Foreign Edition Studio
Plan the scope now. Open each commercial step only after certification.
Today the public site supports a planning estimate and manual review request. The account, proposal, agreement, payment, upload, production, and delivery steps below remain gated until MAQUINE expressly activates them.
The gated activation workflow
Six stages. No invisible handoffs.
Only stages 01 and 02 are available publicly today. The remaining stages describe the controls that must be approved and activated; they are not an offer, checkout, or promise of production.
Build a planning estimate
Choose a supported language pair, target market, declared source-word count, genre, and optional publication tier. The result is non-contractual and creates no commercial record.
Customer: No account, manuscript, phone number, or billing details.
MAQUINE: Publish the bounded planning model and its exclusions.
Request a manual scope review
Carry the non-sensitive estimate into the inquiry form. The request records context but does not verify identity, reserve capacity, or create a proposal.
Customer: Share only the scope needed for an initial review.
MAQUINE: Assess fit and identify missing information.
Wait for an approved commercial path
MAQUINE must certify legal identity, offer terms, billing, capacity, privacy, and the private Studio before any proposal or agreement can open.
Customer: Treat published prices and timelines as planning information.
MAQUINE: Keep proposal and contract gates closed until approved.
Keep payment and upload closed
No invoice, deposit, production slot, or private upload is available in the current public mode. Do not send a manuscript through ordinary email.
Customer: Do not pay or share confidential files from public-site copy.
MAQUINE: Accept neither money nor manuscripts through an unapproved path.
Activate one certified pilot first
A future founder-approved pilot must use a versioned scope, approved agreement, verified billing identity, capacity reservation, and private-file controls.
Customer: Review every term and authorization before proceeding.
MAQUINE: Open only the capabilities certified for that pilot.
Scale only from operating evidence
Production and delivery expand only after payment, file, quality, support, reconciliation, recovery, and acceptance controls are proven.
Customer: Receive only the deliverables stated in an approved scope.
MAQUINE: Measure cycle time, corrections, capacity, and incidents.
Release gates
The workflow refuses to skip the decisions that protect both sides.
The public planning path does not open uploads, proposals, agreements, invoices, production, or final-file access.
No public estimate creates a quote, proposal, invoice, or capacity reservation.
No account, agreement, payment, or upload opens while activation is pending.
No manuscript belongs in the public form or ordinary email.
No commercial action precedes legal, billing, privacy, and capacity approval.
No production begins without separately certified private-file controls.
No scale claim precedes measured delivery and support evidence.
Begin with declared scope
Build a planning estimate without sharing a confidential file.
Declared-scope planning estimate
Plan the edition before sharing the manuscript.
Calculate a declared-scope planning estimate, choose one optional publication tier, and carry the saved scope into a manual review. The private Studio remains closed until its security and provider gates pass.