A small independent publisher needed to scale without losing what made their books distinctive. Their head of books had spent decades developing an editorial sensibility—one that couldn't be captured in a style sheet but showed up in every margin note.
We built a custom Claude skill together. Not a generic fiction editor, but one trained on her feedback patterns, her pet peeves, her instinct for when a scene needed tightening versus when it needed room to breathe. The process took weeks of iteration: sample edits, corrections, refinements.
The result isn't a replacement for her judgment. It's an amplifier. The tool catches what she'd catch, freeing her to focus on the decisions only she can make. First-pass edits that once took hours now take minutes. The publisher's voice stays intact across more titles than one person could otherwise touch.