A research publishing pipeline in four stages — Discover, Check, Submit, Present — ten tools that share one credit pool. Formatting rewrites your document's typesetting; the readiness check reads your document and reports. Neither one depends on the other, and each costs 1–3 credits.
Formatting a paper, in three steps
Upload your research paper as a .docx up to 4.5 MB.
Choose one of 21 templates — IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, Springer, Nature, ACS, MDPI, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Frontiers, PLOS ONE, IOP Publishing, Cell Press, BMC, SAGE, APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, AMA and Vancouver — or upload your journal's own .docx template.
Download the formatted .docx. The upload is transformed in memory and never written to disk, so nothing is retained once the response is sent.
Running a readiness check, in three steps
Choose the target journal from 11 profiles, or paste the URL of any journal's author-guidelines page and ORBIT reads the rules from it.
Select your .docx. It is parsed in your browser — the file is never sent to a server.
Read the report: two scores (journal fit, and manuscript checks), the five findings that matter most first, then 12 category breakdowns, each failing check paired with the change that fixes it. Download it as a PDF. The same paper against the same journal again within 24 hours is free, up to 3 times.
Why your file is handled differently by stage
A formatting conversion has to send the .docx over HTTPS to the function that rewrites it, because rewriting it is the point. The file is transformed in memory and sent straight back; no copy is kept.
A readiness check never transmits the manuscript at all, because analysis needs no server. This is a property of how the tool is built, not a policy promise.
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