 paid spend → 783 readers ≈ $3.02 effective blended CAC including organic lift, comfortably under the $3.80 ceiling.

How it scales. The lookalike is the scaling lever: as the downloader custom-list grows, 1%→3%→value-based lookalikes widen reach while CPL holds, and budget_optimize raises the channel's portfolio share above 11.8% only when realized cohort ROAS stays ≥ 1.38 with page-reads attributed. Organic Reels scale the cheap top-of-funnel independently — winning organic hooks graduate into paid creative, structurally lowering paid CPM risk. If the day-45 gate trips (CAC > $5.00 or lookalike fails to beat interest), spend is throttled and reallocated by the bandit rather than defended.

Package 5 — Email & Reader-Magnet Funnel

One-line: owned email list via free-audiobook reader magnet · indie-fiction readers & series buyers · email_chain_compose · PSP 72.

5.1 Objective, ICP & the creative angle

Objective. Convert anonymous discovery traffic into an owned email list — the only asset Amazon's algorithm cannot revoke — and recycle that list into reviews, repeat purchases, and warm launches for every subsequent release. The list is the compounding engine; the audiobook is the bait.

ICP. The reader is a high-consumption genre fiction reader (romance, thriller, cozy mystery, fantasy) who reads/listens 2-5+ titles/month, has at least one always-on audio context (commute, gym, chores, sleep), and is already conditioned to trade an email for a free book — the entire indie funnel ecosystem runs on this behavior. On the supply side, the buyer of this play is the indie author/publisher who wants to stop renting reach from the retailer; their JTBD: "capture readers into an owned list and convert them into reviewers and repeat buyers, so I am not dependent on Amazon's algorithm or paid ads for every sale, and can launch each new release to a warm audience."

The creative angle — the audiobook IS the structural wedge. Every other author in the funnel offers the same magnet: a free ebook (a prequel novella, "Book 0," a starter library). Inkvelo offers the free audiobook of Book 1 — a full, narrated production. For a traditional indie this is impossible: audiobook production runs thousands of dollars per title, so no one gives one away to a cold email subscriber. Inkvelo's self-hosted Kokoro TTS drops audiobook COGS to near-zero, which means we can do structurally what competitors cannot afford to do at all. The magnet's perceived value is 5-10x a free ebook, which lifts opt-in conversion and — critically — self-selects for the audio-native reader, the highest-LTV, lowest-churn segment.

Two trust hooks ride alongside the magnet so the offer never reads as "cheap AI filler":

1. The "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge on the landing page and in the audiobook's open — story and provenance lead, never "AI."
2. The 12-axis Digital DNA score (0-100) shown on the title. The free audiobook only unlocks on quality-clearing titles, so the magnet itself signals "this met a bar." Quality is the incentive, not a gate the reader has to fight.

The list, once built, scales for free via BookFunnel/StoryOrigin newsletter swaps and group promos, and scales fast via a BookBub Featured Deal — the premium accelerant.

5.2 Mechanics from zero (step-by-step)

1. Stand up the plumbing. Sign up for StoryOrigin (free Basic tier; Standard $10/mo or $100/yr [V]) for swaps + ARC; add BookFunnel First-Time Author ($30/yr, 500 downloads/mo [V]) for premium delivery UX and audiobook file hosting. Connect the ESP (MailerLite — its 2025 Authors benchmarks are the targets we manage to).
2. Produce the magnet. Render the full Book-1 audiobook via self-hosted Kokoro TTS (near-zero COGS [P]); package the ebook + audiobook as a single "starter library" delivery. Confirm the title clears the Digital DNA threshold so the free-audiobook unlock is legitimate.
3. Build the opt-in landing page (BookFunnel/StoryOrigin hosted, wired to MailerLite). Headline leads with story + the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge; the free audiobook is the hero offer. Single email field, double opt-in for deliverability.
4. Wire the back-of-book CTA. Every ebook/audiobook ends on a "Get the Book-1 audiobook FREE" page pointing to the magnet. This is the zero-cost evergreen feeder.
5. Load the welcome sequence (§5.5) into MailerLite — deliver → trust → review-ask → soft pitch of Book 2.
6. Turn on the ARC engine. Before/at launch, run Booksprout (free first 20 downloads, then $20/mo [V]) or BookSirens ($10 + $2/reader, or $100/yr flat [V]) to seed reviews. These reviews are the gate-clearers for the promo blasts in step 8.
7. Grow for free. Once the list has a base, book newsletter swaps + group promos inside StoryOrigin/BookFunnel ($0, covered by subscription [V]). Match on genre, not size.
8. Accelerate with paid blasts. Stack genre-targeted features on one date: Freebooksy (1,345,000+ readers, $25-$245 [V]), Bargain Booksy (365,000+, $25-$240 [V]), Fussy Librarian (550k free / 125k bargain, $15-$79 [V]), Robin Reads (194,000+, $60-$85 [V]), BookSends (~120,000, ~$25-$100 [V]). Each blast drives the free magnet → captures the email.
9. Scale with the premium channel. Submit a BookBub Featured Deal via the Partner Dashboard 4-8 weeks ahead (pay only on acceptance; fees ~$110-$4,093 by genre+price [V]). A single major-genre free deal yields ~30,900-38,300 downloads [V] — a step-change in list size.
10. Recompute & reallocate. Feed per-channel cost-per-subscriber back into budget_optimize (Thompson sampling) weekly; double down on winners.

5.3 NexusROS skill mapping

5.4 PSP scorecard

• PSP score: 72
• P_success: 0.7958 (P10 0.732 / P90 0.847)
• CAC: $1.50 / reader · LTV: $5.24 · ROAS: 3.49
• 90-day units (readers captured): P10 838 / P50 1,325 / P90 2,087
• P(units ≥ target): 0.734 (target 1,060 readers)
• Initial budget: $2,000 · Thompson allocation: $5,440 (27.2% share)

Success predicate (falsifiable): Within 90 days, the funnel captures ≥ 1,060 net-new double-opt-in email subscribers at a blended CAC ≤ $1.50/subscriber, with the email list holding ≥ 43.14% open and ≥ 2.75% CTR (MailerLite 2025 Authors benchmarks [V]). The 0.734 probability attaches to the ≥ 1,060 subscribers clause specifically.

Confidence note. Medium-high. The strongest uncertainty is the BookBub acceptance gate (difficulty 4; Robin Reads' featured slot reportedly accepts ~1% [V]) — if BookBub rejects, the P90 (2,087) is unreachable on the initial budget and we lean on stacked Freebooksy/Bargain Booksy blasts to defend the P50. CAC depends on the audiobook magnet lifting opt-in above a free-ebook baseline (a [P] assumption that the structural wedge holds).

5.5 Ready-to-use assets

Landing page — section-by-section + wireframe

+----------------------------------------------------------+
|  INKVELO            [ Human-written · Quality-Verified ] |
+----------------------------------------------------------+
|                                                          |
|   GET THE FULL AUDIOBOOK OF "<BOOK 1 TITLE>" — FREE       |
|   Narrated. Complete. Yours to keep. No catch.           |
|                                                          |
|   [ 3D book + headphones mockup ]   Digital DNA: 87/100  |
|                                     ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░  Verified  |
|                                                          |
|   > "A free, full audiobook — not a sample, not a        |
|   >  prequel. The whole story, read to you."             |
|                                                          |
|   [  your@email.com            ] [ SEND MY AUDIOBOOK >>] |
|                                                          |
|   ✓ Human-written, quality-verified   ✓ No spam, 1-click |
|   ✓ Free forever                       unsubscribe       |
+----------------------------------------------------------+
|  As heard by 1,000+ readers · ★★★★★ from verified ARCs   |
+----------------------------------------------------------+

• Hero headline: "Get the full audiobook of <Book 1> — free." Sub: "Narrated. Complete. Yours to keep."
• Value reframe (CRO): explicitly contrast against the category norm — "Not a sample. Not a prequel. The whole book, narrated." This is the differentiator that justifies the email.
• Trust block: Digital DNA score bar + "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge; one ARC pull-quote.
• Friction-killers: single email field, "no spam / 1-click unsubscribe," double opt-in.
• CRO elements: above-the-fold form, social proof bar, A/B the hero ("free audiobook" vs "free narrated novel"), exit-intent reminder.

Email welcome sequence (5 emails — load into MailerLite; targets: ≥43.14% open, ≥2.75% CTR [V])

Email 1 — instant delivery (send: immediately) Subject: Your free audiobook is inside 🎧 Hi {{name}}, your full audiobook of <Book 1> is ready — tap below and start listening on any device. [ ▶ Listen / download now ] No app required, no expiry, yours to keep. Reply to this email and tell me where you'll be listening — I read every one. — {{author}}

Email 2 — the story behind it (send: +2 days) Subject: Why I gave you the whole book, not a teaser Most authors hand you a sample. I'd rather you have the real thing. <Book 1> is human-written and quality-verified (Digital DNA {{score}}/100) — that badge is my promise the story earned its place. Here's the scene that made me write it: {{1-paragraph hook}}. Still listening? [ Jump back in ]

Email 3 — the review ask (send: +6 days) Subject: A 20-second favor (it genuinely changes everything) If <Book 1> kept you company on a commute or a late night, the single biggest thing you can do is leave an honest line of review. It's how the next reader finds it. [ Leave a quick review ] — even one sentence helps. Thank you, truly.

Email 4 — deepen the relationship (send: +10 days) Subject: The deleted chapter I almost cut A behind-the-scenes extra for listeners only: {{bonus content / character note}}. No ask today — just a thank-you for being here. [ Read the bonus ]

Email 5 — soft pitch Book 2 (send: +14 days) Subject: Ready for what happens next? <Book 1> leaves {{character}} at a crossroads — <Book 2> is where it pays off. As a subscriber, it's {{discount}} this week. [ Continue the series → ] (And the audiobook? Free, quality-verified, the moment you grab the ebook.)

ARC reviewer outreach (copy-paste, for Booksprout/BookSirens recruiting)

Subject: Free advance audiobook + ebook of <Book 1> — honest review? Hi {{reviewer}}, I'm offering an advance copy of <Book 1> (a {{genre}} {{novel/series-starter}}) as both ebook and full narrated audiobook — your choice of format. It's quality-verified (Digital DNA {{score}}/100). In exchange I ask only for an honest review by {{date}}. Grab your copy here: {{link}}. Thank you for reading!

Swap/group-promo pitch (StoryOrigin/BookFunnel matchmaking)

Hi {{author}} — I run a {{genre}} list (~{{size}} subs, {{open}}% open). I'd love a newsletter swap on {{date}}: I feature your magnet, you feature mine. Mine's unusual — a free full audiobook, which tends to convert hot for audio readers. Game?

5.6 90-day timeline

Owner: ◆ NexusROS skill   ○ human   ◇ HITL approval gate
WEEK                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12
--------------------------------------------------------------
Stand up StoryOrigin/BF ○  █  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
Render Kokoro audiobook ◆  █  █  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
Landing page compose    ◆     █  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
  └ approve page         ◇     ◇  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
Welcome seq compose     ◆     █  █  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
  └ approve + load ESP   ◇        ◇  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
ARC seed (Booksprout)   ◆        █  █  █  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
Back-of-book CTA wire   ○           █  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
BookBub submit (4-8wk)  ○        ◇  █  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
Newsletter swaps/groups ◆              █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █
Promo stack #1 (free)   ◆                 ◇  █  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
  Freebooksy+Fussy+Robin                                     
BookBub Featured Deal   ○                       ◇  █  ·  ·  ·
Promo stack #2          ◆                          ◇  █  ·  ·
budget_optimize bandit  ◆        ◇·◇·◇·◇·◇·◇·◇·◇·◇·◇  (weekly)
KPI recompute / PSP     ◆           ·  ·  ◇  ·  ·  ◇  ·  ·  ◇

5.7 KPIs & monitoring scorecard

Attribution math. Each channel gets a UTM-tagged magnet link or a channel-specific BookFunnel/StoryOrigin landing page. Cost-per-subscriber = (channel spend) ÷ (attributed double-opt-ins). Because open rate is MPP-unreliable, CTOR (≥7.81% [V]) and click-driven actions are the primary engagement signals, not opens (Admailr: opens are "an estimate, not an exact figure" [V]).

