Manuscript Review · AI Reader Personas · Jury Verdict
Six literary voices read your manuscript alone.
Then they defend their opinions.
One unvarnished verdict. Encrypted, private, never used for AI training.
Free: first 5,000 words · 3 readers · No credit card required
Overview
Demo
How the jury works
Choose your jury
Pick up to 6 reader personas matched to your genre.
Upload your work
Paste or upload. Up to 200,000 words.
Independent reads
Each reader analyses your manuscript in their own voice, with no knowledge of what the others think.
Jury deliberation
Readers react to each other's reviews — pushing back, agreeing, or changing their minds. This is where the real signal shows up: when readers with different tastes independently land on the same critique, that's a problem worth fixing.
Your verdict
500+ word reviews, letter grades, and a jury summary.
13 genres · 78 reader personas — not 3 or 4 generic ones
Most AI feedback tools give you a handful of fixed reader types, or ask you to build your own from scratch. Readers' Verdict ships with a full jury pool for your specific genre — a horror reader who wants folk-cosmic dread reads differently than one who wants slasher pacing, and your jury reflects that.
What writers are saying
From the first cohort of authors who submitted their manuscripts.
“I'm impressed. In the past, trying to get critiques on my writing has been hard and expensive. I submitted my whole book. Super easy to load. I had 6 critiques done. They were right on point. Showed me where my plot was weak, repetitive, and where it was good. This would have cost me hundreds of dollars. I highly recommend trying it.
“I highly recommend Readers' Verdict to any author to gauge the quality of his/her work. I realize my writing technique may be a bit unorthodox, but I'm proud of it. And yet — I needed to hear the positives & negatives that this service offered me in thorough yet sensitive detail.
“Readers' Verdict provides thoughtful commentary, evaluates readiness, and more. I found it to be an extremely valuable tool prior to incurring the cost of editing. It helped me shape my story, clarify transitions, and cut redundancy. Highly recommend.
Transparent pricing
Pay only for what you submit. Revisions are 50% off (minimum $2.00). Promo codes accepted.
- ✓ First 5,000 words
- ✓ Up to 3 readers
- ✓ Preview analysis
- ✓ One per account
- ✓ Up to 200,000 words
- ✓ Up to 6 readers
- ✓ Full jury deliberation
- ✓ 50% off revisions (min. $2.00)
A 5,000-word short story with a 3-reader jury runs about $2.14.
A 90,000-word novel with a 3-reader jury runs about $23.66 — less than a single hour of a human developmental editor's time, and you get it back in minutes, not weeks.