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BookIntelReport reads your manuscript and returns commercial notes (KDP keywords, categories, AMS ads, pricing, comparable titles) plus story notes (tropes, opening pages, hook strength). One report. Both sides.
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Sample report layout — keywords, categories, and market notes.
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Submit Subject File
Upload your manuscript (PDF or DOCX) and enter your book's metadata — title, genre, target markets.
Initiate Analysis
The system processes your manuscript through multiple intelligence modules — commercial and narrative — simultaneously. Analysis takes a few minutes.
Rendezvous With Results
Your classified dossier is ready at the checkpoint. Export as PDF, DOCX, or CSV — and push directly to KDP with one click.
What the system analyzes
Reports generated for authorized users only. Authentication required.
Example report cards
Select your clearance level
Every dossier covers both commercial intelligence (keywords, categories, AMS, pricing) and narrative intelligence (tropes, hook strength, reader signals). Start with the Starter Dossier at $39.99, or go Full Intel for the complete picture.
- ✓KDP Keywords (7 optimized boxes)
- ✓Trope & genre analysis
- ✓Opening page assessment
- ✓Market positioning
- ✓Field interpretation summary
- ✓Everything in Starter
- ✓Final assessment & verdict
- ✓AMS ad keywords (ready to paste)
- ✓Pricing strategy & royalty model
- ✓Comparable titles with ASINs
- ✓Series potential analysis
- ✓Cover design notes
- ✓Everything in Full Intel
- ✓Devil's Advocate — adversarial critique
- ✓Virtual Field Agent — reader debrief
- ✓Chapter-by-chapter engagement map
- ✓Commercial risk assessment
- ✓Priority support
- ✓ 5 Full Intel credits added to your account
- ✓ Use any time, never expire
- ✓ Save $120 vs. buying individually
- ✓ 10 Full Intel credits added to your account
- ✓ Use any time, never expire
- ✓ Save $270 vs. buying individually
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