How it works
How your AI editor reads your work.
Evalie gives your manuscript or script to an AI editor, Claude, made by Anthropic, and asks it for the read a professional would give it. This page is what goes in, how the read is done, what comes out, and what happens to your manuscript.
1What you give it
One file, and a brief.
One manuscript per review, between 300 and 150,000 words, in a file of up to 50 MB. Your browser extracts the text; the file itself is never uploaded.
Not accepted: legacy Word (.doc), Apple Pages, EPUB and images. A scanned PDF has no text to read; export a text PDF or a Word file instead.
- The file. PDF (with a text layer), Word (.docx), Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain (.fountain or .spmd), Rich Text (.rtf) and Plain text or Markdown (.txt or .md).
- The format. One of six, and for TV, the series type: half-hour, one-hour or limited series.
- The genre. Picked from the list for your format, or written in.
- The draft stage. First draft, Revised draft or Polished, ready to submit. It sets what your editor concentrates on: the big picture for a first draft, market and line-level notes for a polished one.
- How the notes are delivered. Encouraging, Balanced or Unvarnished. This changes the tone, never the verdict.
- The notes’ language. English or Spanish. Your editor reads manuscripts in both and writes the notes in your manuscript’s language, unless you choose the other one before it starts reading. Quotations stay exactly as your text has them.
- Notes for your editor. Optional, up to 4,000 characters: goals, worries, questions, where it’s going.
- Previous notes. Optional: the notes from an earlier Evalie review of a previous draft, or a file of notes from anyone (PDF, Word, text or Markdown, up to 60,000 characters of text). Your editor then says what has been addressed and what hasn’t.
2The method
Read it all. Take notes. Then judge.
The report is written in the order a careful editor works: the evidence first, the opinions after, the summary last.
The whole work, once
Your editor holds the entire manuscript in view for every step, up to 150,000 words, so a note on chapter thirty can see the setup in chapter two. Nothing is summarized away first.
Close reading before judging
It reads the work in stretches, each with the whole manuscript still in view, and takes scene-by-scene reader’s notes with page and chapter references and quotes.
Sections written from the evidence
Each section of the report is written separately, from those notes, with its own job, so sections don’t repeat each other.
The letter last
The editor’s letter is written after every section, so the verdict and the priorities agree with the detail.
Checked against your text
Every quoted passage is matched against your manuscript, and a quote that isn’t in the text is removed. Page and chapter references are checked against your manuscript’s real pages and chapters.
Calibrated
Your editor works to each format’s professional standards and the industry’s own verdict scale. You set the draft stage and how the notes are delivered; you don’t set the verdict.
3What you get
A report written for your format.
The verdict, what’s working, the 3 to 5 notes that matter most in order of impact, and a revision plan.
On a three-step scale worded for the format. Prose: Not ready yet, Revise and resubmit, Ready to submit. Screen, comics and micro drama: Pass, Consider, Recommend, and screen formats rate the writer separately on the same scale.
The format’s categories, such as premise, structure, character, dialogue, pacing, voice and marketability, each Excellent, Good, Fair or Poor with a one-line reason.
Six for each format. Every note says what the problem is, where it is, quotes the passage, says why it matters and gives a direction for fixing it.
Measured from your text by Evalie, not estimated by the AI: length in words, pages, chapters, scenes, episodes, comic pages and panels, the length of each chapter, scene or episode, dialogue share, speaking characters, and counts particular to your format. Download the whole report as a PDF or Markdown file.
Novel or prose fiction
A publisher’s reader report and editorial letterNot ready yet · Revise and resubmit · Ready to submitFeature film screenplay
Studio and agency coveragePass · Consider · Recommend, for the script and the writerTV pilot or episode
Studio and network pilot coverage, plus the series enginePass · Consider · Recommend, for the script and the writerShort film script
A producer’s and festival programmer’s readPass · Consider · Recommend, for the script and the writerComic book or graphic novel script
A comics editor’s readPass · Consider · RecommendMicro drama (vertical series)
A short-form drama platform’s development readPass · Consider · Recommend
4Ask your editor
25 questions, same editor.
After the report, ask your editor about anything in it, up to 25 questions a review. It has your whole manuscript and the report in front of it, and answers with page or chapter references.
What it will and won’t do
- Directions, not rewrites. It tells you what to change and why. It doesn’t rewrite your work.
- A short example when you ask. It can show a brief illustrative fix in an answer.
- An AI, not a person. No one at Evalie reads your manuscript.
- An opinion, not a forecast. Notes are judgments about this draft. They can’t promise what an agent, a publisher, a studio or a festival will do.
5Your manuscript
Where your work goes, and where it doesn’t.
On your computer
Your browser extracts the text and keeps it while the review is open. The file is never uploaded.
To your AI editor
Each step of the review sends the text to Anthropic’s Claude to be read. It travels encrypted. Your text travels encrypted to our servers and on to Anthropic. We never use your text to train AI. What Anthropic may do with it is set by Anthropic’s commercial terms, not by us.
Held, then deleted
While your report is written we hold an encrypted copy of your text, so you can close the page, then delete it, within 6 hours at most. We keep your report, which quotes short passages, your questions and your settings, the file name, the numbers, and a fingerprint that can’t be turned back into text.
Erased when you finish
Finishing the review, or asking your 25th question, erases the browser copy. Untouched for 30 days, it’s erased the next time Evalie opens.
How long Anthropic keeps what we send it is set by its own terms, not by us. To keep asking questions after the browser copy is gone, or on another computer, open the same file again: its fingerprint confirms it’s the same draft. The privacy policy has every detail.
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