A publishable outline for $400.

Book Outline for Publishers and Nonfiction Authors

The outline is where most nonfiction books go wrong. Before you commit to a full manuscript, start here. You bring the topic, we build the outline, and you walk away with a chapter-by-chapter blueprint that an actual book can be written against.

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A printed book outline document with chapter structure, working title, and reader-fit notes.
Outline Only
$400

Delivered in 24 hours.
Yours to use however serves the project.

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    Every project is run by a working nonfiction publisher.

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    You shape the outline before it's final.

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    Yours to use however serves the project, with us or without.

What's in the $400 Outline

A complete book outline built from your topic.

No single-prompt AI draft handed back to you, and nothing you'll have to restructure before a writer can use it.

  • Working title options
  • Reader fit: who the book is for and what they came for
  • Chapter-by-chapter structure
  • Key arguments and supporting points inside each chapter
  • Positioning notes so the book lands in its category

Delivered in 24 hours as a document you can hand to any writer, or use as the blueprint if you decide to write the book yourself.

Who Orders an Outline

Indie publishers testing our work before a full manuscript commitment. Authors who want a professional blueprint before they start writing. Publishers who've paid for ghostwriting elsewhere and realized the outline was the reason the book didn't work.

Why the Outline Matters

Most nonfiction books that underperform on Amazon failed at the outline stage. The chapters weren't structured to the argument. The argument didn't match what readers came for. We build the outline to the standard we'd build our own catalog to, which is why it becomes the floor of the whole project.

A real outline excerpt

Chapter 1: What Claude Code Is

Reader outcome

They understand what Claude Code is, how it differs from copy-paste AI coding and from other tools in the market, and believe — with evidence — that a non-developer can use it to build real things.

Section 1 · The Loop You Already Know
  • The reader's own experience with ChatGPT coding: describe what you want, get code back, paste it somewhere, watch it break, repeat for three hours, close the tab
  • Why the loop fails: ChatGPT sees only the snippet you paste — it has no idea what the rest of your project looks like, what files exist, or what changed since last time you asked
  • The missing piece isn't better prompting — it's that copy-paste coding is architecturally incapable of building a complete, working project
  • The emotional beat: the reader already knows this frustration. The point isn't to lecture — it's to name the problem they couldn't name.
Section 3 · The Hackathon That Rewrote the Rules
  • February 2026: Anthropic's Claude Code hackathon. 500 builders. One week. Three of the five winners weren't developers.
  • The cardiologist who built Postvisit — turns visit transcripts and medical records into ongoing health guidance for patients
  • The construction worker who built CrossBeam — speeds up California's permitting process with code-compliance and plan-review tools
  • What the winners had in common: deep domain expertise and a clear vision. They weren't programmers. They were architects of their own solutions.
  • 63% of active users in r/vibecoding are non-developers — PMs, founders, marketers, operators. The reader isn't an outlier. They're the emerging majority.
Outline Only
$400

Delivered in 24 hours. Yours to use however serves the project, regardless of whether you go further with us.

You review the outline before we build anything further. If the structure isn't right, you tell us and we adjust before a word of the book is written.

