What does “spokesperson as a service” mean?

It means what a company’s spokesperson does — answering questions with the official version, in public, on your behalf — offered as a simple service anyone can use. Your Parlei answers from what you’ve said and approved, and nothing else.

What can visitors ask a Parlei?

Anything about you and your work: what you offer, what you charge, what you’ve written about a topic, where to start, whether you’re a fit for what they need. If you’ve covered it, your Parlei finds it and hands it over.

Where do the answers come from?

From you. Your writing, your talks, your pages, your rules — reviewed and approved by you before anything goes live. Your Parlei doesn’t invent opinions or speak as you; it relays what you’ve actually put out.

What can a Parlei do besides answer?

Only what you’ve allowed. Within the limits you set it can share material, offer a real time from your calendar, send a quote at your listed price, reply to mail and follow up, run a campaign you approved, find people worth knowing once you turn that on, post what you marked as publishable, watch pages that bear on your work, answer the questions people keep asking, and carry out a plan you picked, on your Stripe and your calendar. Anything above those limits waits for you, with the reason and the evidence attached, and it earns more room one stage at a time.

How is this different from an agent that roams free?

An agent works from whatever it can reach and decides its own next step. Parlei works only from what you gave it, does only the eight things you allowed at the level you set, sends from your own accounts, and leaves a receipt for every step. It starts by asking first and earns more room only when you say so.

Can Parlei speak for my company or my product, not just me?

Yes. One login can speak for you and for each of your practices, products, and companies, and each keeps its own knowledge, rules, and record. A product gets described as a product: what it’s for, and what it doesn’t do.

For people who get asked.

What is Parlei?

Parlei is your work, answering for itself. People who reach out get real answers drawn only from what you have actually said, written and published, while you are busy doing the work. Quotes go out at your listed price and get paid; times get offered from your real calendar; follow-ups happen; and the few decisions that are yours reach you once a day, with the reasons and the evidence. It works only from your work, only inside the rules you set, and every step has a receipt. In one line: your own algorithm, built on your work.

What you get

Your day back. The questions that used to wait for you get answered while you work, on your page and in the mail accounts you connect, from your own address.

Money and bookings that do not wait on you. A quote at your listed price, accepted and paid on your own Stripe. A time from your own calendar. Two follow-ups, and a reply stops them.

Nothing you did not allow. Eight decisions, each set to never, ask first, or go ahead, with a money ceiling over all of them. Parlei earns more room one stage at a time, and only when you say so.

One place to look, once a day. The brief: at most five things that need you, each with why and what happens if you do nothing, or the words nothing needs you. The measure of it working is your time in it going down, week over week, while the work still gets done.

Found for what you know. Turn it on and, once a week, Parlei looks in public for people whose stated needs your work answers, and brings you each one with the reason: their words, your pieces that meet them, and a hello to edit. You say hello or not; it never writes on its own.

Not a free-roaming agent

Most agents will do anything, for anyone, from whatever they find. That is the problem. They are not connected to your work, your prices, your calendar, or the people who matter to you, so what they do is fast and loosely yours. Parlei is the opposite kind of thing.

A free-roaming agent	Your Parlei
Works from whatever it finds.	Works only from your work, and can say which piece an answer rests on.
Decides for itself what to do next.	Does eight things, each one set by you to never, ask first, or go ahead, under a money ceiling.
Sends from its own address, on its own account.	Sends from your address, quotes on your Stripe, books on your calendar.
Gets all the rope at once.	Starts by asking first, and earns Stage 2 and Stage 3 only after you have approved enough of its work.
Leaves a chat log.	Leaves a receipt for every conversation and every action: what it said, what it relied on, what it declined.
Wants your attention all day.	Brings you at most five things, once a day, and at most three urgent ones in between.

Being able to do something is not permission. You set what your Parlei may do on its own — what it shares, what it offers, what it sends, and how far it can go before it has to ask. Under those limits it acts. Over them it stops and brings you the few things that need you, with what happened, what it rests on, and what happens if you do nothing.

Everything it says and does is written down: what it said, what it did, what it relied on, and why it made that call. You can read the record, or ask your Parlei about any of it.

One login can speak for you and for each of your practices, products, and companies. Each one keeps its own knowledge and its own rules; owning two does not make one’s material available to the other. A product is described the way a product should be — by what it’s for, and by what it doesn’t do.

It’s a tool, like a website or a mailing list. It isn’t pretending to be you — it’s working for you. It talks about you in the third person, and it only relays what you’ve declared and approved.

What it can do today

Every one of these is something you switch on, and none of it happens outside the limits you set.

