From Archive to Asset: How rishad.ai Makes Six Years of Writing Searchable

Here's one more proof point for a concept I've been writing about this week: writing, frameworks, and old work only create value once they're structured so an AI can actually search and cite them.

Rishad Tobaccowala spent six years writing about the future of business. Then someone turned all of it into something you can actually talk to.

Sean Clayton, who runs a marketing intelligence company called Singulariti, took Rishad's best writing and built rishad.ai in about a day. Ninety-seven essays, organized into four lenses and twelve subject areas, built to be asked a real question instead of just read top to bottom. What a fantastic idea!

Ask it something like how leaders should prepare for agentic AI, and it doesn't summarize from memory. It retrieves the essays that actually answer it and hands you the path back to the original source.

That's the part worth sitting with. Most knowledge sits in one of two states: unsearchable, buried in old posts and decks nobody revisits, or searchable but ungrounded, an AI that sounds confident and cites nothing.

This is neither. It's citation-first. Every answer traces back to a real essay, not a plausible-sounding guess.

Six years of thinking, previously experienced one post at a time, now something you can interrogate. Ask it to trace an idea across years of writing, or find where two essays actually disagree with each other. That's not something a reader scrolling a blog archive could ever do.

A body of work built up over years is dormant until someone gives it that kind of structure. Once it does, it stops being an archive and starts being something people return to and use.

If you've got a body of work sitting in old posts, decks, or documents that deserves this kind of second life, send me a DM. Happy to talk through what that would take.

Check it out: https://www.rishad.ai/