Build the Book.
Most writing tools hand you a blank page. Inkloom hands you a sequence of decisions, each one built on the last. Concept becomes Blueprint, Blueprint becomes Outline, Outline becomes chapter briefs that every draft must obey. By the time you write a sentence, the book already knows what it is.
Nothing is generated from one giant prompt.
Each stage produces structured decisions that the next stage must respect. The model is never asked to invent your book whole. It is asked to build the next layer on top of layers you have already approved.
Describe the book in structured fields: title, type, concept, audience, primary outcome, reader experience, tone, length, and research needs.
Each core field has a Generate button that builds on the fields before it. Working title feeds concept, concept feeds audience, audience feeds primary outcome. You accept, edit, or reject every suggestion. Nothing becomes canonical until you say so.
Inkloom reads your concept fields and asks 4 to 6 questions about the things it does not already know.
Generic intake forms ask the same questions regardless of what you are writing. A fiction author does not need the same questions as a training manual author. For each question, Suggest answers returns three genuinely distinct draft answers, each taking a different position so the choice means something. Your answers become canonical project record.
Structured, editable fields matched to your book type. Lock what is settled. Locked fields become canonical.
The Blueprint is not an outline. It is the constitution: thesis, promise, tone, evidence requirements, what the book refuses to promise, major conflict, world rules. It builds in layered groups: Foundation, Reader, Content, Boundaries. The prompt explicitly instructs the model to build on prior groups and never contradict them. Every field supports edit, approve, lock, unlock, and full revision history.
A hierarchical outline where every chapter carries an operational brief, not just a title.
Two-phase generation builds the structure map first (parts, sections, chapter titles with one-sentence purposes), then full operational briefs for each chapter. Drag and drop to reorder. Validation flags missing briefs, repeated objectives, and broken concept ordering before they cost you a week of drafting.
The operational contract for a single chapter: purpose, objective, required setup, required payoff, concepts introduced, what must not be repeated.
A chapter brief is what makes a chapter serve the book instead of drifting. It defines what the chapter must accomplish, what it must set up for later, what it must pay off from earlier, and what it must not repeat. The Chapter Editor reads the brief and treats it as binding.
A six-tab workspace for one chapter at a time: Brief, Draft, Review, History, Notes, and Traces.
Autosave, version history, focus mode, find and replace, VS Code-style shortcuts. AI drafting is a tool inside the editor, not the editor itself. You can write the entire book without ever asking the model for a word, and the editor stands on its own.
A dedicated space to explore directions without polluting your canonical record.
When you are stuck, Inkloom brainstorming proposes directions that obey your locked Blueprint and existing continuity. Suggestions are sandboxed: they never become part of the manuscript or the canon until you promote them. You keep the ones that serve the book and discard the rest.
The Blueprint locks what is settled.
Books drift because authors make foundational decisions early, then forget or contradict them by chapter 12. The Blueprint is the single source of truth for what the book is supposed to be, and locked fields are canonical rules that all future generation must respect.
- Foundation, Reader, Content, and Boundaries groups build on each other
- Lock a field and it becomes a binding rule for every stage that follows
- Unlock and re-lock any time, with full revision history on every field
- Running the Blueprint fills empty fields without overwriting what you approved
Every tool that builds the book.
Seven linked tools take you from a vague idea to a chapter ready to draft. Each one reads the decisions made by the tools before it.
Concept
Describe the book you want to write. Title, type, concept, audience, primary outcome, desired reader experience, tone, length, and research needs. Cascade generation builds each field on the last.
Adaptive Intake
Inkloom asks 4 to 6 specific questions about your book, only things it does not already know. Your answers become part of the canonical project record. Each question offers three genuinely distinct suggested answers.
Blueprint
Structured, editable fields matched to your book type. Lock what is settled. Locked fields become canonical. Everything generated afterward must respect them. Full revision history on every field.
Outline
Hierarchical outline with parts, sections, chapters, scenes, lessons, exercises, and appendices. Two-phase generation. Every chapter carries an operational brief. Drag and drop to reorder. Validation flags problems before they cost you.
Chapter Editor
A real rich-text manuscript editor with autosave, full version history, focus mode, find and replace, VS Code-style keyboard shortcuts, a context menu with AI actions, and section-level operations. AI proposals arrive as side-by-side diffs. Your text is never overwritten.
Compliance
After every chapter draft, Inkloom runs a compliance pass that checks the chapter against every obligation from its brief, the outline, the Blueprint, and the Concept record. Each check returns pass, fail, or partial with specific evidence cited from the text. Fix, Fix All, Goto, and Ignore buttons let you act on findings.
Brainstorm
When you are stuck, highlight a passage and get ten directions it could take, each grounded in the records the passage touches: facts, open loops, characters, promises, terms. One click drafts a direction into a reviewable diff.
Chapter Briefs
Every chapter carries an operational brief: purpose, objective, summary, required setup, required payoff, concepts introduced, what must not be repeated, how it connects to the previous chapter, and what it prepares for the next. Briefs are versioned and lock when the chapter is approved.
Manuscript Import
Import an existing manuscript in DOCX, PDF, Markdown, or TXT format. Inkloom preserves every word you wrote, detects chapter structure, and reconstructs the full project state around your writing. Non-destructive. Works without AI.
Build the outline your chapters have to obey.
Turn your concept into a Blueprint, outline, and chapter-level plan before you draft a single word.
Your book is bigger than a prompt.
Give it a memory.
Inkloom helps you plan, write, remember, check, polish, typeset, cover, and publish a coherent book from one integrated local-first environment.
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