Frequently Asked.
Honest answers about credits, ownership, AI training, the imprint, and how the team works.
Credits are how the AI tools are metered. Different tools cost different amounts — Bea (copy editor) is 5 credits per chapter, the Professor is 2 per query, Find an Agent is 2, the Gauntlet runs 5–60 depending on scope. Every tool shows its cost before you commit.
New accounts come with a starting balance. You can top up via the Gift Center. Credits don't expire.
The tool will stop before charging you and tell you exactly how many credits the operation needs. Your work isn't lost. Top up, run again.
Yes, on unused credits within 30 days of purchase. Email starbucks005@gmail.com with your account email and we'll process it.
No. Your manuscript is sent to Anthropic's API for processing only. Anthropic's API terms forbid training on customer inputs. Your text is not used to train any model. We do not retain your manuscript on our servers beyond what's needed to run the tool you asked for.
You do. Every word the tools return is yours to use, edit, sell, publish, or burn. We claim no rights to your output.
What we ask in return is honest attribution. If a tool helped you ship a manuscript, you don't have to credit Greylander Press by name — but you do agree not to misrepresent the work as wholly AI-untouched, and you agree to follow the PAID framework if you publish through the GP imprint.
PAID is Greylander's published AI Governance standard: Permissioned, Attributed, Iterated, Disclosed. It's how authors using AI tools can stay honest with readers without performing unnecessary apology. Books published through the GP imprint follow PAID; books authored with GP tools but published elsewhere are not bound by it.
No. The tools run on Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 with structured prompts built specifically for fiction craft. Each character (Grey, Bea, Margo, Jaque, the Professor) has a tuned system prompt with rules against sycophancy, hedging, and house-style violations. The tools are designed to disagree with you when you're wrong.
The tools are the AI characters: Grey, Bea, Margo, Jaque, the Professor, plus the Gauntlet and Honest Reviews. Anyone with credits can use them. What you write with the tools is yours, and you can publish wherever you want.
The imprint is Greylander Press as a publisher. We accept manuscripts (most through the Gauntlet diagnostic), produce books to a high editorial standard, and distribute through KDP and ACX. The imprint is selective. The tools are open.
No. The tools are yours to use however you want — query traditional agents, self-publish on KDP, give your manuscript to a friend, never publish at all.
The Gauntlet is a private manuscript diagnostic for the author. Banded scoring, no public footprint. Run it on your own work to see where you stand.
Honest Reviews are public verdicts on books that have been submitted to GP and read by the multi-pass review engine. The reviewed catalog is published. Same anti-sycophancy standard, but the audience is readers, not the author.
They're the AI tools, given personas so it's clear what each one does:
Grey — your writing partner. Workshop tool: enrich, dialogue, continue, diagnose, rebuild.
Bea — copy editor. Grammar, punctuation, dialect-preserving line edits.
Margo — beta reader. Reactions, not edits. Where you got hooked, where you got bored.
Jaque — query coach. Polishes query letters, log lines, synopses, comp titles.
The Professor — research librarian. Fact-check, period accuracy, technical authenticity.
Each character has its own page, its own credit cost, and its own rules. They're not therapists. They will tell you when something is broken.
Because "an AI tool that does six different things" is harder to use than "Grey, who writes alongside you" and "Bea, who copy edits." Personas tell you what role you're invoking. The character is a UI, not a claim.