Digital Protégé
Lux learns how you write — My Voice, or a Shared house style from several authors — and coaches in that voice, not a generic academic one.
Private beta
Smarter academic writing in Word
xRead sits in the Microsoft Word task pane. Citations, checks, voice, and journal tools stay beside the manuscript. Access is by invitation while we run a small beta.
What you can do in xRead
A portfolio of tools in the Word task pane. Everyday writing help, then journal tools and workflows you can add yourself.
Show Citations
Highlight a passage and match in-text citations to the bibliography — fast, in the document.
Search My Bibliography
From the paper’s own reference list, find the entries that best support the highlighted claim.
Cross-Check
Catch orphans (cited but missing) and ghosts (listed but never cited).
Verify claims
Check whether the cited sources actually support what the sentence says.
Integrity
Check printed references against scholarly registries — year, DOI, and whether the record is the same paper.
Find Research
Related papers for the highlighted passage, from scholarly catalogs beside the manuscript.
Explain
Plain-language explanation of the highlighted passage, without leaving Word.
Rewrite
Rewrite the highlight toward your signature — Person, constructions, and the words you actually use.
Lux chat
Ask, summarise, and work the paper with Lux — scoped to this document. The Quipu keeps the run as a thread you can filter.
Journal Match
Where this manuscript could go, based on the draft and its reference profile.
SeatJournal Advisor
Audit the draft against that journal’s author guidelines — structure, length, and house rules.
SeatJournal guidelines
Paste a guidelines link or upload the PDF. xRead extracts requirements and can measure a paper that journal already accepted.
Challenge Me
Adversarial review: literature that contradicts or qualifies your claim.
SeatOrder Refs
Sort the highlighted References section — A–Z for APA/Harvard, printed number for Vancouver — then paste it back.
Library
Save papers from Chat and keep them with the account — summaries, links, and a bibliography you can export.
Custom skills
Generate your own action buttons and workflows — then run them from Chat and filter the results in the Quipu.
SeatRequest access to the beta
Join the registration list. We review requests and send an invitation when a place opens. This is not an account signup.