The gold standard in professional editing
How PerfectIt became the leading tool for professional editors
In 2009, we launched PerfectIt — the first proofreading software to offer consistency checking, and the first to integrate house style customization as a standard feature for all users.
It quickly became the tool of choice for professional editors, medical writers, proposal writers, and anyone who needed documents to be not just correct, but consistent.
PerfectIt continues to innovate
Official partner to the world's most trusted style guides
In 2021, PerfectIt became the official proofreading platform for The Chicago Manual of Style. In 2024, we updated our checks in line with the release of the 18th edition.
We also collaborated with Microsoft to release the Microsoft Writing Style Guide within PerfectIt.
Intelligent Editing continues to innovate and improve PerfectIt for our customers, our community, and editing professionals globally.
Our new product for editorial teams
FirstEdit: a reliable first-pass edit for teams at scale
FirstEdit is our AI editing agent for organizations. It runs a first-pass edit that enforces your house style and terminology before human review begins — cleaning up the obvious, flagging the uncertain, and handing over a document that's faster to review.
The key to FirstEdit is reliability. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, FirstEdit uses specialist agents — one per rule — combined with deterministic checking and independent AI verification. Every change is tracked, attributed, and auditable.
FirstEdit doesn't replace your editors. It makes them more efficient.
