For small publishers
Editorial is the job. Filing, formatting, and routing is the week.
AI and automation for small publishers and editorial teams: metadata entered once, submissions triaged before an editor opens them, and one honest view of what is at which stage.
Where the week goes.
Four jobs that follow a pattern, still done by hand. They are the ones worth looking at first, because a pattern is the part a machine can take.
Metadata is entered by hand, repeatedly
The same title, contributors, subject codes, and rights details get typed into the CMS, the distributor feed, and a spreadsheet for sales.
It is entered once, checked once, and pushed everywhere it needs to go.
Submissions are triaged in an inbox
Pitches and manuscripts arrive by email and sit. Acknowledgements go out late or not at all, and the good ones get found in a backlog.
Every submission is logged, acknowledged, and summarised against your criteria, so an editor reads a shortlist rather than an inbox.
Nobody can see what stage anything is at
The schedule is one spreadsheet, the edits are in email, and answering "is this ready?" takes a round of messages.
One view of every piece and its stage, updated as the work moves rather than by someone maintaining a tracker.
Rights questions get re-researched
Every reuse query means digging through old contracts and email threads to work out what was actually granted.
Agreements are read once into a searchable record, so the answer takes a search instead of an afternoon.
We have not shipped an engagement in this sector yet. When we do, it goes here. Until then this page describes what we would build, not what we have delivered — our one published case study is in medical billing.
The same four services, pointed at this.
Nothing on this page is a separate product. It is AI workflows, automation, custom software, and web — applied to the way your business already runs.
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