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RevisionGrade™ Revise · Author-Controlled Repair

Choose your governed revision path.

Revise is the author-controlled repair workflow after evaluation: findings become evidence-backed repair decisions. Work through the queue one opportunity at a time, or use TrustedPath™ to apply eligible recommended repairs to a protected manuscript copy.

Core primitive

RevisionOpportunity

Each opportunity is a specific manuscript repair candidate, anchored to evidence and constrained by what the author must not lose.

Evidence-backed problem statement
Affected criterion, severity, and confidence
Original passage context
A / B / C repair options with rationale
Author decision: accept, keep original, reject, defer, or write custom
Voice-protection warning when compression would damage the text

See the Revise Queue in action

A repair queue, not a report. Progressive disclosure of one meaningful problem at a time.

Example preview this is sample data, not your manuscript
Try it!Click items on the left, choose a proposal, then make a decision.

Dialogue · Chapter 11 · river scene

Abstract phrasing weakens river-scene tension

mustSpine-criticalModerate confidence

Evidence

“It’s okay,” I whispered. But even as I said it, I knew it wasn’t okay.

char 1247–1330 · Chapter 11 · river scene

Symptom
Emotional contradiction is stated directly instead of dramatized.
Cause
Internal realization duplicates what the dialogue already implies, flattening the moment into commentary.
Fix direction
Replace internal explanation with a physical hesitation or interruption beat.
Reader effect
Tension escalates instead of pausing for narrator gloss.
Mistake-proofing
Preserve the speaker’s voice and the dialogue’s rhythm. Do not introduce new information about the river or the listener’s reaction.

Three structurally distinct proposals

Voice-preservation gate passed for all three. Quoted manuscript text remains byte-for-byte unchanged unless you accept a proposal.

Two revision paths

Manual control or governed automation.

Path 1

Revise Queue

The author reviews each repair opportunity manually. Every decision is explicit: accept a proposed repair, keep the original, reject the opportunity, defer it, or write a custom revision.

Accept selected option
Keep original
Reject all three
Write custom revision
Defer for later
Record decision in session history
Open Workbench

Path 2

TrustedPath™

TrustedPath™ is the convenience path for authors who do not want to review dozens or hundreds of repair opportunities. It applies eligible recommended repairs to a duplicate manuscript draft.

Applies eligible recommended repairs only
Creates a duplicate revised draft
Preserves the original manuscript
Generates a change log
Skips low-confidence or high voice-risk opportunities when required
Supports follow-up evaluation to measure improvement

TrustedPath™ should never overwrite the original. It produces a protected revised draft, a change log, and a clear next step: review, export, or re-evaluate.

A / B / C model

Three proposed repairs, one author decision.

The options are not random rewrites. They represent different levels of intervention, from recommended to conservative to bold.

A—Recommended

The system's best repair based on evidence, severity, reader effect, and voice-protection rules. TrustedPath™ applies this option when eligible.

B—Conservative

The smallest viable change. It repairs the issue while preserving as much of the original passage, rhythm, and structure as possible.

C—Bold

A more assertive alternative. It may intensify, compress, restructure, or reframe the moment when a stronger move is warranted.

Repair discipline

Revise keeps repair governed instead of scattered.

The public principle is simple: the system should not polish a sentence before it understands the evidence, risk, voice, and author decision attached to the change.

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Diagnosis before repair

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Evidence before edit

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Voice protection before compression

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Author decision before manuscript change

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Follow-up evaluation before claiming improvement

Author sovereignty

RevisionGrade does not force revision. It records decisions.

Evaluation findings do not automatically become edits.

Long-form readiness intelligence is the proprietary evaluation layer, not a single rewrite command.

Revision activity is not measured improvement until a later evaluation confirms movement.

The author may control every opportunity manually or authorize governed automation.

TrustedPath™ is convenience with safeguards, not blind rewriting.

Contract

Manual review proves rigor. TrustedPath™ delivers speed.

Both paths keep the same principle: the manuscript is diagnosed first, repairs are evidence-backed, and the author remains the final authority.