Your intelligent co-editor.
Just like a real editor, only now much cheaper, faster, and tuned to your work.
In 1501, Aldus Manutius did something radical. He took the book, heavy, expensive, chained to lecterns in the libraries of the wealthy, and made it portable. Suddenly, reading was not a privilege of institutions. It belonged to anyone who wanted it.
That instinct has driven every meaningful advance in writing since: the belief that the tools of thought should be accessible, not guarded. The printing press made knowledge reproducible. The typewriter made it independent of the scribe. The word processor made it fluid and painless fluid. The internet made publication free. Each shift democratised a different part of the craft, and each was met with resistance before it became indispensable.
But one part of the process has been left behind. Real editing. The kind that requires a skilled reader with judgment, care, and an understanding of what the writer is trying to do. It has remained either expensive or shallow. You can pay thousands. You can use AI to completely rewrite your prose. For most writers, there has been nothing in between.
Words are, as Helen Barolini wrote of Aldus, the most “accessible vehicle of thought and communication.” To write is to think in public. To edit is to think again, more carefully, with the help of a reader who is paying closer attention than you can pay to your own work. Not a machine that automates the output. Not a machine that rewrites humanity out of itself.
Wordsmith is not a tool that writes for you. It is a reader that reads with you. It suggests. It responds. It is a deliberate supplement to the writer working to put thought into language. We are building what Aldus built, in an age of the plenitude of words: a new way to make good writing widespread and available.
How it works
- 1. Ingest your writing
- 2. Select one of four editing modes
- 3. Click "Get suggestions"
- 4. Wordsmith reads through and edits based on its context
- 5. Accept or reject suggestions
Built for any length
Essay
Articles, essays, short pieces. Drop in a few thousand words and Wordsmith reads the whole thing in a single pass.
Manuscript
NewBook-length work split into chapters and chunks. Wordsmith works through it section by section so you can review one piece at a time.
Four editing modes
Fact check
Verification, sources, and accuracy—ensuring claims are grounded.
Polish
Clarity, grammar, rhythm—like a careful copyeditor fine-tuning every sentence.
Line edit
Style, redundancy, and the micro-decisions across the entire piece at sentence-level.
Fred (Developmental editor)
NewStructure, intent, and argument—a thinking reader who helps you clarify.
Common questions
ChatGPT and Claude are excellent writers. They're not editors.
Fred works the way a real editor would in Google Docs: inline suggestions, comments, and track changes that you accept, reject, or push back on. ChatGPT and Claude tend to rewrite whole paragraphs into a new block of prose. You lose the diff, and often your voice with it.
The deeper difference is editorial judgment. Fred is built around how real editors actually work: an opinion about what to flag, what to leave alone, and when to stop. Restraint follows from that.
Grammar tools catch mechanical errors. They can't read your work at a higher level than that. General-purpose chatbots will rewrite anything you give them, and tend to flatten your voice into AI slop in the process.
Wordsmith is the only tool purpose-built for editing. Fred reads your work, suggests specific edits, and you can talk to Fred about any of them: challenge a suggestion, ask why, push back, ask for a different approach. Fred also knows when to stop. There's a point at which a piece is ready to publish, and Fred will tell you when you're there.
Narrative and story-focused work is where Wordsmith really shines: fiction, memoir, personal essays, longform journalism, anything where voice and craft matter to the piece working.
Wordsmith also handles the bigger questions on more analytical writing: argument structure, what to develop, what to cut. Essays of ideas, longform non-fiction, and drafts of academic or technical work all benefit. The more there is for Fred to read into, the better the editorial work.
Short-form pieces (essays, blog posts, chapters, drafts) up to about 5,000 words go through our standard editor. Longer manuscripts up to about 150,000 words go through our manuscript pipeline, which produces a full edit asynchronously.
No. We don't train AI models on your manuscript content. You own everything you upload and everything you publish from it.
Your work is stored encrypted, in your account only, visible only to you and the team when we're doing support. We use Inception Labs' Mercury and OpenAI to generate editorial suggestions, both under standard API terms that prohibit them from training on your content.
The one thing we do learn from is patterns about which editorial suggestions writers accept or reject, the way an editor learns their craft. That signal doesn't include your manuscript text, and is anonymized when used for training.
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Voice preservation is one of the things Wordsmith is built to get right. Fred reads your characteristic rhythms, word choices, and personality, and is built to leave them alone. When Fred suggests a line edit, the suggestion demonstrates a possibility, not a rewrite. You decide what gets in.
You can also help Fred along: if you have writing you admire (your own past pieces, a writer whose voice you're chasing, a markdown file of style notes), share them with Fred in chat and Fred will reference them as a guide.
If Fred's suggestions ever flatten your voice into something more generic, that's the bug, not the feature.
“Wordsmith was essential to the latest stages of writing High Output Software Engineering. It helped me polish sentences, fact-check and create consistency across the whole manuscript. I’m really glad I found this tool exactly when I needed!”