The Alchemist
"I feel called to something bigger. Why am I afraid to follow it?"
Talk with books you trust
The world's best books, personalized to your life.
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Books give you the ideas.
PowerYou helps you apply them.
Ask the books and thinkers you trust for guidance on what you're facing.
Zero to One
"I'm building in a crowded market. What am I seeing that others aren't?"
Attached
"Why does this relationship keep triggering the same reaction in me?"
Principles
"I'm facing a complex decision. What principles should actually guide me?"
Thinking, Fast and Slow
"Why do I keep reacting before I've really thought it through?"
The Four Agreements
"Why is my inner critic so loud—and how do I quiet it?"
The 5 Love Languages
"We love each other. Why does it still feel like we're missing each other?"
Boundaries
"Why do I say yes when I mean no—and resent it later?"
Hit Makers
"I believe in this idea. Why isn't it landing the way I hoped?"
Atomic Habits
"Why do I keep falling back into the same behavior?"
Meet Kris
Meet Kris, your Inner Guide.
Kris connects what you learn from your books with what we learn about you—bringing the right perspective back when you need it.
Understand yourself.
See the patterns shaping how you think, feel, and act.
Align with what matters.
Reconnect decisions to your values and priorities.
Act with self-trust.
Turn clarity into something you can actually do.
How it Works
Your books bring the wisdom. Kris carries your story.
Talk to book authors to navigate problems in your life. Kris stays with you across them all—remembering your life story and emotional context so you never have to start from zero.
Start with a Guide
Choose a book you trust and bring a real question from your life.
Make the wisdom personal
Talk it through with the author's AI, grounded in the ideas from their work.
Kris learns what matters to you
Your goals, values, challenges, and recurring patterns carry across conversations.
Guidance gets better over time
Every conversation builds on the last, so PowerYou can bring the right perspective when you need it.
Testimonials
"It's like having the frameworks from books I already trust—in a conversation that actually knows my situation."
Jason L.
"I’ve read so much about relationships, but this was the first time the ideas felt connected to my situation. It helped me understand why I kept reacting the same way—and what to do differently."
Ava R.
"I turned to The Power of Now while dealing with an illness. Talking with the book’s Author AI helped me find meaning in what I was going through and stay grounded in the present."
Ethan J.
Why we built PowerYou
I survived breast cancer while doing my PhD at Columbia.
During treatment, I turned to books for guidance through fear, loss, and uncertainty.
They gave me wisdom and perspective. But when I needed help applying that wisdom to my own life, the book could not respond.
That became the idea behind PowerYou: What if the books we already trust could understand what we're going through and guide us personally?
Vivian Lei, PhD
Cofounder, PowerYou AI
The world's best ideas.
Made personal.
Talk with authors you trust and get guidance for what you're facing now.
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