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These terms govern your order with Orchestrate for the services described below. Submitting your order on the order form, checking the agreement box, and completing payment together constitute your agreement to these terms. You should read the full terms before submitting your order. If anything here doesn't track with what you understood at order, email [email protected] before submitting and we'll work it out before any production starts.
1. Services
Orchestrate Publishing offers two Publisher Track services:
Outline Only ($400). A complete book outline built from your topic. Includes working title options, reader fit, chapter-by-chapter structure with key arguments and supporting points, and positioning notes. Delivered as a Word document and a clean PDF. Delivered in 24 hours from order placement.
Full DFY Manuscript ($2,500). A complete publishable nonfiction manuscript built from your topic. Includes the outline (built by us, not supplied by you), working title options, full manuscript at the length the subject requires, and a sourcing trail with every claim, statistic, and citation tied to the source we drew it from. Delivered as a Word document, a clean PDF, the approved outline as a separate document, and the sourcing trail as a separate document. Delivered in 5 to 7 business days from outline approval.
The service you order is determined by the order form you submit. Each form is dedicated to one service.
2. Price, Payment, and Timing
The price for the service you order is the price stated on the order form ($400 for Outline Only, $2,500 for Full DFY Manuscript). Payment is due in full at order placement, processed through Stripe under Stripe's merchant terms. The sticker price is the real price. There are no additional charges for production, revisions within the included scope, or delivery. Out-of-scope work, if you request it, is priced separately and only after we agree on scope and price in writing.
Once your order is placed and payment is confirmed, we send a scope-confirmation email within one business day. Production begins after the scope-confirmation email is sent.
Delivery timelines are commitments we work to but do not guarantee against normal production variance. A delivery a few hours past the stated window is not a breach of these terms.
3. Production Process and Approval Gates
Outline Only. We produce the outline from your topic and any notes you supply. You review the outline and may request reasonable revisions to align it with the topic and audience as described in your order intake. The work continues until the outline reflects the topic and audience you described at order, within reasonable iteration consistent with that scope.
Full DFY Manuscript. We produce the outline first. You review and approve the outline before we begin manuscript drafting. Inactivity past 5 business days following outline delivery is treated as approval for production-flow purposes, unless you've responded with a revision request or a hold instruction in that window. Once the outline is approved, we draft the manuscript. You review the completed manuscript before final delivery.
Approval can be communicated by email reply to the delivery email or through any other communication channel we've established with you for the order.
4. Revisions
Outline Only. Reasonable revisions are included to align the outline with the topic and audience as described in your order intake. Revisions that change the topic, the audience, or the structural framework are out of scope and priced separately.
Full DFY Manuscript. One full manuscript revision round is included. The revision round covers specific passages, structural issues, voice notes, and factual corrections, all gathered into a single delivery to us. Revisions that change the approved topic, audience, scope, or outline structure are out of scope. Additional revision rounds are priced separately and require written agreement before we begin the additional work.
Out-of-scope work, when you request it, is priced at our standard rate at the time of request. We disclose the rate in writing and begin work only after you agree to it in writing.
5. AI Disclosure and Copyright
Lauren directs every project, and AI executes inside the production process she designed. This applies to every deliverable Orchestrate Publishing produces, including outlines and manuscripts.
US Copyright Office guidance on AI-assisted works applies to what we deliver. Publisher work sits on nuanced footing under that guidance because the source content is a topic prompt, not interview-captured authorship. We make no warranty or guarantee that the deliverable is copyrightable as a whole or that any specific element of the deliverable is copyrightable independently. Copyright registration and any related decisions on your title are yours to make. If copyright certainty matters for your project, talk to your own attorney before you publish.
6. Intellectual Property Assignment
On final payment and delivery of the deliverable, Orchestrate Publishing assigns to you all of its right, title, and interest in the deliverable, including the outline document, the manuscript document (if you ordered Full DFY Manuscript), the sourcing trail document (if you ordered Full DFY Manuscript), and any working title options or positioning notes that ship with the deliverable. The assignment includes all reproduction, distribution, derivative-work, public-display, and public-performance rights, in all media now known or later developed, worldwide, in perpetuity.
Your name or imprint goes on the cover. Orchestrate Publishing holds no rights in the deliverable once it is delivered to you, except that we may reference the engagement in our own portfolio or marketing in general terms (no manuscript text, no proprietary topic detail) unless you instruct us otherwise in writing.
7. Sourcing Trail and Final Factual Verification (Full DFY Manuscript only)
Every Full DFY Manuscript ships with a sourcing trail listing every claim, statistic, and citation in the manuscript alongside the source we drew it from. The sourcing trail is the deliverable. Final factual verification against the sourced material before publication is your responsibility as the publisher of record. We do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of any specific claim, statistic, or citation; we warrant that we sourced it from the listed source and that the listed source is identifiable to you for verification.
8. Your Warranty (Author Warranty)
By submitting your order, you warrant that the topic, any notes you supply, any source materials you provide, and any structural direction you give us are yours to assign to us for the limited purpose of producing the deliverable. Specifically, you warrant that the material you supply is not plagiarized, is not from copyrighted material you don't own or don't have permission to use, and is not generated by a third-party AI tool whose output you cannot validly assign.
You agree to indemnify and hold Orchestrate Publishing harmless from any third-party claim arising from material you supplied that breaches this warranty.
9. Refunds and Cancellation
You may cancel your order for a full refund any time before the scope-confirmation email is sent. Once we send the scope-confirmation email and production begins, refunds are not available except as expressly stated below. Once delivery has been made, the order is final.
Express refund triggers:
(a) If we fail to deliver the outline within 7 calendar days of the scope-confirmation email for an Outline Only order, you may cancel for a full refund.
(b) If we fail to deliver the manuscript within 14 calendar days of outline approval for a Full DFY Manuscript order, you may cancel for a 50% refund of the price paid.
The triggers in (a) and (b) do not apply if the delay is caused by your inactivity on a required approval, your request to hold production, or any cause outside our reasonable control (force majeure, force-majeure-equivalent vendor outage, or similar).
10. Confidentiality
We treat the topic, notes, and any source material you supply as confidential. We do not share that material with any party other than as required to produce the deliverable, except where you've directed otherwise or where disclosure is required by law. The duty survives termination of these terms.
You agree to keep confidential any non-public methods, templates, or production approaches we describe to you in the course of the engagement. The duty does not extend to the deliverable itself, which is yours on delivery.
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Orchestrate Publishing will indemnify you for third-party claims that the deliverable, in the form delivered, infringes a third party's intellectual property right, except to the extent the claim arises from material you supplied. Our total indemnification obligation under this section is capped at the price you paid for the order.
You will indemnify Orchestrate Publishing for third-party claims arising from material you supplied (per Section 8), from your eventual publication or use of the deliverable, or from your breach of these terms.
12. Limitation of Liability
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Effective: 2026-04-29
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Payment is handled by Stripe. We kick off your outline as soon as the order is placed and deliver in 24 hours.

