Does StoryHelm write or rewrite any part of my book?
No. StoryHelm does not write or rewrite your book. It returns observations, patterns, and questions, quoting your own passages back to you, and it never drafts your prose or hands back a corrected version of your chapter. Two tools do generate text, and neither touches the manuscript: Ship Dock drafts submission materials like a query letter or synopsis, and the Translation Studio produces a translation. Both are opt-in and sit outside your book. The pen stays in your hand from the first page to the last.
What is actually doing the reading?
A system of analysis passes, not a chatbot behind a text box. StoryHelm runs 61 analysis passes across 7 workflows, powered by Claude. A Full Read of one book runs nineteen of them, in dependency waves: structure first, then the extractors that build your canon, then continuity, timeline, voice, style, and the synthesis passes that turn all of it into a single read. Every one of them is pointed at understanding your story. None of them is pointed at writing it.
Will it change my voice or weaken my creative instincts?
No, though it is fair to say StoryHelm has craft opinions. The Style and Voice lenses flag habits: a word you have overused, a passive construction, a character whose voice has drifted since book one. Those are observations you can read and dismiss, never edits applied to your prose, and nothing changes unless you type it. Writers have always leaned on notes, outlines, and editors. StoryHelm extends that tradition by carrying the mental load of continuity, so your attention stays on the craft.
Can I still call my book human authored?
Yes. StoryHelm sits in the editor's chair, not the writer's: it reads and reports, and every word of your manuscript is typed by you. Working with an editor, human or instrument, has never made a book less yours. The one exception is a translation produced in the Translation Studio, where the translated text is machine generated rather than yours, so label that edition accordingly.
Is my translation watermarked?
Yes. Anthropic marks the text Claude produces, and Translation Studio translates with Claude, so treat every edition as marked. What the mark means is narrower than it sounds: it identifies Claude as the translator, not you as the author, and it says nothing about the original manuscript you wrote. Every retailer that asks about AI content already expects you to disclose an AI translation, so the mark only confirms what your disclosure already told them. There is no way to remove it, and we would not build one.