Automated book production
Manuscript in.
Designed book out.
TimePress is not a design canvas. It is an automated typesetting engine that turns a manuscript and a declared spec into a beautiful, print-ready book — the same way, every time.
Print-grade PDF · true H&J, running heads, CMYK/PDF-X · ISBN & barcode built in.
Chapter One
The Dialogue of Three
In which the argument begins
Reason and Love kept an old quarrel, and the Soul sat between them as the room filled slowly with the late, level light of an autumn afternoon that asked nothing of anyone.
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The Dialogue of Three
Reason.Measure first, and the world will hold.
Love.Hold first, and the world is worth measuring.
The Soul said nothing for a long while, and in that silence the light moved on along the wall, indifferent and exact — keeping its own counsel as the two went on, each certain the other had begun it.
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The position
We don't compete with Canva or Adobe on breadth. TimePress is the best specialised system for one job: a designed book, done right the first time.
The pipeline
Five deterministic stages
You declare the book; the engine builds to that spec. AI is confined to a single step — everything that touches the page is deterministic and repeatable.
Declare
Trim, binding, font, house style, sections, imprint. The Book Spec drives everything.
Tag
The manuscript is classified into a frozen structural vocabulary. The only AI in the path.
Typeset
Vocabulary + spec map to an authored CSS house style. Real type, never a generated image.
Check
Deterministic rules read the render — widows, orphans, openers, running heads.
Export
Print-ready PDF/X and digital PDF. Presets for KDP, Amazon, IngramSpark & BooksBy.
Why it holds up
Print-grade, not "good enough"
One source, many trims
Adapt a single manuscript across trim sizes without re-laying anything out by hand.
The checker proves it
A deterministic design-rule pass verifies the typesetting held across the whole book — not a sampled spot-check.
Reflow-safe images
Illustrations anchor to content, never to absolute page positions, so a re-render never breaks placement.
Authored house styles
Designer-made templates, versioned. Even the automatic output looks like a real book.
ISBN & barcode
Enter your ISBN; get a high-resolution EAN-13 with the optional price add-on, placed on the cover.
Headless core
The pipeline is an API. The web app is the first client; the Canva plugin calls the same service.
The catalogue
Curated house styles
Each book type and trim is a production template — parameterised, curated, and versioned, so output is consistent every time.
Literary Classic
Quiet, generous, type-led. For memoir and literary fiction.
6 × 9 in · EB Garamond · hardcover
Illustrated
Full-colour image plates anchored to the passages they belong with.
8.5 × 8.5 in · softcover
Information
Structured front and back matter — contents, glossary, index, appendix.
8 × 10 in · hardcover
Pricing
One job, done perfectly
Subscription or one-off. Never metered. You pay for a finished book, not for tokens.
Single Book
For memoirists and one-and-done authors.
- One finished, print-ready book
- Unlimited preview & revision before you finalise
- Re-download forever once committed
- ISBN entry · EAN-13 barcode
Studio
For serial & serious publishers, and Canva users.
- 12 books a year included
- The image-placement editor (premium)
- Series & catalogue management
- Member extra books at $79 each
Annual billing at launch. The price is set for the quality: done-for-you human formatting runs $200–$800+ and takes weeks — TimePress is instant and deterministic.
Entry portal
Bring a manuscript. Leave with a book.
Access is by entry code while we're in early release. Have a code? Step inside.