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Cyrano

Speak Your Book to Life

Your book already exists. It is in the hours you have already spoken. Cyrano finds it and writes it down.

Turn talk into a book

People who have something to say have usually already said it, out loud, many times over: in podcasts, interviews, talks, lessons, and recorded conversations. What they rarely have is the months it takes to turn all of that into a book. Cyrano closes that gap. It takes a body of recorded speech and produces a finished, structured manuscript, written in the speaker's own voice and drawn entirely from what they actually said.

How it works

  1. Listen. Cyrano ingests and transcribes your recordings, however many hours there are.
  2. Find the threads. It reads across everything you have said and surfaces the recurring themes, stories, and arguments that a book can be built from.
  3. Shape the book. Those threads become an ordered structure of parts and chapters.
  4. Write and edit. Cyrano drafts polished prose for each chapter and assembles the manuscript for your review.

Proven on a real archive

16 yrs
of recordings, processed as one body of work
700+
episodes of recorded conversation
1,000+
hours of speech turned into text
844
structured narratives drawn from the archive
36
finished books: one themed volume plus 35 personalized ones
500k+
words of edited, source-faithful prose

Figures from a real Cyrano engagement, anonymized. One archive, repurposed into many books.

One archive, many books

The same recordings can become more than one thing. From a single archive, Cyrano has produced a curated, themed book organized into parts and chapters, and a set of personalized volumes built around individual people. A lifetime of a podcast can become a body-of-work anthology. A family's recordings can become a keepsake for each person in them. What you have said once can be made into whatever a reader needs.

Why Cyrano is different

Cyrano writes from what you said, not from what a model imagines you might have said. Every chapter is drawn from your real recordings and stays faithful to the source, which is the same standard of grounded, verifiable output that runs through all of Brenkins's work. It keeps your voice, and it works at the scale of an entire archive rather than a single transcript. The result is a manuscript you could have written, if you had the time you do not have.