Answer on your page: Anyone with the link can ask. The answers come from what you gave it, at the level of openness you set for each piece, and it can say what an answer rests on.
Answer your mail: Connect a Google or Microsoft account, or any provider over IMAP and SMTP. Parlei reads what arrives, works out whether it is for you, and replies in the thread from your own address — never from ours.
Learn from your work: Paste it, upload it, or give it a link to a public page. Pick Google Drive folders and GitHub repositories and it reads those too. Every piece keeps where it came from, when, and who is allowed to hear it.
Offer a real time: Connect Google Calendar and Parlei offers times you are actually free. A booking still waits for your go-ahead until you move it up a stage.
Send a quote and take payment: At the price you listed and no other number, with a link where the person accepts and pays — on your own Stripe account, with you as the merchant.
Write to people first: Only to people you brought and vouched for. At most 10 notes a day and two follow-ups, 5 and 12 days after the first one, and a single reply stops the rest. A campaign is one note and at most two follow-ups to people you brought or who wrote first, sent from your own address or your own Instantly account, and only after you approved the exact words.
Find people worth knowing: Off until you turn it on, per thing it speaks for. Once a week it searches public posts and pages for people whose stated needs match your work, keeps only the ones it can give a reason for, at most five a week, and never the same person twice inside 90 days. Each one waits for you with both sides of the evidence and a note to edit. A hello goes by email from your own address only where the law allows a first note, or as one reply where they posted from your own account; otherwise it is yours to send. Every note says it came through Parlei and can be stopped in one click.
Post under your name: To your own Bluesky and Threads accounts, drawn from something you marked as publishable, up to 3 posts a day unless you change it.
Write to the people who asked: Turn it on and your page gets a small box for your notes. People leave their address and confirm it from one email; nobody is added any other way. Parlei drafts each issue from what is new, every issue waits for your approval, and it goes from your own address with a one-click way to stop.
Watch what changes: Give it the pages and feeds that bear on your work. It checks them every day, reads what is new against what it knows, and tells you what bears on your work and what does not.
Hold what needs you: Eight decisions — sharing material, offering a time, sending a quote, accepting a deal, discounting, publishing, making an introduction, and writing to someone first — each set to Never, Ask me first, Go ahead up to a limit, or Go ahead. A money ceiling sits over all of them.
Earn its room one stage at a time: It starts at Stage 1, Asks first: every reply, note, quote and post waits for you. When you have approved enough without changing them, it suggests Stage 2, Acts, then tells, and later Stage 3, Exceptions only. You say yes or not yet; it never moves on its own, and one tap steps it back.
Keep the questions it could not answer: When people keep asking something it does not know, it groups the question, counts who is waiting, and brings it to you once. Answer it and Parlei writes back to everyone who asked.
Work it out with you: For a question that needs a decision, it frames the choice, lays out two or three options with what each costs, and builds the plan you pick: a coupon or a price on your own Stripe, a window on your calendar, a note to everyone waiting, or a handoff for what it cannot touch. One approval covers the plan, and each step can be undone for seven days.
Propose three next steps a week: Every Monday it reads the week and keeps its own reading of where the work is heading, then proposes three next steps with the evidence for each. Accept one it can do and it does it inside your rules; correct the reading and next week’s steps follow you.
Keep the record: Every conversation and every action has a receipt: what it said, which pieces of your work it relied on, what it declined and why. Read it, ask Parlei about it, export all of it, or take over any conversation from its receipt.
Tell you when it matters: One brief a day, at the time you choose: what needs you, never more than five things, or that nothing does. At once, and at most three times a day, when someone asked to talk today, is waiting on a call only you can make, or is about to leave. By mail, or on your phone once you turn that on. A weekly summary on Mondays.
Speak for more than one thing: You, a practice, a product, a company — each with its own knowledge, its own rules, its own connected accounts, and its own record. Two are included; each one after that is $19 a month, from the day you add it.

And what it will not do: anything you did not allow; send from any address but your own; look for people unless you turned that on, and then only in public, with a reason for each, and never a note without your approval; or turn something private into a public answer by rewording it.

Common questions

What does “spokesperson as a service” mean?: It means what a company’s spokesperson does — answering questions with the official version, in public, on your behalf — offered as a simple service anyone can use. Your Parlei answers from what you’ve said and approved, and nothing else.
What can visitors ask a Parlei?: Anything about you and your work: what you offer, what you charge, what you’ve written about a topic, where to start, whether you’re a fit for what they need. If you’ve covered it, your Parlei finds it and hands it over.
Where do the answers come from?: From you. Your writing, your talks, your pages, your rules — reviewed and approved by you before anything goes live. Your Parlei doesn’t invent opinions or speak as you; it relays what you’ve actually put out.
What can a Parlei do besides answer?: Only what you’ve allowed. Within the limits you set it can share material, offer a real time from your calendar, send a quote at your listed price, reply to mail and follow up, run a campaign you approved, find people worth knowing once you turn that on, post what you marked as publishable, watch pages that bear on your work, answer the questions people keep asking, and carry out a plan you picked, on your Stripe and your calendar. Anything above those limits waits for you, with the reason and the evidence attached, and it earns more room one stage at a time.
How is this different from an agent that roams free?: An agent works from whatever it can reach and decides its own next step. Parlei works only from what you gave it, does only the eight things you allowed at the level you set, sends from your own accounts, and leaves a receipt for every step. It starts by asking first and earns more room only when you say so.
Can Parlei speak for my company or my product, not just me?: Yes. One login can speak for you and for each of your practices, products, and companies, and each keeps its own knowledge, rules, and record. A product gets described as a product: what it’s for, and what it doesn’t do.