Virtually Myself

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The basics

What is Virtually Myself®?

Virtually Myself® is an Australian-built, memory-rich AI platform for experts, founders and teams.

It brings your documents, recordings, presentations, ideas and other intellectual property into a secure, searchable Vault. From there, you can retrieve what you know, develop ideas and create useful content and business assets in your own voice.

Who is Virtually Myself® for?

Virtually Myself® is designed for:

  • Experts and advisers
  • Founders and business owners
  • Authors and speakers
  • Consultants and coaches
  • Thought leaders
  • Marketing and communications teams
  • Organisations with valuable knowledge spread across people, documents and systems

It is particularly useful when your expertise has accumulated over many years and you want a practical way to protect, organise and apply it.

Do I need to be technical to use Virtually Myself®?

You can upload files, record a voice note, connect existing sources and have a conversation with your Vault using everyday language.

Quick-start guidance, onboarding support and regular community sessions help you become familiar with the platform and build useful workflows.

How is Virtually Myself® different from ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot?

ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot are broad AI tools designed for general use. Virtually Myself® is built around your accumulated knowledge, voice, preferences and intellectual property.

Your private Vault gives the platform persistent context about your work. You can retrieve ideas from your own material, create work grounded in your expertise and improve results through accept, edit and reject feedback.

Virtually Myself® also provides:

  • Australian-hosted data storage
  • A searchable knowledge Vault
  • Personalised voice modelling
  • Source-based retrieval
  • Content and business development workflows
  • Solar System Marketing®
  • Access to different AI models through a vendor-agnostic platform
  • Proactive discovery of relevant speaking, media, podcast, tender and other opportunities

You can keep building on the knowledge already in your Vault rather than supplying your background again for every task.

For a closer look, see how Virtually Myself® compares, including our detailed Virtually Myself® vs Copilot breakdown.

Your Vault and content

What is my Vault?

Your Vault is the secure knowledge base at the centre of Virtually Myself®.

It brings together the material behind your work, including your ideas, frameworks, stories, research, experience and communication style. You can search it, chat with it and use it to create content and other business assets.

What can I add to my Vault?

You can add a wide range of material, including:

  • Word documents and PDFs
  • Presentations and spreadsheets
  • Articles, blogs and newsletters
  • Meeting and interview transcripts
  • Audio and video recordings
  • Podcast episodes and feeds
  • YouTube videos and channels
  • Website content
  • Voice notes
  • Images and photographs
  • Handwritten notes
  • Training material and workshop resources
  • Keynotes and speaking notes
  • Proposals and business documents
  • Natural emails and conversations

Virtually Myself® can transcribe, summarise, categorise and make material searchable across common formats.

How much content do I need to get started?

A small collection of relevant, original material is enough to begin.

Choose content containing your natural voice, ideas, frameworks, stories and explanations. Podcast interviews, voice notes, articles, presentations and natural emails are all useful starting points.

Your Vault becomes richer as you add more material and use the platform.

Can you help organise material scattered across different systems?

You can bring together material from local storage, Google Drive, Dropbox, websites, podcast feeds, YouTube and other sources.

Start with your most relevant material. You can then add older work and new ideas as your Vault develops.

Can I import content from my website, podcast or YouTube channel?

You can add website content, podcast episodes and feeds, YouTube videos and channels to your Vault.

Connected feeds can also bring new material into the Vault as you publish it, depending on the connection available.

Can Virtually Myself® understand audio, video, images and handwritten notes?

Virtually Myself® can transcribe audio and video, extract information from images and process photographs of handwritten notes.

Clear recordings and legible images produce stronger results.

Can I email material directly to my Vault?

Your Vault can have a dedicated email address, allowing you to send useful emails, attachments and ideas directly into it.

You can also BCC your Vault when an email contains information you want to retain.

What happens when I add new ideas or update my thinking?

New material becomes part of your growing knowledge base.

When your position on a subject develops, you can add the updated material and remove or archive sources that are no longer relevant. Virtually Myself® can then draw on your current thinking while retaining the wider history you choose to keep.

Can I keep temporary material separate from my Vault?

You can analyse files within a chat without adding them to your long-term Vault.

The option is useful for temporary research, draft material and documents that only apply to one task.

