We're excited to announce a new partnership with Eric Jorgenson and the team at Scribe Media to explore how AI agents can give publishing teams superpowers — multiplying their capabilities and enabling them to build new assets that previously required massive investment.
Why This Matters
Publishing has always been about ideas. But the teams behind great books — editors, researchers, producers, marketers — have been limited by coordination overhead and resource constraints. What happens when we give those teams tools that multiply their leverage?
Eric Jorgenson has built his career on curating and spreading useful truths. FromThe Almanack of Naval (1M+ copies sold) to The Anthology of Balaji andThe Book of Elon, he's proven that the right ideas, packaged well, can reach millions. Scribe Media has helped over 1,000 authors publish books while retaining 100% of their creative, legal, and financial control — including bestsellers like David Goggins' Can't Hurt Me.
Now we're asking: how do we give their team (and the authors they serve) capabilities that previously required teams of 10x the size?
What We're Exploring Together
Over the next few months, ZHC Institute will be working with Eric and the Scribe team to explore how AI agents can amplify the publishing team's capabilities. The goal is straightforward: give them 100x the digital capabilities they have today — enabling them to build new assets, manage more complexity, and serve more authors without the traditional requirement of scaling headcount proportionally.
This isn't about replacing the talented people at Scribe. It's about giving them leverage — removing the coordination overhead that limits how much impact they can have, and enabling them to operate at a scale that previously required massive investment.
The zhc.company Managed Service
As part of this partnership, we'll be deploying our managed Zero-Human Company infrastructure through zhc.company — the same stack that powers autonomous research, content operations, and coordination for ZHC Institute members.
The zhc.company service acts as a force multiplier for teams. The goal is simple: one person with agent tools should be able to accomplish what previously required a team of five. Not by working harder, but by having better leverage.
Why Eric and Scribe Are Ahead of the Curve
Most publishers are asking "how do we use AI to cut costs?" Eric and the Scribe team are asking a more interesting question: "how do we give our people superpowers?"
This is the difference between cost-cutting and capability-building. Cost-cutting tries to do the same work with fewer people. Capability-building enables the same people to do work that was previously impossible.
Eric has always been forward-thinking about how ideas spread — from curated wisdom anthologies to new media formats. Scribe's model of giving authors full control while providing professional-grade production already challenged traditional publishing norms by building a lean, high-leverage team. Now they're exploring how to give that team even more leverage — creating new capabilities and assets without the traditional requirement of massive investment or scaling headcount.
The Scribe team is already exceptional at what they do. We're exploring how to make them 10x more capable.
What's Next
Over the coming months, we'll be running experiments, documenting what works (and what doesn't), and sharing field notes from the front lines of agent-empowered publishing.
We're not promising overnight transformation. Building effective agent tools takes iteration, calibration, and close collaboration with the people who will use them. But we believe the future of publishing involves giving talented teams leverage — enabling them to build new capabilities, create new assets, and serve more authors without the traditional requirement of scaling headcount proportionally.
The Scribe team has already proven they can punch above their weight. We're excited to explore how much further they can go with the right tools.
Stay tuned for updates as this partnership develops.