Publishing operations rebuilt around an intake pipeline
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The situation
Manuscript submissions arrived by email and were re-keyed into three separate systems. Editors spent their mornings on clerical work, and submissions were occasionally lost between inboxes with no way to tell until an author chased.
What was built
An intake pipeline reads each submission, extracts author and manuscript metadata, files assets to the correct folder, creates the project record and notifies the assigned editor. Anything failing validation goes to a review queue rather than being guessed at.
The result
Manual handling dropped sharply within the first month. Editors now review exceptions instead of processing every submission, and the audit trail means a chased submission can be located in seconds.
Engagement detail
Tell me what is taking too long
Thirty minutes, no pitch. If automation is the wrong answer for your situation, you will hear that on the call.
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