Can I create separate Vaults for different people, teams or organisations?

Virtually Myself® supports personal and shared knowledge environments. Larger deployments can be structured around multiple people, teams or business units.

The right setup depends on who needs access, what knowledge should be shared and which material needs to remain separate.

Can I search across everything I have ever created?

You can search across all the material added or connected to your Vault.

Search works across file formats and by concept, so you can retrieve relevant ideas even when you cannot remember an exact title, filename or phrase.

Can I find ideas I have forgotten about?

Virtually Myself® maps themes and connections across your body of work.

It can help you rediscover ideas sitting in old presentations, interviews, articles, recordings and client conversations, then connect them with your current priorities.

Your voice and expertise

Does Virtually Myself® sound like me?

Virtually Myself® learns from the way you naturally speak and write.

It considers your phrasing, rhythm, vocabulary, perspective, structure and communication preferences. The strongest results come from combining good source material with your ongoing accept, edit and reject feedback.

How does Virtually Myself® learn my voice and expertise?

The platform learns from two related kinds of material:

  • Knowledge sources containing your ideas, frameworks, experience and subject matter
  • Voice sources showing how you naturally speak, write and explain ideas

Natural emails, interviews, podcasts, voice notes and recordings are particularly useful for developing your voice profile.

Material written or heavily edited by somebody else can still inform what Virtually Myself® knows without being used as a strong example of how you communicate.

What is a voice profile?

Your voice profile captures the communication patterns that help your work sound recognisably like you.

It can include:

  • Preferred words and phrases
  • Sentence rhythm
  • Structure and level of detail
  • Storytelling patterns
  • Expressions you avoid
  • How you communicate with different audiences
  • Your preferred balance of warmth, authority and formality

The profile develops as you use the platform and provide feedback.

How does Virtually Myself® distinguish my ideas from material I have referenced?

Virtually Myself® retrieves information from the sources in your Vault and can identify the files supporting a response.

Clear attribution helps the platform distinguish your original thinking from research, quotations and ideas created by other people. Keep author names, citations and source details attached when adding third-party material.

Can I choose which sources Virtually Myself® uses?

You can chat with your wider Vault, work from selected material or attach files for a particular conversation.

Choosing specific sources is useful when a task relates to one client, project, event, framework or period of your work.

Does Virtually Myself® improve as I use it?

Your edits and feedback give the platform more information about the choices you would make.

Accepting, editing, rejecting and regenerating work can refine how future responses are prepared. Adding new original material also develops its understanding of your knowledge and communication style.

Accuracy and control

How accurate is Virtually Myself®?

Virtually Myself® grounds its responses in the material in your Vault and can identify relevant source files.

AI can still misunderstand a source, miss context or produce an inaccurate statement. Review names, quotations, claims, dates and other important details before publishing or sending work.

What happens if the AI gets something wrong?

You can edit, reject or regenerate the response and provide feedback.

You can also ask Virtually Myself® to identify the source material behind an answer, compare claims with your files or work from a narrower selection of documents.

Can Virtually Myself® check facts and claims?

Virtually Myself® can compare claims with your Vault and apply fact-checking or editorial review personas.

Current external facts and high-consequence information should also be checked against an authoritative source, particularly for legal, medical, financial, regulatory or policy-related work.

Can I edit, approve or reject what Virtually Myself® creates?

You remain in control of every output.

You can edit the work, accept or reject suggestions, request another version and provide feedback about the direction, voice or level of detail.

Is there human review before anything goes out?

You review and approve your work before sending or publishing it.

Some plans include additional onboarding, strategy or editorial support from our team. Standard platform access does not include automatic human review of every output.

Does Virtually Myself® publish anything automatically?

You decide what is approved, where it is used and when it is published.

Publishing and scheduling connections can simplify the workflow while keeping approval with you or your authorised team.

Can I set brand, legal or compliance guardrails?

You can add brand guidelines, approved terminology, style requirements, policies, disclaimers and other instructions to your Vault.

Organisations can also discuss workflows, permissions and configurations suited to their governance requirements.

Security and data sovereignty

Where is my data stored?

Virtually Myself® is Australian-built and hosted in Australia.

