Writers OS
Every source. Every transcript. Every contradiction.
Tomorrow's draft, ready by morning.
Built for nonfiction authors and freelance journalists with hundreds of transcripts and 50+ sources. Writers OS holds quotes, citations, contradictions, and unfilled gaps — and surfaces what your draft needs before you sit down to write.
Free for 14 days. No card required.
Quote-level citations
Contradictions flagged
Source-card view
Situation presets
Pick the writing moment you're in.
Writers OS adjusts what gets ranked, what surfaces in the brief, and what gets flagged for fact-check. Switch anytime — chapter draft on Monday, magazine deadline by Friday.
Book chapter draft
Long-form mode. Sources clustered by chapter, quote density per section, gaps to fill before final pass.
Magazine deadline
Word-count tracker, deadline countdown, every quote ready to drop with citation. Fact-check pass surfaced.
Interview week
Schedule and prep. Prior-source notes pulled per interviewee. Question lists informed by what's already on tape.
Fact-check pass
Every claim in the draft links back to a source. Unsupported assertions flagged. Contradictions across sources surfaced.
Source-tracker review
All sources, last-contacted, key quotes, what they confirmed. The relationship map under your reporting.
Essay-cluster sync
When 3 essays share a theme, Writers OS surfaces overlap, contradictions across pieces, and shared sources.
Connectors
Plugs into the tools your reporting already lives in.
Writers OS reads from where your transcripts and citations and drafts already are. One brain, every source. You don't change tools — the chaos gets quieter.
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Otter / Descript / Rev
Transcripts with speaker labels, timestamps, and audio links preserved.
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Zotero
Citations, DOI, page-level highlights — auto-linked to claims in your draft.
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Notion / Scrivener
Drafts, outlines, chapter shells — latest version, every time, with cross-links.
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Apple Voice Memos
Field recordings, walk-and-talks, post-interview thoughts — transcribed and indexed.
Coming soon
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PDF library
Academic papers, primary documents, court filings — page-level quote search.
Coming soon
Daily Writers Brief
Three lines. The draft moves.
A sample of what Writers OS surfaces every morning — pulled from your real transcripts and sources, not generic templates. Quotes, contradictions, gaps.
Writers OS · Daily Brief
2026-04-25 · 7:14 AM
Contradiction
Source J's quote contradicts Source M — flagged for fact-check. J: "we never approved that budget" (Otter 2026-03-12). M: "the board signed off in February." Pull tape, decide ground truth.
Gaps
Essay 'AI Infrastructure / Power' has 3 unfilled gaps. Need: (1) data-center water-use number, (2) Q1 hyperscaler capex, (3) one expert quote on grid strain. 2 likely sources in your contacts.
Deadline
Friday deadline: 870 words drafted, 2 quotes pending verification. Verification path: Maya callback (left voicemail Tue), source M follow-up email needed.
What gets remembered
The tape, the citation, the gap.
You can't keep all of this in your head — not at 142 transcripts. Writers OS does, with provenance, so when "did Maya say that on the record?" comes up, the answer surfaces with the file and the timestamp.
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Quote-level citations
Every notable quote pinned to its source: transcript file, timestamp, audio link. Drop into your draft with the citation already attached.
"Maya Chen, Otter transcript 2026-03-12, 14:22 — '...we never approved that budget.'"
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Contradiction detection
When two sources disagree, Writers OS flags it with both quotes side by side. You see the contradiction at the brief level, not when fact-check finds it days late.
"J: 'never approved' (03-12) vs M: 'board signed off Feb' (03-18). Resolve before publish."
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Source-tracker map
Every source: last-contacted, what they confirmed, what's still embargoed, where they appear across pieces. The relationship layer under your reporting.
"Maya: 4 quotes used. Last contact 04-21. Confirmed budget detail. Embargo: pre-publication review."
Source-card view
Every source, one card.
Open any source by name. Their quote bank, their last call, their unanswered questions, the pieces they appear in. Built for the moment you need to remember "what did she say last March, exactly?"
Maya Chen
Source · CFO, Acme Corp
4 quotes used · Last contact 2026-04-21
"We never approved that budget. The board minutes from February don't reflect what M is claiming."
Maya Chen, Otter transcript 2026-03-12, 14:22
ConfirmedBudget detail (used Chapter 7), Q1 headcount (used essay 04-18)
EmbargoedPersonal financial detail until publication
Open Q'sFollow-up needed re: contradiction with Source M (Feb timeline)
Appears inBook Ch 7, Magazine essay (Apr 18), Forthcoming profile (May)
Writers pack add-on
Writers OS — $30/mo all-in.
Personal ($20) plus the Writers pack (+$10). Transcript ingest at scale, Zotero sync, source-card view, contradiction detection, every connector. Cancel anytime.
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$20 Personal + $10 Writers pack = $30/mo. Memory and exports always free.
Stop being your own
archive, fact-checker, and rolodex.
You're already doing the reporting of three writers. Writers OS holds the source layer so you don't have to.
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