Index is live Answer-engine citation tracking across six surfaces

Publish like a house ten times your size.

Inkwell Genie is the AI operating system for publishing houses. Five products on one catalogue graph, taking a title from raw manuscript to typeset, distributed, promoted — and cited by every answer engine your readers ask.

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Holloway & Finch Autumn 2026 List

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Autumn 2026 List 418 titles · 6 imprints · 11 territories

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Title	Stage	Share of answer
The Salt Cartographers9781847...204 · Fiction	Published	41.2% ↑
A Grammar of Weather9781847...411 · Non-fiction	Promotion	28.7% ↑
Nine Lives of the Archive9781847...878 · History	Composition	—
Vellum & Vinegar9781847...093 · Memoir	Line edit	—
The Quiet Machinery9781847...550 · Fiction	Dev edit	—
Letters to a Young CompositorContract pending · Essays	Acquisition	—

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Folio — Vellum & Vinegar line pass complete · 217 suggestions, 194 accepted
Index — The Salt Cartographers newly cited in 34 Perplexity answers
Foundry — Nine Lives of the Archive print PDF + EPUB 3 exported to Ingram
Jacket — Autumn campaign generated 148 assets across 6 channels · awaiting sign-off
Colophon — ONIX 3.0 delta pushed to 11 territories · 0 validation errors

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Publishing houses running on Inkwell Genie

Holloway & Finch Trade Meridian Press Academic Castellane Éditions Rights Northgate House Trade Ashgrove & Sons Independent The Wren Imprint Literary Bellweather Books Children's Orrery Scientific STM

418,000 titles under management/ 64 territories/ 120+ trading partners/ 6 answer surfaces tracked weekly/ ONIX 3.0 native/ SOC 2 Type II/ EU · UK · US residency/ 99.9% uptime/

Time to press

shorter median path from delivered manuscript to retail-ready files.

Answer engines

0×

lift in catalogue citation rate within two quarters of switching Index on.

Editorial capacity

0×

more titles per editor, with the house voice held to a measured standard.

Titles under management

records live on the catalogue graph across every connected house.

The thesis

The bottleneck in publishing was never the writing. It was everything that happens after.

A house acquires a manuscript in March and ships it in eighteen months. Not because anyone is slow — because a title has to pass through eleven systems and forty hands, and each handoff loses something. Metadata is re-keyed. The dev-edit memo lives in someone's inbox. The cover brief and the retail copy are written twice, by different people, from different notes.

Then the book comes out, and the discovery layer it was built for quietly stops existing. Readers no longer search. They ask. And the answer they get is assembled by a model that has never been told your catalogue exists.

Inkwell Genie is what a publishing house looks like when the pipeline is one system instead of eleven — and when the last mile is not a retail page, but the answer itself.

Inkwell Genie · Founded 2024 · London & New York

01 — The platform One graph, five products

From acquisition to answer engine.

Every product writes to the same title record. The dev-edit memo becomes the jacket copy becomes the ONIX blurb becomes the retrieval passage an answer engine quotes. Nothing is re-keyed, and nothing is lost between hands.

The manuscript, worked the way your best editor works it.

Folio reads the full manuscript in one pass, not a rolling window. It produces a structural report, a line pass with tracked changes, and a defensible rationale for every suggestion — measured against a model trained on your own backlist.

Structural and developmental reports with scene-level continuity checks
Line editing as tracked changes your editors accept, reject or reshape
House-style adherence scored per chapter, not asserted
Full provenance: every change traceable to a prompt, model version and reviewer

Median dev-edit turnaround4days

Suggestion acceptance rate89%

Manuscript length ceiling1.2M words

One source of truth. Every format it has to become.

Foundry holds the typeset book as structured content, then composes it out. Print PDF with real typographic judgement — rivers, widows, orphans, optical margins — plus EPUB 3, audio-ready master and every retailer's preferred package.

Rule-based composition with your house grid, not a generic template
Series-consistent cover systems generated against your art direction
Accessibility built in: EPUB 3 with full semantic structure and alt text
Reflow a corrected edition to every format in under a minute

Formats from one source14

Recompose full title52sec

Accessibility conformanceAAWCAG 2.2

The ledger every other product reads from.

Colophon is the catalogue graph itself: titles, contributors, contracts, territories, rights windows, royalties, identifiers. It emits clean ONIX 3.0 to every trading partner and reconciles what comes back.

