AI Chatbot for Ghostwriters: Confidential Project Intake
SleekAI reads your project tiers, per-word and per-book rates, and NDA-aware intake fields from WordPress, so founders get a discreet quote and a signed-NDA brief path without exposing identities. Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or OpenRouter key.
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Discreet inquiries that need real answers
Ghostwriting inquiries are uniquely awkward. A founder wants to write a business book but won't admit publicly they need help. An executive wants a memoir but won't share the story without a signed NDA. A coach wants a 60,000-word lead magnet. None of them want a quote form. They want a private conversation that answers the rate question first.
SleekAI maps your project tiers as a custom post type with per-word rates ($1.00 to $3.50 per word for business books, $1.50 to $4.00 for memoir), full-book ranges ($25,000 to $200,000), and timelines (4 to 12 months). Sample chapters live as a private taxonomy with memoir, business-book, thought-leadership categories. The bot answers rates and routes to NDA-first intake when concrete.
Generic chatbots either invent rates that anchor authors to the wrong number or refuse to discuss money entirely, sending every inquiry to a discovery call. Ghostwriters using SleekAI publish a ballpark, qualify seriousness, and only book the call when budget and timeline line up. The bot also handles the credit and attribution question every prospect asks but never wants to ask first.
Workflow
How the ghostwriter bot screens a project
Map tiers and rate ranges
Lead with confidentiality
Reference anonymized work
Route to NDA-first intake
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A typical ghostwriting project inquiry
Comparison
Generic chatbot vs SleekAI for ghostwriters
Generic chatbot
- Refuses to discuss rates or invents random anchor numbers
- Cannot reference your anonymized past projects by industry
- Has no awareness of NDA flow or your confidentiality policy
- Misses the difference between memoir and business book scope
- Sends every inquiry to a 45-minute discovery call too early
SleekAI chatbot
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Quotes per-word and per-book rates from your tier
wp_postmeta - References anonymized past projects by genre taxonomy
- Links your NDA before any client-identity exchange happens
- Explains voice-capture and chapter-feedback process clearly
- Routes to a confidential intake form with prefilled scope fields
Features
What SleekAI gives you for Ghostwriters
NDA-first inquiry flow
Confidentiality is the gating question for serious prospects. The bot links your NDA before asking for client-identifying details and explains your standard full-ghost terms without you repeating yourself in every reply thread.
Rate ranges without overcommit
Ranges live in your tier post type. Founder Book $90k to $150k, Memoir $60k to $200k, Thought-Leadership $40k to $80k. The bot quotes the range, explains what shifts the number, and avoids lowballing.
Process clarity by design
The bot explains your voice-capture interviews, draft cadence, revision rounds, and timeline structure. Founders worried about voice loss get specific, reassuring answers built from your process page, not AI filler.
Use cases
Where ghostwriters get the most value
Founder business books
Founders inquiring about a scale-up book or category manifesto get a ballpark fast, learn your process, and book a discovery call only after the NDA is signed and scope fits the tier.
Executive memoir projects
C-suite and post-exit executives often want a memoir but are uncomfortable explaining why over email. The bot handles the discreet first conversation and routes only qualified prospects to a call.
Thought-leadership manuscripts
Coaches, consultants, and speakers wanting a 50k-word lead magnet get quoted from the thought-leadership tier, with a separate timeline and rate that doesn't overlap heavier memoir or founder work.
The bigger picture
Why discreet intake compounds ghostwriting revenue
Ghostwriting is a referral-driven business with extremely high lifetime value per client. A founder who hires you for one book often refers two more founders. An executive who trusts you with their memoir comes back for a second book five years later.
The cost of a bad first impression is enormous. SleekAI lets ghostwriters answer the awkward first questions about rates and confidentiality without forcing prospects through a 45-minute discovery call they aren't ready for. Time saved on tire-kicker inquiries goes back into the actual writing, which is the work that funds the business.
Confidentiality handled gracefully also widens the prospect pool. Executives who would never fill out a public Google form will chat with a private bot that mentions the NDA upfront. The same bot that quotes a $120k founder book to one prospect also explains why a $15k inquiry doesn't fit and offers a referral.
Honest filtering protects your reputation in both directions. Process clarity drives close rates. A founder reading specifics about 8 to 10 hours of voice capture, locked chapter feedback, and full rights transfer at final payment sees a professional, not a gamble.
The bot makes that clarity available at 2 a.m. when the prospect is researching options.
Questions
Common questions about SleekAI for Ghostwriters
Refusing to quote anchors the wrong expectations. A prospect imagining $15k for a 60k-word book wastes everyone's time. Publishing realistic ranges in the bot ($1.00 to $3.50 per word) filters out underfunded inquiries, sets honest expectations, and converts serious prospects faster. The bot still routes scope to the call.
The bot links your NDA before asking for client identity, book title, or sensitive backstory. Prospects who refuse to sign get a polite explanation that you can't discuss specifics without it. Most serious clients sign within 24 hours. The signed copy hits your CRM and unlocks the next phase of intake naturally.
Yes. Your portfolio custom post type stores anonymized case studies: a SaaS founder I worked with grew the book to 18,000 hardcover sales in year one. The bot quotes these without revealing names. Public credits, if any, live on a separate field marked as shareable and the bot pulls only from that.
Map your standard contract terms as a knowledge field. Full ghost with no acknowledgment, optional collaborator credit with your bio at $5k extra, full work-for-hire rights transfer upon final payment. The bot answers these consistently every time, matching the contract template you actually use on engagement.
Word count requires reality. A 40k-word memoir is closer to a long-form essay collection or hybrid project. The bot explains the trade-offs, suggests either expanding scope via research or rebranding the project as essay-length, and routes to a 30-minute scoping call rather than a full discovery call.
Yes, if you offer those services or partner with a narration studio. The bot can quote a referral fee structure or your in-house audiobook tier, mention ACX and Findaway distribution, and explain that audiobook narration is a separate contract from the manuscript ghost itself with its own timeline.
A queue-length custom field tracks how many projects you're holding. The bot reads it and quotes timeline accordingly. A prospect inquiring while you're booked through Q3 gets quoted a Q4 kickoff. Honest dates protect your craft time and the client's launch plan from collapsing under deadline pressure.
Map co-author and with credits as separate tiers if you offer them. They often involve more author availability and longer revision cycles, which the bot can quote with the higher rate and extended timeline. Some ghostwriters refuse co-author projects entirely, and the bot can simply say so politely with grace.
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