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For researchers who just got the email that ruined their week

That rejection isn’t the verdict. It’s the brief for your revision.

A reviewer’s “reject” is a list of fixable objections wearing a scary costume — we turn it inside out, line by line, and hand you back a response plan, a revision roadmap and notes for the cover letter. You write both letters, and we read your response before it goes.

No ghostwriting, ever · Human-led, PhD-signed

For research offices

Buying for a department or lab?

We handle institutional invoicing, purchase orders and departmental packages by arrangement — no card required up front.

Investment

Choose your pace

Choose a tier for That rejection isn’t the verdict. It’s the brief for your revision.

What you receive

What’s included

  • Point-by-point response plan: for every reviewer comment, what your answer must concede, contest or add
  • Revision roadmap: which reviewer demands actually move the decision, and which are noise
  • Cover-letter notes: what the editor needs to read first, and in what order
  • “Reviewer translation” — academic-passive decoded into plain instructions
  • One read of your drafted response before you send it
  • Rush exclusive: A kickoff call inside the 24 hours, at a time that exists in both our calendars, booked when we confirm your case

The timing promise

The clock starts when we confirm your case — not when you pay.

If we can’t make your resubmission window, we say so before you’re charged. If we take it, we hit it. Turnaround is measured from written confirmation of scope, never from payment. For Rush, that confirmation reaches you within 4 working hours of a complete intake, and the 24 hours run from it.

Add-on

The Language Pass — add €299

One pass of academic language editing, by the specialist who signed your diagnostic.

We edit text you wrote: grammar, syntax, tense and agreement, sentence clarity, the order of sentences inside a paragraph, terminology and notation consistency across the whole document, academic register, and reference formatting to your venue’s style. Choosing or replacing sources is not editing, and we do not do it.

What we never edit: your argument. The diagnostic tells you to move section 3 and says why. It does not move it for you. Where a change to the language would change what a sentence claims, we flag the question and you answer it.

Every altered sentence is recorded in a change log delivered with the pass, and your report carries the acknowledgements wording filled in. The declaration is written before anybody asks you for one.

€299. One pass, up to 10,000 words. Documents above the cap are quoted individually. A second pass over your own revisions is a second €299, because unlimited passes is how disclosed editing turns into co-writing over three rounds, and the drift is invisible from inside it.

Your editing date is confirmed in writing before the pass starts, and it is a separate date from your diagnostic delivery. A rush diagnostic does not make the editing rush.

Available with this sprint, and with the Manuscript MRI or Grant Surge. Not sold on its own, and not available without a diagnostic on the same document. An editing-only enquiry gets a written answer within one working day, pointing you to services that do sell it.

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The Fit Guarantee

If, after reviewing your rejection letter and manuscript, we believe the tier you chose is the wrong scope, you get a full refund or a credited switch — decided within 24 hours, before any work begins.

After delivery, if the work misses the brief we agreed, tell us within 14 days and we revise it once, free. If the revision still misses it, half the fee comes back as a refund or a credit, your choice.

Quick answers

Rejection Reversal — objections, handled

Do you write the rebuttal for me?

No. You write the response to reviewers from a plan that ranks every comment and says what each answer must concede, contest or add, and we read your draft back before it goes. If a request crosses into ghostwriting, we say no and explain why in writing, and that refusal is the product.

My deadline is sooner than your turnaround. What now?

Ask before you buy. Rush covers most reversal cases with a 24-hour turnaround. If your resubmission window is tighter than that, tell us at intake — we will say so before you are charged rather than take work we cannot deliver on time.

What if it isn’t a fit?

The Fit Guarantee: if we judge Standard or Rush wrong for your case, you get a full refund or a credited switch, your choice, decided within 24 hours. After delivery, if the work misses the brief we agreed, tell us within 14 days and we revise it once, free; if the revision still misses it, half the fee comes back as a refund or a credit. No arbitration clause.

Is AI used? What happens to my unpublished manuscript?

AI is used for the diagnostic scan only — pattern-finding across structure, clarity and reviewer-risk. Every tool used on your file is named in your report. Every strategic decision is human-led and PhD-signed. Files are encrypted in transit and never used to train a model.

Before you resubmit

Find the four objections now, not in the next review cycle.

You won’t pay yet. Next you’ll tell us about your rejection so we can confirm fit.