Lore & LilacManifesto
It reads your novel. It never writes it.
Promises are cheap on a website, so we've tried to make ours specific enough to check. If we ever break one, tell us.
What we'll always do
- Let you export everything — DOCX, TXT, EPUB, PDF and a complete project archive — on every plan, and even with no plan at all.
- Keep every version of every scene, and never overwrite one device's work with another's without asking.
- Show our sources: anything the studio says about your book points to the passage it relies on.
- Ask before any book is processed by AI — for that book specifically — and name the provider.
- Show the estimate before anything uses your allowance, and never charge for more than your plan.
- Label unfinished work as planned, and invented samples as invented.
- Let you delete a book or your whole account, and tell you exactly how long backups take to age out.
- Ask before measuring our ads with cookies, and let you change your mind at any time.
- Treat a missed writing day as a day off, not a failure.
What we'll never do
- Write, suggest, autocomplete or rewrite your prose.
- Train AI models on your writing, or use a provider that may train on it.
- Sell your data, put ads in the studio, or show your book to other users.
- Share your writing, titles or studio searches with advertisers. Ad measurement, if you allow it, sees events like “registered”, never your book.
- Claim to catch every mistake in a manuscript.
- Use testimonials we can't stand behind, or numbers we made up.
- Put your manuscript text in our emails, our logs or our ad measurement.
- Make your books hostage to a subscription.
- Shame you, nag you, or send motivational emails you didn't ask for.
Our line on AI
Readers, not writers
Language models are good at a narrow, useful thing: reading a lot of text quickly and pointing at parts of it. They are also good at producing fluent prose, which is exactly what we don't want near your book. Your voice is the point of the work. A studio that drafts sentences for you is, gradually, writing a different book.
So in Lore & Lilac, AI is allowed to extract, find, compare, cite and flag — and nothing else. It can tell you that two passages may disagree, propose a story-bible entry with the sentence it came from, or answer “when does Mara learn the orchard was sold?” with quotes. Every quote is checked against your saved text before you see it, and anything that can't be checked is dropped rather than shown as fact.
It's also off until you turn it on, book by book. When it's on, only the excerpts a task needs are sent, to the provider named on screen, under terms that don't allow training. You see the estimate first. Scenes you mark private never leave our servers.
We think that's a line worth holding even when it would be easy not to. If that ever changes, it will be a separate, clearly labelled choice you switch on yourself — never a default, and never for your prose.
Bring the draft you have
Import your draft from Word, Scrivener, RTF, EPUB or Markdown, or start on a blank page. The 14-day trial needs no card, and your book is exportable from the first word.