PSP recompute cadence. Re-score weekly: Q updates from realized per-channel reach→opt-in, E from booking friction (esp. BookBub accept/reject), U from realized cost-per-sub vs $1.50. The refreshed factor vector feeds budget_optimize, which Thompson-samples spend across blasts — shifting dollars toward the lowest realized cost-per-subscriber channel each cycle.

5.8 Budget & projected results

90-day budget: $2,000 initial.

Expected outcome (ledger). At the $2,000 initial budget, the funnel is modeled to capture P10 838 / P50 1,325 / P90 2,087 readers, with P50 revenue ≈ $6,914 and ROAS 3.49 at CAC $1.50 / LTV $5.24. P(units ≥ 1,060) = 0.734. The P50 (1,325) clears the 1,060 target with margin; the P10 (838) is the BookBub-rejected / weak-magnet downside.

How it scales. The bandit's recommended allocation is $5,440 (27.2% share) — the highest single-channel share in the portfolio, reflecting A 0.88 (near-fully automated) and U 0.78 (near-zero audiobook COGS). Scaling is near-linear and capital-light: each incremental dollar buys more genre-blast reach or a second BookBub deal, while swaps/group promos keep adding subscribers at $0. Because the magnet's COGS is structurally near-zero, the marginal subscriber stays cheap even as volume rises — the list compounds, and every future release launches to a warm, audio-native audience instead of a cold-start.

Package 6 — Author Community & Founder-Led

One-line: high-trust author hubs (20BooksTo50K · ALLi · r/selfpublish · NINC · podcasts) · professional indie "authorpreneurs" · social_plan_compose + playbook_compose · PSP 56.

6.1 Objective, ICP & the creative angle

Objective. Recruit professional indie authors onto Inkvelo as quality-graded creators, using build-in-public credibility (not a pitch) inside the small set of hubs where this segment already makes vendor decisions. The conversion event is a pro author publishing or porting a title to Inkvelo and unlocking the free quality-gated audiobook. This is a relationship/credibility play with author as the unit — there is no ad spend driving it; the budget funds founder time, light sponsorship, and one conference presence.

ICP. The "authorpreneur" tier: the 6-12-titles/year, series-writing, business-minded indie. Triangulated from Written Word Media's 2025 survey (n=1,346): 13% earn over $5,000/month and 8% earn over $10,000/month [V] (Written Word Media 2025 Indie Author Survey) — roughly the top ~20% of active indies who run writing as a business. They already pay for tools (ALLi ~£50/yr / ~$63 [V]; NINC $95/yr + $15 application [V]; BookFunnel/StoryOrigin/ProWritingAid subscriptions) and for marketing — scaling from $478/mo at the $1k-5k tier to $4,500/mo for >$10k/mo earners [V] (Written Word Media 2025). They "hire" communities to de-risk decisions with peer-validated tactics, find tools that lift titles-per-year / list growth / ad ROI, and get early warning on platform shifts. Critically, this is the most AI-receptive author cohort: 45% currently use generative AI; among AI users, ChatGPT 85%, Claude 54%, ProWritingAid 50% [V] (BookBub Partners survey, May 15 2025, n=1,229).

The creative angle — "Build-in-public with real DNA + income data." The founder runs a transparent, value-first build-in-public stream inside the hubs: anonymized Digital DNA distributions (what the 12-axis 0-100 quality score actually looks like across real titles — histograms by genre, which axes correlate with sell-through, where human-written titles cluster vs. the floor), plus transparent platform economics (real royalty math at 65-75%, near-zero TTS marginal cost, what a quality-clearing title earns in free-audiobook reach). The offer that anchors recruitment is the free quality-gated audiobook — a tangible, no-catch asset a pro author can value in dollars (they know what ACX/narration costs). The framing throughout aligns with ALLi's published AI policy and its three archetypes (AI-Minimal / AI-Assisted / AI-Integrated), foregrounding accountability and the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" provenance badge. The hard constraint: 20BooksTo50K, ALLi, and r/selfpublish all ban vendor spam (-0.5 sentiment to cold pitching [V]), so this is contribution and data-sharing, never a link-drop.

6.2 Mechanics from zero (step-by-step)

1. Establish the founder as a real contributor (Weeks 0-3). Join 20BooksTo50K (admin-approved), r/selfpublish, and apply for ALLi membership (~£50/yr [V]). Post zero promotion. Answer questions on quality, audiobooks, and direct-sales economics using data, building karma/recognition. On r/selfpublish, build comment karma before anything else; the sub rewards transparency and data and is skeptical of vendors (difficulty 4 [V]).
2. Publish the first DNA dataset (Week 3). Release an anonymized Digital DNA distribution: e.g., "Here's the 12-axis quality histogram across 400 titles, by genre — and which two axes predict sell-through." Pure value, no signup wall. This is the build-in-public spine that social_plan_compose schedules across surfaces.
3. Run a recurring transparency cadence (Weeks 3-12). Weekly/biweekly: platform economics breakdowns (royalty math, TTS cost-per-audiobook, free-audiobook reach lift), each as a standalone post. playbook_compose codifies the per-hub rules (no links, where promo is allowed) so cadence never trips moderation.
4. Earn the recommendation, don't ask for it (ongoing). The win-state inside FB/Reddit is a member recommending Inkvelo unprompted. Seed this by helping enough that the platform becomes the obvious answer when someone asks "where can I get a free audiobook for a quality book?"
5. Open the founder-led recruit offer (Week 4+). DM/email only to authors who engage first: "Want a free, quality-gated audiobook for [Title]? No exclusivity, 65-75% royalties." Gate on the DNA score so the offer stays a credibility signal, not a giveaway.
6. Apply for official surfaces (Weeks 2-6, long lead). Pitch a guest slot on a podcast in the triangle (The Creative Penn — Joanna Penn is openly AI-curious [V]; The Self-Publishing Show; Sell More Books Show; Six Figure Authors). Apply to be an ALLi-approved/recommended Partner. Pitch a data guest-article to Indie Author Magazine and a tool listing on ScribeCount.
7. Book the one paid in-person bet (Weeks 4-10 lead). Secure a small Author Nation presence — a session pitch (free) and/or modest sponsorship — the premier decision-stage gathering (~1,500 attendees, 75+ exhibitors, 2025 [V]). Exhibitor packages are quote-based, typically low-mid 4 figures.
8. Instrument and recompute (continuous). Tag every recruited author by source hub; feed engagement and recruit data back into PSP recompute and the budget_optimize bandit.

6.3 NexusROS skill mapping

6.4 PSP scorecard

PSP = 56. P_success = 0.5192 (P10 0.421 / P90 0.615). CAC: n/a (no paid acquisition modeled — founder-time + light sponsorship). LTV: n/a. ROAS: n/a. Unit: author. 90-day units P10/P50/P90: n/a (not modeled in ledger). P(units >= target): n/a (no numeric target set). Initial budget: $500. Thompson allocation: $386 (1.9% share of portfolio).

Success predicate (falsifiable): Within 90 days, the founder-led community play, on a $500 budget, achieves (a) recognized non-promotional contributor status in at least 2 of the 3 core hubs (20BooksTo50K, ALLi, r/selfpublish), evidenced by at least one unprompted member recommendation, AND (b) at least one secured official surface (podcast guest slot, ALLi partner listing, Indie Author Magazine feature, or Author Nation session), AND (c) the recruitment of professional indie authors who publish/port a quality-clearing title to Inkvelo. P_success = 0.5192 is the probability this composite predicate clears. Confidence note: moderate. The factor evidence (sentiment, reach quality) is well-sourced, but units/CAC/LTV are unmodeled (n/a in the ledger), so the probability attaches to the qualitative milestone predicate, not a sales count. The dominant downside risk is E (ease 0.45): community credibility can take longer than 90 days, and one moderation misstep can reset trust.

6.5 Ready-to-use assets

This is a content + outreach channel (no consumer ad copy), so the assets emphasize value-first posts, recruit outreach, and partner pitches.

Build-in-public posts (paste-ready, no links — link-free is mandatory in FB/Reddit).

Post A — DNA distribution (20BooksTo50K / r/selfpublish):

I've been building a 12-axis quality score for books (call it "Digital DNA," 0-100) and finally have enough titles to share the distribution. Two findings that surprised me: (1) the "narrative cohesion" and "prose-craft" axes correlate with sell-through more than length or blurb-strength; (2) human-written titles cluster ~15 points above the genre floor on voice axes. Histograms by genre below in comments. Sharing the raw method because I'd rather be corrected than flattered — what would you add as a 13th axis?

Post B — platform economics (transparency):

Ran the real numbers on free AI audiobooks. Self-hosted TTS puts marginal cost per audiobook near zero, which is why we can give a free audiobook to any title that clears the quality bar instead of charging $300-3,000 for narration. Here's the full royalty math at 65-75%, no exclusivity, and what the audiobook adds to discoverability. Tearing my own model apart in the thread — where would you push back?

Post C — AI-transparency framing (ALLi-aligned):

ALLi's framework — AI-Minimal / AI-Assisted / AI-Integrated — is the cleanest way I've seen to talk about this. The provenance question matters to readers, so we built a "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge and a human-written-only filter. Posting our disclosure schema; would love this group to stress-test it for edge cases.

BookTok / Reels script (founder build-in-public, for the AI-receptive subset):

HOOK (0-3s):  "I gave away free audiobooks for every quality book — here's the real math."
BEAT 1 (3-10s): On-screen: ACX/narration quote \$300-3,000. "This is what an audiobook used to cost an indie."
BEAT 2 (10-20s): Show the Digital DNA dial climbing past the quality gate. "Clear the bar, the audiobook is free. Self-hosted TTS, near-zero cost."
BEAT 3 (20-30s): "Human-written · Quality-Verified badge. 65-75% royalties. No exclusivity."
CTA (30-35s): "Building this in public — anonymized DNA data in my bio thread. Roast my numbers."

X / IG posts:

X: Anonymized Digital DNA distribution across 400 indie titles, by genre. Prose-craft + narrative cohesion predict sell-through better than length. Thread + method 🧵 IG: "What does book 'quality' actually look like as a number?" — 12 axes, 0-100, real distributions. Swipe for the genre histograms. Building in public.

Founder-led recruit email (send only to authors who engaged first):

Subject: A free audiobook for [Title] — no catch, no exclusivity Hi [Name] — you weighed in on the DNA-distribution thread, thanks for that. Quick, genuine offer: [Title] clears our quality gate, which means a free, self-hosted-TTS audiobook on Inkvelo — the kind of asset that usually runs $300-3,000 to produce. Terms an indie can actually live with: 65-75% royalties, no exclusivity, keep selling everywhere else. You'd also carry the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge. No pressure and no upsell — if it's useful, I'll send the one-page how-it-works. Either way, appreciated the thread input. — [Founder], Inkvelo

Podcast guest pitch (Creative Penn / SPF / Sell More Books / Six Figure Authors):

Subject: Guest idea: the real economics of free AI audiobooks + a 12-axis quality score Hi [Host] — longtime listener. I run Inkvelo and I've been building in public: anonymized "Digital DNA" quality distributions across hundreds of indie titles, and the actual economics of giving every quality-clearing title a free audiobook via self-hosted TTS. I'd come with data your audience can act on (which quality axes predict sell-through; real royalty/cost math), framed inside ALLi's AI-Minimal/Assisted/Integrated model — transparency-first, not a pitch. Happy to share the dataset pre-show. Worth a conversation?

ALLi Partner / ScribeCount listing one-liner: "Inkvelo — AI-native writing + publishing platform with a 12-axis quality score, a 'Human-written · Quality-Verified' provenance badge and human-written-only filter, free quality-gated audiobooks (self-hosted TTS), 65-75% royalties, no exclusivity. Aligned to ALLi's AI archetypes."

