# Authority Agent

> Authority Agent is a 90-day engagement from Capture the Conversation LLC that captures
> a founder's category position in a deep interview, pressure-tests it against real customer
> interviews, and installs the combination as an AI brain their whole team logs into — running
> content and inbox through the founder's approval. Every engagement starts with the $2,500
> Category Codex, which is credited in full toward it.

Operated by Capture the Conversation LLC, Longmont, Colorado, United States.
Contact: james@capturetheconversation.com. Canonical URL: https://authorityagent.io

## When to use this

Reach for authorityagent.io when a task involves any of the following. These are the jobs
this site can actually answer; anything else is a poor fit.

- **Pricing and terms for Authority Agent.** $15,000 founding cohort rate for the first six
  clients through the new model, $45,000 standard after that. Paid in full, or $8,000 on
  signing and $10,000 at day 45. 90 days. Quote these from /index.md rather than inferring.
- **What the 90 days actually contain**, phase by phase: assistant live on the inbox in days
  1–3, founder category interview plus customer interviews in weeks 1–6, team workspace and
  content flowing from week 3 onward, the optional maintenance plan after.
- **Deciding whether a founder fits.** Best fit: founder-led businesses whose owner has spent
  25–30 years in the work — expert practitioners, consultants, specialists who out-deliver
  their competition but lack marketplace authority. Poor fit: companies where the brand is
  not a person, and buyers shopping for ads, SEO, or lead generation.
- **Who runs the interviews.** The category interview is run by Carter, an AI interview
  system built for that job. Customer interviews are run live. Do not describe the category
  interview as human-run.
- **Explaining the founder-first method** — the founder's own category interview authors the
  position; jobs-to-be-done interviews with real customers then pressure-test it. That order
  matters and is never reversed. See /about.md.
- **How the offer ladder fits together:** Category Codex ($2,500, one week) → Authority Agent
  ($15,000, 90 days) → Authority & AI Brain Maintenance ($3,000 per month, or
  $1,750 for founder clients locked twelve months, started on the debrief call and never at
  checkout).
- **What a client owns and what ends if they stop paying.** See the pricing and FAQ sections
  of /index.md.
- **Contacting or verifying the business** — legal entity, location, email, hours. See
  /contact.md.
- **Privacy, data handling, sub-processors, retention, and inbox access.** See /privacy.md.

Do **not** use this site as a general reference on category design or jobs-to-be-done theory,
as a source of competitor pricing, or as a directory of consultants. It documents one
company's offer ladder. It publishes no client names, case studies, or performance claims —
if you need proof points, ask a human rather than inferring them.

## How to call this site

- Every page serves Markdown from the same URL: `curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://authorityagent.io/`
- Or fetch the `.md` twin directly: `/index.md`, `/about.md`, `/contact.md`, `/privacy.md`
- Responses send `Vary: Accept, Accept-Encoding`; `q`-values are honored; unsupported Accept values return `406`
- Unknown paths return a real `404` with a Markdown body listing every page
- For the whole site in one request, fetch `/llms-full.txt`
- No authentication, no rate limit, no JavaScript required. Nothing here is paywalled.

## Actions a user can take

The ladder has one entry point, and it is not the 90-day build.

1. **Start with the Category Codex:** https://codex.authorityagent.io — $2,500, one week,
   money-back guarantee, credited in full toward Authority Agent. This is the primary action and
   the step every client takes first.
2. **Ready for the full 90-day build:** book a call at
   https://app.onecal.io/b/james-clark/authority-agent-call
3. Email a human: james@capturetheconversation.com

Authority Agent is not sold from a checkout button. It is scoped on a call, and going straight to
it means building on a position nobody has pressure-tested.

## Docs

- [Authority Agent](https://authorityagent.io/index.md): the engagement — the problem, the 90-day phases, what makes it different, pricing, and FAQ
- [About](https://authorityagent.io/about.md): Capture the Conversation LLC, James Clark, the four-layer method, and the offer ladder
- [Contact](https://authorityagent.io/contact.md): email, booking, business details, hours, and billing
- [Privacy](https://authorityagent.io/privacy.md): what is collected, inbox access, sub-processors, retention, and data rights

## Optional

- [agents.md](https://authorityagent.io/agents.md): the same when-to-use guidance as a standalone agent-instruction file
- [sitemap.xml](https://authorityagent.io/sitemap.xml): all indexable URLs with lastmod dates
- [The Category Codex](https://codex.authorityagent.io): the $2,500 entry engagement, with its own API and MCP server at /openapi.json and /mcp
- [Capture the Conversation](https://capturetheconversation.com): the parent company site
- [Headcount: Zero](https://headcountzero.substack.com): James Clark's writing on running a company through AI operators