What is TextifAI Arc?
TextifAI Arc is a narrative semantic workspace for long-form fiction. It helps turn manuscript material into structured, queryable, and reviewable canon so authors can revise with stronger context and clearer evidence.
Arc is not a replacement for the writer. It does not decide what is true in the story. It surfaces structure, relationships, possible continuity risks, and source-backed context so the author can make better decisions.
The core idea
A novel, series, or shared world is full of memory:
- who a character is;
- what names or aliases they use;
- what happened in each chapter;
- where a rule, relationship, or reveal was established;
- which details are confirmed and which are only implied.
Generic AI tools often receive this memory as a large prompt or a loose summary. That works for small tasks, but it becomes fragile as the manuscript grows. Arc’s goal is to turn story memory into a structured layer that can be inspected before it is used.
Main components
Arc is organized around a few product surfaces:
- Project Hub: the place where manuscript projects are selected and opened.
- Ingestion: the process that stages supported source files and builds an initial semantic view of the project.
- Canon / VaERL: the structured memory layer that stabilizes entities, aliases, facts, relationships, and evidence.
- Review Queue: a human review surface for continuity risks, uncertain claims, pronoun/coreference issues, and other items that should not be accepted blindly.
- Graph: a visual way to inspect connections between entities, events, places, and claims.
- Editor / Entity Fiches: author-facing views for reading, revising, and documenting canon-linked material.
What “canon-aware” means
Canon-aware work means AI receives structured story context with provenance. Instead of asking a model to remember everything from a raw manuscript, Arc can provide a narrower, more explicit set of entities, relationships, evidence, and review state.
That makes AI assistance more useful for revision, continuity checking, and analysis. It does not make AI automatically correct. The author still decides what becomes canon.
Good fit
Arc is most useful for:
- long-form novels;
- serial fiction;
- complex casts;
- worlds with rules, factions, locations, or timelines;
- revision passes where continuity matters;
- authors who want AI help without surrendering narrative control.
Preview status
TextifAI Arc is still in development. These docs describe the intended workflow and current preview behavior where available. Public availability, account features, import formats, and automation details may change before release.