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Get your first review from a panel

Send your idea, outline or chapters to the right panel and get an honest read in a few minutes.

About 5 minutes.

  1. Find your editorial board

    Open your book page. Scroll down to Your editorial board. Each card is one panel, for one stage of your book.

  2. Know what each panel does

    The Voice Lab learns how you sound.
    The Acquisitions Board reads your book idea: who it is for, the bestsellers it sits next to, and the gap it can own.
    The Structure Room reads your outline for shape and order.
    The Writing Room reads one draft chapter at a time.
    The Shelf Test reads your full manuscript.
    The Copy Desk checks one final chapter for grammar, typos, permissions and claims.
    The Human Test checks a chapter for writing that reads like a machine.
    The Marketing Room reads your title, back cover copy and Amazon description.

  3. Know what is free

    The Voice Lab and the Acquisitions Board are free. The other panels are part of the Author plan. A locked card says Part of Author.

  4. Open a panel

    On the card you want, tap Send it to the panel. A box opens with a short note on what to paste.

  5. Paste your work

    Copy your work and paste it into the box. For the Writing Room, the Copy Desk and the Human Test, send one chapter at a time.

  6. Send it

    Tap Get the panel's read. You will see The panel is reading. Stay on the page. It refreshes by itself, and most reads take a few minutes.

  7. Read the panel's take

    Each seat at the table gives its own honest take. The panels are AI reviewers built on how editors at a publishing house work, so they can be wrong. You always decide. Then you see scores, what to keep, and what to fix. Fixes are marked must, should or could. The box marked Start here is the one thing to do first.

  8. Send a new version

    Made changes? Tap Send a new version on the same card. Each panel can read up to 10 versions for each book.

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