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Alighieria

Alighieria is a Spanish AI editorial assistant for publishing houses, media outlets and agencies. It proofreads manuscripts against house style guides, translates, runs OCR, builds indexes and generates EPUB files, press kits and editorial reports.

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Overview

What is Alighieria?

Alighieria is a software-as-a-service platform built by Alighieria Systems SL, a Barcelona company incorporated in May 2025, to automate the work that surrounds a book before it reaches print. Its own terms describe it plainly as a SaaS platform that automates editorial processes, and it is aimed at publishing houses, media outlets and agencies rather than at general office users. The homepage claims more than 100 editorial teams already rely on it.

The core module is proofreading. Alighieria reviews style, grammar, internal consistency, subject matter and factual data across an entire manuscript, and it can be told to apply a publisher's own house style guide and editorial criteria instead of generic rules. Corrections come back as a tracked-changes download, so a human editor keeps the final say. Eight further functions sit around that core: literary-quality translation with no word limit, presented as orientation translations for the editor rather than press-ready text; a conversational assistant that answers questions about a specific book, compiling bibliographies, summaries and interviews, locating references, comparing translations, extracting character data and checking narrative consistency; EPUB generation with structure, metadata and styles ready for the main sales channels; a high-precision OCR engine tuned for literary and editorial texts, meant for scanned galleys and physical originals; automatic analytical and thematic indexes; press releases and editorial fact sheets in a journalistic register; in-depth reading and editorial reports carrying linguistic metrics; and derived content for social media or magazines produced in the publisher's own brand voice.

A second product, Alighieria Publisher OS, covers the business side of an imprint: centralised contract management, a rights map by territory, automatic royalty calculation, unit-cost sheets, stock and distribution tracking, contract templates, invoicing generated straight from contract data, expense management, and performance statistics by title, collection, territory and channel. The vendor says a team can be operational on it in under a week.

Alighieria runs entirely in the browser, with no mobile or desktop application. It describes a closed, encrypted environment that reaches third-party language models through secure APIs, and its terms commit contractually to never using customer content to train algorithms.

What it does

  • Proofread a full manuscript for style, grammar, consistency, subject matter and factual data
  • Apply a publisher's own house style guide and editorial criteria to the correction pass
  • Translate large volumes with sensitivity to the original style, without word limits
  • Answer questions about a specific book: bibliographies, summaries, references, narrative consistency
  • Digitise scanned galleys and physical originals through an OCR engine tuned for literary texts
  • Generate distribution-ready EPUB files with structure, metadata and styles
  • Produce press kits, editorial reports with linguistic metrics, and derived social media content
Audience

When to use Alighieria / When not to

A quick filter to help you decide if Alighieria is the right fit.

When to use Alighieria

  • Proofreaders and copy editors working on book-length manuscripts under deadline
  • Commissioning and desk editors who need style, consistency and factual checks in one pass
  • Editorial production managers handling EPUB files, metadata and analytical indexes
  • Literary translators who need orientation translations and samples across large volumes
  • Small and mid-sized publishing houses wanting contracts, royalties and stock in one system

When not to use Alighieria

  • Occasional or hobby users, since the cheapest paid entry point is 99 EUR per month with no free plan
  • Teams that need page layout or typesetting: this does not replace InDesign
  • Anyone wanting a mobile app or a browser extension, as the product is web-only
  • Developers looking for self-service API access, which is reserved for the Enterprise tier on quotation
  • Fiction writers seeking autonomous creative generation rather than editorial assistance
Get started

How to use Alighieria

A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.

  1. Request a demo through the contact form on the homepage, or message the team on WhatsApp
  2. Wait for a team member to get back to you and map the tool onto your existing workflow
  3. Subscribe through the payment link by card, starting with the seven-day free trial and no commitment
  4. Log in to the platform through the web application at app.alighieria.com
  5. Upload manuscripts, originals or scanned galleys into the document workspace
  6. Configure your own house style guide and editorial criteria before the first pass
  7. Run the correction, translation, OCR or indexing task on the document
  8. Download the corrections as a tracked-changes file for human review
  9. Generate an EPUB, a press kit, a report or an index from the same source document
  10. Export your content whenever you need it; cancel from the control panel at any time
Quick read

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Genuine editorial specialisation: house style guides, per-team criteria and tracked-changes output
  • Covers an unusually wide stretch of the chain, from a scanned original through to a distributable EPUB
  • Contractual commitment in the terms that customer content is never used to train algorithms
  • EU-established vendor under Spanish law, with GDPR and LOPDGDD compliance and the AEPD as recourse
  • Seven-day free trial with no commitment, and cancellation at any time without penalty
  • Generous volume allowances of 1.2 to 2 million words per month, with credits carried over
  • Built with professional editors, by a founder who came out of the publishing industry

Cons

  • No permanent free plan: the entry point is 99 EUR per month on an annual commitment
  • The pricing is self-contradictory — the pricing page and the terms of service publish two different scales
  • The month-to-month price is not visible on the pricing page, which only renders the annual tab
  • An API is advertised but confined to the Enterprise tier on quotation, with no public documentation
  • No hosting country or region is declared anywhere, and no named list of subprocessors is published
  • No DPA is published, and no security certification such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 is claimed
  • Web-only product from a company incorporated in May 2025, with a single administrator
Pricing

Pricing & Plans

Alighieria does not offer a permanent free plan. Both paid tiers include a seven-day free trial with no commitment. The cheapest paid entry point published on the pricing page is 99 EUR per month, billed annually at 1,188 EUR per year.