Keeping Vault data in Australia supports local data sovereignty and in-jurisdiction storage. Organisations with specific data residency or procurement requirements can review them with our team before implementation.

Do you use my data to train public AI models?

Your Vault content is not used to train public AI models.

Your material is used to provide the Virtually Myself® experience within your account and authorised team environment.

Who can access my information?

Your information is controlled through your account and authorised team access.

Administrative access required to operate or support the platform is managed under our privacy and security processes. Team and organisational configurations can apply different levels of access according to role and need.

How private are my chats?

Chats are private by default.

A chat does not become part of your long-term Vault memory unless you choose to save relevant material. Shared Vault answers are based on approved Vault content rather than every private conversation held by individual users.

How does Virtually Myself® support privacy, security and compliance requirements?

The platform supports privacy and security through:

  • Australian-hosted data storage
  • Private customer Vaults
  • Controlled user access
  • Separation of personal and shared material
  • Exclusion of Vault content from public model training
  • Source-based retrieval
  • Organisational deployment options

Organisations can assess the platform against their own legal, regulatory, contractual, privacy and security obligations before adding sensitive material.

Can I use Virtually Myself® for regulated or sensitive information?

Suitability depends on the type of information and your organisation's obligations.

Complete the appropriate privacy, security and compliance assessment before adding regulated, classified, health, legal, financial or highly sensitive information. We can work with relevant technology, privacy, legal, security and procurement teams during that assessment.

Ownership and portability

Who owns the content I add?

Your source material and intellectual property remain yours.

Virtually Myself® gives you a private environment for protecting, organising and applying that knowledge. Full ownership and licensing provisions are set out in our current Terms of Service.

Who owns the work created using Virtually Myself®?

You can use the work created through your account for your business, communications and publishing activities, subject to our Terms of Service and any rights attached to third-party source material.

You remain responsible for reviewing outputs and ensuring they do not reproduce copyrighted, confidential or restricted material inappropriately.

Can I export the content I create?

You can export created content for editing, publishing or use in other systems.

Available formats depend on the type of asset and workflow used.

Can I export my Vault?

You can download your source material and export work created through the platform. Account-level export requirements can be arranged according to the available formats and the type of material held in your Vault.

What happens to my data if I cancel?

Your account and data are managed according to the cancellation, retention, export and deletion provisions in our current Terms of Service.

We recommend exporting any material you want to retain before your account access ends.

Am I tied to a particular AI model or provider?

Virtually Myself® uses a vendor-agnostic approach.

Different tasks can be routed through suitable AI models, and the platform can adapt as model capabilities change. Your Vault remains the persistent knowledge layer behind your experience.

Using Virtually Myself® day to day

What can I create with Virtually Myself®?

You can create and develop:

  • Articles and blogs
  • Social media posts
  • Emails and newsletters
  • Video and podcast scripts
  • Talking points and speaking notes
  • Content plans and calendars
  • Proposals and follow-up documents
  • Podcast and media pitches
  • Partnership approaches
  • Speaking applications
  • Expressions of interest
  • Training and workshop material
  • Book and chapter concepts
  • SEO titles, descriptions and supporting assets

You can also analyse ideas, retrieve previous work, prepare for meetings and identify relevant opportunities.

Can Virtually Myself® create a complete content pack from one idea?

A voice note, article, interview, podcast, transcript or presentation can become a related collection of assets for different channels.

For example, one substantial article can become social posts, emails, video talking points and further topic ideas.

Can Virtually Myself® turn a meeting transcript into a proposal or follow-up?

Virtually Myself® can analyse a transcript to identify:

  • Stated needs
  • Priorities
  • Concerns
  • Relevant capabilities
  • Possible next steps

It can then draw on your previous proposals, approved methodology and other Vault material to prepare a tailored first draft.

Can I capture ideas by voice?

You can record a voice note and use it as the starting point for an article, email, social post, proposal or other asset.

Voice capture is useful when your ideas develop more naturally through speaking.

Can Virtually Myself® interview me to develop an idea?

The Interview Room can lead you through a structured spoken interview.

It draws on relevant material from your Vault, asks questions and uses your answers to develop a more substantial draft.

Can Virtually Myself® help me prepare for podcasts, interviews and speaking engagements?

