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My AI employee

Finishing books without the series losing its look.

Arthur has been working on my books since September 23, 2026. I published book 1 of my children's series “Mio and the Visitors” myself in August 2026; Arthur is now preparing books 2 to 5 and “100 Dinge” (in German) for publication. He isn't available as a package yet.

Arthur is my editor. He handles the work between a finished manuscript and the upload: four editing passes, checking images against the text and the characters, building the print files and, once I approve, creating the title on Amazon KDP as a draft. Every change he makes has a location, a reason and a status. I decide what holds across a series: titles, characters and style.

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Evidence

every change with location and reason

Canon

titles and characters are my call

Approval

nothing is published without my word

Editor and book author

A real workday

I had noticed that a lot didn't match in books 2 to 5 of my children's series, above all Mio's bedroom. Book 1 is published, so it is the reference. Arthur's assignment on October 11, 2026: check everything against book 1 once. He checked first, before a single image was made again.

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images from books 1 to 5 on contact sheets

16

bedroom images, none like book 1

4

separate AI reviewers, one per book

Arthur put every image of the five books on contact sheets and had four separate AI reviewers each read one book against book 1. The result was clear: 16 bedroom images, not one of them like book 1. Window and headboard switched sides, Mio lay in bed in his day clothes with his hat on, and his dad wore five different outfits on a single day at the river. The cause was in the report: Mio and the inner world had fixed, word-for-word image descriptions, but the bedroom, the parents, the front door and the car did not. The image model invented them anew every time.

So Arthur didn't regenerate right away. First I decided the missing definitions, derived from book 1 and, where book 1 shows nothing, from the majority of the images: the bedroom, Mio in his pajamas, the parents' clothes. Only then did the regeneration run, with its scope and budget named in advance. Afterwards four separate reviewers checked again. The new images were largely in canon, but no book was ready for sign-off yet, because old images now stood out next to the new ones. Since then Arthur checks the whole book after every partial redo, and for single errors he edits the existing image instead of generating a new one.

Arthur for your business

Your book sets the rules. Arthur does not.

Arthur doesn't work by his own taste but by the book's rulebook: who appears, how the text sounds, what must never change. You write that rulebook down once, and Arthur then checks every chapter and every image against it.

How I use him

A read-aloud series for children and a book with 100 chapters

Arthur edits the books of “Mio and the Visitors”, checks the images against characters and rooms, prepares “100 Dinge” for print and builds the print files for both projects.

Adapted to you

Your manuscript, your house style

You define what applies in the book: characters, tone, audience, language and format. Arthur checks every change against it and brings open questions to you instead of deciding them himself.

What you change

  • Rulebook: characters, style, fixed lines
  • Language and audience
  • Format, paper and printing route
  • Approvals before upload and publication

Other possible uses

  • How-to book
  • Technical book
  • E-book edition
  • Translating a finished book

The process stays: Every change with location, reason and status, separate reviewers before every sign-off, facts such as ISBN and page count only from the source, and no upload without approval.

What Arthur takes on

Arthur works directly in the project folders of my books, with the rulebook of each series:

01

Four editing passes

Sound and read-aloud flow, language, consistency across all books, and continuity and logic. A sentence that works on paper but stumbles when read aloud is a finding for him.

02

Check images against text and characters

Every image against the fixed descriptions of characters and rooms and against the text on the page. If an image doesn't fit, he edits it individually and keeps the rejected versions.

03

Translate with separate reviewers

Several AI translators work in parallel from a shared glossary, then separate AI reviewers check accuracy and sound, and finally a scripted check runs over every chapter.

04

Print files and KDP draft

Interior with bleed, a cover that fits the page count, an e-book. Once I approve, he creates the title on Amazon KDP as a draft. I do the login myself.

What he can't do, where I approve

Uploading and publishing on Amazon KDP are two separate steps, and both only happen after my explicit approval for that specific book.

Titles, characters, fixed lines and the style of a series are my call. Arthur proposes changes with a reason and never changes the rulebook himself.

He never touches account, tax or bank details on KDP. He doesn't keep credentials and doesn't type a password.

He may regenerate single images within an assignment. Larger image runs only happen after my approval with scope and cost stated up front, and no “until it fits” loops without a status update.

Facts such as ISBN, imprint and page count come from the source, never from memory. Every revision is checked by a separate reviewing role before I sign it off.

How to build an Arthur for your book

Standard

Build the process yourself

Start with Learn Claude, plus the articles on hiring and creating an AI employee. What's special about Arthur: he works against a written rulebook instead of taste, he has separate reviewers check his work instead of checking himself, and he backs every change with a location and a reason.

  • Understand the build step by step
  • Adapt rules and examples to your own business

Premium

Individual instead of a standard package

Arthur runs in my own business and works with the rulebooks of my books. Every book needs its own rulebook, which is why he isn't available as a ready-made template yet.

  • Use the documented build as your starting point
  • Define scope, access and approvals for your setup
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Frequently asked questions about Arthur

Can AI edit a book?

In parts, yes. For me, Arthur edits in four separate passes: sound, language, consistency and logic. Every change gets a location, a reason and a status, so I can follow it. What he doesn't take on: matters of taste and anything the series defines. That stays with me.

How do characters and rooms stay the same across a picture book series?

With fixed, word-for-word descriptions for everything that comes back: characters, clothes, rooms, the front door. Without such a definition, the image model invents it anew each time. And when a scene changes only slightly, the new image is made from an existing base image instead of from scratch. It still doesn't come out perfectly uniform: an elaborate setting like a climbing frame looked slightly different every time, even with a fixed description. So Arthur shows something like that in full only rarely, and then builds it from one single reference image.

What does Arthur do when an image doesn't match the text?

He reports it with location and reason. One example from one of my book projects: the text says the father stands chest-deep in the water, the image showed him dry on the dock. Images like that are regenerated or edited before anything is uploaded.

Does Arthur upload my books to Amazon himself?

He creates the title on KDP as a draft and uploads the print files once I approve it for that specific book. I do the login myself. Nothing is published until I explicitly say so; uploading and publishing are two separate steps.

Do I have to disclose AI images on KDP?

Yes. KDP requires a disclosure when text, images or translations were generated by AI, including cover and interior images. If AI only corrected your own text, that counts as AI-assisted and doesn't have to be disclosed. The details with sources are in the article on publishing with KDP.

An editor who backs every change

There's no template for Arthur's exact setup, but the learning path he grew out of is in the community.

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