A new tool for an old craft

From manuscript to publication

A professional composition tool for writers, editors and book designers. Print, ebook, every page in place.

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A project by Grupo Nous

Composition is the moment a manuscript becomes a book. We built a tool around that moment.

The system

Five blocks. One book. Built like both.

Renderbook composes the way a book is composed — modular, geometric, intentional. Every block has its place. Every margin is calculated. Nothing is decoration.

The amber block at the foot of the R is the moment of render. The instant your manuscript stops being a draft and starts being a book.

01 56 × 56 grid 3 × 3 render
What it does

Three things, done precisely.

01 / Read

Every manuscript has a book inside it.

Renderbook reads the structure of your text — chapters, voices, breaks, dedications — and proposes a composition that respects how it was written.

Word Plain text Markdown Structure
02 / Compose

Composition is a craft, not a feature.

InDesign-style spreads. Real typographic control. Headers, footers, folios, running heads. Generated covers when you want them, hand-designed when you don't.

Spreads Google Fonts Briefs Covers
03 / Render

Publish wherever your reader reads.

Export to PDF for print, ePub for screens, InDesign for the studios that still finish by hand, Word for the chain of editors who never left it.

PDF ePub InDesign Word KDP
Typesetting glossary
render·book
/ˈrɛndər bʊk/ · noun
render verb
In typography, the final step where a manuscript becomes a finished book — composed for print, formatted for screen, ready for every reader.
book noun
The object that emerges when render is complete. A finished work, in any format the reader chooses.

We named the tool after the moment, not the result. Because the moment is where craft lives.

How it works

Five steps. Minutes, not weeks.

From the file you already have to a finished book — composed, designed, exported. Most of the time you'll be making coffee.

live demo 00:00 Manuscript intake auto
01 Upload 00:00

Manuscript intake

Drop your Word file or paste plain text. Renderbook reads it as it is — no cleanup, no template wrestling.

02 Analyze 03:00

Structural analysis

Chapters, voices, dialogues, breaks, dedications. Every block of your text gets recognized and classified. This is where the heavy lifting happens.

03 Brief 04:00

Editorial briefing

An AI-generated brief proposes typography, format, voice, cover direction. You approve, edit, or rewrite.

04 Compose 04:30

Page composition

InDesign-quality spreads in under a minute. Headers, folios, running heads, drop caps. Cover designed in parallel.

05 Render 05:00

Print-ready, ebook-ready

Press-ready PDF/X with bleeds and crop marks. Validated ePub for KDP, Kobo, Apple Books. Industry standards, met automatically.

Two weeks. Three rounds with the layout designer.
Now: a coffee.
Industry standards · met automatically
PDF/X-1a
Print-ready
ePub 3.3
Validated
KDP · Kobo · Apple
Platform-ready
ISO 12647
Color profile
Under the hood

Six engines, working as one.

Renderbook isn't a single tool. It's an editorial system — six specialized engines coordinated to make a finished book. Each one does what it does best. The result reads as one piece.

01 / Editorial
Editorial Intelligence Engine
The brain. Reads your manuscript like an editor — classifies hierarchies, recognizes front matter, body and back matter, understands editorial tone.
Hierarchy Front matter Tone Behavior
02 / Layout
Layout Intelligence Engine
Doesn't place text. Designs pages. Baseline grid, widows, orphans, chapter openings, spacing — the things a typesetter would catch.
Baseline grid Widows · Orphans Chapter openings Flow
03 / Typography
Font Intelligence Engine
Chooses the right typeface for the text. Matches genre, voice and reading speed. Calibrates kerning and leading. Always justifiable, always shown.
Type pairing Kerning Leading Genre fit
04 / Print
Print Intelligence Engine
Designs books that can actually be printed. Paper weight, spine, bleed, binding, color profiles — meets your printer where they work.
Paper Spine Bleed Binding
05 / Cover
Cover Intelligence Engine
Cover design that reads as a cover, not as a template. Type, image and composition tuned to genre. Generated when you want it, replaceable when you don't.
Genre-aware Composition Spine · Back Replaceable
06 / Cost
Cost Intelligence Engine
Know the cost impact before printing. Page count, paper, binding, color all flow into a real number — so the book you design is the book you can afford.
Per-unit cost Press-aware Trade-offs Real numbers
Powered by the Renderbook system.
For every kind of book

A book is more than a novel.

Renderbook composes any work that deserves the dignity of a finished book — academic, editorial, institutional, personal, visual, formative.

01
Academic
From the defense to the library shelf. Theses, papers and university anthologies that deserve to look like real books. Theses · Papers · Dissertations · Anthologies
02
Editorial
The classics: novels, essays, poetry, short stories. Every page composed with the care a reader will feel without naming it. Novels · Essays · Poetry · Short fiction
03
Institutional
Annual reports, corporate memoirs, manuals. Documents that organizations want to look like the institutions behind them. Annual reports · Memoirs · Manuals · Whitepapers
04
Personal
Family memoirs, recipe books, autobiographies. The volumes that belong to one family, one life, one kitchen — but that deserve to last. Memoirs · Cookbooks · Autobiographies · Journals
05
Visual
Photo books, exhibition catalogs, portfolios. Where the image is the protagonist and typography knows when to step aside. Photo books · Catalogs · Portfolios · Art books
06
Formative
Devotionals, study guides, textbooks. Books built to be returned to — annotated, underlined, lived in over years. Devotionals · Study guides · Textbooks · Workbooks

If it has pages, a beginning, and an end it can be rendered.

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