The Ideorix Engine

Editorial Intelligence
for Serious Authors

Whether you write every word yourself or harness AI as a creative partner, Ideorix delivers two professional engines — Fiction (70+ genres) and Non-Fiction (33 categories) — each with a 12-stage editorial pipeline and craft standards that rival a professional publishing house.

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One Engine. Two Ways to Write.

Ideorix doesn't force you into a single workflow. Choose the path that fits how you create.

AI-Assisted Authors

Full Pipeline Mode

Use the complete engine — from Story Bible generation through chapter-by-chapter writing to a full 12-stage editorial pass. Ideorix handles the heavy lifting while you steer every creative decision.

  • Architect → Writer separation prevents AI drift
  • 14 specialised agents work your manuscript
  • Prose Humaniser blocks 1,212 AI-telltale phrases
  • 5-agent verification suite per chapter
  • Chapters scoring below 80 are automatically reworked
  • Genre-specific guardrails prevent common AI failures

Traditional Authors

Bring Your Own Manuscript

Already written your book? Paste or upload any manuscript and Ideorix becomes your editorial team — without changing a word you don't approve. Your voice stays yours.

  • Voice Profile locks your style before editing begins
  • Full 12-stage editorial pipeline on your prose
  • Run the entire pipeline or pick specific stages
  • Story Bible Only mode for planning & world-building
  • Auto-detects genre, POV, tense, and dialect
  • Surgical fixes — minimum edits, maximum impact

Already Started in Another Tool? Bring It Across.

If your manuscript or outline lives in Novelcrafter, Plottr, or Scrivener, you don't have to start over. The Ideorix Import Studio parses your existing project, extracts everything that matters, and lands you in a fully populated workspace ready for the editorial pipeline — with your characters, locations, outline, and prose preserved exactly as you left them.

Novelcrafter Import

Manuscript + Codex → Story Bible

Export your Novelcrafter project as Markdown (with codex), drop it in, and Ideorix parses every chapter, scene, and `* * *` break into clean chapter files — then maps your codex (characters, locations, objects, subplots, world-building) into a structured Story Bible with all your aliases preserved.

  • Manuscript prose imported chapter-by-chapter, scenes preserved
  • Characters with aliases, tags, and full descriptions
  • Locations, objects, and subplots from your codex
  • World-building auto-triaged from Novelcrafter's "other" folder
  • Reduced setup flow — only asks what Novelcrafter doesn't record
  • Hand-off to Continue Writing, Edit & Revise, or Manuscript Clinic

Plottr Import

Outline-Only → Starter Story Bible

Export your Plottr project as Word (`.docx`) and the importer pulls every beat, character, place, and timeline entry into a starter Story Bible. Plottr beat sheet templates (Save the Cat, Three-Act, Hero's Journey) populate the structure beat for each chapter automatically.

  • Beats become Section 12 chapter outline entries, grouped by length tier
  • Storylines become woven subplot threads
  • Characters with nicknames and full biographical detail
  • Places, day-grouped timeline, and beat sheet templates preserved
  • Skips Phase 1 questions Plottr already answered
  • Hands off to chapter generation as soon as you approve the bible

Scrivener Import

Full Prose + Binder → Manuscript or Outline

Zip your `.scriv` bundle and the importer reads the entire binder — whether you have full chapters of prose or just synopses. Footnotes are preserved (critical for non-fiction), Characters / People / Places folders are mapped into the Story Bible, and Research folder content becomes candidate sources flagged for your review.

  • Full-prose projects: every chapter's RTF body → clean markdown
  • Outline-only projects: synopses become chapter outline entries
  • Footnotes preserved; citation style auto-inferred from existing footnotes
  • Characters / Places / Research folders mapped into Story Bible sections
  • Smart hand-off: full prose → Edit & Revise, outline → Research Bible review
  • Works for any fiction genre or non-fiction category

Non-fiction users: Plottr and Scrivener imports are also supported on the non-fiction side — beats become Research Bible chapter outline entries, characters become Key Figures, places become Subject Context, and Scrivener footnotes are extracted as candidate sources for your bibliography.

Choose Your Genre. Unlock Its Expertise.

