For novelists with a draft
An AI beta reader that has read the whole book
A beta reader reads your draft the way a reader will, then tells you where it lost them. This one has every chapter open, answers whenever you ask, and never writes a word of your book.
Pride and Prejudice
Asking your reader
Does anyone warn Elizabeth about Wickham before Darcy's letter?
Yes. Miss Bingley does at the Netherfield ball in Chapter XVIII, advising her “not to give implicit confidence to all his assertions,” and Elizabeth writes it off as spite. Mrs. Gardiner also warns her in Chapter XXVI, though only that marrying him would be imprudent for lack of money: “I have nothing to say against him.”
What an AI one does well
It holds the whole book
Ask about chapter two from chapter twenty: who knew what and when, the name that changed, the thread you dropped.
It takes the small questions
The ones you'd be embarrassed to send a friend. Is the brother older or younger? Did I give two people the same surname?
It reads again
Rewrite the middle and ask the same question, without using up anyone's goodwill. At the desk, on the train or in bed.
Questions only your book can answer
- Where would a reader put it down?
- Does Part Two sag after the funeral?
- Is the villain right, from where he stands?
- Which threads did I start and never finish?
- Which promise to the reader have I broken?
What a beta reader is for
A beta reader reacts. Where did you get bored? Who didn't you believe? Did the ending land? That's different from a developmental editor, who works on the structure and how to fix it, and from a copy editor, who works on the sentences. A beta reader tells you what it was like to read.
It never writes a word
It can read your book and it can't change it. Ideas come back to you in the chat, and you decide what goes in. We don't use your writing to train an AI, and the privacy page says what we keep and who can see it.
What it can't do
Replace your human readers. It has never stayed up late to finish a book. It can tell you where the tension drops, but it wasn't bored there.
Always be right. Ask which chapter it's looking at and check. The answers worth having name the page.
Always be honest with you unprompted. It can be too kind, so ask for what's weakest, not whether it's good.
How it works here
You write in Chapter & Worse, or bring in the draft you already have.
You add your book to Claude once, and it's in every chat from then on, on your laptop or your phone.
Claude is the reader: it can open the outline, a chapter or the whole book, and search for a name or a detail. More on how that works.
The first 14 days are free, with no card to enter.
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