The moment you upload a manuscript to Libralexia, three things happen:
We generate a SHA-256 cryptographic fingerprint — a unique string that corresponds to your exact manuscript. Change a single punctuation mark, and the hash changes entirely. This is the mathematical record of your work as it existed at a specific moment.
The moment of upload is recorded with precision and permanently locked to your hash. Together, they form an unforgeable record: this work, by this author, at this time.
Your certificate is a downloadable document containing your manuscript's hash, timestamp, title, and author information. It's yours to keep, share with a publisher, attach to a submission, or hold as permanent record. Libralexia stores both the hash and your manuscript file together — so whenever you need proof, it's there.
How Your Archive Is Protected
A cryptographic fingerprint of your exact manuscript, generated at the moment of upload. This is your immutable timestamp: mathematical proof that this specific file existed on this specific date.
The exact PDF or EPUB you uploaded, preserved in your archive alongside the hash. As long as your account exists — even if dormant for years — both are stored together and your proof of authorship is intact. You don't have to do anything. We hold it.
Every manuscript has two visibility states you can change at any time:
Think of this as the museum vault. Preserved and protected with full cryptographic integrity — but not on public display. Safe, permanent, not discoverable.
Your manuscript goes on the shelf. Indexed, searchable, findable by readers, agents, and publishers. You control what they see before they ever contact you.
We want to be very clear about this because you deserve direct answers — not vague reassurances buried in the terms of service, written in legalese no one can decipher.
There is no AI on this platform. There is zero AI functionality built into Libralexia. We don't process your manuscript with AI in any way — not for indexing, not for summaries, not for matching, not for anything.
We will never use your manuscript to train any AI model — not ours (we don't have any), and certainly not anyone else's.
Did AI assist your writing process? We're not here to judge your process or gatekeep what tools writers choose to use. We're here to protect your work.
We're building something bigger.
Libralexia takes its name from the Library of Alexandria — history's most ambitious attempt to collect and preserve the sum of human creative work. That library burned. The manuscripts were lost.
We're building the one that doesn't.
Discoverability is coming. Authors who opt into Discoverable visibility will have their manuscripts indexed in a searchable catalog — a living library of verified, human-authored creative work. Your manuscript goes on the shelf. Indexed and searchable by readers, agents, and publishers — but you control what they see, and full manuscript access is by your approval only.
Libralexia is for the author with a finished manuscript, and an inbox full of rejections for the story they spent three years on. The one who shelved their work because the industry wasn't ready — and has always had a quiet feeling that someday it will be.
The one who wrote something meaningful and personal that was never meant for publication at all — that belongs to their family, their memory, their legacy. The one who wants their grandchildren to be able to read what they wrote, long after their hard drive has been wiped and their attic boxes cleared out.
The author who understands that in the age of AI, proof of authorship is a ticking clock — and your timestamp might be the difference between winning a copyright infringement case and watching someone, or something, take credit for your work.
And for those of us who are tired of screaming into the void and just want our work to exist somewhere that takes it seriously. No gatekeeping. No manuscript graveyard.
If that's you, your manuscript belongs here.
If you choose to delete your manuscript or close your account, your manuscript file is removed from our archive per your request. We retain the hash and metadata to preserve the integrity of the archive record — but the file is gone from our systems.
In that scenario, if you ever needed to establish proof of authorship later — in a legal dispute, a rights conversation, a submission — you would need your own copy of the exact file you uploaded that day. Not an edited version. Not a newer draft. The precise file, unchanged. Don't worry, we'll give you a chance to download both as part of the deletion process.
Keep it secret. Keep it safe.
This is the only situation where keeping your own copy matters. As long as your archive exists, we've got both. But it never hurts to have a backup somewhere safe.
No. Discoverability means your manuscript appears in search results and on your author profile — not that it's open for anyone to read on demand. What's visible publicly is what you choose to share: your title, synopsis, genre, tags, and whatever excerpt you allow. Requests to read the full manuscript come to you. You decide who gets access, and when. Your manuscript is unpublished — you stay in control of it.
Yes, anytime. Switch from Archived to Discoverable when you're ready to be found. Switch back if you change your mind. There's no penalty and no lock-in. Your archive and your timestamp stay intact regardless of what you choose.
Yes. Our zero-AI policy applies to every manuscript on the platform regardless of visibility setting. Discoverable means findable by humans — readers, agents, publishers browsing the catalog. It does not expose your manuscript to machine learning pipelines, scraping, or any automated processing. That boundary doesn't move.
We accept PDF and EPUB — final-form files that preserve your work exactly as it was written. This protects the integrity of your archive and the cryptographic hash that requires the file to stay exactly the same. Even one changed punctuation mark would break the key.
Your certificate contains a cryptographic hash — a unique mathematical fingerprint of your exact manuscript — paired with a precise timestamp. Libralexia stores both the certificate and your manuscript file together. If you ever need to establish authorship in a legal dispute, a rights conversation, or a submission, the hash and the original file are matched to produce verifiable, tamper-proof proof. Change one word after the fact and the hash won't match. That's the point.
Not yet — and that's intentional. Phase 1 is about preservation, proof of authorship, and giving your manuscript a permanent home. Phase 2 adds discoverability. Publishing tools and deeper industry integrations are on the roadmap. For now: preservation first, everything else follows.
No. Libralexia is specifically built for unpublished manuscripts — the ones sitting in a drawer, a folder, or your head. Published authors are welcome, but this was built for the work the industry hasn't seen yet.