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Review language, logic, characters, and structure before detailed editorial work. Pro Editing creates a consistent starting point without replacing the commissioning or editorial decision.
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Lektorat Pro for professional manuscript workflows
For publishers, literary agencies, and freelance editors: systematic manuscript preparation, three editing levels, and Word files with tracked changes. Your team keeps editorial judgment.
Pro Editing processes a complete manuscript in one run and returns a Word file with tracked changes. It is designed as a prepared second opinion for publishers, literary agencies, and freelance editors. Editorial responsibility remains human.
Author voice is not a side issue in professional editing
Mechanical cleanliness is measurable. Literary individuality should not become collateral damage.
Pro Editing connects systematic whole-manuscript preparation with a voice profile built from the author's text. The publishing team remains responsible and decides on every change.
73%of the measurable distance to the author's own writing was closed on average.
10 to 0broken form rules per chapter in the documented measurement.
Wordtracked changes for a professional review workflow.
Three professional roles, three different needs
Make strengths and open questions visible
Use a structured second view on long submissions. EPOS-AI does not decide representation. It helps collect specific questions for human evaluation.
Prepare mechanics, keep judgment
Let the system surface recurring issues and possible inconsistencies. You decide which changes truly serve the manuscript.
What Pro Editing provides
- Complete manuscript processing in one run
- A Word file with tracked changes
- Copyediting, line editing, and developmental analysis
- Character, logic, and tension checks within the available context
- Voice-preserving checks based on the author's manuscript
- 112,500 words of context in the Studio plan
What it does not provide: an automatic acquisition decision, a legally binding editorial report, or a guarantee that every suggestion is correct. Professional review remains necessary.
A practical professional workflow
Define the assignment
Copyediting, line editing, and developmental analysis answer different questions. Set the editorial purpose before running the tool.
Create the manuscript project
Keep the manuscript, characters, and relevant notes connected. The Studio plan provides 112,500 words of manuscript context.
Run Pro Editing
EPOS-AI prepares changes and comments across the complete manuscript.
Review the Word file
The publishing team or editor decides what to accept, rewrite, or reject in tracked changes.
What an AI editing tool for publishers actually does
An AI editor in this context is software that reviews a manuscript against language, structural, and consistency criteria and returns specific, reviewable observations, not a system that reads for taste or makes a publishing decision. Pro Editing works this way: it processes a complete manuscript in one pass and returns a Word file with tracked changes, so every observation stays visible and reversible rather than silently applied.
Where this has limits
A study by BISG and BookNet Canada, covered by Publishers Weekly (559 North American publishing professionals, published September 2025, publishersweekly.com, accessed 2026-08-08), found that 98 percent of respondents reported significant concerns about AI implementation, with hallucinations and inadequate copyright controls the most common. Pro Editing does not remove the need for that caution. It does not decide whether a manuscript should be acquired or represented, it does not replace a legally binding assessment, and a suggestion it flags is a starting point for editorial judgment, not a verdict. Professional review of the output remains necessary in every case.
Does this fit your team's work?
A good fit if
- You review long manuscripts regularly, not just occasional short texts.
- A team benefits from a consistent, documented starting point.
- Word with tracked changes is already your standard handoff format.
Less of a fit if
- You're reviewing a single short piece rather than a full manuscript.
- You need a legally binding assessment, which Pro Editing does not provide, as noted above.
- Your review process is already fully outsourced end to end.
This is not a substitute for trying it yourself. A single test manuscript usually shows faster than any checklist whether Pro Editing fits how your team actually works.
A realistic rollout, not a single switch
Introducing any new tool into an existing editorial process rarely works well as an immediate, house-wide change. A rollout that has worked in practice looks closer to this.
One manuscript as a test case
A single, clearly defined manuscript runs through Pro Editing without changing the rest of the workflow yet.
Compare with the existing process
The team compares the prepared observations against its own judgment and notes where they agree and where they don't.
Decide on a fixed place in the workflow
Only after that is it decided where in the existing process Pro Editing adds value, and how the team handles disagreements with its output. For most teams this can be judged within a few weeks, without interrupting the existing process to do it.
