A book just rewired something in your brain. You need to talk about it—not a review, but a real conversation about what it means for your life.
You just finished a book that hit different. Not just entertained you—genuinely shifted how you see something. A concept you can't stop thinking about. A passage that described your life with uncomfortable accuracy. An idea that makes you question choices you've already made.
You want to talk about it. Not write a Goodreads review—actually discuss it. Apply it to your life. Push back on the parts that don't quite fit. Figure out what to do with the insight before it fades into just another book you read.
But who do you call? Your friends haven't read it. Your partner's eyes glaze over. A book club meets once a month and talks about plot, not personal impact. The conversation you need doesn't have an obvious audience.
ILTY is the thinking partner for when a book demands more than just reading. Discuss the ideas. Apply them to your specific situation. Challenge the author's assumptions—and your own. Turn reading into actual change.
The book describes a concept that resonates. But what does it mean for your specific situation? ILTY helps you bridge from abstract insight to personal application.
Not everything in the book has to be true. Push back on claims that don't sit right. Test ideas against your own experience. Think critically instead of just consuming.
Sometimes a book holds up a mirror and you don't love what you see. ILTY helps you sit with the discomfort and figure out what to do with it.
This book reminds you of another one. Or contradicts it. ILTY helps you synthesize across things you've read and build a richer understanding.
The half-life of a good insight is about a week. Talk through what struck you while it's still fresh. Articulating it makes it stick.
We want to be clear about our limitations:
ILTY is built on a large language model with broad knowledge of literature, philosophy, psychology, and more. It can engage meaningfully with ideas from most books—discussing themes, challenging arguments, and helping you apply concepts to your life. It's not a literary scholar, but it's a genuinely useful thinking partner.
Absolutely. Self-help gets dismissed unfairly. If a book is making you think about your life differently, that's worth exploring regardless of what shelf it sits on. ILTY helps you move from 'that's interesting' to 'here's what I'm actually going to do about it.'
Thinking alone tends to loop. You circle the same ideas without resolution. Conversation forces you to articulate half-formed thoughts, which clarifies them. ILTY also asks questions you wouldn't think to ask yourself and connects ideas in ways that break you out of your usual thinking patterns.
ILTY is free during beta. Start a conversation and see if it helps with what you're going through.