The Bench
Choose how often you bring work to the Bench.
Some readers arrive once, with a reviewer's letter or a deadline. Others return with drafts, calls, applications, and routes they want to file. The tiers are for the second kind of reader.
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Free
KSh 0
For reading, testing, and small passages at the Bench.
- Ordinary instrument passes
- Pasted text
- Basic use of the Workshop
- Local saving only where available
Correspondent KSh 699/month
For the researcher who returns with drafts, saved routes, and regular passes.
- 100 Deeper Passes per month
- Document upload, if enabled
- Secure Readiness document uploads
- Account-synced Dossier and Ledger
- Saved journal, funding, and position items
Fellow KSh 1,999/month
For full document readings, journal fit, funding effort, reviewer response, and position files.
- Everything in Correspondent
- Unlimited Deeper Pass use
- Extended Dossier and Ledger history
- Larger document and multi-route workflows
- Priority access to document upload passes
One-off readings
If you do not need a subscription, you may purchase a single reading. This is useful when one decision matters: where to send the paper, whether the call is worth the work, how to answer the reviewer, or whether the position fits the file you have.
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