What is Premise
The book writing app
that keeps track of
everything.
Premise is a writing app where AI handles the tracking and you write the book. You make every creative decision at every stage; nothing regenerates over an edit you've made. Here's what it maps, watches, and tells you while you write.
01 · The belief
Your book, with a system behind it
Premise is a writing app built on one belief. AI should help you finish your book, and the book should stay yours. You make every creative decision at every stage. Premise does the tracking that eats your writing time, and it never changes a word behind your back.
Writers have always kept story bibles and index cards and spreadsheets. Those work, but they stop keeping up as a book grows. Premise keeps track of every detail, from your story bible to your clues, your misdirects, your twists, and your foreshadowing.
02 · The plan
You decide the destination first
Every book starts from your idea. You write the seed, and Premise expands it into a full premise you can edit. Your logline and hook, the core conflict, the stakes, the theme, the genre and tone, and where the book sits in the market. Every field is yours to rewrite.
Then the ending gets designed before the middle. Tell Premise how your story ends, or let it suggest an ending drawn from who your characters are and what they want. It distills that into the answers most first drafts never pin down. The ending itself. The final image. The cost your protagonist pays. And what must never happen for the ending to work. Premise holds every later chapter against them.
03 · The world
A world mapped in layers
Atmosphere, and the rules the world runs on. The limits, because limits are where plots come from. Locations and factions and their conflicts. Themes and plot hooks. Magic, where the story has it. History and economy and recurring visuals. Each layer is its own field, stored separately so nothing flattens into one blob of lore. Your edits survive regeneration.
04 · The cast
Characters that are more than a name and a hair color
For every character Premise keeps their role and background and goal. It also keeps the deeper drivers that make a character real. Their need, their wound, their fear, their flaw, the misbelief they carry, and the secret they keep. It maps every starting relationship between characters, and shows the whole cast as a constellation you can explore.
As you draft, Premise learns each character's voice from their own prose. It picks up their narration style, their vocabulary, their sentence rhythm, and their thought patterns. Dialogue cadence is kept separate from narration, so how a character speaks aloud is tracked apart from how their sections read.
Your protagonist and antagonist both get real arcs. The protagonist's core wound and need and misbelief, plus the transformation path between them. The antagonist gets equal treatment. Their objective, their plan, what they know about the protagonist, their pressure points, their escalation path, and their fatal flaw. Most villains are vague. Yours has a plan on file.
05 · The threads
Plot threads are objects, not hopes
Each thread has a kind and a logline and an arc. It carries its seeds, its escalations, its twists, its reversals, its reveals, its misdirects, and its intended payoffs. Threads link to each other and to their cast of characters. Every open question and every stake is written down.
And Premise maps every thread against every chapter. If a storyline goes quiet for too long, it flags the gap, so a thread you meant to carry through the whole book cannot silently vanish for ten chapters.
06 · The structure
A structure built from beats
Three acts, each act broken into beats, each beat assigned to chapters in the beat editor. Every beat has a type and a job in the story, and you drag it into the chapter where it belongs. Chapters follow a proven three-act shape, and the beats fill them out.
Every chapter gets a real dossier you can open and read. Its narrative role, its want, its obstacle, its turn, its outcome, and its stake. What changes in the outside world and what the reader learns that they did not know before. What is deliberately withheld, and the anchor object the chapter turns on.
Scenes are planned like scenes and not word buckets. Each scene card sets its POV character, its setting, and the time it takes place. It lists who is onstage, who enters and who leaves, and which threads the scene touches. It carries an emotional shape, where the feeling starts and where it ends, a tension level, the key events, and how it hands off to the scene that follows.
07 · While you draft
What Premise watches
A living story state.
Every established fact has a record. Premise knows what it is, where it was established, and which chapters it holds true for. Facts can expire when the story changes them. Your character can be broke in chapter 4 and rich in chapter 20 without that being called an error. You can browse the whole state, and add or override entries yourself.
Who knows what, per chapter.
Every character has a knowledge ledger. If the sister learned the secret in chapter 9, she cannot accidentally not know it in chapter 15.
How characters change.
As your draft grows, Premise reviews the prose and records how each character has evolved and where. Growth is tracked instead of drifting.
Every plant and its payoff.
Each setup is logged with the chapter it is planted in, its importance, and the chapter it is set to pay off in. An unfired gun cannot go missing, because it sits on the books until the story pays it.
The theme your book is actually saying.
As the prose comes in, Premise surfaces the theme the writing is really landing on, so you can see whether the book is saying what you meant it to.
08 · What it tells you
It flags, and you rule
Premise never edits your book on its own. It flags, and you rule.
Voice flags.
When a line does not sound like the character saying it, you get the flag, the excerpt, and the reason, gathered on that character's voice page.
Coherence reports at the end of each act.
Unresolved promises, character inconsistencies, motifs left hanging, structural gaps, and an overall health read. The report waits for your acknowledgment before the next act.
Arc checks.
Premise checks each planned turning point against how the character has actually behaved so far, and flags a decision that has not been earned yet.
Thread resolution.
You get the full accounting. Every thread, its status, and where it paid off. No storyline slips through the cracks.
A banned phrase list.
The cliches and stock AI phrasings that make prose sound generated are blocked at the source, before they ever reach your draft.
09 · In the box
What else is in the box
A full publishing package that produces real files.
A finished book is not a wall of text. Premise assembles real front and back matter. Title page, dedication, epigraph, foreword, preface, prologue, epilogue, afterword, acknowledgments, and about the author. It holds copyright clauses and publisher info and separate ISBNs for epub and Kindle and paperback and hardcover and audio. It stores your cover, your categories, your keywords, and your description. You control which sections appear and in what order. Then it exports the finished book. A real EPUB, a print-ready interior and cover PDF, and a retail-ready audiobook package.
Listen to your book.
Chapters can be read aloud with AI narration, which catches what your eyes skim past. The same engine produces a mastered, retail-spec audiobook when you are ready to publish.
Catch your own tics.
A repetition report scans the whole book or a single chapter for overused words and phrases, and jumps you straight to every place they appear.
A chat that knows your project.
Talk through problems with an assistant that pulls in the relevant parts of your story bible for each question.
10 · Ownership
The book stays yours
You make every call at every stage. You put in your idea, and Premise builds structure out from it. Then you write. Premise drafts scaffolding that you are meant to rewrite, and once you have edited a chapter, that is the chapter. Nothing regenerates over your work, because Premise cannot write back over an edit you have made. If you accept everything untouched you will get a mediocre book, and that is true of any tool. The writers who do best here rewrite hard and use the tracking to write fearlessly.
Start free. The premise, ending, world, and character stages are free. See how your story holds up before you spend anything.