Ten stages, each one gated.
Nothing is ever generated from one giant prompt. Each stage builds structured decisions that later stages must respect. You plan before you draft, you remember before you forget, and you check before you publish.
Start new, or import what you have.
You can build a book from a concept forward, or bring an existing manuscript into Inkloom and reconstruct the project around it. Both paths lead to the same ten-stage workflow.
Start a New Book
Describe your book in the Concept stage. Answer adaptive intake questions. Build your Blueprint. Outline your chapters. Draft one at a time with full context. This is for authors starting from scratch with an idea.
Import Existing Manuscript
Upload a DOCX, PDF, Markdown, or TXT file. Inkloom detects your chapter structure, preserves every word, runs an em dash preflight and writing pattern check, and reconstructs the full project state: Blueprint, Outline, Chapters, Briefs, Voice Profile, and continuity records. Non-destructive. Works without AI.
Structure first. Generation second.
Most AI tools hand you a blank chat and a blinking cursor. Inkloom hands you a sequence of decisions, each one building on the last, each one constraining what comes next.
Each stage is gated
You cannot open the Outline until the Blueprint is complete. You cannot draft a chapter until its brief exists. You cannot run a whole-book review until chapters are approved. Gating prevents you from skipping the structured decisions every later stage depends on.
Nothing from one giant prompt
Inkloom never asks a model to produce a book from a single prompt. Each generation step receives only the context it needs: the locked fields, the relevant canon, the chapter brief, and the voice rules. Layered generation means smaller, grounded, reviewable steps.
Earlier decisions bind later ones
Your Blueprint, Outline, and Canon are not suggestions. They are binding constraints. When Inkloom drafts a chapter, it must obey the brief. When it proposes a voice change, it must respect your voice profile. The structure you build early protects the work you do later.
You can always go back
Gating does not lock you out of earlier stages. You can revise your Concept, unlock a Blueprint field, or edit an outline node. Changes propagate. Inkloom flags what is affected so you can decide whether downstream work needs revisiting.
From concept to KDP-ready files.
Click any stage to explore its feature page in detail.
What each stage does, and what you control.
Every stage has a purpose and a set of decisions that remain with you. AI assists. You decide.
Describe the book. Title, type, concept, audience, tone, length.
Before you plan structure, you define what the book is. Title, type, audience, tone, and target length. This becomes the foundation every later stage references.
Every field is editable. You can lock the book type once settled so downstream stages load the right tracks.
Structured, editable fields per book type. Lock what is settled.
The Blueprint turns your concept into structured fields specific to your book type. For fiction: protagonist, antagonist, stakes, theme. For nonfiction: thesis, reader promises, key terms. Each field can be locked when you are satisfied.
You fill, edit, and lock each field manually. AI can suggest values, but you approve or reject every one.
Hierarchical outline where every chapter carries an operational brief.
The Outline is a hierarchical structure where every chapter carries an operational brief. Not just a title, but what the chapter must accomplish, what it must set up, and what it must pay off.
You build the hierarchy. You write or approve every brief. You reorder, merge, and split chapters freely.
Six-tab workspace. Draft, review, approve. One at a time.
The Chapter Editor is a six-tab workspace: Brief, Draft, Sources, Continuity, Review, and History. You draft one chapter at a time, grounded in its brief and the relevant canon.
You write the draft. AI can generate or revise, but every change arrives as a diff you accept or reject. Your text is never overwritten.
Facts extracted. Conflicts surfaced. Nothing silently resolved.
After you approve a chapter, Inkloom extracts structured facts with confidence scores and source passages. Conflicts with existing canon become cards you resolve. Nothing is silently reconciled.
You confirm or reject each fact. You pick the canonical version of any conflict. You mark differences as intentional when they are.
Find formulaic patterns. Accept or reject each proposed change.
Voice Pass uses two-stage detection: instant deterministic scanning for dozens of pattern families, then LLM evaluation that checks each candidate against your own approved chapters. Deliberate style is never flagged as failure. Each finding shows the original, the proposed revision, and the rule that triggered it.
You accept or reject every proposed change individually. Severity is calibrated so explicit rule violations surface first. Voice Pass works fully offline.
Whole-book editorial pass across every chapter.
The whole-book editorial pass runs across every chapter at once. It surfaces pacing issues, dangling threads, structural repetition, and claims that still need support. Findings are categorized by severity.
You triage findings. You decide which to act on now and which to defer. The editor never auto-applies review suggestions.
Seven keyword slots. A+ content modules from the manuscript.
Seven keyword slots guide KDP discoverability. A+ content modules are drafted from your manuscript identity, not invented from scratch. Everything traces back to what your book actually says.
You choose keywords. You edit every A+ content module. You decide what goes to KDP and what stays internal.
Cover concepts from your book identity. Print and Kindle output.
Cover Studio generates cover concepts from your book identity: title, genre, tone, and key visual themes. The print cover calculator computes exact spine width from your page count.
You pick the concept. You adjust typography, imagery, and layout. You export print and Kindle cover PDFs when you are satisfied.
Print PDF, EPUB, DOCX, Markdown. Readiness checked.
Export produces print-ready PDFs in five KDP trim sizes, reflowable Kindle EPUB, DOCX, Markdown, and plain text. A readiness check reports what needs attention before you publish.
You choose the format and trim size. You review the readiness report. You export only when you are ready.
Not one prompt. A stack of decisions.
Inkloom builds context layer by layer. Each layer is a set of structured, reviewable decisions. When AI generates, it draws from the relevant layers, not from an empty conversation.
Define the book. Title, type, audience, tone, length. The smallest, most fundamental layer.
Structured fields per book type. Each field is a decision. Locked fields become constraints.
Chapters with operational briefs. The brief says what each chapter must do, not just what it is about.
Facts, characters, world rules, promises, and open loops established by approved chapters. This is the book's memory.
Chapter text generated from the brief plus relevant canon. Not from a blank prompt, but from accumulated structured context.
Editorial findings, voice patterns, and claim validation. Each finding points back to the specific text and rule.
Inkloom proposes. You decide.
Every AI change arrives as a reviewable diff. Your text is never overwritten. You remain the author.
Inkloom proposes. You decide.
Across all ten stages, the same principle holds. AI generates proposals. You review diffs. You accept or reject. Your text is never silently overwritten.
Accept or reject
Every AI proposal is a diff. One click to accept, one to reject. No silent edits.
Append-only history
Every edit creates a new version. Restoring creates a new version. Nothing is lost.
Works without AI
The editor, outline, canon, typography, and export all run without an API key. AI is optional.
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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