Foreign Edition Studio
From declared scope to a production-ready foreign edition.
Price and contract the eligible project before sharing the manuscript. Every consequential step has an owner, a recorded decision, and a visible next action, from the automatic quote through private file verification and delivery.
The complete workflow
Six stages. No invisible handoffs.
The customer-facing status is simplified, but the underlying file, sample, quote, contract, capacity, payment, and project records remain separate so one successful step cannot silently bypass another.
Calculate the exact project price
Choose a supported language pair, enter the declared source-word count and genre, then add one optional publication tier. Eligible localization rates are calculated automatically between USD 0.08 and USD 0.12 per source word.
Customer: No account, manuscript, phone number, or billing details.
Maquine: Apply one published, versioned pricing rule set.
Verify identity and lock the proposal
Use a one-time email link and provide the minimum book, rights-holder, and authority details. The server recalculates the price and creates an immutable declared-scope snapshot and versioned proposal without requesting the manuscript.
Customer: Confirm authority, legal capacity, and declared project scope.
Maquine: Lock the calculation, selected tier, payment split, and expiry date.
Accept the agreement and production window
Review the exact scope, rights statement, deliverables, 50/50 payment split, and post-upload verification terms. The agreement references the accepted proposal rather than an unseen file.
Customer: Accept only after the commercial and rights terms are clear.
Maquine: Confirm capacity and issue the approved agreement version.
Fund the project and upload privately
Pay the 50% deposit through the issued payment route, then upload the source file to private storage. The file enters quarantine and passes extension, signature, archive, malware, and parser controls before production access.
Customer: Upload the agreed DOCX, EPUB, text-based PDF, or accepted TXT file.
Maquine: Verify the payment event and clear the exact file version.
Verify scope and produce the edition
Maquine compares the uploaded language, genre, and source-word count with the locked declaration. A material variance requires an agreed change order; otherwise localization and the selected publication package proceed to production.
Customer: Review any sample, queries, and milestone approvals.
Maquine: Create the contracted edition and record each approval.
Follow production and receive files
Use the private portal to follow milestones, approvals, files, messages, and payment state. Final deliverables remain locked until the balance is verified.
Customer: Review milestones, settle the final balance, and download securely.
Maquine: Release only the contracted deliverables after payment verification.
Release gates
The workflow refuses to skip the decisions that protect both sides.
Uploads, proposals, agreements, invoices, and final files each have a separate production gate.
No automatic quote for an unsupported pair or specialist scope.
No locked proposal without verified identity and a server calculation.
No agreement beyond the accepted, versioned scope.
No production before agreement, deposit, and private file clearance.
No material scope variance without an agreed change order.
No final-file access before verified balance payment.
Begin with declared scope
Build the exact eligible-project price before sharing a file.
Automatic declared-scope quote
Price the edition before sharing the manuscript.
Calculate the exact eligible-project price, choose one optional publication tier, and lock the proposal after email verification. The private manuscript enters only after agreement and deposit.