The Considered Workspace for Long Manuscripts.
Wendell preserves every source, revision, and editorial decision, so the page in front of you is exactly what you approved.
How It Works
Sources
Upload notes, research, drafts, and reference material.
Structure
Organize into scenes and relationships to reveal the big picture.
Manuscript
Export final formats (DOCX, FDX, LaTeX, or ePub) when you're ready.
Why Wendell is Different
| Most Tools (Black-Box AI) | Wendell |
|---|---|
| Obsidian plugins write to your notes directly | Returns proposals as review cards |
| NotebookLM's answers stay stuck in the chat; if you want to use them, you have to manually copy and paste | Each proposal is Accept / Reject / Modify |
| Notion AI rewrites your text on the spot, before you've had a chance to see what's changing | Nothing changes in your draft until you press 'Accept' |
| Paste AI text into Scrivener, and it just becomes plain words on the page, no trace of where it came from | Every change you approve gets logged, so you always know what changed and when |
| You catch mistakes after the fact, if you catch them at all. Small errors pile up quietly. | Nothing becomes part of your final draft without your approval. There's no way for changes to sneak in unnoticed |
Core Capabilities
01
Provenance Tracking
Every idea retains its source history across drafts and revisions.
02
Structured Relationships
Link scenes with meaning: foreshadows, resolves, contradicts, shares motif.
03
Human-in-the-Loop AI
All AI outputs are reviewable suggestions, so nothing is applied automatically.
04
Scene Scoring
Each section is evaluated against your rubric so you can prioritize edits instantly.
Who It's For
Novelists
Managing multi-POV, multi-arc manuscripts with complex structure.
Journalists
Working with interviews, sources, and longform narrative accuracy.
Research / Academic Writers
Needing traceability and structured argumentation across drafts.
Pricing
Pricing will be announced at general availability. Join the waitlist to get founding-member pricing.
Frequently asked questions
No. Scrivener is a prose surface. Wendell is the truth layer underneath. Keep writing in Scrivener (or anywhere else); let Wendell hold the validated assembly, the provenance, and the rubric. Compile out of Wendell when you ship.
No. Your assembly, corpus, and ledger never leave your control without an explicit action you take. See the Privacy Policy for the full architecture.
Obsidian proved authors will run a local-first knowledge tool. Wendell adds the structured contract Obsidian leaves to plugin discipline, and the AI gate Obsidian's plugin authors decline to enforce. The two can coexist; many of our users will already have an Obsidian vault.
Because revision is the job, and git is the most-tested versioning system on earth. Your manuscript deserves the same audit trail your code has.
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