For writers who refuse to let AI write for them
The writing tool that won’t write for you.
Your words 85%Shape’s 15%
Free during the beta. Bring one passage you’re stuck on.
Condensed for the film; the numbers and project names are illustrative. Importing from other apps and the whole-book page view are coming soon. Text import works today.
The Shape loop
Choose a passage. Ask. Write it your way. Keep what works.
Shape tells you what isn’t working and why, in the context of the whole story. The new line is yours: write it, or ask for options and make one your own. A word, a sentence, a scene or a whole draft: return to it as often as you need.
Work on the part. Keep sight of the whole.
One loop, on a sample story. When you’re ready, open the full editor: the real Shape interface, in your browser, with recorded replies.
Instead of “write it for me”
Ask what an editor would ask.
Shape answers with notes, and with options drawn from your own prose when you ask. You choose what goes in.
- Is this clear?Shape Two harbors are named in one paragraph. A reader loses which one Mara is in.
- Whose eyes are we in?Shape Mara’s, except the opening line, which knows something she can’t yet.
- Does this feel real?Shape She reacts fast for someone who signs for everything. Give her one more beat.
Authorship
Your words stay yours.
- Everything Shape suggests is highlighted.
- Nothing changes until you keep it. Undo is always there.
- See who wrote what, any time: your words, your edits, Shape’s suggestions.
Pro-AI. Anti-slop. Shape’s own principle: AI helps you organize and explore. Your taste and your decisions lead.
Your story is already in there.
Finish your masterpiece.
Try it on a sample storyHole
Drop it in.
Notes, links, dictation, half a line. Hole saves it, files it into the right project by what it means, and gets it out of your way.
Archive · sample captures
Everything you’ve already made Coming soon
Hole finds it, so you don’t have to.
Years of notes, memos and drafts, gathered, transcribed and sorted into projects.
Live in the beta today Text only: type or paste it, or import .txt and .md files, many at once. From Word or another app, copy and paste the text for now.
Preview of what’s coming. These imports aren’t live yet: no files are read, and the names and counts are made-up samples.
Where it goes
Shape sorts what you drop in, and shows its work.
Not a personality quiz. Notes drawn from what you keep, cut and correct, each with its source. Keep, edit or forget any of them.
Sample notes on the sample projects, written by hand. In a full version they’d be learned from what you keep, cut and correct.
Projects
One at a time.
Your writing projects: a short story, a poem, a novel. Work on one at a time; park the rest in the Vault.
Seeds · ideas that aren’t projects yet
Talk to Shape
BetaDon’t lose the plot in the story of your life.
Shape proposes what to work on next, weighing your projects, how close each is to done, and the deadlines you give it. Nothing changes until you press a suggested change.
Example
“I have three unfinished pieces. What do I finish first?”
The short story. It’s closest to done, and finishing it frees your evenings for the novel. Here’s a plan:
Plan
Finish The Salt Ledger- Write the last scene two ways, keep one by Nov 9
- Give it to two readers by Nov 16
- Keep this version of the story by Nov 23
- Back to the novel’s chapter 4 by Nov 24
Next: write the last scene two ways tonight. Waiting: the poem, until the story is out to readers.
An example. In Shape, a plan becomes a project with steps you tick off. Press the button to see.