Six situations, one workshop
Scenarios — not testimonials. Each one rests on shipped features, which you can verify in the free version or on the Features page.
IThe thesis a demanding supervisor rereads every week
Three years of work, an outline that keeps shifting, citations to keep straight, and the dread of chapter 4 contradicting chapter 2.
In the workshop: the researcher profile (Zotero, citation styles, academic requirements, LaTeX and JATS exports), cross-chapter consistency checks, and the Thesis pack, which installs a virtual thesis supervisor — a persona that holds you to account, an indexed method the AI genuinely consults. As for the real supervisor's read-through, it leaves as a review packet: they annotate in any editor, without Palimpseste and without internet, and their corrections come back and apply themselves word for word.
IIThe saga that never contradicts itself
Three volumes, forty characters, and the heroine's eye colour changing in volume 2 — the classic nightmare.
In the workshop: the character bible and the plot threads live inside the project; multi-volume series share a bible with per-volume precedence and continuity checks. Story Engine drafts a chapter from that material — your material — and every generated passage stays marked as such.
IIIThe long-haul investigation
Months in the field, sources to protect, a newsroom waiting for signs of life — and an angle still finding itself.
In the workshop: the journalist profile — templates, deadlines, editorial requirements, source management with three confidentiality levels — and the feuillet counter, the measure newsrooms actually talk about. Identity labelling (one file, free) tags the names in a document before it is shared; to get a whole dossier out, the airlock is Palimpseste Pseudo.
IVThe dissertation on a shoestring
A master's degree, zero budget, and the wish for a serious tool rather than a word processor that runs out of breath at a hundred pages.
In the workshop: the free version is permanent — Raw and Preview modes, Markdown extensions, open exports — and the student rate (€29.99/year, academic email) unlocks everything else. The Master's Dissertation pack, a one-time purchase, installs the method.
VThe white paper that proves its rigour
A freelancer delivers a study, a white paper, a report — and the client, once burned by authorless AI prose, asks: “which parts are yours?”
In the workshop: the Professional packs (market research, white paper, CSRD, legal) install the method; and authorship tracking answers the client's question, proof in hand — every AI intervention is marked in the file, the indicator shows the exact share, and it can be shown.
VIThe offline workshop
A train, fieldwork with no signal, a strict confidentiality policy — and the wish to keep the AI all the same.
In the workshop: with a local model (Ollama, LM Studio), everything works offline — writing, generations, the indexing of your references, review. Not a fragment leaves the machine, and it costs nothing to run. The three AI postures →