How Genre Selection Works

Every genre has its own rules, reader expectations, and failure modes. A mystery needs airtight clue planting. A romance needs escalating emotional stakes. Literary fiction demands original metaphor and subtext.

Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, each Ideorix plugin is a self-contained expert — loaded with genre-specific guardrails, beat structures, name generators, craft rules, and editorial checks tuned to what readers of that genre actually demand. You select your genre (or category) and the engine configures itself accordingly.

13 interactive setup questions further refine the engine: subgenre, tropes, length, beat structure, POV, heat level, style preferences, series or standalone, and more — producing a fully personalised writing environment in under 60 seconds.

Cozy Mystery
Epic Fantasy
Romance
Literary Fiction
Thriller
Science Fiction
Dark Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Horror
Urban Fantasy
Dystopian
Cyberpunk
Paranormal Romance
Western
Steampunk
Military SF
Psychological Thriller
Romantic Comedy
Gothic Horror
Space Opera
Magical Realism
Noir
LitRPG
Young Adult
Children's Chapter Books
+ 40 More Categories

From Research to Publication-Ready Manuscript

The same editorial rigour, purpose-built for non-fiction. Ideorix Non-Fiction replaces Story Bibles with Research Bibles, genre plugins with category frameworks, and adds dedicated fact-checking and source verification at every stage.

What's Different

Built for Non-Fiction from the Ground Up

Not a fiction engine with labels swapped. Every agent, every check, every framework has been rebuilt for how non-fiction actually works.

  • Research Bible replaces Story Bible — sources, evidence, thesis
  • Authority Voice Profile locks your expert tone
  • 5 verification agents: Source Guardian, Evidence Auditor, Citation Keeper, Expert Tracker, Argument Analyst
  • 7 Non-Fiction Craft Commandments enforced in every chapter
  • 12 structural frameworks (Narrative Arc, Problem-Solution, Case Study, Investigative, and more)
  • 30+ rhetorical strategies across 4 categories

33 Category Frameworks

Every Category Has Its Own Rules

Just like fiction genres, each non-fiction category has specific reader expectations, structural conventions, and quality benchmarks.

  • Business, Self-Help, Popular Science, Psychology
  • Memoir, Biography, Historical Biography
  • True Crime, Investigative Journalism
  • History, Military History, Microhistory, Social History
  • Health & Wellness, Cooking, Parenting, Personal Finance
  • Philosophy, Religion, Travel, Nature Writing, and more

The 7 Non-Fiction Craft Commandments

Every chapter is checked against these mandatory standards before it leaves the engine:

1. Evidence Not Assertion — every claim backed by source
2. Clear Attribution — readers always know where facts come from
3. Defined Scope — each chapter stays in its lane
4. Specific Examples — concrete over abstract
5. Pacing Matches Complexity — dense topics get more space
6. Jargon Management — technical terms defined on first use
7. Accurate Details — dates, names, statistics verified against sources

Write Screenplays. Adapt Manuscripts. Any Length.

The same genre intelligence that powers Ideorix novels, applied to visual storytelling. Write original screenplays or adapt existing manuscripts — with professional Script Coverage that replaces traditional Alpha/Beta Reader reports. (Need the reverse direction? See Screenplay → Novel below — Ideorix now adapts screenplays into novels too.)

Original or Adapted

Two Modes, One Engine

Write an original screenplay from a concept, or convert any Ideorix manuscript into screenplay format. The engine handles character consolidation, timeline compression, and visual translation automatically.

  • Feature film (90 or 120 minutes), TV pilot, limited series, or any custom runtime
  • Save the Cat, Three-Act, Sequence Method, Story Circle, and 5-Act TV structures
  • Fountain (.fountain) output — imports into Final Draft, Highland, Fade In, Arc Studio
  • Industry-standard formatting: Courier 12pt, proper margins, spec script rules
  • V.O. budget enforcement prevents narration overuse in adaptations
  • Page budget targeting ensures first drafts hit length from the start

Script Coverage

The Screenplay Equivalent of Alpha/Beta Readers

Professional two-pass script coverage — the same assessment format used by studios, agencies, and production companies. Each pass delivers a detailed report with a RECOMMEND / CONSIDER / PASS verdict.

