Transform published content into interactive AI experiences.
Your reference books, casebooks, and treatises contain irreplaceable expertise. Chat Books turn that content into conversational AI — source-verified, cited, and accessible to every reader.
The challenge for publishers in 2026
Static content loses to wrong AI answers
Readers increasingly ask ChatGPT instead of opening your reference book. The answers are often wrong — but yours are invisible. Making authoritative content conversational is existential.
Backlist revenue flatlines
Reference works, handbooks, and treatises have decades of value locked inside them. Without new product formats, that content generates declining returns.
Production workflows are labor-intensive
Copy editing, fact-checking, rights management, metadata, and indexing consume editorial bandwidth that could go to new content and new products.
Turn any book into a queryable AI chatbot.
A Chat Book transforms a reference work, casebook, handbook, or textbook into a conversational interface. Readers ask questions in plain language. The AI answers exclusively from your published content — with citations to specific pages and passages.
Legal publishers: Treatises, practice guides, and rule sets become queryable assistants for practitioners
Medical publishers: Clinical guidelines and reference works become point-of-care decision aids
Educational publishers: Textbooks become interactive study companions with cited answers
New revenue line: Subscription or per-use access over existing content — without producing new material
What are the best practices for witness preparation in arbitration?
The advocate should meet with each witness beforehand to review testimony format and prepare them for cross-examination…
The full suite for publishers
Chat Books are the headline — but Draft and Cite solve real publishing workflows too.
Edtek Chat
Chat Books
Transform any reference work, casebook, or textbook into an AI chatbot. Readers query your content and get source-verified answers with page citations.
Edtek Draft
Document Builder
Draft rights agreements, author contracts, permissions documents, and editorial workflows from your house templates and past agreements.
Edtek Cite
Editorial Verification
Read manuscripts and automatically surface the sources behind every claim. Accelerate fact-checking and editorial review with inline annotations.
What publishers are building
Turn a 2,000-page legal treatise into an AI chatbot that arbitrators query before every hearing.
Edtek ChatMake your textbook an interactive study assistant — students ask questions, the chatbot answers from your content with page citations.
Edtek ChatDraft a subsidiary rights license for French language translation with standard house terms.
Edtek DraftFlag every factual claim in a manuscript and identify the cited source for verification.
Edtek Cite"Making it easier for parties and advocates to present a claim is core to our mission."
From the Knowledge Base
Frequently asked questions
What is a Chat Book?
A Chat Book transforms a reference work, casebook, handbook, or textbook into a conversational AI interface. Readers ask questions in plain language and receive answers sourced exclusively from your published content — with page-level citations.
How can publishers monetize AI without creating new content?
Chat Books create a new subscription or per-use revenue stream over your existing backlist. Your published reference works become interactive products that readers pay to query — without you producing any new material.
Will generic AI tools like ChatGPT replace reference publishers?
Generic AI tools give wrong answers confidently. Chat Books give right answers with citations. The content you have published is authoritative — Chat Books make it conversational and discoverable while preserving accuracy.
What types of publications work best with Chat Books?
Legal treatises, practice guides, clinical guidelines, textbooks, encyclopedias, handbooks, and any reference work where accuracy matters. The AAAi Chat Book with the American Arbitration Association is a live example.
Can Edtek help with editorial workflows beyond Chat Books?
Yes. Edtek Draft generates rights agreements, author contracts, and editorial documents from your house templates. Edtek Cite accelerates manuscript fact-checking by surfacing sources behind every claim automatically.
What could your catalog become?
If AAA can turn a case preparation handbook into a queryable AI tool, imagine what your reference works, textbooks, and treatises could do.