Living Literature · Author Edition
AI platforms are now interpreting your book for readers.
Without you.
Amazon's Rufus. Kindle AI summaries. Platform-mediated reading — built on your text, governed by their defaults. Here's the alternative.
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Step 01
Upload & Intake
Your manuscript · Your governance note
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Author Intake Form
Book title, manuscript file, and your intake note — your first governance boundary in plain language. The system waits until you submit.
Begin intake
Confirm rights to use the manuscript, then click Begin. Nothing processes until you push the button.
Staged processing
Upload received → Parsing → Chapter structure → Concepts & claims → QC report → Ready for review. Finite, resumable, no black box.
↓ Canon draft review
Upload & Intake
Step 02
Canon Draft Review
Author uploads reviewed canon · Co-pilot guides decisions
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Drafts reviewed and uploaded
All four drafts checked: Structure, Key Ideas, Claims, and QC notes. Your edited versions uploaded back. Each card now reads REVIEWED.
Your Book Co-Pilot
Right column. Used throughout the review. Ask what should be main canon, which claims shape voice, what to demote to secondary context.
Confirm and continue
One tick locks the stage. Step 3 (Representation) opens once you confirm — your reviewed files become the foundation the AI works from.
↓ Representation controls
Canon Draft Review
Step 03
Representation Controls
Shape how the AI represents your book
03
What the AI may do
You choose each permitted behaviour: explain concepts, summarize chapters, compare ideas. Each one is an explicit opt-in.
Your Assistant explains
Right panel — live context for each decision. What does this choice change? Which settings are safest? What happens next?
Save the section
Each section saves independently. Your decisions persist as you move through the rest of representation.
↓ Avoid · Tone · Grounding
Representation Controls
Step 03
Avoid · Tone · Grounding
Hard limits, voice, and how tightly to anchor
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What the AI must avoid
Your guardrails — specific to this book, in your own words. Keep, edit, or remove each line. The AI respects every item you mark Use.
Your Assistant explains
Live context as you decide. What does each choice actually change? Which settings stay safest for your book? What happens next?
Tone and grounding
How should the AI sound — analytical, balanced, direct? How tightly anchored to chapters and concepts? You set the dial.
↓ Completion & handoff
Avoid · Tone · Grounding
Complete
Go-Live Fast-Track
Defaults pre-filled · One click to readers
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Go-Live Fast-Track
The shortest path to readers. Pre-filled defaults from your book, ready to launch. Built for first-time authors setting up a Living Literature companion.
Ready to meet readers
Companion name, welcome message, monthly subscription — all pre-filled from your book. Adjust if you want, then go live. Everything stays editable later.
Launch on your terms
One click. Your book appears on the reader landing page with 5 free turns + subscription enabled. Tone, grounding, and finer scope tune later via 3A in the Author Control Room.
↓ Request access
Go-Live Fast-Track
Living Literature · Author Edition
Your book. Your voice.
Your companion.
Four steps. One session. A governed companion that stays true to what you actually wrote — before a single reader sees it.
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