An editorial board for your book
Publishify Masthead reads your book like a publishing house staff, gives evidence-based notes and shows where the journey stands. It never touches your text, and the decisions stay yours.
What Masthead does
A section-by-section edit
The Editor reads each section once, gives notes on structure and pacing and prepares a summary.
Language and spelling
It shows spelling, punctuation and grammar errors. Frequent mistakes are caught by a script, using no tokens.
Continuity across the book
The Auditor shows contradictions in age, date, place, objects and knowledge, each with evidence from two places.
A map of the journey
A single ring shows where the narrative stands in The Wayfarer's Seven Stages.
Reader response
The Reader Panel simulates where a chosen reader profile grew curious and where they drifted away. It is a simulation.
A visual dashboard
Up to three main decisions, section status and every note on one page. It opens offline and can be printed.
How it makes the work easier
It never touches your text
Masthead does not rewrite, does not issue verdicts and never says “ready to publish”. Decisions stay with the author.
Notes come with evidence
Every note is tied to a quote from your book. If a quote cannot be found word for word, the note is marked as unverified.
Unchanged sections are not read again
When you revise and run it again, only the sections that changed are read.
Routine work uses no tokens
Measuring, quote checks, the scorecard and the dashboard are done by scripts. AI runs only where reading is needed.
In your book's language
Notes are written in the language of your book, and the report opens in that language too.
Picks up where it stopped
If the connection drops or your usage limit is reached, finished work is not repeated when you start again.
World-class infrastructure
We built Masthead around the author's book and data.
Runs on your own Claude account
The AI that reads your book runs on your own Claude account.
Your book stays with you
Your full text and summaries stay on your computer. Only notes, quotes of up to 25 words and counts reach the server.
No AI on our servers
Publishify's servers do not run AI on your book. Scripts manage the order of work and the report records.
Global infrastructure
The service runs on Cloudflare's global network, and each account's data is kept in its own separate store.
Standard secure sign-in
Sign-in with Google uses OAuth and PKCE, and your sign-in details are protected on your computer.
Your data is yours
When you want it gone, a single-use, time-limited confirmation link removes your data.
What it reads
Our main focus is narrative:
Although not our main focus, these are also supported in beta. The journey map appears only for narratives:
The Wayfarer's Seven Stages
Masthead reads a narrative through seven stages developed by Ali Osman Akçaoğlu from the Book of Dede Korkut, Attar's Conference of the Birds and the Sufi understanding of the path. It shares stages with the Hero's Journey; the difference is that its centre is not success but the wayfarer's inner need.
The wayfarer sets out with an inner need, passes through seven stages and returns home changed.
- 01
Call
What is missing, and how does the wayfarer answer the call?
Something in the order of things begins to ache. The wayfarer notices what is missing, may resist, then answers. The first form of the inner need appears here.
- 02
Guide
Who shows the way, and what is being prepared?
Someone or something shows the way: a master, a mentor, a companion, sometimes a book or a voice. Having no guide is a choice too.
- 03
Threshold
What is left behind, and why is there no way back?
A step is taken that makes going back hard. The wayfarer breaks from the known world and binds themselves to a new order.
- 04
Trial
How does the road test them, and what is the rule of the new world?
Obstacles, desire, love and learning follow one another. The wayfarer learns the rule of the new world, often at a cost.
- 05
Awakening
What burned away, and what did they wake to?
The greatest confrontation happens here. Something burns away inside the wayfarer, and a new way of seeing takes its place.
- 06
Reward
What was the price, and who have they become?
What is won is rarely an object. It is a name, a truth or a new identity, and it comes with its price.
- 07
Return
What do they bring home, and has home changed?
The wayfarer brings what was won back home, to serve and to share. Neither home nor wayfarer is what it was.
The stages are a map, not a checklist. Their order is not fixed, and a stage that is absent is not a fault.
How to use it
Masthead is a Claude Code plugin and needs a Claude account. During early access, a licence is linked to the email of your Google account.