Your AI writing partner.
Your manuscript stays yours.
A local AI assistant for writers that helps with research, outlining, and editing - without ever sending your unpublished work to an external server.
The reality
Writers using cloud AI tools face a real question: what happens to the text you paste in? Most cloud AI providers store your prompts. For an unpublished novel or a commissioned article under embargo, that matters. Your work has value before it is published - protecting it should not require a law degree.
Beyond privacy, writers need a thinking partner - something that helps with the hard parts of writing: getting unstuck, improving structure, making the argument clearer. Most AI tools are positioned as writing replacements. The best use is as a collaborator that makes your writing better.
How Skales helps writers
Research, structure, editing, and publishing support - entirely on your machine.
Deep research, organised
Paste in your research notes, articles, and references. Ask Skales to synthesise themes, identify contradictions, surface gaps in your knowledge, and suggest what to look at next.
Outlining and structure
Describe your story idea or non-fiction concept and ask Skales to generate a chapter outline. Use it as a starting point or a sanity check for the structure you already have.
Editing partner
Paste a draft chapter and ask Skales to identify pacing issues, redundant passages, unclear arguments, or inconsistent character voice. It asks the questions a good editor would.
Manuscript stays on your machine
Your unpublished work is yours. When you paste chapters into Skales, they are processed locally. Nothing is sent to external servers, stored in the cloud, or used to train any model.
World-building and research
Building a fictional world or historical setting? Ask Skales to help with consistency checking, timeline tracking, and fact-checking against the reference material you provide.
Query letters and synopses
Craft compelling query letters, one-page synopses, and back-cover blurbs. Skales helps you distill your work into the brief, punchy format that agents and publishers expect.
Example: Getting unstuck on chapter 12
You ask: "Here is the summary of my novel so far. I'm stuck on the midpoint. My protagonist needs to make a decision that changes everything but I don't know what it should be."
Skales: Three distinct midpoint options, each with different thematic implications and how they would affect the second half.
You ask: "Here is chapter 12. The pacing feels off in the middle section. What's causing it and how would you fix it?"
Skales: Specific diagnosis: the scene is carrying three different functions at once. Suggestions for splitting or trimming.
You ask: "Write a 250-word back-cover blurb for this thriller. Hook in the first line. No spoilers past the midpoint."
Skales: Two blurb options - one more atmospheric, one more action-driven. Both under 250 words.
“I stopped worrying about who else might be reading my manuscript. It's just me and my machine.”
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