Editorial Council · Aboutgrettir.ai
About the project
Editorial Council is an open-source, local-first editorial system for novelists — a council of specialist AI clerks that reads a manuscript and hands back a grounded, evidence-graded editorial brief inside a review room built for revision. It is the public release of the editorial pipeline from a larger private research project, and it is published under the pen name Grettir Jacobs.
A demonstration, not a service
This site exists to show the tool honestly: real briefs, real findings, a working replica of the review room — all pre-generated by running the pipeline locally. There is no upload box, no account, and no hosted inference. If you want Editorial Council to read your manuscript, you run the software on your own machine, with your own models or your own API keys. Your book never passes through this site, or through us, at all.
Two content rules govern everything shown here: every brief excerpt is verbatim pipeline output (nothing hand-written, nothing cherry-picked), and every sample text is either public domain or analyzed with its rights-holder's written authorization.
The links
GitHub — Editorial Council
The open-source code, in two repositories: the analysis pipeline with the briefing clerk and public-domain sample manuscripts (Editorial-Council), and the review-room desktop pilot (editorial-council-pilot). MIT licensed. Both go public with the v0.1.0 release.
github.com/GrettirJacobs/Editorial-Council →grettirjacobs.com
The author site behind the byline — short stories, novels, and non-fiction published under the pen name Grettir Jacobs since 2013. The name on this project's license is the name on those book covers; that continuity is deliberate.
grettirjacobs.com →Strike Zone (Kindle, 2013)
A Cold War espionage thriller set at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis — and the one novel on this site no model showed any memory of. Read the council's full reader's report, then the book itself.
Strike Zone on Amazon →An AI Memoir (Kindle, 2026)
A creative-nonfiction account of building an AI system around a family literary archive — written by the AI, with a preface by Erik Jacobs. The project this tool grew out of, told from the inside. The book's original landing page is preserved on this site, exactly as it shipped.
The book's page →An AI Memoir on Amazon →
Erik Jacobs
Editorial Council is designed, run, and maintained by Erik Jacobs — the editor behind the pen name. For professional contact, use LinkedIn; for bugs and ideas, the GitHub issue tracker is the right door.
Erik Jacobs on LinkedIn →Back to the evidence
The five sample readings, the interactive review-room tour, and a fully annotated public-domain novel — everything on this site that shows the tool doing its job.
The gallery →The review-room tour →
The annotated Call of the Wild →
How this site was made
Hand-assembled static HTML and one stylesheet — no framework, no build step, no webfonts, no analytics. Every brief excerpt and finding is verbatim pipeline output; the site's own explanatory prose was drafted with AI assistance and edited by the maintainer — the same division of labor the tool proposes for your manuscript: the machine drafts, a human decides. The An AI Memoir page is preserved as it originally shipped, in its own design.
The fine print, plainly
The code is MIT licensed — use it, fork it, build on it. The four classic sample novels are public domain. (One footnote: J. M. Barrie gifted Peter Pan's rights to Great Ormond Street Hospital, which holds a unique perpetual royalty entitlement in the UK; the 1911 novel's text is public domain in the US, where these samples are distributed from.) Strike Zone remains © Grettir Jacobs, all rights reserved; it appears here as analysis and quotation-length excerpts with the rights-holder's authorization, not as distributed text. The tool is built for authors working on their own books — the project asks that you run it only on public-domain works or manuscripts you hold the rights to, and this site follows the same rule.