Profesional — 99 EUR/month billed annually (1,188 EUR/year)
  • up to 1.2 million words per month in proofreading
  • customisable press kits and reports
  • correction against your own style guides and editorial criteria
  • tracked-changes downloads
  • unlimited word translations
  • carried-over credits
Enterprise — custom pricing on request
  • everything in Superior
  • plus services available via API
  • integration with the customer's own technology systems
  • and priority 24/7 support
Divergent scale published in the terms of service and not reflected on the pricing page
  • Basic 59 EUR/month or 588 EUR/year
  • Intermediate 119 EUR/month or 1
  • 188 EUR/year
  • Superior 189 EUR/month or 1
  • 908 EUR/year
  • VAT included
Plan 5
  • Seven-day free trial on both self-service plans
  • card payment (Visa
  • MasterCard
  • American Express)
  • invoices sent by email
  • cancellation at any time without penalty
Special offers — 20% saving advertised on the annual billing option compared with monthly billing · Seven-day free trial with no commitment on both the Profesional and Superior plans · Unused credits carried over from one month to the next on both paid plans
Prices and plans listed above may evolve. Always check the official pricing page before subscribing.
Trust & Privacy

Data, GDPR & hosting

A consolidated view of how Alighieria handles your data.

GDPR overview

GDPR implementation is documented in concrete terms. The data protection policy, effective 1 July 2025, claims compliance with both the EU General Data Protection Regulation and Spain's LOPDGDD (Organic Law 3/2018 of 5 December). It names the controller, Alighieria Systems SL in Barcelona, with a postal address, a telephone number and a contact email. Four legal bases are listed: performance of the contract, consent, legitimate interest and legal obligation. Seven data subject rights are set out individually, exercisable by email or post, with a one-month response deadline extendable by two months, and a right of complaint to the Spanish supervisory authority, the AEPD. Transfers outside the European Economic Area are said to rely on adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses. No Data Protection Officer is named, and no customer-facing DPA is published.

Who owns the data?

Under the terms of service, the customer keeps every right over their original content: processed documents retain their original authorship, and Alighieria Systems SL states that it acquires no rights over user content. The company owns the platform itself and grants only a non-exclusive licence to use it. It commits to absolute confidentiality over uploaded material and to accessing it only for specific technical needs. Personal data may be shared with processors handling hosting, email, payment and technical support, with the authorities where the law requires it, and with third parties only on explicit consent. The privacy policy states that personal data is never sold, rented or traded.

Reuse rights

Customers may export their content at any time and remain free to use it as they wish, since Alighieria acquires no rights over it. The terms explicitly state that user content is not used to train algorithms. What is forbidden is reverse-engineering, reproducing, distributing or modifying the software itself, and users must respect intellectual property rules for whatever they upload. The vendor gives no guarantee that automated corrections are infallible and declines responsibility for editorial decisions taken on the strength of its suggestions, so the publisher remains accountable for the final text. After cancellation, access continues until the end of the paid period; where payment fails, the service is suspended after seven days and data is kept a further thirty days before permanent deletion becomes possible.

Data retention & training

Retention summary
Retention periods are set out plainly in the data protection policy. Account and service data is kept for as long as the account stays active, then for up to five years after cancellation in case of claims. Billing records are kept for six years from the invoice date, as Spanish tax law requires. Commercial communication data is kept until consent is withdrawn, access logs for two years for security purposes, and support records for three years after a case is closed. Once a period expires, the company says data is deleted securely and irreversibly. Separately, where payment fails, the service is suspended after seven days and data is held a further thirty days for recovery before permanent deletion becomes possible. No anonymisation practice is mentioned.
Trains on customer data
No
GDPR contact

Hosting summary

No hosting country or region is declared anywhere on the site. What is established is the jurisdiction: the controller, Alighieria Systems SL, is based in Barcelona, Spanish law governs the contract and the courts of Barcelona have jurisdiction. The privacy policy states only that any transfer of data outside the European Economic Area is covered by adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses, which implies but never confirms European hosting. Processors are acknowledged for hosting, email, payment and technical support, but none is named. On the technical side the vendor describes a closed, encrypted environment, encryption in transit and at rest, firewalls and intrusion detection, encrypted backups, multi-factor authentication for administrative access and continuous monitoring, with third-party language models reached through secure APIs. No security certification such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 is claimed. The domain resolves to a Cloudflare anycast address, which says nothing about where data actually sits.

