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The back office I built to run this.
Total Emphasis is a one-person B2B ghostwriting practice. It runs on software I designed and wrote myself: a CRM that scores every relationship, a content pipeline, a research engine, and a chatbot wired into the same notes vault that acts as the database.
This is a walk through that stack, screen by screen.
Every contact, company, and figure shown is invented for this walkthrough. The tools, the code, and the workflow are real.
The CRM
Built on my notes vault, it scores every relationship, watches for buying signals, and hands me a ranked worklist each morning. These are live screens from the running app, seeded with demo data.
The content pipeline
Every client deliverable on one board, moving from pitch to published. This is the workflow app I use to keep nothing owed and nothing forgotten, across every executive I write for.
The research engine
client-pulse watches trusted sources and scores each article against a client's topics, so every pitch starts from evidence, not a blank page.
Ideas files every stat, quote, and framework into the vault the moment I find it, typed and auto-linked. This is where the raw material for each byline begins.
Ask the business a question
A chatbot wired to the same vault, with thirteen query tools. I ask in plain English and get a structured answer with sources, no clicking through screens. It also runs as an MCP server inside Claude.
The public site
The site you're on now. Where the work and the writing live, and the only piece of this stack a client ever sees.
The software is real, built and maintained solo. The people and numbers shown are not. If you want the version with my actual book, that conversation is a better place for it.