Your name, your words
People who explain their field
You know the subject and readers trust your name. Byline keeps every piece, its sources and its status in one place that is yours alone.
For people who write under their own name
Say it, shape it, sign it.
Byline is where articles are written and published. Dictate the piece or paste your notes for a first draft, check every point against your own sources, and when it’s ready, publish it to Playbook with one approval.
The article, the writer and the figures on this page are invented examples.
BylinePlaybookBusiness · Before you quotePublish
Make something with itEmail itTicker lineKey pointsStop dictating
Draft2 to go: Article, Key points
Headline✓
Before you quote: the three numbers that set your price
ArticleListening
1New self-employed people usually price by looking at what others charge. It is a fair start, and it hides the question that matters: what does your year need to bring in?
22
Uses your browser’s speech recognition. Your browser’s provider may process the audio; nothing is recorded by Byline.
Playbook › Business
Publish this article?
https://playbook.snowai.app/a/three-numbers-that-set-your-priceThis makes it public.I approve publishing thisCancelPublish
Published to Playbook › Business
PlaybookPreview · not public
The PlaybookBusiness and health, for people who run their own
Business · The Ledger
Before you quote: the three numbers that set your price
Most first-year pricing mistakes come from skipping one of three numbers.
Ari Vance · Example, invented- 1Price from your target, costs and hours
- 2The third number is smaller than you expect
Works with the family
Dictationyour browserSnow AI AskdraftsSnow AI ReaderPDF sourcesPlaybookpublishSnow AI SendcomingFoundry · Metisnot open yetOne Snow AI login
Who it’s for
For the person whose name goes on top.
Faster to say than to type
People who think out loud
A mic sits on every writing box. Talk the paragraph through and the words go in where your cursor is.
Every point has a place
People who work from sources
Add your PDFs and notes, ask questions of them, and get answers that name the page they came from.
7parts to every article, from headline to newsletter, each ticked when done
5things to make from a finished piece: email, social post, newsletter, ticker line, key points
3publications: Playbook today, Foundry and Metis to follow
1explicit approval each time a piece goes public
0people who can open your articles but you
What it does
From a thought out loud to a page on Playbook.
The studio
Every piece you’re writing, wherever it’s going.
One table of your articles across every publication, each with its section and its status. Search it, open one, or look at a single publication on its own.
- Draft, Ready and Published at a glance
- Filter by publication: Playbook, Foundry, Metis
- Search titles, standfirsts and the words themselves
All articles4Playbook3Foundry1Metis0
| Headline | Publication | Section | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before you quote: the three numbers that set your price | Playbook | Business | Published 30 Sep |
| What a slow month teaches about cash | Playbook | Tax and money | Ready |
| The first hire: a contractor or an employee? | Foundry | Career | Draft |
| Untitled | Playbook | Health | Draft |
Example · invented headlines
Dictation
A mic on every box. Your words land at the cursor.
Headline, standfirst, article, questions, ticker, social post and newsletter each have their own mic, and the Dictate button starts one in the article. Click into a sentence and speak; the words go in where you are, with the spacing worked out.
- Stops when you leave the box or press Escape
- Works from the keyboard as well as the mouse
- Byline never receives audio
It uses your browser’s own speech recognition, so it works in Chrome, Edge and Safari. In Firefox the mics are hidden. Coming next Transcribing an uploaded audio file.
BylinePlaybookTax and money · What a slow month teachesSaving…
Headline✓
What a slow month teaches about cash
StandfirstListening
Every business has a slow month. The ones that last planned for it in the busy one
Ticker line—
For the moving band
Uses your browser’s speech recognition. Your browser’s provider may process the audio; nothing is recorded by Byline.
A first draft from your notes
It writes from your facts. Where one is missing, it says so.
Paste your notes into the ask bar and a first draft comes back, made from them and nothing else. A figure that isn’t in your notes is flagged beside the draft, and a gap is marked [need a figure] until you fill it.
- The draft is added after your own words and never replaces them
- A piece with a gap left in it can’t be marked ready
- General education, never advice for one reader
BylinePlaybookTax and money · What a slow month teaches
1Every business has a slow month. The ones that last planned for it in the busy one.
