The story – Editera

Built inside Marmot

The house
Marmot publishes children’s books: Bulgarian originals and licensed titles. Seven people. A shop, bookshop chains, book fairs, school visits.
The problem
Every title lived in a dozen places. The one place that held all of them was one person’s head.
The build
Marmot runs on Editera every day: every sale, every euro, every statement. Each room was built because the house hit the wall it fixes.
How it’s built
Nikolay isn’t a programmer. AI is his engineering team, and every change passes blind reviews, a backup and an out-of-hours release. [to confirm]

In daily use

Daily

every sale, every euro, in one house

Titles

120

titles – in one register

Bookshop chains

6

bookshop chains – reports read, not retyped

Nothing was built for a roadmap. Each room exists because the house hit the wall it fixes.

The problem
cover_v14_FINAL2.pdf

Nobody knew which PDF the printer had. The room: the title record – every file, every version, one link.
The problem
The April spreadsheet

Royalties lived in a spreadsheet only one person could read. The room: statements from the same sales we report, orders ready to approve.
The problem
Re: Re: corrections

Corrections travelled by email, and the newest version was a guess. The room: proofs with versions and comments pinned to the page.
The problem
The last weekend of the month

Closing the month ate the last weekend of it. The room: an assistant prepares the month; a person says yes. Time it takes now: [N] hours.
The problem
One head

The second person couldn’t start, because everything was in one head. The room: the house diary – every date, and who did what.
Next
insert

Your house’s problems. The English interface is being built with our founding houses, around what they hit first.

Principles

Delete

Nobody types it twice.

A sale lands once. It feeds the royalty statement and the monthly report.
Insert

A person says yes.

Assistants suggest. Nothing changes until someone approves it.
Stet

Let it stand.

Your list, your authors, your judgement. Editera edits the clutter, not the publisher.

“I used to be the only one who knew. Now I’m a publisher who reads.”

Nikolay Kanchovski, co-owner, Marmot Books

One of its owners was the one who knew where everything was. He built Editera so he wouldn’t have to be.

Nikolay Kanchovski, co-owner of Marmot Books, built Editera. Write to hello@editera.io – the person who answers built it.