Pricing
One rate. No tiers, no surprises.
Every manuscript gets the same high-intervention edit — not a light polish. You can see the price before you send a thing — estimate yours below.
The rate
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An estimate, not a quote. We confirm the final price — and the turnaround — after a quick look at the manuscript, before any work starts.
What high-intervention editing covers
What we do — and what we don’t.
Some call this substantive editing. We call it high-intervention, because that’s what it is. Honesty here protects you as much as us: we edit your writing and flag problems we can see, in depth — we don’t invent results or vouch for the science. That’s yours.
Included in every edit
- Grammar, syntax, word choice, and academic register
- Clarity, flow, and structure across the whole manuscript
- Consistency of terminology, notation, tense, and style
- Flagging gaps in logic, argument, or internal consistency
- Flagging content that a journal editor is likely to challenge
- Tracked changes plus margin comments explaining the why
Not part of editing
- Writing new results, analysis, or sections for you
- Guaranteeing the scientific validity of your findings
- Re-running statistics or verifying your data
- Adding or checking citations against source material
- Any use of AI tools at any stage of the work
Revisions & repeat work
We stay with the paper until it lands.
Editing rarely ends at version one. Here’s exactly how revisions are priced, with no room for argument later.
Free
Minor revisions
Up to 1,000 words of new or changed text in a manuscript we’ve already edited — measured by a Microsoft Word comparison of the before and after files — is edited at no charge.
50% off
New text & reviewer responses
Beyond 1,000 words of new or changed text — including your point-by-point responses to reviewers — we edit at half our standard rate, because we already know your paper.
Free
Cover-letter edit
Already drafted a cover letter? We’ll edit it at no extra cost alongside your manuscript. Need one written from scratch, it’s a flat $50.
Full refund
Language guarantee
If your manuscript is rejected for the quality of its English, we refund your edit in full. We ask only for the editor’s or reviewer’s comments citing language as the reason.
“A real editor reads every line, in tracked changes, under a confidentiality agreement. No AI, no third parties, no queue.”
How every manuscript is handled
Next step
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