AI-Powered Author Hub for Prof. Wilfred Reilly
Bringing scholarship and media into focus with a custom digital microsite.
Prof. Wilfred Reilly — professor, speaker, and author — needed a definitive online home that captured both the breadth and depth of his work. In partnership with Free Black Thought and Think Deeply, By The Way Labs built WilfredReilly.com to serve as a central hub: a site that not only showcases Reilly’s public profile but also unlocks access to his complete body of work through an AI-driven archive.
Approach & Collaboration
Building a Unified Digital Identity
- Designed WilfredReilly.com as the definitive site for his scholarship, books, articles, media, and speaking engagements.
- Implemented structured data markup using schema.org/Person to unify his digital footprint, linking Twitter/X, Facebook, Amazon Author, and Wikipedia profiles under a single identity.
- Integrated CiteMap, an AI-powered archive built on AWS Bedrock, that collects all of Reilly’s content — even articles behind paywalls.
- Delivered summaries, key points, and related content suggestions with links back to original sources, providing a single interface to explore common themes across books, articles, podcasts, and interviews.
Results
The Value of a Centralized Archive
- Established WilfredReilly.com as the authoritative hub for the professor’s public and scholarly presence.
- Created a searchable, indexable tool that organizes all content types — from books to vodcasts — into one accessible platform.
- Enabled deeper engagement by letting users browse Reilly’s full output, surface recurring themes, and connect related works across media.
- Delivered a scalable model that can extend to other authors in Free Black Thought’s Voices Microsites initiative.
Ideas that Connect
WilfredReilly.com demonstrates how an AI-powered microsite can become the single source of truth for any content creator. By pulling together books, articles, podcasts, and interviews — even those behind paywalls — into one searchable, indexable interface, the platform makes a creator’s full body of work easy to explore. Summaries, key points, and related links guide audiences to discover recurring themes, while structured data ensures every profile and platform ties back to the author’s definitive site.
