AI Policy

Last updated: August 2026

This policy covers every AuthorWings service: ghostwriting, editing, cover design, formatting, illustration, publishing setup, marketing, and coaching. It states our position, then shows you exactly where the line sits in the work we do for you.

Our position

Every era has its tool. Ours is artificial intelligence. The question was never whether professionals would use it, because that was settled the moment it appeared inside the software everyone already opens each morning.

The real question is who is holding it.

Ask a plumber to design a rocket that reaches orbit and the tool will answer him. It will answer fast, and it will sound certain, and the rocket will never leave the ground. Ask an engineer with twenty years in propulsion and the same tool doubles his speed, because he knows which answers are wrong before he finishes reading them.

Nothing about the tool changed. The person changed.

That is our whole position. We use the tools of this era, and every one of them stays in the hands of someone who spent years doing the work without them.

What that means for your book

A human writes your manuscript. A human edits it. A human designs your cover. AI tools assist with mechanical tasks only. No language model drafts your chapters, generates your content, or creates your artwork.

The Authors Guild, the nation’s oldest and largest professional organization for writers, has introduced model contract clauses that cap AI-generated text at 5% and require disclosure of any AI-generated material. Our standard is stricter: we cap AI-generated content at zero.

A statement of principle is worth nothing without the specifics behind it, so here they are.

Where AI tools are used

We use AI-assisted tools for two mechanical tasks. Both are supervised by a person, and neither produces creative content.

Research. When your book references a date, a statistic, or a spelling, a research tool pulls it faster than a manual search. A person confirms it against a primary source before it enters your manuscript. The tool gathers. The writer decides what belongs.

Grammar and spelling. Every manuscript gets a mechanical pass for typos, doubled words, and punctuation errors. A human editor reviews every flag and decides which to accept. Grammar bends for voice, dialect, and deliberate effect. Your editor understands your narrator’s choices and protects them.

Where AI tools are never used

Manuscript drafting. No AI tool writes, rewrites, or generates sentences for your book. Your ghostwriter or editor produces every line.

Editorial and creative judgment. Structure, pacing, voice, and revision direction come from a person who has read your full manuscript and understands what you are building.

Cover design and illustration. Your cover art and interior illustrations are created by a human designer. Standard design software such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator also includes built-in AI-powered features for tasks like background removal, image scaling, and color correction. These are production tools within the software, not image generators, and they do not create original artwork.

Book formatting. Layout and typesetting are handled by a person using publishing software. The finished file reflects your style choices, applied by hand.

These restrictions apply across all tiers and all services.

Your manuscript data

Research queries, not your pages. When a fact needs checking, the researcher types the question. Your unpublished chapters, characters, and plot are never entered into any lookup tool.

Controlled tools, not public chatbots. Grammar passes run through business-grade tools selected for confidentiality, not through free consumer chatbots that store what you paste.

Not used for training. Your manuscript is not used to train any AI model.

Limited access. Your files are accessible only to the writer, editor, and staff assigned to your project.

When the work is done, you hold full ownership of the final files and full rights to your work. For complete details on data storage and protection, read our privacy policy.

Questions

Every company claims its work is human. Why should I believe yours?

You should not take it on faith. Test it instead. Ask your writer why a chapter opens where it does. Ask your designer to open the layered file in Photoshop or Illustrator and record a short screen video of it. Ask your editor why they kept a sentence that breaks a rule. People who made the choices can explain the choices in detail, without preparation, and the working files show every step they took to get there. That evidence is the proof, and it is available to you at any point in your project.

How do I know a person designed my cover?

The same way. You see concepts, give feedback, and approve the final design. Your designer explains their choices because they made them.

Will a grammar check get my book flagged as AI-written?

AI detectors are unreliable and have flagged fully human writing, so no company can promise zero false positives from third-party tools. What matters is what your book actually is: human-written. A grammar check is AI-assisted, not AI-generated, and no platform requires you to disclose it.

Where is the line between AI-generated and AI-assisted?

If a tool created the content (the sentence, the image, the translation), it is AI-generated. If a person created it and a tool checked spelling or pulled a fact, it is AI-assisted. We use AI-assisted tools only. This distinction is the same one used by Amazon KDP, the Authors Guild, and major publishers.