First Book ai is, first and foremost, a solid product. It does exactly what it promises: it generates either blueprints or complete books based on a handful of questions, an outline of 8 chapters (each with 3 subheadings), your own introduction, and a set title. One mandatory step is adding anecdotes—something I personally don’t find appealing.

The system is quite strict during the outline review. For example, if you use bullet points within subchapters, it flags this as an error.

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To be honest, I talked myself into liking the system. The claim is: “First Book ai is an AI ghostwriter that can convert your ideas into a business book ready to share in less than 24 hours.” But this raises the question: what exactly is a “business book”? In my opinion, this is more about self-help or guide literature, not a true specialist book.

Let’s talk facts. What’s the difference between a blueprint and a complete book?

Blueprint: A document of about 24 pages. Each chapter includes a blueprint section and guidelines, plus a section with phrasing suggestions to help you write your own content.

Complete Book: A document of about 160 pages. Creating such a lengthy, logically consistent document is impressive.

However, for my needs, the system still falls short. If you want to write a book with more substance than the interchangeable self-help guides on Amazon Kindle, you’ll need more.

A truly robust book requires reliable sources, citations, illustrations, footnotes, an index, a table of contents, etc. That’s much more work than what’s promised in 24 hours.

Ultimately, this LTD is on AppSumo to mature and improve, so constructive criticism is important.

My suggestions for improvement:

There should be an optimization loop in the process, allowing feedback for each of the 24 subchapters and—crucially—the ability to add sources and references.

Instead of anecdotes (sorry, but in Germany we tend to laugh at this very American style of padding everything with more or less invented “experiences”), I’d prefer a section that asks for thesis, background, and conclusion.

The entire generation process should be more parameterized and customizable.

I’m now trying to turn the draft into a real book. I exported the draft as a Word file and imported it into Scrivener, using Zotero as my reference manager. Scrivener’s advantage is that it can split the Word document into chapters and subchapters, making it easy to work through the manuscript step by step.

I’m still unsure if I’ll keep First Book ai (I bought Tier 4). If I were a regular customer at full price, I’d probably be disappointed—especially if you’re already familiar with AI tools. Comparable results can be achieved with OpenAI, Perplexity, or Claude—not in one step, but through your own iterative process.

Finally, I ran the generated text through several AI detectors; as expected, all of them clearly identified it as AI-generated.

Conclusion:

First Book ai is a promising tool for quickly creating business book drafts or blueprints, but it’s not yet suitable for producing truly in-depth, reference-quality books. I hope the team continues to develop the platform and addresses these points in future updates.