1616 Charter is an independent publisher of business and professional nonfiction — books at the intersection of strategy, AI, and industry practice, written by operators and built to be used rather than shelved.
1616 Charter publishes rigorous, practitioner-written books on strategy, marketing, AI, and the craft of commercial work. Our authors are people who have done the work at a high level and can teach it plainly. Every title is built around a clear methodology a reader can put to use the same week — not theory, not a tour of tools, but the decision structure underneath real professional work.
AI does not write the brand plan. It lets the planner go deeper, faster, and more rigorously into the work brand strategy and planning have always required. Thirteen chapters walk the full arc — reading the market, setting the strategy, executing the plan — with a Before-AI and After-AI comparison, field-tested prompts, and a framework diagram in every chapter, anchored by twelve real business cases carried through to the implementation reality most books skip.
The full brand-planning cycle, end to end, with AI-augmented workflows, field-tested prompts, and twelve worked business cases.
The full consulting toolkit, prompt by prompt. Situation, customer, competitor, structure, story.
The bridge between what the data says and what a team will do about it.
The same toolkit, refit for regulated commercial environments — launch, inline, and lifecycle brands.
Lessons in presence, peace, and the art of just being — eleven lessons from a rescued black cat, with photographs throughout. The house's one book about doing less.
1616 Charter publishes a small, growing list of expert practitioners — people with real operating experience and a methodology worth putting in print.
Additional authors to be announced.
We work with a small number of expert practitioners to shape and publish their work — from first proposal to finished book across Kindle, paperback, and hardcover. If you have a methodology worth publishing and the experience to back it, we would like to hear from you.
A note on business strategy and the practical use of AI — what changes, what does not, and what to do about it.
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