ONIX 3.0 generation and validation, with per-territory rule sets
Rights and licence windows enforced across all downstream products
Royalty statements reconciled against retailer and aggregator feeds
Immutable audit trail on every field, for every edition

Trading partners connected120+

ONIX validation errors0.1%

Territories supported64

A campaign for every title, not just the lead ones.

Jacket takes the finished book and the editorial record behind it, and builds the campaign: positioning, channel-native assets, author kits, retailer copy, review-outreach lists. Mid-list titles get the treatment previously reserved for the front three.

Channel-native assets sized and written per platform, not resized
Always-on social scheduling with per-title cadence rules
Author kits: bios, Q&As, event copy, and press-ready imagery
Every claim traced back to the manuscript it came from

Assets per campaign140+

Titles given full campaigns100%

Time to first campaign9min

The last mile is no longer a search result.

Index measures how often, how prominently and how accurately answer engines cite your catalogue — then does the retrieval work to move those numbers. Structured excerpts, entity resolution, canonical facts, and a feedback loop against real prompts.

Share of Answer tracked across six answer surfaces, weekly
Prompt sets modelled on how readers actually ask for books
Misattribution detection — catch a title credited to the wrong author
Retrieval assets published in the formats engines actually consume

Answer surfaces tracked6

Prompts run weekly40k

Median citation lift, 2 quarters3.4×

02 — The suite Five products

Buy one. Or run the whole house.

Each product stands alone and integrates with what you already run. Together they compound — because the second product never has to be told what the first one learned.

Folio Manuscript engine

Developmental and line editing that argues its case.

Whole-manuscript reasoning, tracked changes, and a house-style score your editorial director can actually audit.

Ch. 14 — Line passFolio · v4.2

The harbour was ~~very quiet~~emptied of sound, and Ada ~~walked slowly along~~followed the sea wall ~~in order to~~to think.

Rationale · house style §3.2Intensifier removed and the verb carries the pace. "Followed" preserves the coastal geography established in Ch. 9.

89%

Suggestions accepted

4 days

Median dev edit

98.4%

Style adherence

Index AI visibility

Share of Answer, measured weekly.

Know exactly where your catalogue stands inside the engines readers now ask.

ChatGPT49%

Perplexity43%

Gemini35%

Claude29%

AI Overviews23%

Surfaces tracked

40k

Prompts / week

Foundry Composition

Typeset once. Ship everywhere.

Real composition rules, your house grid, and fourteen outputs from a single source.

PDF/X-4Print

EPUB 3Retail

.MOBILegacy

WAV/M4BAudio

52 sec

Full recompose

WCAG AA

Conformance

Jacket Promotion

A full campaign for every title on the list.

Channel-native assets written from the manuscript, not from a brief about the manuscript.

TikTok

Retail

140+

Assets / campaign

9 min

To first draft

Colophon Catalogue ops

The record everything else reads from.

ONIX, rights, royalties and identifiers — one ledger, one audit trail.

ISBN-13978-1-84712-204-9✓

ONIX 3.0Validated · 11 territories✓

RightsWEL, excl. CAN✓

RoyaltyReconciled to Q2✓

120+

Trading partners

Territories

03 — Index AI visibility

Readers stopped searching. They ask now.

When someone asks an assistant for "a literary novel about salt mining in the Adriatic", one of two things happens. Your title is named — or somebody else's is. Index is the instrumentation and the remedy for that moment.

Share of Answer

The percentage of relevant prompts in which your catalogue is named, weighted by position in the answer. Tracked across six surfaces, refreshed weekly.

Retrieval assets, not blog posts

Index publishes canonical facts, structured excerpts and entity records in the shapes retrieval systems actually consume — then measures whether it worked.

Misattribution alerts

Catch the moment an engine credits your author's book to someone else, dates an edition wrongly, or invents a title you never published.

See Index on your catalogue

Index · Share of answerHolloway & Finch

Share of answer

34.6%

+11.4 pts

Cited titles

231

+64

Misattributions

−9

ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude

PROMPTliterary novels about the Adriatic salt trade CPGA #1

PROMPTbest new history books about archives and memory CPGA #3

PROMPTwhat should I read after Wolf Hall CPGA #7

04 — Folio Manuscript engine

An editor's judgement, at list scale.

Folio is not a chatbot pointed at a Word file. It holds the whole manuscript in working memory, reasons about structure before prose, and returns changes your editors accept or reject one by one — each with a rationale citing the section of your house style it derives from.

