How it Works
Six stages from upload to a submission-ready manuscript. Here is what happens at each, what we need from you, and how long it takes.
Stage by stage.
- 01
Upload your manuscript
Send a DOCX or PDF through the submission form, with your target citation style and journal if you have one. DOCX is preferable — it preserves document structure, so corrections map back precisely to where they belong.
- From you: Your draft, target style, and journal if known
- From us: Private storage outside the public web root
- 02
Structure extraction
Before any language check runs, the document is parsed into its parts: sections, headings, body text, in-text citations, reference list, figure and table captions. Checks that follow need to know which is which.
- From you: Nothing — this stage is automatic
- From us: A structural map of your manuscript
- 03
The scan
All six checks run across the full document at once: proofreading, copyediting, academic standards, formatting, ESL patterns, and consistency. Not a sample — every page.
- From you: Nothing
- From us: A complete issue list with locations
- 04
Review the findings
Each issue arrives with the reasoning behind it. This is the part that stays yours: accept what improves the paper, dismiss what misreads your intent. Nothing is applied to your document automatically.
- From you: A decision on each suggestion
- From us: The explanation behind every one
- 05
Export and format
Download the corrected manuscript, then apply a citation style or a specific journal’s author guidelines if you are preparing to submit.
- From you: Your target journal, if you have chosen one
- From us: A formatted, submission-ready document
- 06
Revise and rescan
Edit, upload again, and rescan at no additional cost. Reviewer comments, supervisor feedback, a fresh look a week later — recheck each time.
- From you: Your revised draft
- From us: A fresh scan, as often as you want one
Findings, not a rewritten file.
The distinction matters. A tool that hands back a silently altered manuscript gives you no way to know what changed or why — and no way to defend the document as your own work.
- An issue list. Grouped by type, with the location of each in your document.
- The reasoning. Why each was raised, so you can judge rather than trust.
- A corrected file. Generated only from the suggestions you accepted.
- Recurring patterns. Habitual errors grouped, so they become visible rather than repeated.
What the scan cannot do.
Worth knowing before you rely on it. These are not temporary gaps — they are outside what automated language checking can responsibly claim.
- It does not check your science. Data, statistics, methods, and whether conclusions follow from results are all outside its scope.
- It does not verify sources exist. A well-formed but invented citation will pass a completeness check. Verify every reference yourself.
- It does not detect plagiarism. There is no similarity comparison against published literature.
- It is not a subject expert. Treat suggestions touching technical terminology in your field with particular care.
Upload your draft.
See what the scan returns before you decide whether it is useful to you.