Our mission

We believe that people make the best editing decisions and that they always will. We build technology to help people edit faster and better.

Draftsmith mission: We believe that people make the best editing decisions and that they always will. We build technology to help people edit faster and better.

The gold standard in professional editing software

In 2009, we launched our first product, PerfectIt, which quickly became the leading tool for professional editors. PerfectIt was the first proofreading software to offer consistency checking, as well as being the first to integrate house style customization as a standard feature for all users.

The Chicago Manual of Style powered by PerfectIt

PerfectIt continues to innovate

In 2021 PerfectIt became the official proofreading platform for The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS). In 2024, we updated our checks in line with the release of the 18th edition of CMOS. We also collaborated with Microsoft to release the Microsoft Writing Style Guide within PerfectIt.

Intelligent Editing continues to innovate and improve PerfectIt for our customers, community, and editing professionals globally.

Draftsmith: How AI presented us a new way to help professionals

Draftsmith is our new product for writing and editing

Launched in 2023, Draftsmith is designed to assist writers and editors improve their documents at a professional level. Draftsmith offers an ethical, safe, and secure way to harness AI's efficiency gains.

The key to Draftsmith is that it only improves your existing text; it doesn’t suffer from the problems (and risks) of AI software that tries to write for you. Draftsmith works directly in Microsoft Word so you can work with AI without losing focus by switching between platforms.

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How to make your workflow work for you

To enhance your writing early in the document creation process, Draftsmith can help you to simplify text, write in plain English, improve fluency for ESL authors, cut word counts, carry out light copyedits and much more. This helps you make quality, focused edits, sentence by sentence, while preserving the author’s voice.

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