Trained on your backlist

The house model learns from titles you already published and approved. It is yours, it is private, and it never serves another house.

Editors stay in the chair

Nothing ships without a human accept. Every decision is attributed, timestamped and reversible down to the sentence.

Continuity across a series

Character facts, timelines and invented geography are tracked across every book in a series and flagged the moment they contradict.

Run Folio on a sample chapter

Line pass Structure Continuity Style score Ch. 14 / 31

The Quiet Machinery — Chapter Fourteen

The harbour was ~~very quiet~~emptied of sound, and Ada ~~walked slowly along~~followed the sea wall ~~in order to~~to think about the letter.

~~It was a fact that she~~She had read it four times, and each time the same sentence ~~had jumped out at her~~caught: the machinery is quiet now, but it has not stopped.

Her father had written it in ~~the year of~~ 1974, ~~during a period when~~when the yard still ran three shifts and nobody in Sestri ~~would have~~ believed the work could end.

05 — Jacket Promotion

The mid-list gets a campaign too.

Marketing capacity, not merit, decides which titles get promoted. Jacket removes the constraint: every book on the list receives positioning, assets and a schedule, generated from the manuscript and the editorial record — then queued for a human to approve.

Written from the book

Jacket reads the finished manuscript. Every line of copy can be traced to the page it came from, so nothing is invented about a book you published.

Channel-native, not resized

A TikTok script and a retailer A+ module are different objects. Jacket composes each one properly rather than cropping a single asset five ways.

Rights-aware by default

Territory and licence windows come from Colophon, so a campaign never runs where you do not hold the rights.

Generate a campaign from a manuscript

Drafted14

IGCarousel · 6 slides

"Six objects that tell the story of a shipyard town." Pulled from Ch. 2, 9 and 21.

Awaiting review

TTScript · 42 sec

Hook on the letter reveal. Three cutaways to the 1974 archive plates.

Awaiting review

Generating 9 more…

Approved31

A+Retail module

Long description, comparison table and author note for four retail partners.

Scheduled · 04 Sep

inAuthor post

First-person note on writing the shipyard chapters. Approved by author.

Scheduled · 06 Sep

Live16

✉Trade newsletter

Sent to 4,200 booksellers and 610 reviewers. 38% open.

Live · 02 Sep

IXRetrieval asset

Canonical facts published to Index. Now cited in 34 Perplexity answers.

Live · 01 Sep

06 — The house model Private by construction

Your standards. Your corpus. Your model.

Every house gets an isolated model tuned on its own approved backlist and style guide. It is not shared, not pooled, and not used to improve anything you do not own.

No public training

Manuscripts, contracts and unpublished work are never used to train a general model. Contractual, auditable, and enforced in the architecture rather than the policy page.

Residency you choose

EU, UK or US processing and storage, pinned per imprint. Cross-border movement of a manuscript requires an explicit rights grant in Colophon.

Provenance on every change

Prompt, model version, retrieved sources, reviewer and timestamp are recorded for every generated artefact. Export the full chain for any title, any time.

Rights-aware generation

The model cannot produce or publish an asset outside a licence window. Territory rules are enforced at generation, not caught in review.

API-first, everywhere

Everything in the interface is an endpoint. REST and GraphQL, signed webhooks, a typed SDK, and a sandbox catalogue for building against.

Roles that match a house

Publisher, editorial director, desk editor, production, rights, marketing, freelance. SSO through SAML or OIDC, SCIM provisioning, per-imprint scoping.

SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001 GDPR & UK GDPR SAML · OIDC · SCIM EU / UK / US residency EU AI Act ready

Interface

Web console

Folio desk editor

REST + GraphQL api.inkwellgenie.com

Signed webhooks

InDesign plug-in

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Products

Folio

Foundry

Colophon

Jacket

Index

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Catalogue graph — the single title record

Titles & editions

Contributors

Rights & territories

Manuscript versions

Assets

Provenance log

↓

House model — isolated per customer

Backlist tuning

Style guide encoding

Private retrieval index

Evaluation harness

Residency-pinned inference

07 — Integrations Fits the stack you have

Nothing gets ripped out.

Inkwell Genie reads and writes to the systems a house already runs. Start with one product against your existing pipeline and widen from there.

