Build-in-public · est. here & now

Building the first billion-dollar solopreneur creative empire.

One book, one app, one language at a time. I'm Cassie Alexander — novelist, studio builder, and serial shipper of AI-assisted publishing tools. This is where the magic gets documented.

Nurse by day Empire builder by night Unicorn always
A whimsical illustration of a unicorn — the studio mascot.

The empire, so far

Six projects · one human

Books

28 languages. Multiple series. Written by a human, distributed by machines.

cassiealexander.com

Readerpet

A reading companion app with a snarky cheese cat, 90-card tarot, and 28-language support.

readerpet.com

EdgeForge

Forced-edge art stamping for premium paperbacks. Because your books deserve to feel expensive.

In the workshop

Arachne

28-language adversarial translation pipeline. One book in, 28 books out.

In the workshop

Prometheus

An engine that turns my books into vertical drama scripts.

In the workshop

Vertical Drama

Adapting novels into short-form video for the ReelShort era.

In the workshop

Latest from the journal

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Jul 19, 2026 Journal

Living the Dream at Last

Turtles and Tokens --

Jul 13, 2026 Journal

My pt tried to bite me

Before 8 am.

Jul 12, 2026 Journal

The Only Game in Town --

sorry for the twofer --

Jul 12, 2026 Journal

Actually glad I'm at work --

and not at home crunching on Fable

Jul 10, 2026 Journal

Arachne now has MCP access!

for if you're lazy like me ;)


The mission

Unapologetically magical. Absurdly ambitious.

This is the workshop behind the books. While my author site is where the novels live, Cassie Alexander Studios is where I build the pipelines, apps, and AI companions that make it possible for one person to do the work of a whole publishing house — and then some.

Translation systems. Cover localization. A DIY newsletter running on pennies. A small zoo of agents doing useful (sometimes absurd) work. If you're an indie author, a builder, or a fellow weirdo who thinks solo creative empires are the future — welcome. Pull up a chair. There's glitter on it.

  • One person can be a publishing house.

    With the right tools, leverage, and refusal to be embarrassed by ambition.

  • Ship weird. Ship magical. Ship anyway.

    Half the fun is the build. The other half is seeing what holds up.

  • Unicorn is a strategy, not a mood.

    Rare, stubborn, a little impossible. Those are the numbers I'm after.