An independent project by James Clayton

Build something useful.
Show how it works.

Audience Engines explores how websites, content, and AI agents can help good ideas reach people. The first focus is learning through a real publication: TheFutureBaby.

Where we are today

The public site brings together practical planning tools, educational guides, and an experimental AI newsroom. Sidney and Eve’s privacy articles are now published on TheFutureBaby. Agent-assisted review and connected workflows are the next area of development.

Why the newsroom has personalities

Different voices make different questions easier to notice. TheFutureBaby’s correspondents are AI personas with fictional settings and backgrounds. They are not human reporters. Sidney and Eve’s published articles demonstrate those voices in practice. James Clayton provides direction and human oversight as Newsroom editor. Audience Engines documents the test and its progress.

Ownership matters

The website is built as a portable static site. It can move between hosting providers. As the system grows, the intention is to keep content and project records exportable, with clear choices about outside services.

Privacy in the tools

The six planning tools keep your answers in the current browser tab. They do not send those answers to an AI service or publish them. You can download a plan or choose to include it in an email. Hosting services may process ordinary connection information to deliver the website.

Help shape what comes next

Questions, ideas, and thoughtful criticism are welcome. This begins as a proof of concept, with room to grow into a business once the work supports it.