Build Your Own Tools
The check you keep doing by hand, as a tool
Describe what you want in a sentence. Novilot writes the tool, shows you exactly what it will do and what it will cost, and then it lives in your tool grid like everything else.
A shipped tool is a guess about your book
Novilot ships around 195 tools and surfaces. Every one of them is our idea of what a novelist needs, which is fine until the thing you actually need is not on the list.
Your book has its own questions
How often each chapter mentions the sea. Whether the priest ever contradicts his own sermon. Nobody ships that tool, because it is about your book.
Checks you repeat by hand
If you have searched the same thing across your draft three times, that is a tool you have been running manually.
A menu you cannot read
More shipped tools do not help. Past a certain point a bigger grid is a harder grid, and the answer is not a longer list.
Not knowing what it will cost
A tool that spends credits without telling you first is a tool you will hesitate to use. Yours states its price before it runs.
How building a tool works
Describe it. Read the draft. Test it on your own book. Keep it.
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Say what you want
One sentence in the builder chat. Novilot turns it into a specification: a name, the brief the model will follow, what it may read, and the shape of the answer.
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Check the draft, and the price
The specification is editable text, not a black box. If the tool disappoints you, you can see the instruction that produced it and fix it. The credit cost is shown before you save.
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Test it before you commit
Run it once against the project you are in and look at the actual output. Arithmetic tools cost nothing to try.
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Use it like any other tool
It joins your grid, it can be pinned, its results save and re-open free, and it is there in every project you own.
Where your tools sit
Questions, answered plainly
Describe what you want in plain words, such as "find every scene where a character lies", and Novilot drafts the tool: its name, the brief it will follow, what it reads, and what it returns. You read and edit that draft before saving. Nothing is a black box.
Whatever it says on the button before you press it. A tool that reads your chapters is priced by length, about 1 credit per 10,000 words; one that only reads your story bible or outline is a flat credit. The number on the card, the number on the button, and the number you are charged all come from the same place.
Yes. If what you asked for is arithmetic (a count, a ratio, a length, a frequency), Novilot builds it as a measurement instead of an AI tool. Those run instantly, cost nothing, and give the same answer every time. We do not spend your credits on a sum.
Only what you let it: a per-chapter digest of the manuscript, a chapter index, your story bible, the characters the draft established, or your outline. You choose when you build it, and that choice is what sets the price.
No. A tool you build reads and reports, exactly like the tools we ship. It cannot edit chapters, and its output goes only to you.
Yes, and that is the point. It appears in your tool grid, it can be pinned, its results are saved so re-opening one is free, and it works across every project in your account.
Build the tool your book needs
Create a free account, open any project, and describe the check you keep doing by hand.
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