  • Development Coverage: premise, structure, characters, dialogue, visual storytelling
  • Industry Coverage: genre authenticity, market viability, castability, budget feasibility
  • Engagement map tracking reader interest scene by scene
  • Comp titles and market positioning
  • Craft compliance check (action lines, white space, parenthetical restraint)
  • Both reports delivered as formatted .docx files

Turn Your Screenplay Into a Novel.

If you have a screenplay you own — your own script, an option you've held, a spec that never sold — Ideorix can adapt it into a novel. Upload your script in Fountain, Final Draft FDX, Word DOCX, or text-layer PDF, and the engine parses your scenes, characters, locations, and dialogue, seeds the Story Bible automatically, and runs the full manuscript pipeline with an expansion-aware Writer that adds what novels need — POV interiority, sensory environment, subtext, and pacing — while every plot beat stays locked to the source screenplay.

What Goes In

Four Input Formats — Use Whatever You Have

The importer auto-detects the format and routes to the correct parser. No re-export hassles, no manual cleanup. Industry-standard layout detection for PDFs; scanned PDFs are rejected with a clear re-export message rather than producing garbage output.

  • Fountain (`.fountain`) — plain-text, exports from every screenwriting app
  • Final Draft FDX (`.fdx`) — Final Draft's native XML format
  • DOCX (`.docx`) — Word format with screenplay paragraph styles, or freehand-typed Word screenplays via indent heuristics
  • PDF (`.pdf`) — text-layer PDFs from Final Draft, Highland, WriterDuet, Fade In, Celtx, and any spec-formatted screenplay
  • Auto-extracts: scenes, characters, locations, dialogue, parentheticals, transitions, and title page metadata
  • Character normalisation: BEN, BEN (O.S.), BEN (V.O.), BEN (CONT'D) → one character with all aliases preserved

What Comes Out

Any Length. Any POV. Faithful Plot.

You pick the target novel length and POV mode. The engine calculates your specific expansion ratio and recommends the best-fit tier, then runs the full pipeline with mechanical safeguards that make plot drift physically impossible.

  • 5 length tiers: Short Story (~8k) · Novelette (~12.5k) · Novella (~40k) · Standard Novel (~75k) · Epic Novel (~120k)
  • 3 POV modes: Single-POV · Dual-POV (alternating or scene-driven) · Multi-POV (3+ characters with mandatory voice contrast)
  • 3 dialogue handling policies: verbatim (every line preserved exactly), natural (up to 20% paraphrase), or paraphrase (looser adaptation)
  • Outline Conformance Agent treats the screenplay as the canonical outline — any chapter brief that invents a plot event is blocked at brief-time
  • Entity Canon Lockfile auto-populates from the script's character + location rosters — the Continuity Guardian catches any name drift mechanically
  • Writer expansion: ~45% interiority, ~25% sensory environment, ~15% dialogue craft, ~10% transitional prose, ~5% preserved source rendered in novel form

Faithful plot. New prose.

Every plot event, character beat, and dramatic moment traces back to your screenplay. What the novel adds is what novels are for — the reader's seat inside a character's head, the sensory layering a camera couldn't capture, the pacing choices that breathe, the subtext a performance would have carried. The engine physically prevents drift from your source — you cannot accidentally lose the story you wrote.

Rights note: only adapt screenplays you own or have explicit permission to adapt.

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13 Stages. Zero Shortcuts.

Every manuscript — AI-generated or hand-written — passes through the same rigorous multi-agent editorial process. Nothing ships until it's ready.

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Voice Profile

Captures sentence architecture, vocabulary range, narrative stance, dialogue style, pacing signature, and metaphor patterns before a single edit is made.

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Genre-Specific Audit

Outline adherence for mysteries, magic system consistency for fantasy, relationship arc delivery for romance — every genre gets its own checklist.

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Proofreader

Spelling, grammar, punctuation, tense shifts, subject-verb agreement — the foundation layer.

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Copy Editor

Word choice precision, sentence rhythm, crutch word frequency, adverb density, passive voice ratio, dialogue tag variety.

