Manuscript editing, measured

Rewrite the prose.
Keep every claim.

Proofmark paraphrases your academic manuscript and holds every number, citation, cross-reference and modal verb exactly where it was - then proves it with a measured report you can hand to a reviewer.

AI-assisted editing. We say so on every file we return - and you should say so to your journal.

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Before

The preprocessing steps were applied in a fixed order: standardisation, then oversampling, then windowing. Oversampling must never be applied before the train-test split, because doing so allows synthetic neighbours of a test record to enter the training partition.

After

Preprocessing ran in a fixed order - standardisation first, then oversampling, then windowing. Applying oversampling before the train-test split is something that must never happen, since it lets synthetic neighbours of a test record slip into the training partition.

✓ order kept✓ modal kept✓ terms kept
Watch it work

From your Word file to a measured report.

  1. 1Sign in with Google or with your email address.
  2. 2Upload your manuscript as a Word .docx file.
  3. 3See what will be paraphrased and what is kept as is, and add your keywords.
  4. 4Check the price, then pay - or use a credit if you have one.
  5. 5Each paragraph is rewritten and checked while you wait.
  6. 6Read the measured report, then download the clean .docx, the Track Changes copy and the change log.
Screenshot: the sign-in page, with Google and email sign-in

No sound. Six real screens from the site, step by step.

100
pages per pass, up to a full thesis - quoted before you pay
0
numbers, citations or cross-references lost - checked one by one
.docx
back in your own file - tables, figures and styles intact
How it works

Four steps. Nothing leaves unmeasured.

01 - Upload

Drop your Word file

We read it in your browser session, sort every paragraph - prose, heading, caption, table, reference, equation - and show you exactly what will be touched. Nothing is sent anywhere yet.

02 - Quote

See the word split, then pay

Total words, words in scope, and the size and price that fits them. Untick any paragraph you want left alone. You agree to the scope before you pay for it.

03 - Rewrite and measure

Every paragraph, then every check

Each paragraph is rewritten with its own list of what must survive. What comes back is diffed against that list and measured for how far it moved. Anything too close goes straight back.

04 - Review and download

Read every paragraph side by side

Source beside rewrite, one row per paragraph, worst overlap first. Download the clean file and the change log that says what moved and what did not.

What we protect

A rewrite can keep every word and still change the claim.

A must that drifts onto a different clause. A rather than whose second half quietly disappears. A before that becomes an after. These are the errors a fluent paraphrase makes, and a reviewer catches. Before a single sentence is rewritten, we inventory everything that must survive - then check it survived.

And we never touch the title, author line, headings, captions, tables, reference list or equations. Those are yours.

Numbers, with their direction
3.4× slower stays slower. 41,092 retained is never dropped.
Citations, frozen in place
[7] and (Saeb et al., 2015) are masked before the model ever sees them.
Cross-references
Table 4, Section 3.5, Eq. (9a) - present, and pointing at the same thing.
Modal verbs, bound to their clause
must never becomes should, and never migrates to a different sentence.
Procedural order
in a fixed order: A, then B does not become A and B. In a methods section the order is the method.
Negations and antitheses
consistent with X but does not establish X keeps its second half.
Hedging, in both directions
may improve is never promoted to improves, and does not establish is never softened to does not imply.
Your keywords
Paste the words and phrases that must not change - base rate, held-out set - and we hold them.
The report

Every file comes back with its numbers.

This is a real report from a 5,461-word methods paper. We never report “N paragraphs changed” - a single swapped connective satisfies that. We report how much of your original wording is still standing, and whether the pass cleared its own bar.

MeasureResultTarget
Whole document, 8-word overlap12.3%under 25%✓
Median paragraph7.2%under 15%✓
Worst paragraph37.9%none above 50%✓
Word count3,502 → 3,689within ±10%✓
Numbers, citations, cross-refs lost00✓
Paragraphs523 in, 523 outnone merged✓
Also in every change log
The paragraphs that stayed closest to the source, named rather than averaged away - usually a caption, or a sentence built around a protected antithesis that can only move so far.
Every check that flagged something, with whether it turned out to be a real defect or a false alarm. We investigate each one before it reaches you.
Anything the author needs to decide - a repair we made, a phrase we restored, a paragraph we left untouched and why.
Pricing

Per manuscript. Quoted before you pay.

Short paper

Price outside Iraq: $5 6,000 IQD up to 8 pages (2,400 words in scope)

Clean file, tracked-changes copy and change log. If the pass misses its own targets, an editor finishes it by hand.

Upload a manuscript

Full paper

Price outside Iraq: $10 10,000 IQD up to 20 pages (6,000 words in scope)

Clean file, tracked-changes copy and change log. If the pass misses its own targets, an editor finishes it by hand.

Upload a manuscript

Thesis

Price outside Iraq: $50 50,000 IQD up to 100 pages (30,000 words in scope)

Clean file, tracked-changes copy and change log. If the pass misses its own targets, an editor finishes it by hand.

Upload a manuscript

You never pick a size: we count the words that will be paraphrased - at 300 words to a page - and quote the smallest size that fits. References, tables, captions and headings are not counted.

What Proofmark is not

It is not a way to hide that a text was written with help, and nothing here is built to get a text past a detector. Our report measures how far a rewrite moved from its source and whether every claim survived; it says nothing about who wrote what. Most journals now ask authors to declare AI-assisted editing. Declare it - and attach our change log if they want to know exactly what changed.