FOR FOUNDERS READY TO WRITE THEIR BOOK

Tell Your Story.
Share Your Philosophy.
Build Your Authority.

You've spent years building a successful business around your expertise, gaining experience, and developing a perspective worth sharing.

You've thought about writing a book. But where do you begin? How do you turn everything you've learned into one meaningful message?
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We help you uncover the stories and lessons behind your experience, develop the philosophy that makes your thinking distinct, and establish the foundation for a book that builds your authority.

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How long has that book been in your head?

It's Hard to Read the Label
When You're Stuck Inside the Jar

When you've spent 10, 20, or 30 years in business, what you've learned can start to feel obvious. You've lived the stories, made the mistakes, and learned the lessons. It's hard to see which experiences matter most, what connects them, and what someone else might learn from them.

Maybe people have been telling you to write a book for a while.

You've thought about it more than once. But every time you do, you start questioning if your story is interesting enough. You wonder if you have something different enough to say that's not already been said before. You then start thinking you need a few more years of experience before you're ready to share what you believe. You've tired of being stuck in this loop and are ready to break free from it.

Or maybe you've already started writing your book, put it away, and returned months later with the same questions: How do I connect the dots between everything I've experienced? What's the bigger message? What am I missing? You're tired of being stuck in your head.

Sometimes it takes someone outside your story to help you clearly see what your story and philosophy can become.

Built Authority Blueprint
THE BUILT AUTHORITY BLUEPRINT

See What Your Experience Can Become In 30 Days

Before you write your book, develop the thinking behind it.

You wouldn't build a million-dollar house without a blueprint. Your book deserves the same clarity about what you're creating and why it matters.

Over 30 days, we'll work together through guided conversations to clarify what you want to become known for next, uncover the stories and lessons that shaped you, and develop the philosophy that will become the foundation of your book.

You'll walk away with a clear story, a developed philosophy, visual frameworks, a foundational book outline, and a publishing and monetization plan that give you the clarity and direction to bring your book to life.

What's Inside Your Built Authority Blueprint

We help you uncover the stories, lessons, and philosophy that make your book uniquely yours before you start writing the chapters. Over 30 days, we'll work together through three private remote sessions and a six-hour, in-person studio intensive, with a remote option available. Between sessions, our team clarifies your story and philosophy while creating visual frameworks that become your foundational book outline and monetization map.

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Your Core Story Elements

Your experience holds the elements of your story.

We organize your experience into seven core story elements by identifying the recurring patterns and themes uncovered through guided conversations.

What You Get: An inventory of the strongest elements of your experience that become part of the story you tell.
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The 7Ps of Your Philosophy

Your philosophy is the foundation of your positioning.

Your philosophy is the sum of the 7Ps: premise, pain, perspective, promise, process, proof, and personal values

What You Get:
A concise snapshot of the core elements that can become your philosophy and guide how you position yourself in the market.
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Visual Philosophy Frameworks

Clear frameworks make your philosophy and thinking easier to understand, remember, and share.

Your Visual Philosophy Frameworks create leverage by making your philosophy portable and easier to share across through your social and newsletter content, book, and signature keynote presentation.

What You Get:
A collection of foundational frameworks that bring your philosophy to life.

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Book Outline & Publishing Plan

Give your story and philosophy a clear narrative spine.

Your book organizes your story, philosophy, and frameworks around a meaningful reader transformation that inspires them to take action.

What You Get:
A foundational outline and publishing plan for your book structured around Built Authority's PLOT framework that guides your ideal client along a transformational journey.

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90-Day Monetization Map

Prioritize how your story and philosophy create new opportunities and revenue streams.

When structured correctly, your story and philosophy create new revenue opportunities through workshops, community, coaching, keynotes, and other unique offers.

What You Get:
Customized opportunity ladder and recommended first step to create revenue before, during, after publishing your book.

Questions about the Blueprint? See the FAQs 
WHO IS THE BLUEPRINT A RIGHT FIT FOR?

For Founders Ready to Write The Book That's Been Stuck in Their Head

You've spent years building a successful business around your experience and expertise. Along the way, you've developed a perspective that others value, and you've been thinking about turning what you've learned into a book. The challenge isn't having enough to say. It's figuring out how everything comes together into one meaningful message.

Your book is more than an opportunity to tell your story. It's a way to share your philosophy, reach people beyond your existing network, and become known for the thinking that makes you different. And when that thinking is connected to the business you've built, your book can become a foundation for new conversations, relationships, and opportunities.