6.6 90-day timeline

Owner key:  ◆ NexusROS skill   ○ human (founder)   ◇ HITL approval gate

Week                  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12
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Join hubs + ALLi      ○○ .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Build karma/contrib   ○─○──○──○──○──○──○──○──○──○──○──○
Author playbook ◆◇    ◆◇ .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
DNA dataset #1 ◆◇      .  ◆◇ .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Transparency cadence  .  .  ◆◇─◆◇─◆◇─◆◇─◆◇─◆◇─◆◇─◆◇─◆◇
Recruit outreach ◆◇   .  .  .  ◆◇─◆◇─◆◇─◆◇─◆◇─◆◇─◆◇─◆◇
Podcast pitches ◆◇    .  ◆◇─◆◇ .  .  ○guest? ○ ○  ○  ○
ALLi partner apply ◇  .  ◇  .  .  ○review .  .  .  .  .
Indie Author Mag ◇    .  .  ◇  .  .  ○ .  .  .  .  .
Author Nation prep ○  .  .  .  ○──○──○──○──○──○ .  .
Attribution ◆         .  .  .  ◆──◆──◆──◆──◆──◆──◆──◆
PSP recompute ◇       .  .  .  .  ◇ .  .  ◇ .  .  ◇
Budget_optimize ◆◇    .  .  .  .  ◆◇ .  .  ◆◇ .  ◆◇

6.7 KPIs & monitoring scorecard

Attribution math. Each recruited author is tagged to the hub where first engagement occurred (FB / Reddit / podcast / ALLi / Author Nation / direct). Because this is multi-touch and trust-led, use a position-weighted model: 40% first-touch (originating hub), 40% last-touch (the surface that converted the recruit), 20% distributed across intermediate touches. Recruit-rate per hub = recruited authors / engaged authors at that hub; feed both into the bandit.

PSP recompute cadence. Recompute PSP every ~3-4 weeks (Weeks 5, 8, 11 per the Gantt) using the same 7-factor / weight model (M.18 Q.18 U.18 E.14 S.12 N.10 A.10), updating the empirically-observed factors: Q from realized reachability (did contributions actually land / did recommendations appear), E from realized difficulty (moderation friction, time-to-recognition), U from realized recruit cost, S from observed sentiment to the posts. The refreshed P_success = sigma(8*(PSP_raw − 0.55)) and its movement (vs. baseline 0.5192) is the signal fed to budget_optimize, which reallocates the next period's effort/spend (currently $386 / 1.9% share) across hubs, podcasts, and conference presence via Thompson sampling — with each reallocation passing a ◇ HITL gate.

6.8 Budget & projected results

90-day budget: $500 (Thompson allocation $386; 1.9% of portfolio share). This is a deliberately low-cash, founder-time-funded play — the cash covers ALLi membership (~$63 [V]), a modest Written Word Media data/promo or newsletter placement (promos from ~$50-$1,000+ [V]), and a partial reserve toward an Author Nation session/sponsorship (exhibitor packages quote-based, typically low-mid 4 figures [V] — so a full booth is beyond this budget; target a free session pitch plus the reserve). The dominant input is unpaid founder time building credibility.

Expected outcome (from the ledger). The ledger models this play probabilistically rather than in unit sales: P_success = 0.5192 (P10 0.421 / P90 0.615) that the §6.4 success predicate clears within 90 days. Sales/revenue P10/P50/P90, CAC, LTV, ROAS, and a numeric sales target are all n/a in the ledger for this package — by design, because the deliverable is qualified author recruits and earned credibility, not a directly-attributable sales count. So the honest projection is: roughly a coin-flip-plus (52%) probability of clearing the composite milestone (contributor status in 2/3 hubs + 1 secured official surface + real recruited authors), with the realistic downside (P10 ~42%) driven by the low ease score (E 0.45) — community trust may take longer than 90 days.

How it scales. Once the predicate clears, this play compounds rather than requiring linear spend: (1) each recruited pro author is a credibility proof-point and potential unprompted recommender, lowering future recruit cost; (2) a single landed podcast (The Creative Penn ~10.66M downloads [V]; 10K-25K/episode [V]) or an Author Nation session converts the founder-led trickle into a repeatable inbound stream; (3) social_plan_compose + playbook_compose let the proven DNA/economics content cadence run across more hubs (NINC, Six Figure Authors community, FaRo Society Discord) at near-zero marginal cost; (4) as recruit data accrues, budget_optimize shifts the next budget tranche toward the highest-recruit-rate hubs and justifies a larger Author Nation exhibitor presence the following cycle. The scaling constraint is human trust-bandwidth, not cash — so the lever is converting earned credibility into member-led recommendation, which is self-propagating once seeded.

Package 7 — Programmatic SEO + Digital-DNA Content Engine

One-line: organic search (programmatic + comparison pages) · AI-curious hobbyist & emerging writers + readers searching titles/comps · landing_page_compose + content skills · PSP 61.

7.1 Objective, ICP & the creative angle

Objective. Build a defensible, compounding organic-search moat that captures two intent streams at near-zero marginal cost: (1) reader/discovery intent — people searching specific titles, authors, "books like X", and genre rankings — and (2) author/tool intent — emerging writers searching "best AI writing tool," "Sudowrite vs NovelAI," "how to finish my novel." The asset is a programmatically generated page library that Google cannot dismiss as scaled-content spam, because each page is anchored to genuinely proprietary first-party data.

ICP. Two profiles share the same surface:

• Reader-seeker — a discovery-driven reader who lands via a title/comp/genre query and converts on the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge, the free audiobook, and provenance transparency. The reader-facing page never leads with "AI."
• Author-evaluator — an AI-curious hobbyist writer (25-44, modest income; 2022 median book income $2,000, total writing-related median $5,000 per the Authors Guild 2023 survey of 5,699 authors [V]) evaluating where to write and publish. 45% of authors already use generative AI (BookBub, May 15 2025, n=1,229 [V]); these searchers are pre-disposed to tool-comparison content.

The creative angle — "the page Google can't call thin." Google's March-2024 scaled-content-abuse policy targets pages mass-produced to game rankings with little original value. We invert it: every catalogue title gets a Digital-DNA page built from data that exists nowhere else — its 12-axis DNA radar chart, its percentile rank within its genre, and algorithmically derived comparable-titles ("readers who cleared this also cleared…"). This is first-party measured data, not regurgitated synopsis filler. The same engine produces craft/tool comparison pages ("Sudowrite vs NovelAI vs Inkvelo: feature + price breakdown") that win author search intent honestly — using only confirmed price anchors (NovelAI $10/$15/$25; Sudowrite Hobby $10 annual/$19 monthly, Pro $22/$29, Max $44/$59; ChatGPT Plus $20 since Feb 2023 [V], source: CheckThat.ai/CostBench, NovelAI, chatgpt.com). The defensibility is the strategy: thin-content competitors get deindexed; a DNA radar that took a 12-axis quality measurement to produce does not.

7.2 Mechanics from zero (step-by-step)

1. Define the page templates (week 1). Three templates: (a) Title DNA page — DNA radar (12 axes), genre percentile, comparable-titles, "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge, free-audiobook player; (b) Genre percentile page — ranked leaderboard of quality-cleared titles per genre/sub-genre; (c) Tool/craft comparison page — head-to-head feature+price tables and "how to finish your novel" craft guides for author intent.
2. Wire the data source. Bind each template to the live Digital-DNA score store so the radar, percentile, and comps are generated from real measured values per title — never hand-written, never hallucinated. Pages with no real DNA data are not generated (this is the spam guardrail).
3. Generate the seed batch. Run landing_page_compose to emit the first ~50-100 Title DNA pages from the existing catalogue (the marketplace already seeds 28 classics + 3 editorial rails per repo history), plus the top 6-10 comparison/craft pages. HITL review before publish.
4. Ship technical SEO foundation. XML sitemap, canonical tags, schema.org Book/Review/AggregateRating structured data on every Title page, fast LCP, server-rendered radar (no JS-only render). Submit sitemap to Google Search Console.
5. Internal-link the graph. Every Title page links to its genre percentile page and 4-6 comparable titles; every comparison page links to relevant Title pages. This is the link equity that thin-content farms lack.
6. Distribute the seeds organically. Drop value-first comparison guides into pre-sold AI-receptive surfaces only — r/WritingWithAI (137k members [V]), r/NovelAI (44k [V]), Sudowrite Discord (~17,977 [V]), NovelCrafter Discord (~9,648 [V]) — answering "solution/advice requests" with a link, never spamming. Treat r/writing (3.4M [V], -0.5 hostile, strict no-promo) as a listening/keyword-mining surface only, never a pitch target.
7. Measure, prune, scale. After 4-6 weeks, read Search Console: pages earning impressions get expanded (more comps, richer copy); zero-impression pages are pruned to keep average page quality high (anti-thin-content hygiene). Auto-generate the next catalogue batch.
8. Feed the bandit. Pipe per-template conversion + ranking data into budget_optimize so any paid amplification (Reddit Ads on the comparison pages) flows to the best-performing template.

7.3 NexusROS skill mapping

7.4 PSP scorecard

PSP score: 61. P_success 0.6177 (P10 0.524 / P90 0.702). CAC $0.40, LTV $5.24, ROAS 13.1. Unit = reader. 90-day units P10 771 / P50 1,240 / P90 1,985. P(units ≥ 992) = 0.727. Initial budget $500; Thompson allocation $565 (2.8% share) of the portfolio.

Success predicate (falsifiable): Within 90 days, the Digital-DNA Content Engine acquires ≥ 992 new readers (signup or first marketplace action attributable to an organically ranked DNA/comparison/genre page in Search Console + first-party attribution), at blended CAC ≤ $0.40, without any DNA/comparison page receiving a Google manual action or scaled-content-abuse penalty.

Confidence note: Probability is moderate (P10-P90 band 0.524-0.702 is wide). The dominant uncertainty is time-to-rank — SEO compounding is non-linear and may land most units in days 60-90, not evenly. The de-indexation tail risk is mitigated structurally (real first-party DNA data + pruning of zero-impression pages), which is why this play scores defensible rather than speculative.

7.5 Ready-to-use assets

Google Search ad copy (for the comparison pages — paid backstop while organic ranks):

• Headline 1: Sudowrite vs NovelAI vs Inkvelo
• Headline 2: Compare AI Writing Tools 2026
• Headline 3: Free Audiobook For Every Book
• Description 1: Honest feature + price breakdown. NovelAI from \$10, Sudowrite from \$10, ChatGPT Plus \$20. See the full table — no fluff.
• Description 2: Inkvelo: 65-75% royalties, no exclusivity, a free audiobook for every quality-cleared title. Compare now.

Landing page — the Title DNA page (the moat asset), section-by-section:

• Hero: Title, author, cover, and the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge front-and-center. Reader-facing copy leads with story and trust — never "AI."
• DNA radar: 12-axis 0-100 chart, server-rendered (SSR for SEO + LCP).
• Genre percentile: "Ranks in the top X% of [Genre] on Inkvelo's Digital DNA."
• Free audiobook: inline Kokoro-TTS player — "Listen free, the whole book."
• Comparable titles: 4-6 algorithmic comps with mini-radars.
• Provenance: transparent "How this was measured" explainer (trust + the anti-thin-content signal Google rewards).
• CRO elements: sticky "Read free / Listen free" CTA; "Human-written only" filter chip; schema.org Book+AggregateRating for rich snippets; breadcrumb to genre page.

