The short version
You own your work and always will. We read it, score it, and send you a report. Your manuscript or script is never shown to another person. If you clear our bar you may choose to list it, and listing shows your title, category, scores and report — never the work itself — to people who might want to represent, option, publish, produce or help finance it. You can take it down at any time, and you can delete everything permanently whenever you like.
What we do
We are an evaluation service. Several independent AI readers read your work start to finish, a panel reconciles what they found, and you get a score out of 100 with the reasoning behind it and the changes we think would move it most.
A score is an opinion, carefully formed and honestly given. It is not a prediction. Nobody here can promise you representation, publication, production or money, and we never will.
Your work stays yours
You keep every right you had before you sent it to us. Copyright, adaptation, everything. We do not take a share, we do not take an option, and we claim no ownership of any kind.
You give us permission to do two things: read your work in order to evaluate it, and keep it in encrypted storage so we can check our own scoring stays consistent over time. Nothing else.
Your work is never used to train an AI model. Not by us and not by the providers who run the readers — that restriction is set on every request we make.
Send us only work you have the right to send. If you did not write it, or you have already signed those rights to somebody else, this is not the place for it.
The marketplace
Clearing our bar makes your work eligible for the marketplace. It does not put it there. Nothing is listed until you say so, and an invitation you ignore leaves your work private forever.
If you do list it, here is exactly what that means.
What is shown. Your title, author name, category, word or page count, your scores, and your report. That is all. Your manuscript or script is never shown to anyone, listed or not.
Who sees it. People who might want to represent, option, publish, produce or help finance your work. Today that means literary agents, managers and producers, whom we approve one at a time. It may later include others with the same purpose — people or groups who fund work directly rather than through a publisher or a studio. We are telling you this now, plainly, so that if it happens you have already been told rather than asked to agree to something after the fact.
What will not change is the part that matters: the audience is always people who might do something with your work, the thing they see is always the report and never the work, and you can leave at any time.
Contact details. Never passed on without asking you first, every time, for that specific person. Interest in your work reaches you through us, and you decide whether to answer.
Leaving. Unlist whenever you want. It takes effect immediately and needs no reason.
We may in future charge people for access to the marketplace, or take a fee if something comes of an introduction we made. If we ever do, we will tell you what it is before it applies to you, and you can unlist rather than accept it.
Money
During the beta, evaluation is free for the first hundred works in each category. After that it is $24.99 per evaluation, payable when you submit. The price on the page when you submit is the price you pay.
We charge for the evaluation, not for the outcome. A score you dislike is still a score we did the work to produce.
Deleting your work
You can permanently delete your manuscript or script from our systems at any time from your submission page. It goes, and it does not come back.
Your score and your report are built from numbers and our own words rather than from your text, so they survive deletion unless you ask us to remove those too. If you want everything gone, say so and it will be.
What we cannot promise
We cannot promise a score, an invitation, an agent, a sale, or that anyone in the marketplace will read your listing. We can promise that your work was read in full, that the score was arrived at honestly, and that we will tell you plainly what we found.
Our evaluations are opinions and may be wrong. If our service fails you, what you can recover from us is limited to what you paid us. That is the ordinary limit for a service at this price, and we would rather state it than bury it.
Changes to these terms
If we change anything that affects work already in the marketplace, we will email you before it takes effect and you will have the chance to unlist first. We will not apply a new rule retroactively to a decision you already made.
Getting in touch
Anything here that reads as unclear, one-sided, or not what you expected — tell us. cathy@readiculous.ai. A set of terms nobody can understand is not an agreement, it is a trap.