How to use The Council without feeding it a whale.
The Council is a manuscript diagnosis engine. It is built to tell you what is working, what is dragging, what is cracked, and what to fix first. It is not a magic rewrite button, a therapist, a lawyer, or a replacement for your own judgment.
The Council reads an excerpt through multiple editorial lenses and gives you a saved report. It is best for chapters, scenes, essays, story openings, grant answers, bios, or substantial excerpts.
Best for deeper editorial feedback.
Use when you want structure, voice, pacing, market, or priority notes.
Current beta limit: about 25,000 characters.
Sphinx
Use it for AI stink removal.
Sphinx is for shorter writing that feels too polished, too generic, too corporate, or too much like a robot wearing a conference badge.
Best for blurbs, posts, emails, bios, application answers, and short passages.
It diagnoses the stink, then gives cleaner options.
Current beta limit: about 10,000 characters.
What should I paste?
A chapter, scene, essay, short story, pitch, blurb, grant answer, bio, or application response.
Text you actually want diagnosed, not just praised.
Enough context for the tool to understand what it is looking at.
For Word files, use modern .docx files. Old .doc files and PDFs are not supported yet.
Do not paste a whole book into the beta. That is how we turn a useful truck into a smoking crater. Use a meaningful excerpt instead.
Saved Reports
Your dashboard keeps your work.
When you are signed in, saved reports stay connected to your account. You can reopen reports, rename them, delete them, or download them as text or markdown.
Feedback
Tell us what broke.
Use the Feedback button when something breaks, confuses you, helps you, or makes you want a feature. Beta feedback is part of the build.
Privacy, plain and simple.
This is a beta tool. Use common sense with sensitive material. The app needs your text to generate reports, and signed-in users can save report history. Admin tools track usage, feedback, invite codes, and report metadata so the system can be tested and improved.
Do not submit private legal, medical, financial, or confidential third-party material unless you are comfortable using it in a beta testing environment.