The book world runs on more data than anyone has time to sit down with! The Insight Studio is my avenue to address that gap and surface what everyone’s missing.
After almost a decade as a data analyst, I notice the same pattern everywhere: the data that can answer our question exists, but nobody has the time to find it. The book world has this worse than most because its numbers are scattered so widely. An author’s sales data might live on six platforms that don’t talk to each other. A library spends weeks assembling a report for the state and rarely sees it again. A bookstore knows what sold, but has no practical way to turn that into what to order next.
None of this is a technology problem. The data already belongs to the people who need it! What’s missing is someone to gather it, analyze it, and explain what it means.
The Insight Studio opens in 2027!
The full timeline can be found on the Roadmap.
Who is this for?
Authors
Your book’s first week of sales is the number everyone shares, but it’s the least useful one. Read-through and backlist behavior tell you far more. For long series, I can build a reference that holds every detail you’ve established.
Libraries
Annual reports, budget season, and needs assessments usually land on the shoulders of someone already carrying a full workload. I’m working on an MLIS partly for this reason.
Bookstores
Margins are thin enough that a few ordering decisions separate a good year from a bad one. I can dig into inventory turns, section-by-section performance, and whether an event earned its evening.
I expect to take on very few bookstore clients. I genuinely want to support their success, but I want to be upfront that I’d like to run one of my own someday.