An AI editorial workshop for serious authors. Domain experts, executives, and memoirists who already have the book in them, scattered across blogs, podcasts, interviews, and notes, but cannot pull it together.
Authors bring writing samples, research, talks, podcast transcripts, anything they have made. We calibrate their voice across four inspectable layers and build a structural plan with them. Then we draft chapter candidates they review and edit, with every page audited against a curated catalogue of 290+ specific AI writing patterns that authors do not want in their book.
Their editorial team assembles around the work. Twenty-four named specialists with distinct roles, plus AI consultants commissioned per book for domain expertise. A persistent companion called The Alchemist narrates the process. Everyone stays with the author from first page to last.
The Alchemist. Your companion through the whole process.
Narrates what is happening, introduces specialists as they come online, brings questions from the team to you, and writes the handoff note that waits for you the morning after time away. A guide, not a writer.
This is how a publishing imprint actually works. A line editor, a structural editor, a fact-checker, a voice keeper, a continuity tracker. Each one with persistent memory of their work on the author's book — ask Alfred about a Chapter 3 note three weeks later, he'll quote the line. Click any portrait below for full background.
Plus Research and Review Consultants commissioned per book. A novel set in the Qing dynasty needs a historian. A memoir touching refugee law needs someone who has worked in that system. Priya and Rafael commission AI consultants matched to subject matter — clearly labelled as AI, named, illustrated, persistent for the life of the project.
A curated, versioned, living database of the patterns AI writing keeps producing. Every drafted chapter is audited against the full Catalogue. Every flag cited with the entry number and the reason. Authors see exactly what was caught and why.
AI writing patterns. Caught before they ship.
290 today. Growing weekly. Every book that comes through the workshop adds to The Catalogue.
"The book is not about the past, but about how the past reaches into the present."
A genuine rhetorical device in skilled hands. In AI writing, a crutch that appears dozens of times per document. A human writer uses it once or twice in a chapter. LLMs use it seven times.
"This chapter delves into the question of what makes a city."
Among the most-noticed AI tells. A human writer uses "look at" or "examine," or no framing verb. LLMs reach for it reflexively. Caught and flagged on every appearance.
"He stopped — and turned — and walked away — without a word."
A genuine punctuation tool in skilled hands. LLMs reach for the em dash as a cadence default, often three or four to a paragraph. Per-author cap calibrated against the voiceprint Leon holds for you.
Four-layer voiceprint, captured and editable. Oren reads samples and builds the fingerprint. Author reviews, edits, approves.
Bible with Nadia. Research with Priya, including Research Consultants commissioned for the subject. Spine with Henry, plus book-specific quality checks proposed by Rafael's panel.
Chapter by chapter. Henry writes a detailed structural plan. Benedict drafts three candidates from that plan under variable enforcement profiles. Isaiah scores each. Helena composes the composite. Yusef accepts, regenerates, or kicks back to structure.
Three review iterations. Eight readers plus the Review Consultants Rafael commissioned. Author can watch the panel transcript live or let it run in background. Helena synthesises into a plan. Author approves. Mira applies.
Tracked-changes polish with Mira. Compile to Word, PDF, EPUB. Submission package ready for agents. Vivienne returns with three final cover candidates, now informed by the finished book.
Writing a book is a project, not a monthly activity. Each engagement aligns our incentives with the author's. We are paid when the book exists.
Upload your writing. See your voice measured. Receive three book concept proposals or a pressure-test of one you already have. Take your time deciding.
The full editorial engagement. Voiceprint, bible, research with up to 5 Consultants, outline, full drafting (3 candidates per chapter), three revision rounds, panel review, tracked-changes polish, submission package.
Everything in Manuscript, plus unlimited regenerations, 5 candidates per chapter, and Multi-LLM Review bundled — Claude 4.7, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on truly-fresh API contexts, synthesised by Alchemicity. Author-watchable transcript Review Room.
White-glove engagement walked through with the author end to end. Five slots per quarter. Built for executives and serious authors who want the workshop guided personally.
Engagements run up to 100,000 words (Manuscript) or 150,000 words (Pro). Books above those ceilings are quoted on request. 50% refund before first chapter accepted; 0% after.
Accepting pilot interest. For more, email info@alchemicity.com.