Editorialcore

Editorial Core Labs · Founding-client pilot

Focused editorial services,
delivered with evidence.

Three manual, tightly scoped services for publishers, researchers and cultural teams working with difficult sources, unreliable text or emerging AI workflows.

Each engagement combines editorial judgment, clear limits and traceable evidence. Delivery is within five business days after complete client inputs are received.

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Founding-client price: €149 per engagementManual delivery · No subscription · Invoice after acceptance

01 / Editorial Core Labs

Small, precise engagements for consequential editorial decisions.

Editorial Core Labs turns specialised research and editorial methods into bounded professional services. The aim is practical: help a client decide, correct or document the next step without committing to a large project or a software platform.

02 / Founding-client services

Three offers.
One clear standard.

Each offer is delivered manually within the scope stated below. The founding-client price is €149 before applicable taxes or fees.

01 / RARE SOURCE INTELLIGENCE

Verified Source Dossier

Know what the source is, where it can be found and what remains uncertain.

Who it is for

Independent publishers, editors, rights researchers, scholars, research-led authors, documentary or cultural producers, specialist booksellers and archive-led projects.

The problem

You have an obscure work, author, edition or archival lead, but lack reliable evidence about its identity, access, documentation, reuse signals or value for further investigation.

What you receive

  • Identity, title-variant and attribution checks
  • Principal catalogues, holdings and available digitizations
  • Source quality, access and preliminary rights signals
  • Provenance, uncertainty, risk flags and confidence levels
  • A recommended next decision with source links

Main limits

  • One author, work, edition or tightly bounded source question
  • No formal legal opinion or complete rights clearance
  • No restricted-material acquisition or full scholarly bibliography
  • No transcription, OCR, translation, edition production or publishing commitment

Delivery: within five business days after complete client inputs are received.

02 / HISTORICAL TEXT QUALITY LAB

Source-to-Text QA Audit

Find the defects that matter before unreliable text moves into editing or layout.

Who it is for

Independent publishers, translators, editors, scholars, digital-humanities researchers, archive or library projects, and authors preparing historical reprints or translated editions.

The problem

You have OCR, transcription, modernization or translation output, but lack reliable evidence that it is complete, structurally coherent and safe to advance into production.

What you receive

  • Audit summary and issue ledger with locations and severity
  • Missing, duplicated, numbering and sequence checks
  • Name, title, term, paragraph, heading and note consistency review
  • High-risk source-image spot checks
  • PASS / CONDITIONAL / FAIL disposition, correction priorities and residual risks

Main limits

  • Up to 12,000 words or 30 source pages, whichever comes first
  • Client supplies source images or a reference edition
  • No full correction, re-OCR, retranscription, translation or literary editing
  • No legal or rights review, or final publication approval

Delivery: within five business days after complete client inputs are received.

03 / PUBLISHER AI PROVENANCE KIT

Lightweight Traceability Setup

Document AI use, source lineage and human review without enterprise software.

Who it is for

Small publishers and imprints, independent author-publishers, editorial studios, cultural associations and creative agencies producing books or long-form content.

The problem

You use several AI tools but cannot clearly record what was used, which source or asset was affected, where human review occurred, what disclosure may be appropriate or which evidence should be retained.

What you receive

  • AI tool and use-case register
  • Human-review log and source/asset provenance manifest
  • Disclosure-text options and evidence-retention checklist
  • Responsibility map, risk notes and 30-day implementation checklist
  • Concise handover guide and one in-scope revision round

Main limits

  • One small organisation or one active publishing workflow
  • No legal advice, certification or formal AI Act compliance opinion
  • No cybersecurity or data-protection audit
  • No enterprise implementation, software integration or automated provenance deployment

Delivery: within five business days after complete client inputs are received.

03 / How it works

A direct, manual process.

No public checkout is used. We confirm fit and scope first, then issue a Stripe invoice after the engagement is accepted.

01

Enquire

Tell us which service you need and describe the current project or question.

02

Confirm scope

We check fit, inputs, limits and timing before either side commits.

03

Accept & invoice

After acceptance, you receive a Stripe invoice for the agreed €149 engagement, plus applicable taxes or fees.

04

Receive

Delivery follows within five business days after all required client inputs are complete.

04 / Why Editorial Core

Evidence first.
Uncertainty visible.

Editorial Core works where archival research, editorial production and contemporary technology meet. Each engagement is designed to produce a usable decision object: concise enough to act on, rigorous enough to inspect.

Traceable
Sources, checks and limits remain visible.
Bounded
Every offer defines what is included and where specialist advice or further work begins.
Human-reviewed
Technology supports research and production; editorial judgment remains accountable.

05 / Start a conversation

Bring one focused problem.
We will confirm the right scope.

Write with a short description of your project and the service that interests you. If the engagement is a fit, we will confirm the inputs, timing and limits before issuing an invoice.

Contact Editorial Core Labs

No public checkout or payment link. Payment is requested by Stripe invoice after acceptance.