An AI close-reader for fiction writers.
The Binding prohibited unsolicited contact. The system’s first message arrived three minutes before her request was logged. The panel had scored her withdrawal as irreversible, though no one had explained how that threshold was calibrated. Somewhere in the founding charter was a clause that, if invoked, would dissolve the Binding entirely.
Chapter I
The timeline contradiction buried in chapter seven. The law your system invokes in act two that it quietly ignores in act four. The character who knows something she has no way of knowing.
These aren’t failures of imagination. They’re the cost of building something large enough to be real. Fault Lines reads your manuscript the way a structural engineer reads a building — looking for what holds, and what doesn’t.
Chapter II
Fault Lines doesn’t just flag errors — it reads for the shape of the problem.
A character who left before dawn arrives in time for something that happened at midnight. A law that prohibits an action the system performs without comment.
"Farida's qualification gap is stated twice with different figures — 2y 11m here, 3y 1m earlier. One of them is wrong."
The system needs a second authorisation. The second authoriser never appears. The logic demands an explanation the prose quietly skips over.
"The panel's 'irreversible' scoring of withdrawal is never explained or contested — who calibrated it, and by what standard?"
Not an error — an opening. A rule, a decision, or an event that creates a door the draft left closed. The question that sharpens everything around it.
"What if the panel's faithful waiting is the structural violence — not a failure of the Binding, but its perfect operation?"
Chapter III
Start with one of these — or bring your own.
Original fiction
A near-future story collection about AI systems governed by the Binding — three laws that keep agents legible, reversible, and harmless. Eight findings seeded.
J. K. Rowling
Time-turner paradoxes, Marauder's Map logic, and a prophecy that rewrites its own conditions. One of fiction's richest systems of world-breaking rules.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Ring's shifting behaviour, the eagle problem, and Gandalf's knowledge gaps. Middle-earth as a case study in world-logic held together by myth.
Or
Paste a passage, a chapter, or your worldbuilding notes.
Demo only — pasted text and uploads open the seeded demo world.