+--------------------------------------------------------------+
|  [cover]  THE TITLE                          ★ Quality 100   |
|           by Author Name        [Human-written · Verified ✓] |
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|   DIGITAL DNA (12-axis)            GENRE PERCENTILE          |
|        Prose                        Top 4% in                |
|     Pace /  \ Voice                 Literary Fiction         |
|    Char |    | Theme                 ┌───────────────────┐    |
|     Plot \  / World                 │  ▶ Listen FREE     │    |
|        Tension                      │  (full audiobook)  │    |
|   [radar chart, SSR]                └───────────────────┘    |
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|  Readers who cleared this also cleared:                      |
|  [comp1] [comp2] [comp3] [comp4]   ← each links to its page  |
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|  How we measured this  (provenance / methodology)            |
|  [ Read free ]   [ Listen free ]   ← sticky CTA              |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

Tool/craft comparison page — section copy:

• H1: "Sudowrite vs NovelAI vs Inkvelo: The Honest 2026 Comparison"
• Price table (confirmed anchors only): NovelAI $10/$15/$25 · Sudowrite Hobby $10 (annual)/$19 (monthly), Pro $22/$29, Max $44/$59 · ChatGPT Plus $20 (held since Feb 2023) · Inkvelo [your tier]. (Source: CheckThat.ai/CostBench, NovelAI, chatgpt.com [V].)
• Honest-augmentation framing: "Most AI-using authors apply it to research (81%), with ChatGPT (85%), Claude (54%), ProWritingAid (50%) leading — augmentation, not replacement (BookBub, May 2025 [V]). Only ~7% of writing pros publish AI text without significant editing (Gotham Ghostwriters / Josh Bernoff 2025, n=1,481 [V])." This honesty is the conversion lever for an ethics-wary audience.
• CTA: "Write with augmentation, publish with provenance — and your readers get a free audiobook."

Email sequence (3-email post-signup nurture for author-evaluators):

1. Subject: "Your book has a Digital DNA — here's how to read it." Body: explains the 12 axes, links the user's first draft DNA snapshot, sets the "quality as incentive, not enforcement" frame.
2. Subject: "Finish the book that's in your head (in time for Novel November)." Body: ties to momentum/accountability JTBD; offers a sprint; references the post-NaNoWriMo migration window (NaNoWriMo shut down March/April 2025, TechCrunch [V]). No hard sell.
3. Subject: "Free audiobook + 65-75% royalties. No exclusivity." Body: the offer, the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge, a one-click "publish your first chapter" CTA.

Creator/partner outreach — discovery + copy-paste pitch (for AI-curious educators): Discovery: target only AI-friendly craft creators — Abbie Emmons (~598k [V]), Jenna Moreci (~280k [V]), Diane Callahan / Quotidian Writer (~178k [V]), and The Creative Penn podcast (Joanna Penn, 10,657,670 downloads / 229 countries [V], notably AI-positive). Pitch via channel/business email.

Subject: A data-backed "score your draft" segment for [Channel] Hi [Name] — I run Inkvelo. We measure any manuscript on a 12-axis Digital-DNA quality score (0-100) and give every quality-clearing book a free AI audiobook. For your audience of emerging writers, I'd love to do a "we scored a viewer's first chapter live" segment — concrete, craft-forward, no hype. Augmentation, not replacement: only ~7% of pros publish AI text unedited (Gotham Ghostwriters 2025). Gifted access + an affiliate code if it's a fit. 15 min this week?

7.6 90-day timeline

Week:                  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  11  12
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Templates + DNA wiring ○◇──┤
Tech SEO foundation       ◆──┤  (sitemap, schema, SSR, GSC)
Seed batch 50-100 pages   ◇◆──────┤
Internal-link graph          ◆──┤
Organic seeding (Discord/  ○─◇────────────────────────────────────┤
  r/WritingWithAI)
Comparison/craft pages     ◇◆────┤
Search Console measure        ◆────────────────────────────────────┤
Prune + expand iteration            ◆──────────────────────────────┤
A/B layout (radar vs badge)              ◇◆────────┤
Catalogue batch 2 (auto)                       ◇◆──────┤
budget_optimize amplify                            ◇◆──────────────┤
Attribution + PSP recompute                  ◆────●────●────●──── (biweekly)
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Legend: ◆ NexusROS skill   ○ human   ◇ HITL approval gate   ● PSP recompute

7.7 KPIs & monitoring scorecard

Attribution math. Last-non-direct organic touch: a reader is credited to this engine if the GSC landing page is a DNA/genre/comparison URL AND first-party attribution records that page as entry within the conversion window. Units = unique readers acquired this way. ROAS = (units × LTV $5.24) / spend; at P50 1,240 units × $5.24 ≈ $6,500 revenue [P] vs $565 Thompson spend ⇒ well above the 13.1 target.

PSP recompute cadence. Biweekly (● on the Gantt): recompute Q from realized search reachability (impressions/ranking velocity) and E from realized de-indexation/technical friction, hold M/N/S/U/A unless new benchmarks land, re-derive PSP = 100·Σ(w_i f_i) with weights M.18 Q.18 U.18 E.14 S.12 N.10 A.10, and feed updated per-template P_success into the budget_optimize Thompson sampler so spend chases the best-converting template.

7.8 Budget & projected results

90-day budget: $500 initial, scaling to the $565 Thompson allocation (2.8% portfolio share) — the smallest paid footprint of any package precisely because the asset is organic and compounding; the spend is a thin paid backstop on comparison-page queries while organic ranks.

Expected outcome (from ledger):

• Units (readers): P10 771 · P50 1,240 · P90 1,985.
• Revenue P50 ≈ $6,504 [V-ledger]; ROAS 13.1.
• P(units ≥ 992) = 0.727 — better-than-even odds of clearing the success-predicate target.
• P_success 0.6177 (P10 0.524 / P90 0.702).

How it scales. Unlike a Discord or sponsorship play, each generated page is a permanent, appreciating asset: marginal cost per new Title DNA page is effectively the compute to render it, so doubling the catalogue roughly doubles the page library at no new acquisition cost — the U=0.72 / A=0.80 profile compounds. As Search Console confirms which templates rank, budget_optimize shifts the small paid envelope toward proven queries, and the next autonomous batch (Gantt wk 8) expands the moat. The binding constraint is not money but time-to-rank and de-indexation discipline — keep the zero-impression prune loop running and the first-party DNA data real, and the engine keeps the policy moat intact while units accrue late in the window.

Package 8 — Publisher ABM + White-Label + Backlist-to-Audiobook

One-line: 1:1 account-based marketing to imprints, agencies & small presses · brand-publishing + indie-press decision-makers · target_account + playbook_compose · PSP 58.9.

8.1 Objective, ICP & the creative angle

Objective. Land production-augmentation and white-label deals with a small set of named, high-value publishing accounts — brand-publishing imprints, premium ghostwriting agencies, and select small/independent presses — where one closed account is worth far more than a thousand consumer signups (LTV $4,200/account [P], inside a ghostwriting market of ~$3.78–4.28B growing ~6.8–8.5% CAGR [V] (Verified Market Reports / Cognitive Market Research)). This is a 1:1 ABM motion, not a volume funnel: the target ledger is 1 account in 90 days, with a stretch to 2.

ICP. Two related-but-distinct buyers, each hiring a different job:

• Brand / non-writer publishers (the high-WTP buyer). Done-for-you imprints and premium ghostwriting shops — ForbesBooks/Advantage (2,000+ business-leader authors [V]), Kevin Anderson & Associates (packages $57.5k–$250k on the official rates page [V]), Gotham Ghostwriters (4,000+ vetted writers, 1,000+ collaborations [V]), Page Two (Simplified imprint, ~10 titles/yr [V]). JTBD: "book = authority + lead-gen + deal-flow" — produce a credible on-brand nonfiction book fast and cheap enough that ROI is client acquisition. Most receptive to AI framed as throughput / cost-per-book (61% of writers use AI for support, only 7% to generate [V] (AOG 2025 / Bernoff-Gotham)).
• Small & independent presses (the cost-sensitive buyer). Reached through IBPA (~3,150 combined members post-PubWest merger [V] (IBPA/PW)), its Publishing University (Portland, May 2026 [V]), and directories (CLMP 1,192 literary presses [V]; Poets & Writers small-press DB [unverified]). JTBD: "publish more good books profitably on thin margins" — cut per-title production cost while protecting a human-authored brand. Officially AI-cautious ("Human Creativity First" framework [V]) — augmentation-only messaging or it backfires.

The creative angle — the free backlist-to-audiobook pilot as the door-opener. Every cold ABM pitch into publishing dies on "prove it." So we don't pitch — we demonstrate. Inkvelo's self-hosted Kokoro TTS makes audiobook production near-zero marginal cost, which means we can offer to convert three of a target account's backlist titles into full audiobooks, free, before any contract. For the publisher this is found money: backlist titles that have already earned out, sitting without audio editions, suddenly get a new revenue format and a new discoverability surface at zero cost and zero production effort on their side. For Inkvelo it is a costless proof: it demonstrates the white-label production capability (clean files, on-brand narration, the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" provenance badge applied to their human-authored catalog) in the buyer's own catalog before a dollar changes hands. The pilot is the proof; the contract is the white-label production line that follows. Critically, because the source books are human-written, the pilot threads the AI-sentiment needle perfectly — we are not generating their books, we are giving their human authors a free audio format with transparent provenance.

8.2 Mechanics from zero (step-by-step)

1. Build the named-account list (Tier A/B/C). Tier A = white-label partners (ForbesBooks/Advantage, Kevin Anderson, Gotham, Page Two). Tier B = channel/association (IBPA + PubU 2026, AOG/Gathering of the Ghosts, IPC). Tier C = direct small-press outreach from CLMP Directory and the P&W Small Press DB [unverified]. Cap the live list at ~15 accounts — ABM depth over breadth.
2. Subscribe for prospecting intelligence. Publishers Marketplace ($30/mo [V]) to see which indie presses are actively acquiring (~14,000 deals/yr listed [V]); Publishers Lunch (~45,000 subscribers [V]) for deal-news and the names behind them.
3. Per-account dossier + 1:1 plan. For each Tier A/B account, build a one-page account plan (via target_account): decision-maker titles, their backlist catalog, which 3 titles to offer for the free pilot, the specific JTBD, and the augmentation-framed value prop. Identify backlist titles with no existing audio edition.
4. Run the free backlist-to-audiobook pilot as the opener. Lead the first touch with the offer of three free audiobooks, not a sales deck. Produce one sample chapter (5–7 min) of Kokoro narration on a public-domain or freely-offered title to attach to the very first email so the quality is self-evident.
5. Deliver the pilot, then convert. On acceptance, produce the three audiobooks, return finished files + the provenance badge + a one-page throughput/cost-per-book report showing what the same capability does for their front-list production. The conversion ask is the white-label production line (per-seat tooling or rev-share).
6. Layer credibility in parallel. Buy the cheapest trade-credible placement — IBPA co-op book ad in Publishers Weekly ($450/title/issue [V], reaching 1M+ readers [V]) — and submit to the PubU 2026 Call for Speakers with a human-in-the-loop production talk. Earned trade coverage (PW, Publishers Lunch, The Bookseller [V]) is $0.
7. HITL gate before every send and every publish. No outreach email, no co-op ad, no pilot audiobook ships without human approval — non-negotiable in an AI-sceptical trade.

8.3 NexusROS skill mapping

8.4 PSP scorecard

Scores (verbatim from ledger). PSP = 58.9. P_success = 0.5774 (P10 0.483 / P90 0.666). CAC = $900/account. LTV = $4,200/account. ROAS = 4.67. 90-day units (accounts): P10 1 / P50 1 / P90 2. P(units ≥ target=1) = 0.726. Initial budget = $1,500. Thompson allocation = $386 (1.9% share).

Success predicate (falsifiable). Within 90 days of first outreach, Inkvelo signs at least 1 publishing account (white-label production agreement, referral partnership, or paid small-press production deal) — where a delivered free 3-title backlist-to-audiobook pilot is the qualifying door-opener for that signed account. P_success 0.5774 attaches to exactly this predicate; P(≥1 account) = 0.726.

Confidence note. Medium. U is genuinely strong and well-grounded (the free pilot is near-zero-COGS [V]), and the named-target list is verified. The binding risk is E (0.40): B2B publishing cycles routinely exceed 90 days, and the all-HITL requirement caps velocity. The P10=P50=1 unit distribution reflects that a single close is both the expected and the realistic floor outcome.