You can use your Vault to retrieve relevant ideas, stories, frameworks and previous commentary.

Virtually Myself® can also prepare talking points, interview questions, session outlines and supporting content for a particular audience or event.

Can Virtually Myself® help identify commercially relevant topics?

Solar System Marketing® maps the themes and connections across your expertise.

It helps you identify topics that support your business goals, authority, offers and audience priorities. You can also see where your existing body of work is strong and where further thinking may be useful.

Can Virtually Myself® help with business development?

Virtually Myself® can support:

  • Sales follow-ups
  • Proposals
  • Partnership approaches
  • Speaking applications
  • Podcast pitches
  • Media responses
  • Expressions of interest
  • Tender and grant responses
  • Opportunity assessment
  • Meeting preparation

The work can draw on your previous experience, approved business material and the knowledge held in your Vault.

Can Virtually Myself® help me find opportunities?

The opportunities feature can surface relevant:

  • Speaking opportunities
  • Journalist enquiries
  • Podcast invitations
  • Media requests
  • Grants
  • Awards
  • Tenders
  • Requests for proposal
  • Reputation mentions

Your feedback helps improve the relevance of future recommendations.

Can I save useful work from a chat into my Vault?

You can save useful ideas and outputs from a conversation into your long-term Vault.

Chats can also be renamed and organised around projects, topics or pieces of work.

Can I use Virtually Myself® on my phone?

Virtually Myself® supports mobile workflows for capturing ideas, recording voice notes and working with your Vault while away from your desk.

Available features may vary by device and platform version.

Can I publish directly to LinkedIn or WordPress?

Virtually Myself® supports publishing workflows and connections for selected platforms, including LinkedIn and WordPress.

Availability depends on the current integration, plan and account configuration. You retain approval over the content and publishing action.

Does Virtually Myself® replace the tools we already use?

Virtually Myself® brings knowledge storage, retrieval, drafting, repurposing and publishing workflows into one environment.

You can also use it alongside existing storage, marketing, publishing and collaboration systems. The most suitable setup depends on how you and your team already work.

Can I connect Virtually Myself® with other tools?

Virtually Myself® supports connections and imports involving platforms such as:

  • Google Drive
  • Dropbox
  • Websites
  • Podcast feeds
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn
  • WordPress

Additional organisational integrations may require a custom workflow.

Working with a team

Can my team use Virtually Myself®?

Team configurations can include personal Vaults, shared Vaults or a combination of both.

Your team can draw on approved organisational knowledge while maintaining appropriate boundaries around personal, confidential and client material.

Can different team members have different permissions?

Access can be configured according to the needs of different users and teams.

Permissions determine who can view, contribute to and use particular knowledge within an organisational environment.

Can Virtually Myself® learn the voice of more than one person?

Separate voice profiles can support multiple experts, founders or organisational spokespeople.

Each person needs suitable source material so the platform can distinguish their knowledge, language and communication preferences.

Can an adviser, editor or marketing partner review my work?

Authorised collaborators can review work when they have the appropriate account access and permissions.

Access should be configured carefully when a Vault contains personal, confidential or client information.

Can we create shared organisational knowledge alongside personal Vaults?

Shared organisational knowledge can sit alongside individual Vaults.

The structure can reflect which policies, resources, frameworks and approved messages should be available across the organisation and which material should remain private.

Can agencies or consultants manage separate client Vaults?

Multi-Vault configurations can support agencies, consultants and service providers working across different clients.

Each arrangement should include clear access, confidentiality, ownership and client-separation requirements.

What happens when somebody leaves the organisation?

Their access can be removed according to the organisation's account structure and permissions.

Shared organisational material can remain available to authorised users, while ownership and access to personal material are handled according to the organisation's policies and the account terms.

Getting started

How do I get started?

Choose the plan that suits you on the pricing page, and you have full access straight away.

Begin by adding a small selection of useful source material containing your natural voice, recurring ideas and current expertise. Then choose one real task, such as developing an article, preparing a proposal or turning a voice note into a content pack.

How long does setup take?

You can begin once your initial material has been uploaded and processed.

Allow some focused time to choose strong source material, connect relevant sources and become familiar with the main workflow. Your Vault can then develop as you continue working.

