The Boswell Engine by Atma
research intelligence · the engine behind the work

Stop selling to strangers.
Find predisposed audiences.

Boswell collects and verifies a target individual’s mindset, perspectives, knowledge base and communication style. It creates a cognitive profile that lets you know if they are a good prospect and what matters to them. What do they need to hear? What do they need to feel? It can also give you deep insight into their skills and experience.

Previously this level of human analysis would have cost thousands of dollars and taken many hours of research work. Now it is available at a fraction of that cost.

For finding buyers, building expert AI, understanding customers, and preparing for conversations that matter, there has never been something like the Boswell Engine.

Explore four applications ↘ See the method →
one enginefour applications
01 Find the people worth talking toB2B buyer intelligence ↘ 02 Build expert judgment into AIexpert knowledge ↘ 03 Learn more from customers you haveB2C audience intelligence · in development ↘ 04 Walk into the room preparedconversation intelligence ↘
one method · four applications
01
Find the record
Collect relevant material from authorized sources.
02
Verify the evidence
Check identity, authorship, provenance, and contradictions.
03
Interpret carefully
Distinguish what the record shows from what it merely suggests.
04
Make it useful
Produce a decision, dossier, knowledge release, or briefing.

Not a personality test. Not mind-reading. A sourced interpretation that can be challenged.

01 / THE APPLICATIONS

Four different jobs. One research discipline.

The same evidence-first machinery can answer very different questions. Choose the problem you’re trying to solve.

01 · B2B BUYER INTELLIGENCE OUTREACH

Find the people worth talking to.

Fewer names. Better reasons to make contact.

Boswell qualifies prospects before writing a word. It checks who they are, researches their public record, develops sourced interpretations of their priorities and communication style, and drafts outreach in the sender’s voice. It also tells you whom not to pursue.

THE OUTPUT
Qualified worklist · verified dossiers · individually tailored messages
Explore the B2B outreach system →
02 · EXPERT KNOWLEDGE AI PERSONAS

Build expert judgment into AI.

Not a costume. A traceable body of knowledge.

Boswell studies an expert’s published work, talks, articles, and documented positions, then constructs a versioned research collection: principles, disagreements, methods, and the evidence behind them. Those collections can inform specialized AI personas without pretending the source expert authored the AI’s decisions.

THE OUTPUT
Canonical research collections · sourced principles · persona knowledge releases
03 · B2C AUDIENCE INTELLIGENCE CUSTOMERS

Learn more from customers you already have.

Beyond demographics and the last purchase.

The B2C application is intended to examine appropriately governed customer records, language, and behavioral evidence for recurring motivations, objections, and decision patterns. The goal is better audience hypotheses and more useful targeting, not a diagnosis or a claim to know what is in someone’s head.

THE OUTPUT
Mindset hypotheses · audience patterns · research and targeting priorities
STATUS · capability being developed
04 · CONVERSATION INTELLIGENCE PREPARATION

Walk into the room prepared.

For the conversation you can’t afford to waste.

Before a pitch, sales call, negotiation, or interview, Boswell can assemble a source-backed briefing on the person and the context: their stated priorities, relevant history, communication patterns, likely questions, and the uncertainties that still need to be resolved.

THE OUTPUT
Target briefings · conversation preparation · questions worth asking
02 / THE METHOD

More research isn’t enough. The research has to survive scrutiny.

Boswell is built around a simple rule: no unsupported finding should quietly become a confident statement. The engine separates source material, interpretation, criticism, and the action that follows.

01 / COLLECT
Search by meaning.
Gather relevant public evidence and authorized client-provided material. Preserve the original record.
02 / VERIFY
Check whose words they are.
Resolve identities, authorship, source quality, and conflicts before drawing conclusions.
03 / CHALLENGE
Test the interpretation.
Independent critiques expose weak inferences, missing evidence, and overstated certainty.
04 / APPLY
Produce useful work.
Deliver an outreach plan, expert knowledge collection, audience hypothesis, or conversation brief.
READ WITH THE SOURCES ATTACHED

Language can support hypotheses about a person’s expressed priorities and communication habits. It cannot establish hidden motives, clinical traits, or future behavior with certainty. Boswell’s outputs must be read with their sources and limitations attached.

03 / THE EXPERIMENT

Same AI writer. Same prospect. Different intelligence.

For the B2B outreach application, I tested the same writing model with and without Boswell’s research and decision process. The engine’s version was preferred in all six blind assessments across three executives by two independent AI judges.

The useful finding wasn’t just the result. When we deliberately gave the engine the wrong communication approach, its advantage disappeared. Understanding how to speak to a person mattered more than simply adding detail.

Read the complete white paper ↗
internal B2B comparison · limited sample
6/6
Blind AI-judged evaluations favored the Boswell-supported version.
WHAT THIS DOES NOT SHOW

Controlled internal study of B2B outreach only. Three prospects, one offer, AI judges rather than human buyers. This is evidence of performance in that test, not proof of real-world reply or sales lift, and not validation of all four applications.

04 / THE BUILDER

I built Boswell because the interesting information is usually already there.

People leave a remarkable record in what they write, publish, explain, defend, and refuse. Most systems skim it for keywords and titles. Boswell was designed to read it much more closely, preserve what can be verified, and make that research useful.

I’m Atma Degeyndt, a marketer who can code. Boswell began as an experiment in better B2B outreach and developed into a broader research engine for understanding people, constructing expert knowledge, and improving consequential conversations.

More about my work →
One record.
Four uses.
B2B buyer intelligence
Expert knowledge architecture
B2C customer mindsets
Conversation preparation
Built around evidence.
Original sources preserved. Inferences identified. Conflicts exposed. Conclusions open to challenge.

Tell me what you’re trying to understand.

A prospect list, a body of expert work, an audience, or one important conversation.

Discuss a use case ↗
The Boswell Engine
by Atma Degeyndt · New York · 2026
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