8.5 Ready-to-use assets

ABM cold email — Tier A (brand-publishing imprint / ghostwriting agency).

Subject: Three of your backlist titles → free audiobooks (a 5-min sample inside)

Hi {First name},

I run production for Inkvelo. I'll keep this concrete: we'd like to turn three {Imprint} backlist titles into full, professionally-narrated audiobooks — at no cost and no work on your side.

Most of your backlist has no audio edition. We produce audio at near-zero marginal cost, so this is genuinely free for you — a new revenue format and a new discoverability surface on titles that already earned out. Every title ships with a "Human-written · Quality-Verified" provenance badge, because your authors wrote these books — we're just giving them audio.

The 5-minute sample linked below is a live Kokoro narration. If the quality clears your bar, tell me three titles and we'll deliver finished files in ~2 weeks.

Worth a 20-minute call?

— {Name}, Inkvelo · {link to sample}

ABM cold email — Tier C (small / independent press, human-first framing).

Subject: A free audio edition for three {Press} backlist titles — human-authored, provenance-badged

Hi {First name},

{Press}'s list is exactly the kind of human-authored work readers are starting to seek out deliberately. I'd like to offer something with no strings: free audiobook editions of three of your backlist titles.

To be direct about the thing publishers rightly ask first — we are not generating books. Your authors wrote these. We produce the audio at near-zero cost and apply a transparent "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge. The pilot is free because it costs us almost nothing and we'd rather show the work than pitch it.

Could I send you a 5-minute narration sample to judge?

— {Name}, Inkvelo

3-email pilot-to-contract sequence (after the opener above).

• Email 2 (day +4, if no reply): Subject: "Re: three free audiobooks — still happy to send the sample." Two lines, re-attach sample, one social-proof line.
• Email 3 (on pilot acceptance): Subject: "Your three titles are in production — here's the timeline." Confirm titles, 2-week delivery date, ask for cover assets + pronunciation notes (signals human-craft respect).
• Email 4 (delivery): Subject: "{Title} + 2 more — your finished audiobooks + a one-pager on what this does for front-list." Attach files + provenance badges + the cost-per-book / throughput report.
• Email 5 (conversion, day +5 after delivery): Subject: "Want this as a standing production line?" Present the white-label option (per-seat or rev-share); single clear CTA to a 30-min scoping call.

Pilot one-pager — section-by-section + ASCII wireframe.

+------------------------------------------------------------+
|  INKVELO × {IMPRINT}  ·  Free Backlist-to-Audiobook Pilot  |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
|  THE OFFER: 3 backlist titles → full audiobooks, \$0, ~2 wks|
+------------------------------------------------------------+
|  WHY FREE          |  WHAT YOU GET                          |
|  Near-zero COGS    |  - Finished, distribution-ready files  |
|  (self-hosted TTS) |  - "Human-written · Quality-Verified"  |
|  We'd rather prove |    provenance badge per title          |
|  than pitch.       |  - New revenue + discoverability format|
+--------------------+----------------------------------------+
|  [▶ 5-MIN LIVE NARRATION SAMPLE]                            |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
|  AFTER THE PILOT (optional, no obligation):                |
|  White-label production line · per-seat or rev-share       |
|  Throughput report: cost-per-book on YOUR front-list       |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Human-in-the-loop. We augment your team; we don't replace |
|  your authors.                  [ Book a 20-min call → ]    |
+------------------------------------------------------------+

CRO elements: single primary CTA (sample → call), the "we don't replace your authors" line above the fold to disarm the #1 objection, zero pricing on the pilot page (the pilot is free), one embedded audio sample as the proof asset.

BD / conference call script (PubU 2026, AOG Gathering of the Ghosts).

• Open: "We give publishers free audiobooks for their backlist — near-zero cost on our side. Can I show you a 30-second sample?"
• Frame: "We're a production-augmentation tool, human-in-the-loop. We don't write books; your authors and writers do."
• Pilot ask: "Pick three backlist titles, we'll turn them to audio free, you judge the quality, no contract."
• Objection — 'is this AI slop?': "Reasonable concern. Source text is 100% your authors. We apply a provenance badge so readers see it's human-written. The only AI is the narration engine — the same category as any TTS, just at near-zero cost."
• Close: "Email me three titles this week and you'll have finished files before {date}."

Partner-outreach template — Gotham referral / white-label (Tier A).

Subject: Production tooling for your writer network + a referral structure

Hi {Name} — Gotham's 4,000+ writers are exactly who benefit from faster research/draft/edit throughput, and your clients get a free audiobook on top. We'd like to (1) supply augmentation tooling to your writer network and (2) set up a referral arrangement on the audio/production side. Happy to mirror your standard 10%-of-net referral structure. Can we scope a pilot with three of your authors' backlist titles?

8.6 90-day timeline

Week                  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12
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Account list (A/B/C)  ◆──◇
PM/Lunch prospecting   ◆──◆
Per-acct 1:1 plans     ◆──◇──◆
Sample chapter prod      ◆◇
Tier A outreach           ○◇─○──○──○
Tier C outreach              ○◇─○──○
Pilot production (3x)            ◆──◆──◆
Pilot delivery + report             ◇──◆──◇
Conversion / contract                  ○──○──◇──◇
IBPA co-op PW ad (HITL)      ◇◆
PubU CFS submit + prep    ○◇............(May 2026 event)
PSP recompute + bandit            ◆.....◆.....◆
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◆ NexusROS skill   ○ human   ◇ HITL approval gate

8.7 KPIs & monitoring scorecard

Attribution math. Last-touch attribution is unreliable for a multi-touch ABM motion, so use pilot-anchored attribution: an account is credited to this package iff a delivered free backlist-to-audiobook pilot preceded the signed deal (matching the success predicate). Spend per account = total package spend ÷ accounts in active motion; CAC realized = total spend ÷ signed accounts (target ≤ $900). ROAS = realized account LTV ($4,200) ÷ blended CAC.

PSP recompute cadence. Recompute PSP every 3 weeks (marked ◆ on the Gantt) from observed signals: update E from realized cycle length vs. plan (slower closes → lower E), Q from actual decision-maker reply rates, S from objection sentiment in replies, N from PubU window proximity. Re-derive P_success = σ(8·(PSP_raw − 0.55)) and feed the updated per-account-class win probabilities into budget_optimize's Thompson sampler, which reallocates the $386 across account classes (Tier A white-label vs. Tier C direct vs. co-op/conference visibility) toward whichever is converting — always behind a ◇ HITL spend gate.

8.8 Budget & projected results

90-day budget (~$1,500 initial; $386 Thompson-allocated, 1.9% portfolio share).

PubU 2026 attendance/sponsorship ($799–$934 attendee [V]; booth $2k–$10k+ [V]) and direct PW display CPM are explicitly out of the initial $1,500 — they unlock only after the bandit confirms the account motion converts.

Expected outcome (verbatim from ledger). 90-day signed accounts: P10 1 / P50 1 / P90 2. P(accounts ≥ 1) = 0.726. P50 revenue = $6,966 on ~$1,500 spend → ROAS 4.67 at LTV $4,200/account. The economics are driven by U=0.82: because the door-opener pilot has near-zero COGS, almost the entire account LTV converts to margin once signed.

How it scales. The free-pilot opener is the scalable unit — its cost stays near-zero as volume rises, so the constraint is human BD + HITL throughput, not capital. Scaling path: (1) once one Tier A white-label account converts, playbook_compose clones the exact open→pilot→convert sequence across the remaining Tier A imprints; (2) the bandit shifts budget from prospecting subscriptions toward the converting channel; (3) reinvest first-account revenue into PubU 2026 presence (speaking slot + booth) to convert Tier B/C in-room at the May window. Each new account compounds the reference base, lowering the trust barrier (E) on the next — the one factor currently capping the score.

I've completed Package 8. The markdown above is the full deliverable — it is my return value, output verbatim as requested, starting at the ## Package 8 — H2 with all eight required sections, the exact ledger values in 8.4 and 8.8, only dossier-sourced named targets with verified flags honored ([unverified] on P&W DB, IPC, Reedsy author count), and the free backlist-to-audiobook pilot developed as the ABM door-opener.

Package 9 — Bookstore & Library Trade

One-line: indie-bookstore + collection-development-librarian gatekeeper channel · professional buyers (ABA bookseller buyers, public-library collection-dev staff) · target_list_build + playbook_compose · PSP 44.6.

9.1 Objective, ICP & the creative angle

Objective. Earn institutional shelf placement and library orders for quality-clearing Inkvelo titles by moving them through the trade's trusted gatekeeper sequence — pre-pub galleys, editorial trade reviews, and peer-voted staff-picks lists — so books reach readers via indie hand-selling and library lending rather than only Amazon. This is explicitly a patient trust-credential play, not a near-term acquisition bet (the ledger reflects this: ROAS 0.81 [P], LTV $5.24 below CAC $6.50 [P] inside 90 days). The 90-day goal is credential accumulation and pipeline seeding, with the payoff landing in quarters 2-4 as reviews and list placements compound.

ICP. Two buyer personas, both budget-constrained and review-driven:

1. Indie-bookstore buyers at the 3,783 ABA member locations [V] (ABA 2025 Annual Report via PW & Jane Friedman) — they hand-sell, nominate for the Indie Next List, and discover titles via ABA galley-box mailings and NetGalley/Edelweiss.
2. Public-library collection-development librarians across ~9,000 public libraries / ~17,000 outlets [V] (IMLS Public Libraries Survey) — they buy on trade reviews (Library Journal, Booklist, PW), vote LibraryReads, and order print through Ingram Library Services and digital through OverDrive/Libby.

This is the most AI-skeptical channel in the entire GTM portfolio. ALA Council established an AI Policy Working Group in June 2025, with final guidance due at the 2026 ALA Annual [V] (American Libraries Magazine / ALA CD#56). Librarians actively screen self-published and small-press titles for AI provenance; undisclosed or detectable AI authorship is disqualifying. Channel sentiment is bifurcated: roughly +0.4 receptive to credible, reviewed human-authored titles, but -0.7 hostile to anything with undisclosed AI.

The creative angle — the Provenance Dossier + DNA-Verified Galley. Inkvelo turns its biggest liability in this channel (AI-native platform) into the credential that wins it. Every galley submitted here ships with a Provenance Dossier: a one-page, signed authorship-and-process attestation stating the title is human-written, with Inkvelo's 12-axis Digital DNA score (0-100) printed as a third-party-style quality grade, plus an explicit AI-use disclosure ("AI-assisted editing tools used: none / spell-check only / etc."). The galley cover carries the reader-facing "Human-written · Quality-Verified · Provenance-Transparent" credential. The pitch to gatekeepers is not "we have AI tech" — it is the opposite: "We are the publisher that solves your AI-vetting problem for you. Every Inkvelo title arrives pre-vetted, disclosed, and human-authored — the screening you're now forced to do by hand, we've already done and documented." This reframes Inkvelo as an ally of ALA's emerging AI guidance rather than a threat to it, and positions the DNA score as a trust artifact (not a marketing gimmick) for the one audience trained to value third-party validation above all.

