One assistant skims five pages and decides your book's future in ninety seconds. Four months later you get a form letter. That's the system. It's indefensible.
We're inverting the model. Instead of authors pushing manuscripts at agents and hoping, agents pull from a filtered, ranked, pre-qualified pool.
Better for both sides of a market that currently works for neither.
The query process was built before the tools existed to do it properly. It hasn't changed. We rebuilt it around what's possible today.
A seal everybody gets is worth nothing — to agents, and therefore to you. The bar sits where a major publisher would take the book on as it stands. It is a professional standard, not a masterpiece standard: we're not asking whether your novel gets taught in a century.
It isn't a quota, either. We don't admit a fixed share and turn the rest away. If every manuscript we received next month deserved to clear, every one of them would.
And not clearing is useful. You'll know exactly where you stand, exactly what's holding the book back, and exactly what to fix first. That's more than a hundred queries will ever tell you.
We publish that number because you should be able to check us. It's a beta figure from a small test set, and we expect it to rise as the system calibrates on real submissions. To be exact about what that means: calibration happens entirely inside our own encrypted database, on scores and patterns — never by showing your book to anyone, and never by training AI to write. Your manuscript is not shared with a single person or company unless you approve it. We'll keep publishing this number either way, including if it moves the wrong direction.
Several leading AI models — built by different companies, so they don't share blind spots — each read your entire book. They're set up as experts in your genre, then they debate the book against each other until they reach a consensus. One number, out of 100, that means the same thing for every manuscript we read.
Three scores: quality, commercial viability, and potential IP value. Plus the published books you were measured against, what's working, what's holding it back, and the strongest case for and against your manuscript.
If you didn't clear the bar, you get the five changes that would move your score most — named plainly, with the chapters they live in. Not "tighten the pacing." Which chapters drag, and what to do about them.
Simple, and deliberately weighted in your favour: we only keep money from authors we told "not yet" — and we hand them a credit to come back.
A fair, fast way to find out where you actually stand — and if you're ready, to be discovered rather than to keep knocking on doors. No connections, no perfect query letter, no waiting four months to learn nothing. Your book is judged on the writing, by the same standard as everyone else's.
A marketplace of pre-screened work, every book read in full and scored — not skimmed. Filter by genre, quality, commercial viability, or adaptation potential. Every listing comes with coverage and scoring drawn from our proprietary and growing dataset, so you can spend your reading time on books that already cleared a professional bar.
Not with agents, not with publishers, not with anyone — unless you approve it, one party at a time. Submitting transfers no rights. You keep everything you walked in with.
No model learns your voice, your sentences, or your story. Our evaluation partners are contractually barred from retaining or training on what we send them.
Your manuscript stays in encrypted storage so our scoring keeps getting sharper: checking judgments stay consistent, testing new versions against books we've already read. Access is restricted to that purpose and logged.
One click, permanently gone from our systems. Your score stays yours — it's built from numbers, not from your words.
He got a 73. The bar is 85. He agreed with every note.
The first manuscript our panel ever read belonged to the founder's husband. Two years of work, a novel he genuinely believed in — and the verdict came back: promising, not ready. The middle drags. Too short for its ambition. The ending arrives before it's earned.
He read it and said: yes, all of that is true. He's on his sixth rewrite.
Most submissions won't clear the bar. Ours didn't. That's what makes clearing it mean something.
We're calibrating. You get the full evaluation at no cost — pass or fail — and we get the data that makes the next thousand assessments sharper. When the hundred are gone, it's $49.99.
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We're in beta and genuinely want to hear it — a broken page, a score that seems off, a report that didn't make sense. A person reads every one of these.