ONIX 3.0

Biblio & ERP

Wholesale feeds

InDesign

Word & Docs

Digital asset mgmt

Author portals

Sales analytics

Social schedulers

Rights systems

Webhooks & SDK

Your own models

08 — In the houses What changes

The list got longer. The standard did not move.

We publish sixty more titles a year than we did in 2024 with the same editorial team. What convinced the board was not the speed — it was that every suggestion came with a reason we could argue with.

MR Marguerite RoweEditorial Director · Holloway & Finch

Index told us something uncomfortable: three of our best-known backlist titles were being attributed to another publisher inside two major assistants. We fixed it in a fortnight.

TK Tomás KelleherHead of Digital · Meridian Press

Two editors, four hundred titles. Before Inkwell we chose which books got a campaign. Now they all get one, and the mid-list has started outselling the leads.

AO Aoife O'BrienPublisher · Ashgrove & Sons

09 — Pricing Per house, not per seat

Priced against the list, not the login.

Every plan includes unlimited seats. You are charged on titles under management, because that is the thing that actually scales.

Imprint

Independent presses and single imprints running a focused list.

£2,400/ month

Up to 120 titles under management

Start a trial

Included

Any two products
Unlimited seats and freelance guests
House model tuned on your backlist
ONIX out to 12 trading partners
Standard support, next business day
Residency pinning
SSO and SCIM

Most houses

House

Multi-imprint publishers with a full production and marketing function.

£8,900/ month

Up to 1,200 titles · 6 imprints

Book a demo

Everything in Imprint, plus

All five products
Index across all six answer surfaces
EU, UK or US residency pinning
SAML SSO, SCIM, per-imprint scoping
API, webhooks and sandbox catalogue
Named solutions architect
99.9% uptime SLA

Group

Publishing groups, university presses and international rights operations.

Bespoke

Unlimited titles and imprints

Talk to sales

Everything in House, plus

Dedicated inference capacity
Private VPC or on-premise deployment
Custom evaluation harness per imprint
Migration of legacy catalogue and assets
Contractual model isolation guarantees
Quarterly editorial review with our team
24/7 support, 1-hour severity-one response

All plans include onboarding and backlist ingestion. Annual billing saves two months. Academic and not-for-profit presses receive a 30% reduction.

10 — Questions The ones that matter

Asked by every house.

If the answer you need is not here, our solutions team will get you a straight one within a day.

Ask us directly

No. Manuscripts, contracts, editorial notes and unpublished assets are processed inside your own tenancy and used only for your house model. They are not pooled, not used to improve a shared system, and not accessible to any other customer.

This is enforced architecturally — isolated model weights and a private retrieval index per house — and contractually, with a right to audit.

No, and the product is deliberately built so that you cannot. Nothing generated by Folio reaches a manuscript without a named human accepting it, and every accept is attributed and reversible.

The houses that get the most out of Inkwell Genie use the recovered time on acquisition and on the books that need real editorial argument — not on stripping intensifiers out of chapter fourteen.

The share of relevant prompts in which your catalogue is named by an answer engine, weighted by how prominently it appears in the response. Index runs a prompt set modelled on how readers actually ask for books, across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot, and refreshes weekly.

It is reported per title, per imprint and per subject category, so you can see which parts of the list are invisible rather than just an average.

A single product against an existing pipeline is typically live in two to three weeks, most of which is backlist ingestion and tuning the house model against titles you have already published.

A full five-product deployment across multiple imprints runs six to ten weeks, with a named solutions architect on House and Group plans.

Yes. Inkwell Genie is designed to sit alongside a biblio or ERP system rather than replace it. Colophon can act as the system of record or as a synchronised mirror, and every product is reachable over REST, GraphQL and signed webhooks.

Consent is a field on the contract record in Colophon, scoped per use — editorial assistance, promotional generation, audio synthesis, translation — and it is enforced at generation time. If consent for a use is absent, the product will not produce the artefact.

Territory and licence windows work the same way, so a campaign cannot run in a market where you do not hold the rights.

You export everything — manuscripts, assets, the full catalogue graph as ONIX and JSON, and the complete provenance log — in open formats, at any time, without asking us. Your house model weights are deleted on written request within thirty days, with certification.

11 — Book a demo Forty-five minutes

Bring one title. We will show you the whole path.

Your manuscript, your catalogue. You will see the dev-edit pass, the composed files, the campaign and your live Share of Answer — on your own book, not a demo one.

No procurement process to start
Trial under NDA on request
Nothing you send is used to train a public model

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