9.2 Mechanics from zero (step-by-step)

1. Build the gatekeeper target list (target_list_build). Compile every named gate with its access method, cost, lead time, and verification flag: ABA Publisher Partner Program, Bookshop.org, NetGalley, Edelweiss+, LibraryReads, Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Indie, PW/BookLife, OverDrive/Libby, Ingram Library Services, plus conferences (WI2026, PLA 2026, ALA Annual, regionals) and IBPA co-op. Tag each editorial-free vs paid, and by lead time (reviews need galleys 3-6 months pre-pub).
2. Get into the supply pipeline first (table stakes). Make titles available via Ingram Library Services — now the dominant library print pipeline after Baker & Taylor ceased operations January 2026 (B&T had 5,000+ US library partners; ~2,000 libraries opened new Ingram accounts) [V] (NPR). Ingram presence also auto-lists the title on Bookshop.org (~2,900 partner stores, ~90% of ABA members) [V] (PW). Distribute ebook/audiobook to OverDrive/Libby via Draft2Digital (free to list, revenue-share). No flat fees here — this is pure infrastructure.
3. Join IBPA (ibpa-online.org) to unlock co-op discounts into NetGalley, Edelweiss, and ALA exhibits — the cost-efficient on-ramp for a bootstrapped publisher. (Specific co-op rates unconfirmed [unverified].)
4. Assemble the Provenance Dossier for each title: signed human-authorship attestation, AI-use disclosure line, the 12-axis Digital DNA score, and the "Human-written · Quality-Verified · Provenance-Transparent" credential block. Only titles clearing the DNA quality gate are submitted.
5. List the Digital Review Copy (DRC) on NetGalley and/or Edelweiss 3-6 months pre-pub — these feed both LibraryReads and Indie Next voting. NetGalley is $575/6mo per title + optional $150 Featured promo ($125 bundled) [V]; Edelweiss is ~$90/ISBN plus a customized annual fee [V] (note the 2025 Valsoft price-hike resentment — Microcosm's Joe Biel publicly questioned the value). Use IBPA co-op to reduce both.
6. Submit to free editorial trade reviews 4-6 months pre-pub: Library Journal (libraryjournal.com Review Submissions), Booklist (1 print copy + cover page to Booklist, ALA, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago IL 60611), and PW via BookLife (register at booklife.com, create a Project, submit for free PW consideration). These carry far more weight with librarians than paid reviews.
7. Selectively buy paid reviews only where a free path failed and the title needs a third validation point. Kirkus Indie ($450 standard / $599 expedited [V]; you control whether an unfavorable review publishes) and BookLife Review ($399 / $499 if >100k words, +$150 expedite, +$100 to print in PW [V]). Treat as backfill, not default.
8. Run the ABA galley-box + Advance Access motion. Enroll in the ABA Publisher Partner Program at bookweb.org; book galley placement in the quarterly box mailing ($1.60-$2.75/piece, 450-piece minimum, ~$720-$1,238 per insertion [V, unverified per-piece rate]) and the Advance Access email. This is how indie buyers learn about a title before nominating it for Indie Next (organic/$0, peer-driven, cannot be bought).
9. Cultivate the peer-voted lists. Both LibraryReads (top-10 monthly; voting deadline = 1st of the month before pub month; requires a NetGalley/Edelweiss listing 2+ months pre-pub) and Indie Next are won by relationships, not money. Use the playbook (playbook_compose) to script conversational outreach asking librarians/booksellers to read and, if they love it, nominate.
10. Show up at conferences relationship-first. Sequence around WI2026 (Pittsburgh, Feb 23-26, 2026, ~1,000 booksellers), PLA 2026 (Minneapolis, Apr 1-3, 2026, 6,400+ actual attendees), regionals (~1,300 booksellers across fall shows, low-four-figure booths), and ALA Annual (14,250 total in 2025) [all V]. Distribute galleys + Provenance Dossiers; never lead with a transactional pitch (2025 regional theme was community/solidarity).
11. Recompute PSP monthly as reviews land and list placements accrue; feed the bandit (budget_optimize) to shift the small budget toward the gates actually converting.

9.3 NexusROS skill mapping

9.4 PSP scorecard

PSP = 44.6. P_success = 0.3029 (P10 0.226 / P90 0.391). CAC = $6.50 [P]; LTV = $5.24 [P]; ROAS = 0.81 [P]; unit = reader. 90-day units: P10 179 / P50 304 / P90 512 [P]; rev P50 ≈ $1,595 [P]. P(units ≥ target 243) = 0.705 [P]. Initial budget $2,000; Thompson allocation $386 (1.9% share) of the portfolio.

Success predicate (explicit, falsifiable): Within 90 days, Inkvelo secures presence in Ingram + Bookshop.org + OverDrive, lands ≥1 free editorial trade review (LJ / Booklist / PW) on a quality-clearing title, gets ≥1 title onto NetGalley/Edelweiss with active librarian/bookseller engagement, and drives ≥243 reader units (purchases + library checkouts attributable to trade-channel placement).

Confidence note: P_success 0.30 (P10 0.23 / P90 0.39) is the lowest-confidence consumer-adjacent play in the portfolio, by design. The spread is dominated by E (0.33) and S (0.30): the gates are slow and AI-hostile. ROAS <1 inside 90 days is expected and acceptable — this package is funded as a credential investment that compounds in later quarters, not a 90-day payback channel.

9.5 Ready-to-use assets

A. Provenance Dossier (galley insert — paste-ready credential block)

+----------------------------------------------------------+
|  INKVELO  ·  PROVENANCE DOSSIER                          |
|  ----------------------------------------------------    |
|  TITLE:        [Title]                                    |
|  AUTHOR:       [Name]  ·  ISBN [____]  ·  PUB [MM/YYYY]   |
|                                                          |
|  [✓] HUMAN-WRITTEN   This work was authored by a human   |
|      writer. Authorship attested & signed (overleaf).    |
|  [✓] QUALITY-VERIFIED   Digital DNA score: 87 / 100      |
|      (12-axis editorial quality assessment)              |
|  [✓] PROVENANCE-TRANSPARENT   AI-tool disclosure:        |
|      "Spell/grammar check only. No generative drafting." |
|                                                          |
|  Available: Ingram (shelf-ready, opening-day) ·          |
|  Bookshop.org · OverDrive/Libby (ebook + audiobook)      |
|  Galley on NetGalley & Edelweiss — eligible for          |
|  LibraryReads & Indie Next nomination.                   |
+----------------------------------------------------------+

B. Trade galley one-sheet — section copy

• Headline: "The vetting you're now doing by hand — we've already done."
• Subhead: "Every Inkvelo galley arrives human-written, quality-graded, and provenance-disclosed. One less title for your AI-screening pile."
• Body: "Inkvelo titles ship with a signed Provenance Dossier and a 12-axis Digital DNA quality score. We disclose our process in full because we believe librarians and booksellers deserve transparency, not marketing. Available shelf-ready via Ingram, on Bookshop.org, and on OverDrive/Libby. Free audiobook edition included for every quality-clearing title."
• CRO/trust elements: signed attestation seal · DNA score badge · "Human-written only" filter callout · reviewer quotes (once reviews land) · clear Ingram/OverDrive order paths.

C. Email sequence — collection-development librarian nurture (5 emails)

1. Subject: "A galley that's already been AI-vetted — for your consideration" "Hi [Name] — I know AI provenance is now part of your selection workflow (and with ALA's guidance due at Annual, rightly so). [Title] by [Author] arrives with a signed human-authorship attestation and a full process disclosure, so you don't have to screen it. Galley on NetGalley here: [link]. Pub date [MM/YYYY]; available via Ingram and OverDrive. No ask today — just wanted it on your radar early."

2. Subject: "[Title] — now reviewed in [LJ/Booklist/PW]" (sent when an editorial review lands) "Quick update: [Title] just received an editorial review in [outlet] — [pull quote]. It's on NetGalley/Edelweiss through [date]. If it fits your collection, it's shelf-ready via Ingram and live on OverDrive/Libby for digital lending."

3. Subject: "If you read it and liked it — a LibraryReads nudge" "No pressure at all — but if [Title] worked for you, LibraryReads voting for [pub month] closes the 1st of [prior month]. A conversational rec from staff like you is the signal that helps a small-press human-written title find its readers. Vote via NetGalley/Edelweiss: [link]."

4. Subject: "Digital lending: [Title] on OverDrive + free audiobook" "For your digital collection: [Title]'s ebook and a full-length audiobook are both available via OverDrive/Libby. Audiobook lending is up 13% YoY across the network (OverDrive 2025) — and Inkvelo's audiobook is included at no extra licensing tier."

5. Subject: "Our next 3 titles — same provenance standard" "Three new Inkvelo titles are clearing our quality gate this quarter, each with the same signed Dossier. Want the galley list on Edelweiss so they surface in your usual workflow? Reply and I'll add you."

D. Bookseller / librarian outreach — discovery + pitch template

• Discovery method: Pull ABA member directory + Bookshop.org partner list for indie buyers; identify the 200+ OverDrive 1M-checkout systems' collection-dev contacts; cross-reference NetGalley/Edelweiss reviewer profiles. Build via target_list_build.
• Copy-paste pitch (bookseller / Indie Next): "Hi [Name] — [Title] is on NetGalley/Edelweiss now [link], and it'll be in the next ABA galley box. It's human-written with a signed provenance dossier (we know that matters to indie buyers right now). If it's a hand-sell for your store, I'd be honored if you'd consider it for an Indie Next nomination — written in your own words, of course. Happy to send a finished copy."

E. Conference booth / buzz script (WI2026 / PLA / ALA) "We're Inkvelo. We're not here to pitch you AI — we're here because you're being asked to screen for it. Every title we publish comes with a signed human-authorship attestation and a transparent process disclosure. Here's a galley and its Provenance Dossier. If you ever want to see how we grade quality, I'll walk you through the 12 axes — but only if you're curious." (Relationship-first; never close on the floor.)

9.6 90-day timeline

Owner key: ◆ NexusROS skill · ○ human · ◇ HITL approval gate

INKVELO — PKG 9 BOOKSTORE & LIBRARY TRADE        Wk: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12
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target_list_build: build gatekeeper list   ◆◇  [██]
Ingram + Bookshop + OverDrive (D2D) setup   ○      [████]
Join IBPA (co-op unlock)                    ○      [██]
Assemble Provenance Dossiers (per title)    ◆○◇    [████]
List DRC on NetGalley / Edelweiss           ○◇        [██████]
Submit free editorial reviews (LJ/Bklst/PW) ○            [████████]   (4-6mo lead)
Paid review backfill (Kirkus/BookLife)      ○◇            [████]
ABA box-mailing + Advance Access            ○◇              [████]
playbook_compose: submission SOP + calendar ◆◇    [████]
Librarian/bookseller nurture (email/calls)  ◆○◇            [██████████████]
LibraryReads / Indie Next nomination push   ○                  [██████████]
WI2026 / PLA / ALA prep + galley dist.      ○◇                    [████████]
budget_optimize: monthly bandit realloc     ◆◇          [▲]      [▲]      [▲]
attribution_analysis + PSP recompute        ◆○            [▲]      [▲]      [▲]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
▲ = monthly checkpoint (recompute PSP, reallocate)

9.7 KPIs & monitoring scorecard

Attribution math. Trade-channel units = (Bookshop.org affiliate-tagged sales) + (Ingram library order quantities) + (OverDrive checkout counts on Inkvelo ISBNs) + (indie in-store sales estimated via Bookshop/POS where available). Each is mapped to its triggering credential (review / LibraryReads / Indie Next / box-mailing) by attribution_analysis, using listing-to-order lag windows. Because peer-list lift is diffuse, attribution uses a holdout/decay model: credit a credential when an order or checkout spike follows its placement within the lag window.

PSP recompute cadence. Monthly (Wk 4/8/12 checkpoints), attribution_analysis updates Q (realized reachability from actual review/list placements) and E (realized difficulty from time-to-credential), then PSP is recomputed and the seven factors re-scored. The updated PSP and per-gate ROAS feed budget_optimize's Thompson sampler, which reallocates the $386 across NetGalley vs Edelweiss vs box-mailing vs paid-review backfill — shifting spend toward whichever gate is actually producing credentials and orders, and starving gates that aren't.

9.8 Budget & projected results

90-day budget: $2,000 initial; Thompson allocation $386 (1.9% portfolio share). Indicative allocation of the active spend: NetGalley listing (IBPA-discounted) + Featured promo, Edelweiss per-ISBN + co-op annual share, one ABA box-mailing insertion (~$720-$1,238 [V]), and a single paid-review backfill (Kirkus $450 or BookLife $399 [V]) held in reserve. Editorial reviews (LJ/Booklist/PW), LibraryReads, Indie Next, Ingram, Bookshop.org, and OverDrive listing are $0, which is why most institutional reach here is free — the spend buys discovery-platform presence, not the credential itself.

