June 5, 2026 — Whole-Book Analysis & Smarter Scoping
- Publisher assessments can now go beyond a single chapter to the whole book: once a manuscript’s story memory is built, editors can run novel-level lenses — structure, character arcs, motifs, voice consistency, and more — that read the entire manuscript as one work
- Editors can also commission a full whole-book beta read from the assessment workflow — a chapter-by-chapter reader’s-eye experience with act syntheses and a closing letter — delivered to the author as its own branded report
- The “Recommend lenses” picker is markedly smarter: it reads the manuscript opening and a later passage together, weighs the genre, tone, and goal set at intake, and considers what each lens actually does — then explains its choice in a short “Why these lenses” rationale you can re-roll on demand
- The Development Goal preset is now a fuller, grouped set of starting points spanning the editorial workflow — acquisition (including market and submission-readiness reads), developmental, polish, and a specialized reader-reactions panel — and it adapts to the format, offering the right lenses for non-fiction as well as fiction
- Admins can set credit pricing for whole-book beta reads (a per-tier base plus a per-chapter cost) and for novel-level lenses on the Pricing page
- Non-fiction now has its own focused editorial lenses — Argument & Thesis Structure, Evidence & Sourcing, Audience & Platform Fit, and Narrative Non-Fiction Pacing — so a non-fiction manuscript gets dedicated craft passes instead of one catch-all read, and the non-fiction goal presets seed them automatically
- When a manuscript’s story memory is ready, the “Recommend lenses” picker can now suggest whole-book lenses alongside chapter-level ones, and it shows a short one-line reason beside each lens it picks so the choice is easy to follow