What happens during onboarding?

Onboarding helps you:

  • Select your initial source material
  • Identify strong examples of your voice
  • Connect relevant content sources
  • Review the themes already present in your work
  • Find useful gaps in your Vault
  • Choose a practical first task
  • Learn how to review and improve outputs

The level of personalised onboarding depends on your plan.

For a week-by-week walkthrough, see your first two weeks.

Can I see Virtually Myself® in action first?

You can view a demonstration and use the available trial to explore the platform with your own work.

Testing a real task gives you a useful way to assess how well Virtually Myself® understands your expertise, retrieves information and supports your workflow.

Is there a trial?

Virtually Myself® offers a 14-day reverse trial: you subscribe and get full access straight away, with a full refund available within 14 days if it is not right for you.

There is no free tier. We would rather work with people who are ready to put real material in.

Use those 14 days on real material and a real task. That is the only way to judge whether it fits how you work.

Current inclusions and subscription terms are on the pricing page.

How much does Virtually Myself® cost?

Current plans, pricing and inclusions are on the pricing page.

Choose a plan based on the amount of material you want to use, the workflows you need, the level of team access required and the support you would value.

Which plan is right for me?

A self-serve plan suits individuals who want to organise their knowledge and create work independently.

A higher-support plan suits people who want personalised onboarding, custom workflows, deeper strategic support or help activating a substantial body of intellectual property.

Team and organisational options support shared knowledge, multiple users and more complex implementation requirements.

Can I change plans?

You can change plans as your usage, support and team requirements develop, subject to the current subscription terms.

What support is included?

Support varies by plan and may include:

  • Quick-start guidance
  • Platform support
  • Onboarding
  • Office Hours
  • Community Calls
  • Workflow guidance
  • Help building and using your Vault
  • Custom implementation support

Current plan inclusions are on the pricing page.

Can you help us design a workflow for a particular use case?

We can help design workflows around recurring activities such as content development, proposals, business development, internal knowledge, opportunity responses and communications.

Custom workflow support is available through selected plans and organisational arrangements.

Do you work with larger organisations?

Virtually Myself® supports organisational knowledge, multiple teams and custom workflows.

We can work with technology, security, privacy, legal and procurement teams to assess implementation requirements.

Results and expectations

How quickly will Virtually Myself® understand my voice?

You can begin seeing useful results from a small collection of strong voice sources.

The platform's understanding develops as you add original material and provide feedback. Interviews, recordings, natural emails, articles and voice notes are particularly valuable.

How much time should I expect to spend using it?

Initial setup involves selecting and adding your first group of source material.

Once your Vault is established, many content workflows can be completed in around 30 minutes. Proposals, research and more complex strategic work will require additional review.

What improves as I provide more feedback?

Your feedback helps Virtually Myself® understand:

  • Your preferred phrasing and rhythm
  • How you structure ideas
  • The level of detail you prefer
  • Words and expressions you avoid
  • The examples you use
  • How you communicate with different audiences
  • The kinds of suggestions you find useful

Accepting, editing and rejecting work all provide useful signals.

Which types of work produce the strongest results?

Strong results begin with original source material and a clear purpose.

Useful starting points include:

  • A voice note about an idea
  • A meeting transcript
  • A podcast or interview
  • A previous article
  • A proposal brief
  • A workshop or keynote
  • A question from a client
  • A topic already well represented in your Vault
How do I keep my Vault useful and current?

Useful habits include:

  • Saving strong conversations and voice notes
  • Adding new presentations, articles and interviews
  • Connecting active websites, podcasts and channels
  • Replacing outdated documents
  • Removing duplicates
  • Keeping clear attribution on third-party material
  • Identifying your strongest voice sources
  • Saving valuable chat outputs back into the Vault
How should I assess whether Virtually Myself® is working for me?

Use several real tasks and assess:

  • How closely the work sounds like you
  • Accuracy when drawing from your Vault
  • Time saved on first drafts
  • Usefulness of the material produced
  • Relevance of topic and opportunity suggestions
  • Confidence in publishing or sending the work
  • Ease of working from voice notes and transcripts
  • The amount of editing required
  • How often you retrieve and reuse ideas that were previously difficult to find

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