Projected results (from ledger): 90-day reader units P10 179 / P50 304 / P90 512 [P]; revenue P50 ≈ $1,595 [P]; ROAS 0.81 [P] (intentionally <1 in-window); P(units ≥ 243) = 0.705 [P]. CAC $6.50 vs LTV $5.24 [P] confirms this does not pay back inside 90 days on a unit basis.

How it scales. The economics invert as credentials compound. Once a few titles earn editorial reviews and a LibraryReads or Indie Next placement, the cost per credential falls toward zero (the lists are free and self-reinforcing) while institutional orders persist across the long backlist tail — Ingram is now table-stakes infrastructure post-Baker & Taylor [V], and OverDrive audiobook lending is growing +13% YoY [V]. Scaling means (1) widening the title count through the same free editorial pipeline at near-zero marginal cost, (2) graduating into co-op conference exhibits (WI/regionals first, then PLA/ALA) once relationships warrant the four-to-five-figure booth, and (3) letting budget_optimize redirect the small paid budget into the one or two discovery platforms proven to convert. The bootstrapped read: fund this as a multi-quarter trust annuity, not a 90-day acquisition channel.

Package 10 — Serial-Fiction + Referral / Affiliate Network Effects

One-line: Royal Road serialization + double-sided referral · web-serial readers (LitRPG / progression fantasy) · ab_plan_compose + referral · PSP 63.7.

10.1 Objective, ICP & the creative angle

Objective. Acquire web-serial readers at a referral-amortized CAC of ~$1.80 [P] by serializing Book 1 free on Royal Road, riding the Rising Stars follower-velocity algorithm into front-page discovery, converting those readers onto Inkvelo to "finish it free," and then letting a double-sided audiobook referral compound each acquired reader into the next. The success unit is a reader, not a sale; monetization is downstream (Patreon-style advance chapters, KU box sets, free Kokoro audiobooks).

ICP. The dedicated English web-serial reader — LitRPG, progression fantasy, cultivation, web-romance — who already reads chapter-by-chapter for free and follows authors across platforms. They cluster on Royal Road (~52.72M monthly visits, Apr 2026 [V] (Semrush)) and a tight set of subreddits totaling ~4.3M+ members [V] (GummySearch). Their JTBD: "Give me a long, bingeable, fast-progressing power-fantasy I can read free as it updates, follow the authors I love, and pay to read ahead." They are receptive to new serials if you participate as a community member, and cautious-to-hostile toward undisclosed AI fiction — the single biggest risk in this segment.

The creative angle — "Rising Stars launch + finish-it-free referral loop." Three mechanics stacked into one flywheel:

1. Serialize Book 1 free, daily, on Royal Road to game the velocity algorithm. Rising Stars ranks by follower-gain growth over ~1 week, NOT ratings [V] (Chapter Chronicles Rising Stars Data Guide), with a median 3-week tenure [V]. A stockpiled, daily-posted, multi-genre-tagged launch is engineered to spike follower velocity precisely in that window.
2. The "finish it free on Inkvelo" cliff. The RR feed runs ~10-50 chapters behind the author's advance feed (~10 ahead common [unverified] (Royal Road forums)). Where the genre norm gates the lead behind Patreon dollars, Inkvelo gates it behind a free account + the Human-written · Quality-Verified badge — the reader finishes the arc free on Inkvelo, and every quality-clearing title ships a free Kokoro audiobook.
3. Double-sided referral + affiliate rev-share. Each reader who refers a friend unlocks a free audiobook for both sides (near-zero marginal cost, self-hosted TTS). Serial-community influencers get an affiliate rev-share on referred readers who convert to paid (KU box set / advance tier). This is "quality as incentive, not enforcement": the badge and the free audiobook are the carrots; nothing is paywalled or AI-shamed.

10.2 Mechanics from zero (step-by-step)

1. Pre-launch stockpile (Weeks -2 to 0). Write/finalize ≥6 chapters before going live; Royal Road organic guidance is to stockpile 6+ and never gap >3 days [V]. Tag 4+ genres so the serial qualifies for the main Rising Stars page, not just a genre list [V].
2. Set the AI disclosure posture. Apply Royal Road's "AI-Assisted" tag and lead the blurb with craft. RR moved from bans to the tag, noting detectors are only ~84% accurate [V] (Royal Road blog, AI-text policy). Disclose, lead with story, avoid mass-produced appearance — this is a hard gate, not optional.
3. Stand up the funnel before launch. Build the Inkvelo title page with the "Human-written · Quality-Verified" badge and "finish it free" CTA; create the serial's own Discord (model: The Wandering Inn Discord ~17,638 members [V]) with a patron-gated channel structure; wire the double-sided referral link generator (1 referral = 1 free audiobook each side).
4. Launch with daily/near-daily posting. Post the stockpile on a cadence engineered to maximize follower-gain velocity inside the ~1-week ranking window. Genre lists are far easier to crack: Thriller 25th-pct ~77 followers vs Fantasy ~413 [V] — pick the achievable list as a stepping-stone to the main page.
5. Seed the communities (participate-first). Post in r/royalroad (29k, +74.2%/yr [V]) using its "Self Promo" flair (2nd most-used, 54 posts [V]); drop new-chapter/milestone updates in r/litrpg (142k, +36.6%/yr [V]) and r/ProgressionFantasy (115k [V]) self-promo threads; post installments in r/redditserials (123k [V]); engage genuinely in r/Fantasy (3.9M [V]) designated threads only. No drive-by link drops — undisclosed AI or drive-by promo carries a -0.5 sentiment hit [V].
6. Activate Discord + FB warm channels. Share in the GameLit Society Facebook group (~18,300+ [V]) per admin rules (cover reveals, giveaways) and the official r/litrpg Discord (~4,242-4,445 [unverified]).
7. Trigger the "finish it free" conversion. At the RR cliffhanger, the CTA routes readers to Inkvelo to read ahead free (no Patreon paywall). On account creation, present the double-sided referral offer immediately.
8. Run the referral loop. Reader refers → both unlock a free audiobook → referred reader hits the same RR/Inkvelo funnel. Track viral coefficient k; the bandit reallocates budget toward whichever loop entry-point (RR organic vs RR ads vs subreddit) yields the highest k.
9. Recruit affiliates. Pitch serial-community influencers (e.g., CritRPG podcast [unverified] guest slot; newsletter features) on an affiliate rev-share for referred readers who convert to paid.
10. Layer paid only where it clears. Add Royal Road self-serve ads ($55-$275/campaign [V]) and a Book Barbarian feature (80,000+ SFF/LitRPG readers [V]) once organic k and CAC are validated.

10.3 NexusROS skill mapping

10.4 PSP scorecard

• PSP score: 63.7
• P_success: 0.6666 (P10 0.578 / P90 0.744)
• CAC: $1.80 [P] · LTV: $5.24 [P] · ROAS: 2.91 [P]
• 90-day units (readers): P10 517 / P50 826 / P90 1,321 [P]
• P(units ≥ target): 0.73 at a target of 661 readers
• Initial budget: $1,500 · Thompson allocation: $1,174 (5.9% share)

Success predicate (falsifiable): Within 90 days, acquire ≥661 Inkvelo readers attributable to this play (RR organic + referral + seeded communities), at a blended CAC ≤ $1.80, with the serial reaching a Rising Stars list (genre or main) at least once. The ledger attaches P=0.73 to the ≥661-reader clause.

Confidence note. Q (0.74) is well-grounded in confirmed, named, reachable communities. The binding uncertainties are all on S/N: the ~$4-5/follower and ~0.4% CTR ad figures are [unverified] (RR forum), and AI sentiment can swing the whole play negative if disclosure is botched — hence S held to 0.48. Treat the referral viral coefficient k as the highest-variance assumption; it is what pulls P50→P90.

10.5 Ready-to-use assets

Royal Road serial blurb (paste-ready, AI-Assisted tag applied):

[Title] — A Progression Fantasy Serial · Updates Daily Kael died ranked dead-last. The System respawned him with one stat no one else has — and a counter that only goes up. Numbers climb. Enemies don't. A bingeable cultivation-meets-LitRPG climb with daily chapters and zero filler. Human-written, quality-verified, AI-assisted in editing — disclosed in full on chapter 1. Read free here; finish the arc free on Inkvelo. Tags: LitRPG · Progression · Fantasy · Adventure · Cultivation

r/royalroad "Self Promo" flair post:

[New Fiction] [Progression/LitRPG] [Title] — daily updates, 6-chapter stockpile, free Been lurking the sub for a while; finally launching. Daily posting, no gaps. It's numbers-go-up cultivation with a System that punishes grinding. Honest disclosure: AI-assisted in editing, fully human-written and disclosed in ch.1 — feedback on the prose welcome, not looking for a free pass. Link in profile per rules. Will be in the comments all week.

r/litrpg self-promo-thread snippet:

Dropping ch.1-6 of [Title] this week — progression/cultivation, daily cadence. If you finish the public arc, the next 10 chapters are free on Inkvelo (no paywall, free audiobook included). Roast the pacing.

Royal Road self-serve ad (rectangle, ≤ char limits):

Numbers go up. Enemies don't. Daily-updating progression fantasy. Free. Finish it free on Inkvelo →

(Buy via Author Dashboard > Advertising > New Campaign; $55 tier = 140,250-280,500 impressions, author discount for fully-RR-hosted stories [V].)

Double-sided referral — in-product copy:

Give a free audiobook, get a free audiobook. Send a friend [Title]. When they start reading on Inkvelo, you BOTH unlock the full audiobook — free, narrated, yours to keep. No catch, no card.

"Finish it free" landing page — section copy:

• Hero: "You're 10 chapters from the end of the arc. Finish it free." Sub: "No Patreon. No paywall. Read ahead on Inkvelo — free account, free audiobook." Badge: Human-written · Quality-Verified.
• Proof rail: "Quality-graded by Inkvelo's 12-axis Digital DNA score. Every clearing title ships a free audiobook." + a "Human-written only" filter callout.
• Referral block: the double-sided offer above.
• CTA: "Read ahead free →"

+----------------------------------------------------------+
|  INKVELO              [Human-written · Quality-Verified]  |
+----------------------------------------------------------+
|  You're 10 chapters from the end of the arc.             |
|  FINISH IT FREE.                                          |
|  No Patreon. No paywall. Free account + free audiobook.  |
|         [  Read ahead free  →  ]                         |
+----------------------------------------------------------+
| [cover] | Digital DNA 0-100 quality score · 12 axes      |
|         | "Human-written only" filter ·  Free Kokoro TTS |
+----------------------------------------------------------+
|  GIVE A FREE AUDIOBOOK, GET ONE.  [ Copy referral link ] |
+----------------------------------------------------------+

CRO elements: single primary CTA above the fold; badge as trust anchor; referral as the secondary action; zero credit-card friction; AI disclosure linked, not hidden.

Email sequence (post-signup, 4 emails):

1. Subj: Your next 10 chapters are unlocked. Body: "Welcome. The arc continues — start reading where Royal Road cut off. Your free audiobook of Book 1 is already queued. One ask: if a friend would binge this, your referral link gives you both another free audiobook. [Read ahead] · [Copy referral link]"
2. Subj: Did the cliffhanger get you? (here's how it ends) Body: re-engagement nudge to the next 5 chapters; restate "Human-written · Quality-Verified"; soft referral reminder.
3. Subj: Free audiobook for you and a friend Body: lead with the double-sided referral; "self-hosted narration, costs you nothing, costs us almost nothing — that's the point."
4. Subj: Book 1 box set is live on Kindle Unlimited Body: upsell completed serial as KU box set ($11.99/mo KU [V]); "or keep reading free on Inkvelo." Affiliate footer for influencers.

