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Marlowe Reports (Alpha)

A Marlowe report from Authors A.I. is a developmental read of your whole manuscript: story, characters, pacing and craft. You read it in StorytellerOS and turn the ideas you want into tasks.

Alpha

Marlowe reports are in alpha, open to a small group of accounts while we test them. If you don't see Marlowe report in Writing Studio's toolbar, it isn't on for your account yet.

What you get

Marlowe reads the whole book and writes back in sections, grouped the way you'd work through a revision:

  • Overview: an assessment, the premise and genre, strengths, shortcomings and recommendations.
  • Story and plot: plot turns and threads, subplot, conflict, foreshadowing and ideas for revisions.
  • Characters: analysis, arcs, how characters play off each other, and ideas.
  • Pacing: where to speed up, where to slow down, narrative drive and tonal shifts.
  • Craft: point of view, voice, prose style, dialogue, and showing rather than telling.
  • Setting and theme: setting, theme, and ideas for revising both.

Run a report

Only the account owner can run a report.

  1. In Writing Studio, choose Marlowe report in the toolbar. A panel opens beside your manuscript. (You can also use the Marlowe report from Authors A.I. card on the book's page, under your manuscripts.)
  2. Choose Run Marlowe report.
  3. The first time, read the sharing terms. Marlowe reports are created by Authors A.I., an independent company we work with under contract, not by StorytellerOS, and the terms explain what happens to the manuscript they receive. Tick the box to agree to send your manuscript to them, then choose Agree and continue. After that you go straight to the next step, unless the terms change.
  4. Choose which version of your manuscript to send. There's no default; you always pick:
    • Your chapters in StorytellerOS: the title and the text of every chapter, with your pen name as the author name. No bio or other pages go with it. Every chapter needs some text.
    • Your uploaded manuscript: the Word (.docx) file uploaded to the book, sent exactly as it is. If it has an author bio, an also-by page, acknowledgments or anything else in it, that goes too.
  5. Choose Send for a Marlowe report.

While it runs

The toolbar button and the card show where your report is:

  • Queued: waiting to start, usually for a few minutes at most.
  • Preparing: your manuscript is being sent and made ready to read.
  • Analyzing: Marlowe is reading. This takes about 7 minutes.
  • Ready: choose Read the report.
  • Did not finish, Cancelled or Checking: the card says what happened and what to do next, in plain words.

You can leave the page and keep working. One report per book can run at a time.

Read the report and make tasks

Read it in the panel beside your manuscript while you write, or choose Open the full page. The report lists your past reports. Pick one to read it, and jump between sections with the list beside it.

Sections with ideas you can act on (like recommendations, plot revisions or where to speed up) show each idea on its own with a Make a task button. It adds a task linked to the book, with the whole idea in the task's notes. Once it's added, you'll see Task added and Open task, which opens that task. Each idea becomes one task, however many times you click. If you delete the task, you can make it again.

A book's tasks are listed on the book's page under Tasks for this book, and they appear on the main Tasks page too. This book's tasks, beside the report, shows the Tasks page filtered to that book.

Teammates

Teammates who can see the book in Project Studio can read its reports. Teammates who can add tasks can turn ideas into tasks too. Only the owner can send a manuscript.

Change your mind

Go to Settings, then AI Integration, and find Manuscript sharing. It shows when you agreed, and Withdraw cancels any report whose analysis hasn't started. An upload already under way may still finish, and a report already being analyzed is still delivered. Withdrawing doesn't recall a copy Authors A.I. already has, and neither does deleting a report or a book.

From Claude or the API

The connector tools stos_manuscript_reports_list, stos_manuscript_reports_get and stos_manuscript_reports_request (and /api/v1/manuscript-reports) read reports and request one for an account that is in the alpha. Agreeing to the sharing terms only ever happens in the app.

Ask your assistant

Once you've agreed to the terms, your Editor on the in-app team can propose a report for a book. It asks which version of the manuscript to send, and nothing is sent yet. You'll see the proposal in the Marlowe report panel in Writing Studio: choose Send it to send it, or Not now. A proposal you don't confirm expires after 24 hours.