Built Authority is for Founders
Your Story is The Foundation of Your Authority

The Built Authority Process

‍We start by uncovering the experiences and lessons that shaped you. Then we develop the philosophy behind how you think and bring everything together so you can share it through publishing.

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Week 1: Tell Your Story

Your experiences as a founder are one of your most valuable assets. We start by uncovering how your experiences have shaped you most.

Through guided conversations, we surface your biggest wins and struggles that make up your story, along with the lessons they taught you that can now go on to help others.

JR Lay Share Your Philosophy

Week 2: Share Your Philosophy

Patterns that shape your beliefs, principles, and perspective begin to emerge when you share your experience and story.

We help you further develop them into a compelling philosophy and clear framework that can become the foundation for a newsletter, book, and keynote.

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Weeks 3-4: Build Your Authority

We bring your story, philosophy, and frameworks together into your Blueprint so you can read the label on your jar by seeing your experience clearly and what it can become.

The Blueprint doesn't simply create a path to a book. It clarifies the identity and intellectual property you become known, trusted, and paid for.

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"This process is fire. It’s been incredibly powerful for me and our business. JR is the best interviewer out there."

Chris WalkerFounder, Encoded

"This has been the easiest  collaborative environment that I've ever existed in. I feel completely comfortable."

Jeremy MacliverEOS Implementor

"JR has an amazing presence. So many people have a barrier between them, and he was right there with me."

Shannon WallerStrategic Coach
Built Authority Blueprint Process

Built Authority Blueprint FAQ

Q1

Who is the Blueprint designed for?

The Blueprint is designed for established founders who've spent years building businesses, developing expertise, and gaining experiences worth sharing.

Many of the founders we work with come from consulting, advisory, coaching, leadership, and professional services, where their experience and perspective are central to what makes their business different.

You don't need to have started writing your book. You just need meaningful experience, a perspective worth sharing, and the desire to turn what you've learned into something others can benefit from.

Q2

What's the investment of time and money?

The Built Authority Blueprint experience is a $10,000 investment and unfolds over 30 days.

Week 1: Tell Your Story

A 60-minute remote discovery session to clarify where you are today and what you want to become known for over the next 12–24 months.

Week 2: Share Your Philosophy
A six-hour private studio intensive hosted in Houston to uncover the stories, lessons, and perspectives that have shaped how you think. Two-three hour remote sessions can be scheduled when travel is not possible.

Week 3: Build Your Authority Blueprint
A 60-minute remote coaching session where we review your Core Story Elements, philosophy, and visual frameworks developed from our conversations.

Week 4: Alignment Leads to Action
A final 60-minute remote coaching session to review your foundational book outline, publishing path, and 90-Day Monetization Map, and align on what comes next.

Q3

Why a Blueprint instead of a ghostwriter?

A ghostwriter can help you write your book but they won't help you clarify and develop your story, philosophy, and frameworks. Before a ghostwriter starts writing, you need to know what you really want to say.

We help you start by uncovering your experiences, stories, and lessons, then develop the philosophy that connects them. The result is a clear foundation for your book that you can use with Built Authority, a ghostwriter, or another publishing partner.

Q4

Can't I just use AI to write my book?

AI can help you organize ideas, create outlines, and even draft chapters. But writing the words is only part of creating a meaningful book.

The bigger challenge is uncovering which experiences matter, what those experiences taught you, how those experiences become stories, the philosophy that connects them, and how your philosophy becomes a visual framework.

That's where the Built Authority Blueprint begins. Through guided conversations, we help you uncover your stories, recognize patterns in your experiences, and develop the distinct philosophy and frameworks that make your book uniquely yours.

Whether you continue to work with us to write your book, write it yourself, or work with a ghostwriter, you'll have a clear foundation for what your book needs to say and how you can monetize your thinking.

Q5

Is this the same as writing my book?

No. The Blueprint develops the intellectual foundation around your story, philosophy, and frameworks which become the outline and plan for the book. It does not produce the finished manuscript as writing and publishing come afterward.

Q6

What if I've already started writing?

That's fine and you have a jumpstart. We use what you've already developed as part of the discovery process to identify where your thinking can be further developed as well as monetized over the next 90 days.

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Do I have to publish with Built Authority?

No. You can continue working with us, write and publish the book yourself, or take your Blueprint to another writing partner to publish.

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Ready to See What Your Book Could Become?

You've already spent years gaining the experience.

Let's see how your stories, lessons, and ideas could come together into the book you've been thinking about writing.

Schedule a 15-minute conversation to explore your book and see if the Built Authority Blueprint is the right place to begin.

We'll talk about the book you've been thinking about, what's kept you from moving forward, and whether the Blueprint is the right fit.