How it works
What the six weeks actually look like.
A conversion is a project with an end, not a subscription with a start. No provider has been through it yet, so every date on this page is a commitment we are making rather than an average we have measured.
Week 0
It starts with one chapter, and that chapter costs nothing.
Pick the chapter you know best — about fifteen pages, the one where a wrong sentence would jump off the screen at you. A person writes back by hand within two working days, and the converted chapter is with you within five. If it is no good you have lost an email: nothing here sends a follow-up, because nothing here sends email at all.
We will not start a paid conversion until you have seen a chapter of your own material come back and told us it is good enough.
The stages
Six stages, and two of them are yours.
- 01
You send one chapter
About fifteen pages of your own material. Free, and nothing at the end of it to sign. - 02
We ask who owns it, then quote the work
If the rights are not yours, we decline the job rather than take your money. The figure comes in writing before anything starts — a one-off for the conversion, not a monthly licence. - 03
You send the book and the papers
The whole book this time, your past papers, and the name and colours your students should see. The exact forms and limits are below. - 04
The machine reads it, page by page
The upload is checked before anything is spent on it: its size, a SHA-256 of the bytes, and whether the file really is what it claims to be. Then the text comes out page by page and the book is cut into sections at its own headings, each keyed on the heading rather than the page number — which is what makes next year cheap. - 05
People build the course
The stage everyone assumes is automatic. No language model is called anywhere in this product, so lessons, modules and the question bank are assembled by people from the extracted text. That is slower, and it is most of what you are paying for. - 06
You read it, then you publish it
The draft sits in your own console as a version. Nothing a student can reach changes until somebody on your side publishes it, and the version is checked first for the three faults a student would see as a blank screen.
What we need from you
Eight things, and the form each of them has to be in.
- Your book
- One file per book, as a PDF: up to 250 MB and up to 3,000 pages. Longer than that, split it and send the parts.
- Scans
- Photographs of paper want 300 DPI. A page too coarse to read comes back named — the page number and the resolution we measured — rather than guessed at.
- Your past papers
- However they exist. They go in as you wrote them, and a question taken from your bank is recorded as taken from your bank.
- Who holds the rights
- A plain answer, before we convert a page. If you do not hold them, we decline the work rather than take your money.
- Your name and colours
- The name your students should see, a logo file, three colours as hex values, and a short name for the address your course lives at. A domain of your own is a field we store and a verification step we have not built.
- One person who can say yes
- It need not be you, but it has to be one named person: publishing is a permission the owner and an administrator hold and nobody else.
- Nothing else
- No kick-off meeting and no project plan. Your side of the whole job is one email and about three hours of reading.
Word files, PowerPoint decks and photographs are accepted by the upload and refused by the reader today. The whole list is on the platform page.
What comes back
A draft in your own console, and a report that names what failed.
Handover · theory, chapter 4 · version 1 · draft
8 held: the quote did not match the page the lesson named.
The draft is a version of a course inside your own console, and it is not live. Before you see it, a person reads it: the reading of your book and the matching of quotes to pages are machine work, the judgement is not, and no part of it is a model checking another model’s work.
- 1
Every citation against its page
The quoted sentence has to appear on the page the lesson says it is on. One that has not been matched is never allowed to look like one that has. - 2
Your questions against your paper
Word for word, including the wording somebody else would have improved. - 3
That anything unsourced says so
Four labels, and your students see all four: from your material, written from your material, written with no source, written by a person.
What we commit to
The dates, and what happens when you say it is not good enough.
| Cost of the first chapter | Nothing |
|---|---|
| Chapter size we work with | About 15 pages |
| A person replies by hand within | 2 working days |
| Converted chapter back within | 5 working days |
| The price of the full job, in writing | Before any paid work starts |
| Full conversion, from the day the material arrives | 6 weeks |
| Your side of the whole job | One email, then about 3 hours reading |
| Largest single file we take | 250 MB |
| Longest single document | 3,000 pages |
| Confirmation emails | None. Nothing here sends email |
| Published to your students without your approval | Never |
If the chapter is not good enough, that is the end of it: you owe nothing and we do not ring you. If the full conversion comes back and you will not sign it off, we fix it or we stop — and if we stop you keep the converted work, because it is yours either way. What happens on the day you leave is on your material.
We will not publish anything to your students. That is your button, and it stays your button.
The second year
You send the new edition. Only what moved gets rebuilt.
- 01
You send the new edition
The same way you sent the first one. It is filed as the next revision of the same book rather than as a new book. - 02
We work out what actually moved
Not “the book changed”. Which sections changed, and therefore which lessons and questions are now wrong. A new foreword that pushes every page down by two is not a change, because a section is keyed on its heading and not on its page. - 03
Only the affected parts are rebuilt
Everything else is left exactly as it was. A block one of your own people edited or locked is never overwritten by a rebuild — it is marked as needing a look, which is a different thing, and the database enforces it rather than a convention. - 04
You approve it before your students see it
A published version is immutable and a student stays on the one they enrolled on, so nothing changes under somebody mid-exam. The new version goes live when you say so and the old one is kept.
Half of that is machinery and half is a promise, and you should know which half. The machinery has been there since the first migration: revisions, frozen section identifiers, hand-edited blocks that a rebuild cannot overwrite. What is not built is the pass that does the comparison by itself — today people do it, with those identifiers in front of them. We would rather say so than sell you a button that does not exist.
That is the work. What you end up owning — the citations, your question bank, what your students see, and who on your staff can touch it — is on one page: What is in it
Send one chapter.
Not a demo of somebody else’s course. A chapter of yours, converted properly, so you can look at your own questions and your own page numbers and decide whether it is any good. Pick the chapter you know best. If it is no good, you have lost an email.
We will ask who owns the copyright before we convert anything. If you do not hold the rights to the material, we will say so rather than take the work.