Manuscript Intelligence for Publishers
AI-assisted acquisitions and editorial intelligence system for a major trade publisher — surfacing comp titles, market signals, and editorial flags across hundreds of incoming manuscripts a week.
Faster acquisitions screening
Tokens processed daily
Imprints onboarded
Challenge
Editorial teams were spending hours per manuscript on first-pass screening — reading samples, hunting for comps, judging market fit — while the inbound queue kept growing. Institutional knowledge lived in a few senior editors' heads.
Approach
- Custom knowledge graph linking manuscripts to comp titles, sales history, and reviewer notes from the publisher's archive.
- LLM-powered manuscript synthesis that produces editorial briefs with citations back to the source text.
- Reviewer workspace built around the editor's actual workflow — not a generic AI chat.
- Production-grade retrieval, 200M+ token-per-day inference budget, and per-imprint cost dashboards.
Outcome
Acquisitions screening now runs 12× faster. Eight imprints are live on the platform, processing over 200M tokens daily, with editorial decisions documented and auditable from inbound to offer.
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