Watch-outs

Things to keep in mind

Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Alighieria.

  • The terms exclude any guarantee that automated corrections are infallible and cap liability at one month's fee, so responsibility for the published text stays with the publisher
  • Delegating editorial judgement to the machine can quietly erode a proofreader's own vigilance over time
  • Translations are sold as orientation drafts for the editor, not as publishable text; treating them otherwise risks shipping distorted prose
  • Unpublished manuscripts are entrusted to a third party that names no subprocessor, declares no hosting country and publishes no DPA
  • The tool relies on third-party language models reached through APIs, so the real processing chain is never identified
  • Running contracts, royalties and stock through Publisher OS creates single-vendor dependency on a company incorporated in 2025
  • Where payment fails, permanent deletion of data becomes possible around thirty-seven days after the due date
Setup

Setup & Integrations

Technical difficulty

Very low on the technical side. Alighieria is a web platform with nothing to install, 24/7 access outside scheduled maintenance and automatic updates. The real effort is editorial rather than technical: loading your house style guide and editorial criteria so corrections match your standards. Entry runs through a demo request rather than open self-service sign-up, although the free trial can be started directly from the payment link. Publisher OS is announced as operational in under a week with no migration project. Only the Enterprise API, integrated with in-house systems, requires developer involvement.

Deployment

Web appAPI

Supported languages

SpanishEnglish
Company

Behind Alighieria

Company name
Alighieria Systems SL
Founded
16/05/2025
Country of origin
🇪🇸 Spain
Headquarters
Ronda de Sant Pau, 47, 08015, Barcelona
UBO
Antonio José Rodríguez Soria
UBO country
🇪🇸 Spain
Domain registrar country
🇺🇸 United States
Legal contact
Support contact

Social

Official links

Resources

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Who is Alighieria built for?
It targets publishing houses, media outlets and agencies rather than general office users. The homepage claims more than 100 editorial teams already use it, and the product was developed alongside professional editors.
Is there a free plan?
No. There is no permanent free tier. Both self-service plans come with a seven-day free trial, with no commitment and cancellation at any time.
How much does it cost?
The pricing page starts at 99 EUR per month billed annually (1,188 EUR per year) for Profesional, with Superior at 159 EUR per month (1,908 EUR per year) and Enterprise on quotation. Be aware that the terms of service publish a different scale, at 59, 119 and 189 EUR per month.
Are my manuscripts used to train AI models?
No. The terms of service state explicitly that customer content will not be used to train algorithms, and the company commits to absolute confidentiality over uploaded material.
Where is my data hosted?
The site declares no hosting country or region. The only geographical statement is that any transfer outside the European Economic Area relies on adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses. The controller is established in Barcelona, under Spanish law.
How long is my data kept?
Account and service data is kept while the account is active and for up to five years after cancellation; billing data for six years; access logs for two years; support records for three years after the case is closed.
Is there an API?
Yes, but only on the Enterprise tier, which is priced on quotation. There is no public API documentation page on the site.
Is there a mobile app?
No. Alighieria is a web platform only, with no iOS, Android, desktop or browser-extension version. The interface is available in Spanish and English.
What is Publisher OS?
It is the separate management module covering contracts, a rights map, royalty calculation, unit-cost sheets, stock and distribution, invoicing and catalogue statistics. The vendor says a team can be operational on it in under a week.
What is the minimum age to use the service?
Sixteen. The data protection policy states the service is aimed at users over 16 and that data on younger users is not knowingly collected without parental consent.
Conclusion

Should you pick Alighieria?

Alighieria is an unashamedly narrow tool, and that is its main strength. Rather than bolting a publishing use case onto a generic assistant, it works the way a publishing house works: correction against a house style guide, tracked changes handed back to a human editor, translations offered as orientation drafts rather than press-ready text, and an OCR engine tuned for literary rather than administrative material. The reach is genuinely wide, from a scanned galley through to a distributable EPUB, and Publisher OS extends it into contracts, royalties, stock and catalogue analytics. Two commitments matter for anyone handling unpublished manuscripts: the vendor is established in the EU under Spanish law, and its terms rule out training on customer content.

The reservations are just as concrete. Pricing is the clearest problem: the pricing page, the terms of service and the site's own structured markup carry three different scales, and the month-to-month rate is never rendered. No hosting country is declared, no subprocessor is named, no DPA is published and no security certification is claimed, which sits awkwardly beside an emphatic security pitch. The advertised API is confined to the Enterprise tier with no documentation, and the 4.8-out-of-5 rating in the page markup is self-declared with no verifiable review platform behind it. The company was incorporated in May 2025 and has a single administrator, with no known funding round.

For a structured publishing house processing real volume, Alighieria is a credible proposition worth a demo and a trial. For everyone else, the 99 EUR entry point and the absence of a free tier make it an expensive commitment, and the pricing and hosting questions are worth getting answered in writing before signing.