Review & Redlines

Everyone marks up the same draft. You decide what lands.

Circulate a piece, let people change the actual words, accept or refuse each change, publish. No email threads, no tracked-changes documents, no second tool.

Round 1 · in review3 mark-ups0 accepted
JMcomment

A draft goes out. Three people reply.

RKdelete

One rewrites a paragraph, one leaves a comment, one says tighten the intro.

ALsuggests

Someone reconciles all of that by handby hand, every single time and hopes nothing was missed.

The reconciliation tax

Getting a piece out is rarely the hard part. Finding out what people actually want changed is.

The usual version: the draft goes out as an email attachment or a shared doc. Three people reply. One rewrites a paragraph inline, one leaves a comment, one says "looks good but tighten the intro." Someone has to reconcile that by hand, retype it into the real system, and hope nothing was missed. Meanwhile nobody knows who has actually read it, and the publish date arrives anyway.

Review & Redlines puts that whole loop where the content already lives.

The loop

How a round works

Phase 1

Send

01

Send it for review.

Pick up to ten people from your workspace. They get an email with the piece, who asked, and when it publishes.

02

The draft locks.

While a review is open the copy can't be edited underneath the reviewers — not by you, not by a teammate, not by the scheduled generator.

Phase 2

Mark up

03

Reviewers mark up the copy itself.

Select a passage and choose what you mean: suggest an edit, delete this, comment, or insert here. Every mark-up is anchored to the exact words and carries the reviewer's initials.

04

Reviewers sign off.

Each person marks themselves done. You see who's finished and who hasn't.

Phase 3

Decide

05

You decide, one suggestion at a time.

Accept or refuse each mark-up, with an optional note. Nothing is silently applied and nothing is silently dropped.

06

Apply.

One action writes every accepted change into the copy at once.

07

Close the round.

The draft unlocks. Your existing approval and publishing flow continues, unchanged.

Mark-ups

Four ways to say what you mean

the quarterlyannual report

Suggest an edit

Propose replacement wording.

a really quite long report

Delete this

Propose cutting it.

JMis this still true?

Comment

Flag something without proposing a change.

the report, in full, is attached

Insert here

Add wording at a specific point.

In detail

What you get

Marking up

  • Suggested replacements, deletions, insertions and plain comments.
  • Anchored to the exact words, not to line numbers.
  • Each reviewer's initials shown beside their mark-ups.
  • Multiple reviewers on the same paragraph, at the same time.
  • Suggestions shown inline against the live copy, not in a separate list.

Deciding

  • Accept or refuse each suggestion individually.
  • An optional note on any decision.
  • A running count of what's accepted and what's still waiting.
  • All accepted changes applied in a single pass.
  • A round can't be closed while accepted changes are still unwritten.

Keeping it moving

  • Reviewers emailed the moment they're added.
  • A daily reminder to anyone who hasn't signed off.
  • Triggered by an approaching publish date, or by a review gone quiet.
  • At most one reminder per person per day.
  • You're emailed the moment the last reviewer signs off.

Staying in control

  • Cancel a round at any point and every mark-up is withdrawn cleanly.
  • The draft is never edited behind a reviewer's back.
  • Applying is always explicit, and always yours.
  • Rounds are numbered, so a second pass is a second round.
  • Every mark-up is attributed to the person who made it.
Coverage

Blog articles and newsletters

Blog articles.

Newsletters — every section reviewed in place, in one pass.

Sits in front of your existing approval chain rather than replacing it.

Boundaries

What it deliberately doesn't do

Reviewers are people in your workspace.

No public links, no anonymous reviewers. Everyone who marks up your copy is someone you invited, and every mark-up is attributed.

Mark-ups apply to prose, not to plumbing.

Body copy and commentary are reviewable. Subject lines, URLs and metadata aren't — a suggestion engine is the wrong tool for a link.

Accepting is not applying.

Two steps on purpose. A review of any length means changing your mind partway through, and one batched write is safer than twenty piecemeal ones.

No real-time co-editing.

This is asynchronous review, not a shared cursor. People read and mark up on their own schedule; that's the point.

Ready to run a round?

Circulate a draft, let people mark up the actual words, and decide what lands.