I’ve always been a voracious reader. Non-fiction mostly. In fact, I credit a lot of my early professional success to learning to leverage the big ideas I discovered in books written by people a lot smarter than me into MY world of creativity, photography, and design.
From that was born the idea – which has been simmering for literally years now: what if I could have a conversation with a book. Ask all the questions that ever came up while reading… Leverage all the author’s knowledge that is packed into the pages and layer it into supercharging my biggest ideas, into solving my toughest challenges, and creating breakthrough solutions?
Welp, like we creatives sometimes do, we had the idea and then we freakin built it. Yours truly and a small, high powered team of product and business badasses.
To that end we are today inviting a subset of my community to join the private beta test community for this new product we’ve created.
So, would you be willing to download the app (iOS only for now) and kick the tires for us? Find bugs, report back on what you love and what’s not working for you? And be a part of our community on a mission to transform how we learn with books?
[Reminder: This is NOT for someone expecting a product entirely ready for prime time. This is for the curious, the intrigued, the friend who wants to help our team create a product that we have wanted to exist for years. Once accepted from the waitlist, you’ll be sent a “test flight” version via the app store – and you’ll get to work alongside our team to experiment with the product. If this sounds like you, we’d love for you to help us here.For more context, I’d like to share a note from my friend and co-founder and the CEO of Atticus, Keegan Rosenberger.
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Hello fellow creator!
Chase and I have spent the last year obsessing over a simple question:
What if books could talk back?
Not in a gimmicky way. Not as a chatbot loosely “inspired by” a book. But as a real reading companion — grounded in the actual text, aware of where you are, and able to help you think more deeply in the moment you’re reading or listening.
Today, with Chase’s community as our first invited audience, I want to share what we’ve built — and ask for your help making it better.
Introducing Atticus: a new reading platform where books become conversations.
You read or listen the way you always have. But at any moment, you can pause and ask:
How does this apply to my business?
Can you give me an example?
What would the author say I’m missing?
How should I use this in my own life?
Atticus answers from inside the book — grounded in the author’s ideas, the actual chapters, and the context of what you’re reading. It works in text and voice, so you can ask a question the moment it occurs to you.
The feeling we’re chasing is simple: the book doesn’t end when you have a question. That’s when it gets more useful.
We’re opening the private beta with authors this community knows well, including Chase, Mark Manson, Seth Godin, and Reid Hoffman. The library is intentionally small today, but it will grow quickly from here.
And one thing matters deeply to us: Atticus is built on licensed books.
Authors and publishers opt in. They stay in control. They get paid. That choice makes the product harder to build, but it’s also what makes it worth building.
The default path in AI right now is to take creators’ work without asking and call it progress. We chose the harder path because we believe the future of books should be built with creators, not on top of them.
That’s why Chase’s community is the right place to start.
You’re the people who buy the books, listen deeply, do the work, ask better questions, and actually apply ideas. You’re exactly who we built Atticus for — and exactly who we want shaping it before it goes wider.
So today, we’re opening private beta access to you.
Atticus currently runs on iOS via TestFlight. If you join now, the product will not be perfect. The library is early. Some things will feel magical. Some things will feel unfinished. That’s the point.
We want your feedback on what works, what breaks, what feels confusing, and what makes you think: I can’t imagine reading without this.
If you want in, sign up here: https://www.readatticus.com/chase
Thank you for helping us build the next chapter of books.
Keegan Rosenberger
Founder & CEO, Atticus