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Developmental Editor

Full manuscript structure analysis — opening hook, pacing, character arcs, plot thread resolution, stakes escalation, climax delivery.

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Alpha Reader

Engagement map with star ratings. Reports exactly where readers get bored, gripped, confused, or surprised.

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Beta Reader

Genre expert evaluation — authenticity, market readiness, comp titles, and fan appeal assessment.

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Conflict Resolution

Detects contradictory recommendations across editors, ranks every issue by impact, resolves disagreements.

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Surgical Fixes

Applies the top 5–7 highest-impact fixes with minimum edits, verified against your Voice Profile.

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Continuity Audit

Post-fix sweep building master reference tables: Character Bible, Relationship Tracker, Timeline, Geography, World Rules, Object Tracking.

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Revision Loop

Iterative refinement cycle — re-evaluates fixes against editorial standards and applies additional corrections until quality thresholds are met.

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Multi-POV Pass

Ensures voice distinction, timeline consistency, and information boundaries across every point-of-view character.

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Publication Readiness Assessment

Final gate review confirming the manuscript meets professional publishing standards across all dimensions — prose quality, structural integrity, genre conventions, and market positioning — before delivery.

Craft at Every Level

Beyond the editorial pipeline, every plugin includes these professional-grade tools.

3-Phase Story Bible

Foundation → Plot → Entities. Characters, world, themes, chapter outlines with emotional arcs, and a structured database of every element in your story.

28 Beat Structures

Save the Cat, Hero's Journey, Story Circle, Romancing the Beat, Thriller 12-Beat, and 23 more — select the architecture that fits your story.

Architect → Writer

Scene-by-scene blueprint first, prose execution second. The single biggest quality difference between Ideorix and direct-from-outline AI writing.

Prose Humaniser

Tracks 1,212 forbidden words and phrases. Per-pattern frequency limits eliminate every AI-telltale construction from your manuscript.

5-Agent Verification

Continuity Guardian, Quality Guardian, Timeline Keeper, Character Tracker, and Arc Analyst run on every chapter. Below 80? It's reworked.

Series Support

Series Bible, cross-volume continuity tracking, arc weave matrix, character trajectory maps, and a 6th verification agent for series continuity.

Chekhov's Gun Tracking

Plant 0, 1, 3, or 5 story elements and the engine tracks each one through setup, reminder, and payoff — nothing is forgotten.

KDP-Ready Output

Complete .docx manuscript plus Amazon metadata: book description, 7 keywords, category recommendations, comp titles, and a detailed cover art prompt.

Pen Name Studio

Genre-informed pen names with professional author bios in three lengths, persona notes, and social media tone guidance.

Screenplay Studio

Original screenplays or manuscript adaptations. Feature films, TV pilots, limited series, short films — any runtime. Fountain format output with professional Script Coverage.

Screenplay → Novel

Adapt a Fountain, FDX, DOCX, or text-layer PDF screenplay into a novel. 5 length tiers (Short Story to Epic Novel), Single/Dual/Multi-POV, expansion-aware Writer, plot locked to source.

Project Importer

Bring your existing work from Novelcrafter, Plottr, or Scrivener. Manuscript, codex, characters, locations, beats, and footnotes preserved. Skips setup questions your tool already answered.

Reader Magnet Studio

Build your subscriber list. The engine writes the magnet, the opt-in page, the delivery email, and a 3-email onboarding sequence — all voice-matched to your catalog.

Up and Running in 60 Seconds

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Install

Download the free Claude Desktop app. Add your Claude Pro, Team, or Enterprise subscription. Drop in your Ideorix plugin file.

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Configure

Answer 13 setup questions — genre, subgenre, tropes, length, POV, heat level, style, series or standalone — and the engine tunes itself to your project.

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Create

Generate from scratch or paste your manuscript. The engine handles everything from Story Bible to final editorial pass and publication-ready output.

Ready to Write at a
Higher Standard?

Join the Ideorix community for full access to all three engines — Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Screenplay — plus the Adaptation Studio for Screenplay → Novel conversion, project importers for Novelcrafter, Plottr, and Scrivener, 103 genre and category plugins, ongoing updates, and author training.

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