The terms, in plain words.

These terms apply whenever you use RedPencil.ai, including this site and the waitlist. If you don’t agree with them, please don’t use the service.

The service is provided by To be confirmed: Company name, registered address and company number.

While RedPencil is on a waitlist, nothing is for sale and no one can upload a manuscript. The sections on accounts, credits, manuscripts and refunds describe how the service will work when it opens. We’ll send the reviewed terms to everyone on the waitlist before then.

At launch, you’ll need an account to send us a manuscript. You must be at least 18, or have a parent or guardian’s permission, to create one.

Keep your sign-in details private and tell us straight away if you think someone else has used your account.

At launch, each manuscript starts with a Manuscript Package: a one-time payment that covers the whole-book read and all four reports, and includes 150 credits. Longer books carry a length surcharge, which you’ll see before you pay.

Credits pay for what you do after the read: chat messages, re-reads, regenerated reports and reprocessing a revised draft. Each action has a published credit cost, and you’ll see what an action will use before you confirm it. You can buy more credits in packs.

Credits never expire. There is no subscription and nothing renews automatically. Credits can’t be exchanged for cash or moved to another account.

Payments will be handled by Paddle, which acts as our merchant of record and adds any tax that applies. The planned prices are on our pricing page.

You keep all rights to your manuscript and anything you write. You give us a limited licence to store and process it only to provide the service to you. This licence ends when you delete the manuscript. Our Privacy policy explains how long backups and AI providers take to clear.

RedPencil never writes, rewrites or generates prose for your book. The editor points to places in the manuscript and suggests directions. The sentences stay yours.

RedPencil’s reports are editorial suggestions produced by AI, not by a person. They can be wrong or incomplete, and they don’t guarantee publication, representation or sales. They are not professional, legal or publishing advice.

The Cold Reader Report is an AI simulation of one first-time reader. It is not a prediction of how real readers will respond, and it doesn’t replace human beta readers.

RedPencil is meant to be used before or alongside a human editor, never instead of one.

Only send us work you own or have permission to use. At launch, you’ll confirm that you hold the rights to a manuscript each time you upload one.

Don’t try to break or overload the service, use the editor for work unrelated to your manuscript, or use RedPencil to create anything unlawful.

We haven’t set the refund policy yet. It will be published here before RedPencil opens, and before anyone can pay for anything.

Your statutory rights are not affected.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that can’t legally be limited. Otherwise, our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

You can leave the waitlist with one click from any email we send. At launch, you can close your account whenever you like, and our Privacy policy explains what happens to your data when you do.

We may suspend accounts that break these terms, and we’ll tell you why.

These terms are governed by the law of To be confirmed: Governing law and jurisdiction.