Where the time actually gets saved
The most common mistake in evaluating a tool like this is comparing its cost to doing nothing, instead of comparing it to the process it actually replaces: a single editor reading for language, structure, and consistency issues across separate passes. Pro Editing does not remove those passes, it prepares findings across several categories at once before the responsible editor reads the manuscript, which is where the time saving comes from rather than from skipping review altogether.
Studio plan for professional manuscript work
| Monthly price | 99 USD, EUR, or CHF |
|---|---|
| Annual price | 990 USD, EUR, or CHF |
| Words per month | 2,250,000 |
| Manuscript context | 112,500 words |
| Projects | Unlimited |
| Pro Editing | Included |
EPOS-AI is free for seven days and can be canceled in one click. A card is required. The trial allowance is enough for one or two AI requests.
Project storage and professional responsibility
EPOS-AI is based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Permanent project data is stored encrypted on servers in Zug and Zurich. Individual AI requests are transmitted to a commercial model provider. EPOS-AI does not use manuscripts for its own model training, and users can delete projects.
For commissioned manuscripts, the responsible organization must ensure that it has an appropriate legal basis and the agreements required for processing.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Pro Editing for?
Publishers, literary agencies, and freelance editors who want to review a complete manuscript and continue working in a Word file with tracked changes.
Does EPOS-AI decide whether a manuscript should be acquired or represented?
No. It prepares observations and possible changes. Acquisition, representation, publication, and editorial responsibility remain human decisions.
Which plan includes Pro Editing?
Pro Editing is included in the Studio plan at 99 USD, EUR, or CHF per month or 990 per year.
How much manuscript context is available?
The Studio plan provides 112,500 words of manuscript context.
What is the difference between an AI editor and a professional human editor?
An AI editor checks quickly and at scale, a human editor brings literary judgment and industry context an AI does not have. Pro Editing is built to prepare a manuscript for that human review, not to stand in for it.
What software do publishers typically use for editing today?
The category includes general tools like Grammarly and ProWritingAid, book-specific tools like Fictionary and AutoCrit, and dedicated manuscript-assessment tools. Pro Editing's difference is a voice profile built from the author's own manuscript rather than generic language rules; see Voice-Preserving AI Editing.
What happens if the team disagrees with an AI-flagged observation?
The decision stays with the responsible editor or team. Pro Editing delivers a prepared observation, not a binding judgment that overrides internal discussion.
Does this work for non-fiction manuscripts, not just novels?
This page and Pro Editing are built around narrative manuscripts: character consistency, logic, and narrative tension are fiction-specific categories. A non-fiction manuscript benefits more from copyediting or line editing than from these particular checks.
How confidential is an unpublished manuscript during processing?
Project data is stored encrypted on servers in Zug and Zurich, EPOS-AI is headquartered in Lucerne, and EPOS-AI does not use manuscripts for its own model training. See "Project storage and professional responsibility" above.
Is this suitable for publishers outside Switzerland?
Yes. The server locations are in Switzerland, but using the product is not tied to any particular country or headquarters location, so the same workflow applies regardless of where your organization is based.
What is the difference between Pro Editing and the regular AI editing built for individual authors?
Pro Editing processes a complete manuscript in one run and returns a Word file with tracked changes, built around the professional review workflow at publishers, agencies, and freelance editors. The regular editing tool is built around a single author's own writing process instead.
Can multiple people on a team review the same manuscript?
This page describes the review and editing workflow itself; how a specific team splits that work is an organizational choice on your side, not something this page defines for you.
What happens with a manuscript longer than the available context?
The Studio plan covers up to 112,500 words of manuscript context. For unusually long manuscripts, it's worth checking actual length before committing to a full end-to-end workflow.
Does this replace a plagiarism or AI-content detector?
No. Pro Editing checks language, structure, consistency, and voice. Detecting whether a submission was itself AI-generated is a different, separate question this tool does not answer.
Who should run the first test manuscript at our organization?
In practice it works best when the person who will later review the tracked-changes file also runs the first test, rather than only seeing a summary secondhand. That makes it possible to judge directly whether an observation is actually useful for your own editorial standards.
What if our organization doesn't have a documented AI policy yet?
That's common: fewer than 30 percent of organizations surveyed by BISG and BookNet Canada had an official AI policy at the time of the study cited above. A single test manuscript is a more realistic starting point than a complete policy written in advance, and it gives your organization something concrete to base that policy on later.
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