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Triage Incoming Manuscript Submissions With AI Screening

Handle the slush pile faster — screen manuscript submissions against your guidelines, summarize each, and route promising ones to editors.

difficulty Advancedsetup 40 minresult Editors spend time only on submissions worth reading, with an AI summary to speed decisions.
  1. 1

    Receive Submissions

    Add a Gmail Trigger node on your submissions inbox and extract the query and sample.

  2. 2

    Screen Against Guidelines

    Add an OpenAI node checking genre fit and quality signals, and summarizing the premise.

  3. 3

    Route the Promising Ones

    Add an IF node forwarding fits to editors and sending polite declines to clear misses.

  4. 4

    Log to the Pipeline

    Add a Notion node recording each submission with its summary and status.

  5. 5

    Activate and Test

    Activate the workflow and submit a test manuscript. Confirm screening and routing work.

Frequently asked questions

Won't AI reject good writing?

Use it to prioritize, not to auto-reject the borderline — humans still read anything with potential.

Can I personalize declines?

Send a gracious, standard decline for clear misses and reserve personal notes for near-fits.

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