A collaborative authoring platform for long-form fiction. Build worlds, draft chapters, and revise together — with co-writers and a partner that actually reads your manuscript.
Free forever for solo writers · Team $6/mo for crit groups · no credit card to sign up
One workspace for every kind of story.
A split-screen editor with chapters, outlines, and status labels. Daneel — your co-author — helps you outline, revise, and finish.
Full D&D 5e campaign manager — character sheets, locations, NPCs, quests, random tables, and a live dungeon crawler with on-the-fly narration.
Structured poetry tools and song drafting with rhyme-aware composition help. Export clean PDFs, share with your band.
Multi-user chat, presence, polls, shared drafts. Your whole team in one window. No email threads.
Plug in your existing provider account and pay them directly — no markup. Configure per-task so you only spend on what matters.
Your first Nexus, in under two minutes.
Grab a free DAN account. No credit card. Takes 30 seconds.
Spin up your own Cloud Nexus for $6/mo, or paste a friend’s invite code to join theirs.
Chapters, campaigns, songs, poems. Invite collaborators. Let Daneel help where it counts.
Pay for convenience. Or run it yourself. Same DAN.
Hosted by us. Sign up in 30 seconds. Get your own Nexus at yourname.distributed-authoring-nexus.com.
Docker image. Unlimited everything. Your data stays on your server.
Native Tauri app. Connect to cloud or your own server. Windows, macOS, Linux.
Adding someone to a novel or campaign no longer means retyping their username. The Contributors page now lists everyone in the same Nexus as one-click chips with avatar and handle — pick a role once, click to invite. Freetext fallback stays for inviting users who aren't in the Nexus yet.
Open any chapter inside an edit pass and the Original column now reads like a marked-up draft: deletions struck through in red, insertions highlighted and underlined in green, exactly like teacher's red pen. Header shows +N / −N word counts so you can scope the changes at a glance. Toggle Hide marks to flip back to the clean rendered original whenever you want.
Your paid Nexus now includes a monthly token pool (Team and Swarm tiers, shared across collaborators), and DAN is the default AI provider on new signups. Chat works immediately without configuring any API key. Premium models draw from credit packs, and when credits run out, @Daneel auto-downgrades to the free pool so chat never breaks. Each Nexus now has its own AI settings — configure providers and model routing independently. Admins get a per-Nexus usage dashboard at /settings/usage.