Draft added below your words
2Start with what a quiet month really costs you: rent, software, insurance and the tax you set aside. Most owners find it is [need a figure] of a good month’s takings.
3Then move a fixed share of every busy-month payment into a separate account the day it arrives.
1 gap to fill before this can be marked ready.
Sources and chat
Ask your own material. Get the page number back.
Drop in a PDF, a text file or Markdown. Reader takes the words out of a PDF and keeps only those. Then ask questions of your sources and your own articles: every answer names the page or paragraph it came from, and says so when the answer isn’t there.
- See which articles use which source
- Removing a source never edits an article
- Only your sources, never anyone else’s
Coming next Word files and audio files in the drop zone. Scanned PDFs can’t be read yet: there are no words in a picture of a page.
Your sourcesPDF, text, Markdown · 4 MB
Drop a file here, or choose one
| File | Pages | Used in |
|---|---|---|
| pricing-notes.pdf | 6 | 2 articles |
| cash-diary.md | — | 1 article |
| interview-ana.txt | — | — |
ChatYour sources and articles
How many hours did I say I can really bill?
About 1,000 a year, once selling, invoicing and learning are taken out.
pricing-notes.pdf · page 3
pricing-notes.pdf · page 3
Make something with it
One finished piece, five more things to share it with.
From the strip above the article: a social post, newsletter text, a ticker line and key points, each made from the article’s own words and saved beside it. Email it opens Campaigns’ own screen in a window over Byline, filled in from the article; Send does the sending after its own approval.
- Gaps stay marked, [need a link] included
- A preview on desktop or phone before anything else
- Byline itself never sends an email
Coming soon Campaigns’ compose screen. Until it’s set up, the window says so and offers “Try again”.
BylinePlaybookBusiness · Before you quote
Social post✓
Pricing by copying others hides the one question that matters: what does your year need to bring in? Three numbers set your floor. [need a link]
Ticker line✓
Before you quote: the three numbers that set your price
Email it · Send×
Campaigns has not been set up to open here yet.When it is, its own compose screen opens here, filled in from your article.Try again
Publishing
Ready isn’t public. Public takes your yes.
Ready means finished by you. Publishing is a separate step: the confirm box names where the piece will appear and its address, says plainly that it makes it public, and waits for an “I approve publishing this” tick. Playbook picks it up within about a minute.
- One approval, every time
- To change a published piece: unpublish, edit, mark ready, publish again
- The pipeline shows what’s draft, ready and live
Today only the owner of Byline can publish, and only to Playbook. Not open yet Foundry and Metis.
Draft2
The first hire: a contractor or an employee?Foundry · Career
UntitledPlaybook · Health
Ready1
What a slow month teaches about cashPlaybook · Tax and money
Published1
Before you quote: the three numbers that set your pricepublished 30 Sep
Try it here
Finish the piece, then publish it.
An article with one gap left. Fill it, dictate a line, watch the checklist close, then approve it and see it on Playbook. Nothing here leaves this page.
Here the dictation is simulated, and it adds a sentence where your cursor is in the article. In Byline it is your browser’s speech recognition.
Playbook › Business
Publish this article?
PlaybookOpen
FoundryNot open yet
MetisNot open yet
Its address
https://playbook.snowai.app/a/before-you-quote-the-three-numbers-that-set-your-price
This makes it public. Anyone can read it on Playbook within about a minute.
Mark the article ready first, on step 1.
Published in Playbook › Business.
In Byline only the owner of Byline can publish. Everyone else can write, mark ready and keep their pieces.
Playbook · BusinessPreview · not public yet
The PlaybookBusiness and health, for people who run their own
Business
Before you quote: the three numbers that set your price
Most first-year pricing mistakes come from skipping one of three numbers.
Ari Vance · Example, inventedNew self-employed people usually price by looking at what others charge. It is a fair start, and it hides the question that matters: what does your year need to bring in?
The first number is your target. The second is your costs. The third is the hours you can really bill, and it is smaller than you expect.
Add the target to the costs, then divide by the hours you can bill. With an invented target of $90,000, costs of $18,000 and [need a figure] billable hours, that is your floor.
Key points
- 1
Questions readers ask
How do I set an hourly rate?
What’s included
Two ways to have Byline. The whole studio in both.
