Write the way you mean to.
Drop in your brief and readings. Rekally writes a cited first draft and lets you edit it with chat — every change applied right in the document.
The Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution did not arrive in a single moment. It accumulated — across coal seams, capital markets, and shifts in labor — until British manufacturing was unrecognizable by 1800[1].
Agricultural productivity gains freed workers from the land, while colonial trade routes provided both raw cotton and a captive market for finished goods[2].
The role of institutional change — patent law, joint-stock companies — is often understated…
AI shouldn't make your writing cheaper.
It should make it more yours. Better-sourced, more clearly argued, more defensible — written with help, not by it. That's the workspace we wanted, so we built it.
You don't have to choose between writing fast and writing well.
Or between using AI and writing something you actually understand.
You don't have to paste your readings into a chat window paragraph by paragraph.
Or trust a model that has never seen the assignment to know what the assignment is.
You don't have to ship a draft you'd be embarrassed to defend in office hours.
You can show up with the version you meant to write all along.
From an empty page to a draft you can defend.
Bring what you actually have to read.
Drop in the brief and the readings — PDFs, DOCX, lecture notes, the syllabus excerpt your professor uploaded at 11pm. Rekally reads them so you can write from the same place they do.
See your essay before you write it.
A first draft, grounded in your sources and cited as it goes. Not a finished paper — a real starting point. Something to argue with, edit, and make yours.
Edit with chat, in the document.
Highlight a paragraph and ask for a tighter version, a counterargument, a clearer transition. Edits land in the editor as accept/reject diffs. Nothing happens behind your back.
Four parts. One coherent place to think.
Brief
— The assignment, where it belongs.Paste the brief — the assignment text, the rubric, the word count, the due date. The AI reads it before every generation, so what comes back is the essay you were asked to write, not a generic version of it.
Sources
— Your readings, indexed and ready.Upload PDFs and DOCX, paste lecture notes, drop in articles. Rekally extracts the text and grounds drafts and citations on it. No more pasting articles paragraph by paragraph into a chat window.
Draft
— A real document, not a chat log.Headings, footnotes, tables, autosave. A slash menu for structure, a bubble menu to ask the AI about a selection. The thing you turn in lives here, and looks like a paper.
Chat
— A collaborator that has read your sources.Ask for a stronger thesis, a tighter paragraph, a counterargument from Source 2. Every change lands in the document as a diff you accept or reject. You stay in charge of the words.
The tools you use weren't built for this.
Chat tools weren't designed to read your syllabus. Note-takers don't draft. Word doesn't know what you were assigned. Rekally is the one place where the brief, the readings, the draft, and the AI all sit together.
| ChatGPT | NotebookLM | Word | Rekally | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reads your assigned readings | Only what you paste | Yes | No | Yes |
| Drafts grounded in those sources | No — pattern-matches the topic | Summaries only | No | Yes |
| Citations that point to a page | Often hallucinated | Yes | No | Yes |
| Edits applied to the document | Copy-paste | No | No | Accept / reject diffs |
| A real document editor | No | Limited | Yes | Yes |
Each of these tools is great at its core job. Rekally is built for the specific job of writing a sourced essay you'd defend.
Your next essay is waiting.
Start a project. Drop in the brief and a reading or two. See what a grounded first draft looks like. The version of you that turns this in on Friday is going to be glad you did.
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