Authrot Story Graph

A writing studio that maps characters, places and plot for novelists

Problem

Novelists writing 25+ chapters hit performance walls in Google Docs/Word, especially on mobile, and lose track of how characters, places and objects relate across hundreds of thousands of words. Maintaining a separate series bible by hand is tedious and error-prone.

Solution

A writing studio that parses each chapter, extracts entities and builds a navigable graph of characters, places and objects; clicking any node jumps to the relevant passage. It also offers fast chapter navigation and smooth scrolling for very long manuscripts.

Users

Indie novelists, web fiction writers, and fanfic authors working on 200k+ word projects

MVP

Import Markdown/plain text chapters; auto-extract characters/places/objects and build a relation graph; click node to jump to passage; smooth mobile scrolling and fast chapter switching; basic series bible with aliases and notes

Revenue

Free tier with chapter or graph-node limits; Pro one-time purchase or subscription for unlimited chapters and export; optionally a desktop buyout.

Why now

LLMs make entity and relation extraction cheap, while general document tools still struggle with very long texts and mobile UX. Novelists are an underserved vertical where a solo developer can own a niche.