On its own, or inside the Snow AI account you already have. Byline isn’t open to the public yet; this is how it will be offered when it is.
Byline on its own
For a writer who only needs the studio. Its own page, its own plan, the Snow AI sign-in.
Pricing is being setNo figure until it’s final
- The studio, dictation, sources and chat
- Drafts and the five things to make
- Your articles kept for you alone
Byline inside your Snow AI account
Add it to the account you use for other Snow AI apps. What your account already has is not charged again.
Pricing is being setNo figure until it’s final
- Everything in Byline on its own
- Ask, Reader and Send shared with your other apps, counted once
- The same login across every app on the account
Where the saving isByline draws on three Snow AI capabilities: Ask for drafts, Reader for PDF sources and Send for email. Bought one by one, each is its own subscription. Inside a Snow AI account each is held once, whichever product brought it, so Byline adds only what the account doesn’t have yet.
What’s included where
| Capability | Byline on its own | Inside your Snow AI account |
|---|---|---|
| The studioArticles, pipeline, the three publications | Included | Included |
| Dictation on every writing box | Included | Included |
| Drafts, social posts, newsletter textThrough Snow AI Ask | Included | The Ask your account already has, usage pooled |
| PDF sources readThrough Snow AI Reader | Included | The same Reader as your other apps |
| Chat with your own sources and articles | Included | Included |
| Email itCampaigns’ own screen, over Byline | Once Campaigns’ screen is set up | The same Send your other apps use, once its screen is set up |
| Publish to Playbook | The owner of Byline only, for now | The owner of Byline only, for now |
| Snow AI sign-in | Opens Byline | One login for every app on the account |
| Coming, in both | Open to the publicFoundry and MetisWord files as sourcesAudio files transcribedScanned PDFsCampaigns’ compose screen | |
A Snow AI customer never pays for the same thing twice. If your account already has Ask, Reader or Send through another Snow AI product, Byline uses it and doesn’t charge for it again.
Part of Snow AI
Written here. Read there. One login for both.
Byline is one app in the Snow AI family. A piece you finish here can reach readers through the family’s publications.
Published on Playbook
Business and health, explained for people who run their own. Playbook reads what Byline publishes, about once a minute.
Read PlaybookImprint, for a whole book
A byline puts your name on an article; an imprint puts it on a book. Imprint is Byline’s sibling, being built now.
About ImprintOne Snow AI sign-in
Sign in once at snowai.app and the studio is open, with every other app on your account behind the same login.
See the appsQuestions
Asked before you write.
Something else? Write to support and a person will answer.
Is Byline open?
Not to the public yet. If you have a Snow AI account you can write and save articles, dictate them, add sources, ask for drafts and ask questions of your own material today.
Who can publish, and where?
For now, only the owner of Byline, and only to Playbook, with an explicit approval each time. A published piece is read-only: to change it, unpublish it, edit it, mark it ready and publish again. Foundry and Metis are not open yet.
Does dictation record me?
No. It uses your browser’s own speech recognition. Your browser’s provider may process the audio; nothing is recorded by Byline, and Byline never receives the sound.
Will a draft make things up?
A draft is made only from the notes you give it and, inside an article, your own sources. It never invents a number, date, name or quote: where a fact is missing it writes [need a figure]. A figure that isn’t in your notes is reported beside the draft, and a piece with a gap left can’t be marked ready.
What can I add as a source?
A PDF, a text file or a Markdown file, up to 4 MB. A PDF is read by Snow AI Reader and only its words are kept. Word files and audio files are coming next; scanned PDFs can’t be read yet.
Can anyone else see my articles?
No. Every article and source is its writer’s alone, and that includes the owner of Byline. Nothing is shared until you publish it.
Can I email an article?
Email it opens Campaigns’ own screen in a window over Byline, filled in from a ready article, and Campaigns does the sending after its own approval. Byline never sends. Campaigns’ screen isn’t set up yet, so for now the window says so.
How much does it cost?
Pricing is being set, and no figure will appear here until it’s final. A Snow AI customer never pays for the same thing twice: what your account already has through another Snow AI product is not charged again.
Write the next piece under your own name.
Sign in with your Snow AI account and the studio is open. Your first draft can start with you talking.