Forecast how readers are likely to respond to your manuscript across Goodreads, BookTok, Reddit, and more, all before you commit to launch strategy, outreach, or marketing spend.
Why It Matters
Before publishers spend on ARCs, influencer outreach, paid marketing, or positioning, Galley Forecast helps answer four critical questions:
Who is this book really for?
How will readers likely respond?
What risks should we address before launch?
What should we change before the market sees it?
Features
Four dimensions of actionable intelligence in every forecast, with two more in build.
A projected star rating with the full 1-to-5 distribution behind it, plus every simulated reader’s own rating shown with their age, archetype and platform. Know your number before the first review drops.
See realistic BookTok reactions, Reddit threads, Bookstagram posts, and Goodreads reviews. Understand how readers will talk about your book, and to each other.
Recommended publishers and imprints for indie authors, matched to your genre and comps, is in build.
Dedicated screening of the manuscript for themes likely to divide your readership, and for content that may warrant a sensitivity read. Every finding cites the chapters it came from.
Identify pacing issues, DNF risk points, and the narrative elements most likely to cost you readers. Strengthen your manuscript before it reaches real readers.
Receive a tailored launch plan: optimal timing, platform prioritization, marketing angle recommendations, and specific next steps to maximize your book's trajectory.
How It Works
Upload your manuscript. We simulate the audience. You get the intelligence, and a playbook to act on it.
Upload an EPUB, PDF, or Word document. We analyze narrative structure, themes, pacing, character dynamics, and genre signals, then destroy the source file after processing.
We generate a large synthetic audience modeled around different reading tastes, review styles, and platform behaviors to forecast likely reception patterns.
Get a comprehensive intelligence report: predicted ratings, simulated social posts, launch recommendations, and specific manuscript feedback, usually within the hour.
You receive a practical playbook with recommended positioning, platform priorities, launch angles, and manuscript considerations based on your forecast.
Steps
Four steps. You can buy and run a forecast without talking to anyone.
Enter your email and we send you a one-time link. There is no password to choose or remember, and your account is created the first time you use it.
EPUB, PDF or Word. The title is required; author, ISBN and a cover image are optional. Your manuscript is uploaded before you pay, so you can see exactly what you are buying a forecast for.
Pick Concept at $99, Full at $499, or Strategic at $2,499. Payment is by card through Stripe, once per report. There is no subscription.
We email you as soon as the forecast is ready, and it stays in your dashboard. Full and Strategic include a print-quality PDF for circulating internally.
Sample Report
Here's a preview of the intelligence delivered for a sample title.
Illustrative forecast sample. Actual reports will vary based on manuscript analysis.
Every figure in this sample is an example, not from a real forecast.
Two cards below are marked Coming soon. Those are in build and are not part of a forecast today. Every other chart in this preview matches a section a real report contains.
In build. Not part of a forecast today.
In build. Not part of a forecast today.
IP Protection
Your manuscript is processed, then permanently destroyed. No copies, no backups, no exceptions.
Your content is never used to train, fine-tune, or improve any AI model. We use API providers with contractual no-training guarantees.
Your chapters are summarised by our AI provider, and most of the forecast is generated from those summaries. The Strategic tier is the exception: its second reading pass works from the full chapters.
Built for publishers who can't afford to compromise on intellectual property. Every architectural decision prioritizes your manuscript's security over our convenience.
Pricing
From indie authors testing a concept to major publishers forecasting their entire catalog.
“Should this even be on my desk?”
“What will readers actually say when it hits shelves?”
“Is this a concept problem, or an execution problem, and which chapters do I fix?”
| Capability | Concept | Full | Strategic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simulated readers | 3 | 12 | 50 |
| Predicted rating + verdict | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Persona-card reactions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Strengths & risks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Launch-strategy recommendations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Simulated platform posts (BookTok / Goodreads / etc) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Emotional arc by chapter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DNF risk & chapter ranges | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audience demographics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Competitive positioning radar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manuscript feedback (editorial notes) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Print-quality PDF download | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Execution Gap analysis: concept vs. execution measured separately | — | — | ★ ONLY |
| Chapter-level concern map | — | — | ★ ONLY |
| Top-gap / top-lift persona analysis | — | — | ★ ONLY |
| Statistical confidence (margin of error) | — | — | ★ ONLY |
Upload a manuscript and see what Galley Forecast reveals about your next title.
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