AI writing assistant · long-form & literary

Write the sentence you actually meant.

Draft is a writing partner for novelists, essayists, and nonfiction authors. It reads your voice, holds your thread across a hundred pages, and helps you finish the sentence you've been circling for an hour.

No card · 14-day Pro trial Trained on your drafts, not the open web
Generating draft_03.md · 412 wpm
prompt>continue the paragraph, keep her voice distant
The editor

A canvas that writes back, in your hand.

Type a line, a direction, or a question. Draft continues in your register — not a generic one. Try it: change the prompt and generate.

chapter_seven.md/scene 03
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She sat at the kitchen table and did not look up. The kettle had gone quiet some minutes ago, and the quiet had the quality of a held breath — the kind that means a person is deciding whether to stay in the room. She turned the envelope over in her fingers once, then again, as though the weight of it might tell her something the words inside would not.

Generated prose is yours to keep, edit, or discard. Draft never trains on the open web — only on the manuscripts you choose to share with it.

Drafts finished by writers published in

The Atlantic Granta The Paris Review McSweeney’s Longreads n+1
Workflow

Three motions, repeated until the book is done.

01 / SEED

Start with a sentence

Drop in a line, an overheard phrase, or a half-finished paragraph. Draft keeps the register you set and refuses to flatten it into "AI prose."

accepts .md · .docx · pasted text
02 / SHAPE

Shape it without losing the voice

Ask for a tighter paragraph, a colder tone, a second beat. Every suggestion is a diff you accept or reject line by line — your manuscript, your decisions.

line-level diffs · voice-lock toggle
03 / SHIP

Ship it to your editor

Export a clean manuscript, track changes intact, to Scrivener, Word, Google Docs, or your agent's inbox. No formatting cleanup, no "written with AI" watermark.

Scrivener · DOCX · Google Docs · PDF
Customer results

Writers finish what they start.

Numbers self-reported by active Draft users over a single quarter.

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drafted with Draft in Q3 2025
across 2,418 active manuscripts
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of first drafts were kept, not scrapped
vs. 31% before Draft
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faster from first sentence to final
median, long-form nonfiction

Source — self-reported survey, 2,400 Draft users, Jul–Sep 2025. Individual results vary; writing is still the hard part.

Pricing

Two tiers. One for the page, one for the book.

Draft
For the essay, the story, the chapter
$16 / month
Start with Draft
  • Unlimited generation in your voice
  • Voice-lock across one manuscript
  • Line-level accept/reject diffs
  • Export to DOCX, Markdown, PDF
  • 14-day Pro trial included
Draft Editorial
For the novel, the collection, the book
$34 / month
Start with Editorial
  • Everything in Draft
  • Voice-lock across unlimited manuscripts
  • Continuity & character thread memory
  • Scrivener + Google Docs sync, track changes
  • Editor-mode redlines for your first reader
FAQ

Questions writers ask first.

Draft trains only on the manuscripts you share with it, then locks that voice before it generates. Every continuation is a diff you accept or reject line by line, so nothing lands on the page you didn't choose. If a line reads flat, you reject it and ask again — the manuscript stays yours.
On Editorial, yes. Continuity memory holds your characters, timelines, and recurring images across an entire manuscript, so chapter forty doesn't contradict chapter four. On the Draft tier, voice-lock covers one manuscript at a time without long-range continuity.
Never. Your manuscripts are encrypted at rest, used only to generate for you, and deleted on request. Draft does not train on the open web, and your work is never added to a shared training corpus — paid or free.
Yes. Long-form nonfiction, reported essays, memoir, and criticism are core use cases. Draft holds your argument's thread the way it holds a character's — and won't invent a citation. If a fact needs checking, it flags the line rather than sourcing it for you.
Editorial exports clean manuscripts to Scrivener, Word, and Google Docs with track changes intact, so your first reader sees redlines, not raw AI output. Markdown and PDF export are available on every tier. No "written with AI" watermark is ever added.
Cancel anytime from the account page — no email gauntlet, no retention call. Annual plans are refunded pro-rata for unused months. The 14-day Pro trial needs no card, so you can find out whether Draft fits your process before anything is charged.
Begin

Begin the sentence you've been avoiding.

Start a manuscript in under a minute. Fourteen days of Editorial, no card, no watermark, no training on your work.

No card required · cancel anytime · your work is never trained on