BookTok / Reels script (45-60s):

• Hook (0-3s): "This progression fantasy posts a new chapter EVERY day and I'm not okay." (text-on-screen, fast cut to a stat-screen graphic.)
• Beat 1 (3-15s): the premise in one breath — "ranked dead-last, one broken stat, a counter that only goes up."
• Beat 2 (15-35s): the loop — "read it free on Royal Road, and when the public chapters end you finish the arc FREE on Inkvelo — with a free audiobook."
• Beat 3 (35-50s): the flex — "refer a friend, you BOTH get the audiobook free."
• CTA (50-60s): "Link in bio. Tag the friend who needs a new addiction." (sound: trending progression-fantasy edit audio.)

IG/X post: "New daily-updating progression fantasy. Free on Royal Road, finish the arc free on Inkvelo, free audiobook included. Human-written · Quality-Verified. Refer a friend → you both get the audiobook. 🔗"

Affiliate / influencer outreach (discovery + pitch): Discovery — pull active genre creators from r/litrpg / r/royalroad rec threads, the GameLit Society FB group, and CritRPG podcast guests [unverified]. Copy-paste pitch:

Subject: Affiliate rev-share — free-audiobook serial your audience will binge Hi [name] — I run [Title], a daily progression-fantasy serial on Royal Road. We're launching a double-sided referral on Inkvelo: your audience reads free, finishes the arc free, and gets a free audiobook. You earn rev-share on any referred reader who upgrades to the KU box set or advance tier. No exclusivity, you keep your audience. Want a unique affiliate link + 5 advance chapters to react to?

CritRPG podcast guest pitch [unverified]:

Hi Madix — I'd love to come on CritRPG to talk launching a serial that's free to finish and ships free audiobooks, plus the Rising Stars velocity grind. Happy to give your listeners a referral perk.

10.6 90-day timeline

Week:                01  02  03  04  05  06  07  08  09  10  11  12
PRE-LAUNCH
 Stockpile 6+ ch     ○○
 Funnel+referral set ◆◇                      (landing/referral)
 A/B test design     ◆◇                      (ab_plan_compose)
LAUNCH (velocity window)
 Daily RR posting        ◆──────────────────────────────────────◆
 AI-Assisted disclose    ○
 Subreddit seeding       ◆◇──◆◇──◆◇──◆◇                 (social_plan)
 Discord/FB warm         ○───○───○───○
RISING STARS PUSH
 Follower-velocity opt       ◆───◆               (timeline_plan)
 RR self-serve ads (test)        ◇◆──◆          (budget_optimize)
CONVERSION + LOOP
 "Finish free" live              ◆──────────────────────────────◆
 Referral loop on                ◆──────────────────────────────◆
 Email sequence                    ◆──────────────────────────◆
AMPLIFY (only if k/CAC clear)
 Affiliate recruitment                  ○◇──◆◇──◆
 Book Barbarian feature                       ◇◆        (paid)
 KU box set + audiobook                            ○──◆
MEASURE
 Attribution + PSP recompute          ◆────◆────◆────◆  (biweekly)
Legend: ◆ NexusROS skill  ○ human  ◇ HITL approval gate

10.7 KPIs & monitoring scorecard

Attribution math. Each loop entry-point (RR organic, RR ads, each subreddit, each affiliate) carries a unique referral/UTM code. Acquired readers = direct (UTM-tagged) + referred (double-sided codes). Blended CAC = total spend ÷ (direct + referred readers); because referred readers carry ~$0 incremental spend (Kokoro audiobook ≈ $0 marginal), every increment of k lowers effective CAC below the $1.80 paid-only figure. Effective LTV = (read-through monetization + KU page-reads + advance-tier conversions) per reader, target $5.24 [P]; ROAS = LTV/CAC = 2.91 [P].

PSP recompute cadence. Recompute biweekly: refresh Q from realized community-conversion rates, S from observed AI-disclosure sentiment (comment/flag ratio), N from subreddit growth deltas, and U from realized CAC vs k. The updated factor vector re-derives PSP = 100·Σ(w_i·f_i) with weights M.18 Q.18 U.18 E.14 S.12 N.10 A.10, and P_success = σ(8·(PSP_raw − 0.55)). The refreshed P_success feeds budget_optimize as the prior for this arm's Thompson posterior, reallocating across loop entry-points each cycle.

10.8 Budget & projected results

90-day budget: $1,500 initial, of which the Thompson sampler allocates $1,174 (5.9% portfolio share) to live spend (RR self-serve ads $55-$275/campaign [V] + a Book Barbarian feature [V]), holding the remainder as reserve for whichever loop entry-point shows the strongest realized k. The play is organic-first: RR posting, subreddit seeding, Discord/FB, and the referral loop are all $0; paid is layered only after k and CAC validate.

Expected outcome (ledger):

• Readers — P10 517 / P50 826 / P90 1,321 [P]
• P50 revenue ~$4,333 [P] (read-through + KU box-set page-reads + advance-tier conversions)
• P(readers ≥ 661 target) = 0.73 [P]
• At P50, CAC $1.80 / LTV $5.24 → ROAS 2.91 [P]

How it scales. This is the portfolio's compounding engine: the double-sided audiobook referral has near-zero marginal cost (self-hosted Kokoro TTS), so once viral coefficient k is positive each acquired reader subsidizes the next and the effective CAC falls below the $1.80 paid figure. Scaling levers, in order of LTV:CAC clearance: (1) push budget past $1,174 only after biweekly PSP recompute confirms k ≥ 0.4 and CAC ≤ $1.80; (2) replicate the entire Rising Stars + finish-free + referral motion per new serial title — every additional serial reuses the same skills (ab_plan_compose, referral, timeline_plan, social_plan_compose) at zero net-new build cost; (3) graduate proven readers into the paid layer (KU box sets at $11.99/mo KU [V], advance tiers benchmarked against pirateaba's 6,638 paid patrons [V] (Graphtreon)) and recruit serial-community affiliates on rev-share to externalize acquisition. The ceiling is set by k and the AI-sentiment risk on S — protect both by leading every surface with craft, the Human-written · Quality-Verified badge, and honest disclosure.

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Portfolio view: allocation, sequencing, and the bandit

The ten packages are not a menu to pick one from — they are a portfolio to run as a whole, with budget flowing to the plays that prove themselves. Three views govern how the portfolio is operated.

Allocation (where the first $20K goes). With no live data yet, the Thompson-sampling allocator (companion §11.7) starts from weak priors anchored on each package's $P_{\text{success}}$ and produces the exploratory cold-start split below: roughly a third to search/retail ads, a quarter to the email/reader-magnet funnel, and the remainder spread across Meta, BookTok, serial-fiction, and the exploratory long tail. As live conversion data arrives, each package's Beta–Binomial posterior sharpens and the allocator concentrates spend on the rising-PSP plays.

Figure 2. Cold-start Thompson allocation of the $20K 90-day pilot. The split is a prior, not a verdict — it moves as results update the posteriors.

Outcome (what the $20K returns). Propagated through a 60,000-draw Monte-Carlo over the revenue-bearing packages, the pilot's modelled 90-day attributed revenue is P10 $40.4K · P50 $50.2K · P90 $62.8K — a blended P50 return on ad spend of ~2.5× [P]. (This portfolio P50 is the median of the summed-outcome distribution; it sits above the ~$45.7K arithmetic sum of the per-package P50 medians because summing right-skewed outcomes shifts the median upward — expected, not an inconsistency.) The spread, not the median, is the honest object: even the P10 case more than recovers the spend, because the cost base is fixed and the only material variable cost is the ~3% processor fee (companion §10.2).

Figure 3. The portfolio's 90-day revenue distribution with P10/P50/P90 marked.

Sensitivity (what to improve). A tornado analysis (companion §11.8) shows the three highest-leverage factors are unit economics, market pull, and reach quality — so the fastest way to raise the portfolio's odds is to improve a package's LTV:CAC or put it in front of a larger, better-fitted audience, not to fiddle with timing or automation.

Figure 4. Tornado sensitivity of PSP to each factor; $U$, $M$, $Q$ dominate.

Sequencing (the order of operations). The allocation interacts with the phased rollout of strategy-paper §9.2. Phase 1 (months 1–3, ~100 authors): lead with the owned email/reader-magnet funnel (Package 5), the author-community founder-led play (Package 6), and the programmatic Digital-DNA SEO engine (Package 7) — all organic or near-zero cash — to seed a quality-proof catalogue and the first loop of DNA data; stand up the free-audiobook wedge. Phase 2 (months 4–12): turn on demand — BookTok (Package 1), BookTuber outreach (Package 2), serial-fiction seeding (Package 10), and a gated micro-test of search/retail (Package 3) and Meta (Package 4) on Quality-Verified titles where organic series-LTV already clears CAC. Phase 3 (year 2+): scale self-funding paid acquisition via the bandit, push Publisher ABM (Package 8), and run the patient Bookstore & Library trade play (Package 9) for institutional credibility. The reach-versus-ease map below shows why this sequence is right — the early-phase plays cluster in the easy, high-reach quadrant; the trade channel, hardest and most AI-skeptical, is deliberately last.

Figure 5. Each package by reachability ($Q$) and ease ($E$), bubble size ∝ PSP. The demand-side cluster (top-right) leads; the institutional trade channel (bottom-left) is sequenced last.

Monitoring (the loop that runs it). Every package's scorecard (§N.7) feeds a single control loop: leading KPIs (impressions, CTR, CPL, signups, audiobook-attach) and lagging KPIs (CAC, conversion, LTV, ROAS, payback) update the Beta–Binomial posteriors on a cadence; PSP is recomputed; the budget_optimize bandit reallocates toward rising-PSP packages; and the non-negotiable gates are re-checked so any package resting on a broken trust or migration predicate is automatically de-amplified. This is the operational meaning of "the model is a control system, not a guess."

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Appendix — Named Target List

166 total, 136 verified, 30 [unverified]. Now I'll produce the appendix.

Named Target-List Appendix — Inkvelo GTM Execution Playbook

This appendix enumerates all 166 live-searched named targets across the playbook's ten audience and method segments. Of these, 136 are verified and 30 carry an [unverified] flag appended to their Reach metric cell (reach figures and costs are reproduced exactly as supplied — no numbers have been invented or adjusted). Targets are grouped by segment, one table per segment, mapping directly to the NexusROS target_list_build skill.

pro-indie-authors

ai-curious-hobbyist-writers

audio-first-readers

web-serial-readers

booktok-booktube-creators

publishers-brand-and-small-press

bookstores-and-libraries

paid-channel-benchmarks

email-funnel-mechanics

sentiment-news-index-method

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A note on method, NexusROS, and verification

Skill mapping is to shipping capability. Each package maps its elements to named NexusROS genesis skills — ad_suite_compose, email_chain_compose, social_plan_compose, landing_page_compose, budget_optimize, ab_plan_compose, timeline_plan, target_list_build, attribution_analysis, scenario_simulate, playbook_compose, call_script_compose — plus the /gtm-blueprint two-tier engine (org_master → per-account target_account) and a five-stage human-gated cascade. These are the "how Inkvelo runs this at scale" layer; every autonomous action passes a human approval gate before spend or publish (strategy-paper §6.2).

Verification. Benchmarks and named targets were gathered by live web search and re-checked by an adversarial fact-checking pass on 7 June 2026. Of 166 named targets, 136 were confirmed against a live source and 30 are marked [unverified] (private/behind-login membership counts, undisclosed Discord sizes, and a few secondary-sourced claims). Key corrections folded in: BookTok reach is ~200B views / ~42M posts (not 370B); ScribbleHub traffic ~21–23M visits/mo (not ~3.6M); reader willingness to try AI narration fell 70%→61% (2025→2026); a widely-cited "2% CTR / $0.34 CPC romantasy Meta" figure is in fact a BookBub case study; and the Facebook reader-magnet cost is ~$0.33/subscriber (not $1). The PSP scorecards are projections [P] computed from the shared assumptions ledger (companion-paper Appendix I) on verified [V] and internal-document [D] inputs; they reconcile exactly with strategy-paper Table 11.3.

End of playbook. Distributed link-only; companion to From ProseCreator to Inkvelo (Adverant Research, 2026). Figures tagged [V] verified · [O] observed-in-platform · [P] projection · [D] internal-document.