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Email us at [email protected] or book a quick call. We respond to every inquiry within one business day.

Need a Custom Outline?

The $400 outline is built from a topic prompt and runs on a standardized production process. If you need a highly customized outline — built around an existing manuscript draft, specific source material, or an unusual structural framework — tell us about the project and we'll scope a custom engagement.

The Problem We're Fixing

Most nonfiction outlines don't work.

A bad outline doesn't just produce a bad book. It produces a book that looks fine until a reader gets halfway through and puts it down. The chapters exist, the words are there, but the argument never builds. That's an outline problem, and it's invisible until it's already expensive.

Ghostwriters who charge by the word skip the outline. AI tools generate one in 30 seconds. Most publishers arrive at the writing stage with a structure that sounds plausible but wasn't built against what readers actually came for.

We build the outline first because it's the only part of the process you can't fix later without rewriting the book.

How This Compares

$400, in context.

Other services sell an outline at a similar price point and expect you to bring most of the source material yourself. Ours is built from a topic prompt, so the work is ours to do, not yours to prep.

If you already paid for a different outline and it didn't work, tell us about the project and we'll tell you honestly whether starting from scratch is the right call.

Ready for the Full Book?

Many buyers move from outline to manuscript.

Full DFY Manuscript
$2,500
Delivered in 5-7 business days

Outline plus complete publishable manuscript at the length the subject requires.

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The outline gives you a complete blueprint to use however serves the project. Many buyers also order a full manuscript afterward.

Outline FAQ

Common questions, answered.

What if the outline doesn't capture the topic the way I expected?

You review the outline before it's finalized. If the structure isn't landing the topic the way you wanted, you tell us what's off and we rework it. The work continues until the outline reflects the book you want to make. You're not committing to anything else by ordering the outline.

What format does the outline arrive in?

A Word document and a clean PDF. The length depends on what the topic needs. Every chapter has its own structure, key arguments, and supporting points, so any writer (us or someone else) has enough to work from without further prep.

Can I hand the outline to a different writer or use it myself?

Yes. The outline is yours once it's delivered, and there's no clause requiring you to write the manuscript with us. You can brief a different ghostwriter, hire a writer you already know, or write the book yourself. The structure is the part most ghostwriters skip and most authors get wrong, and once it's done well, the writing is the easier piece.