How It Works
AI that helps you write without taking the wheel, here's how Wendell keeps you in control at every step.
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.
How Wendell keeps you in control
Every AI suggestion is a proposal, not a change.
When Wendell's AI suggests something, like a phrasing tweak, a structural note, or a continuity flag, it doesn't get written into your draft automatically. It shows up as a proposal you can look at, alongside the reasoning behind it, before you decide whether to accept it.
You see the "why," not just the "what." Instead of a black-box edit, Wendell shows you why a suggestion was made.
If it flags a continuity issue, you see what it's comparing against. If it suggests a phrasing change, you see the reasoning, not just the replacement text.
Nothing changes without your review.
No AI output gets committed to your manuscript silently. You review, you accept or reject, and the decision (and who made it) becomes part of the record.
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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