Meet Chassity and the AuthorPilot team
BookScore™ exists because authors deserve more than gut feelings and a circle of beta readers to tell them whether an idea will sell. We're the small team building it.
Who builds BookScore™
AuthorPilot was founded by Chassity Wilkerson — a builder, reader, and long-time observer of how publishing actually rewards ideas. The premise is simple: the publishing industry talks a lot about "write the book you want to write," but the authors who get paid are the ones who validated demand before they finished chapter one. Most validation today is vibes-based. BookScore™ makes it data-driven.
What started as a way to score fairy-tale retellings against reader demand has grown into a full validation platform — premising tools, audience modeling, comp overlap analysis, and AI Beta Readers for the authors who want feedback before they spend a year of their life writing the wrong book.
Chassity leads the AuthorPilot team and is the operator behind the BookScore™ engine. She writes about premising, validation, and the parts of publishing nobody puts in the launch checklists.
We build BookScore™ because we've watched a friend shelve three finished manuscripts after a reader on TikTok called the comp set already crowded. We think the industry's "just write it" advice sends more good authors broke than it ever saves.
Our premise
Most book advice tells you to write what you love and hope the market catches up. That works for a tiny number of authors. For the rest, it's how you end up with a finished manuscript and no audience, a beautiful cover you spent $400 on, and a launch that flops the week it goes live.
AuthorPilot's premise is the opposite: validate before you write. Score the market, the comp overlap, and the audience for your idea in 0–100 numbers, then decide whether it's worth a year of your life. BookScore™ doesn't replace creativity — it gives it a starting point.
How we got here
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