More than 80 publishing houses across 15 countries used the AI publishing platform for proofreading, translation, metadata, accessibility, and backlist search in June, with AI usage up 28% in a single month, and nearly sevenfold since February
Veristage, the company behind the AI publishing platform Insight, announced today that publishers now process the equivalent of more than 50,000 average-length books through the platform every month. The figure comes from the company’s analysis of usage across its platform, conducted this month to find out how publishers are using AI. In June 2026, usage of the platform grew 28% over May and nearly sevenfold since February.
More than 80 publishing houses—trade, academic, education, independent presses, and multinational organizations across 15 countries—now use Insight for daily tasks and complex production work. The analysis found that publishers’ most common tasks in June were generating and enriching title metadata, working with their own books and catalogues in chat, proofreading, and translation.
Three Trends
Looking at Insight usage data, the Veristage team identified three trends fueling this growth: increased use of platform tools that perform complex production jobs across full-length books; broader everyday use across publishing houses; and publishers loading their backlists into Insight for metadata refreshing and AI-powered search.
“Publishers using Insight are quickly moving beyond the experimentation phase of AI adoption,” said Thomas Minkus, co-founder and business lead at Veristage. “They are putting AI to work at nearly every stage in their workflows. Our usage data shows that AI is supporting more complex tasks at scale and growing every month.”
Production Tasks
The growing number of complex jobs processed in Insight tracks with new tools and upgrades the company released this year. Insight’s proofreading tool, first released in January, has been updated to support both Word and PDF documents, a request from customers who want to run proofreading at different stages of editorial and production. The platform’s newer features also include typecoding (adding tags or Word styles to a manuscript for layout formatting), extracting formatted text from scanned PDFs, and performance upgrades to alt text generation, EPUB remediation for accessibility, full-book translation, and index creation.
Human review is built into the platform. Documents are returned with tracked changes and comments, and generated metadata is editable. Alt text results can be downloaded, edited, and reimported into an EPUB. Nothing from Insight goes into a published book or a data export without the publisher deciding it should.
“The capabilities of our tools have leapt forward this year,” said Hannah Johnson, Veristage’s Chief Customer Officer. “Part of this is because AI models are getting better. Our progress is also coming from our customers. Publishers are telling us more about how they work and what they need so we can develop the right tools that fit into their processes, not the other way around. This is the point where AI becomes a core part of the workflow.”
AI-Powered Backlist Search
As frontlist and production tools continue to improve, more Veristage customers are also loading their complete backlist catalogues into Insight to run AI-powered searches and refresh metadata. Insight’s catalogue search combines meaning-based AI search with intelligent queries across metadata.
For example, a publisher could ask, “which of my romance books set in small towns were published in 2024 and sold more than 100,000 copies?” Because the platform reads the full text of books as well as their metadata, it finds results that traditional search misses, and information that older descriptions and subject codes never recorded.
Accessibility
With the European Accessibility Act now in force and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II regulations coming soon, publishers increasingly use Insight to create alt text for their frontlist titles and remediate EPUBs at scale. Insight’s AI tools handle the bulk processing, using industry standards and publisher-level configurations.
“AI models are improving so quickly right now,” said Thomas Cox, co-founder and tech lead at Veristage. “Our job is to translate these new developments into tools publishers can use. That means many rounds of testing, understanding our customers’ workflows, and being able to respond almost immediately to new AI capabilities. This year’s growth in Insight tells us publishers want exactly that.”
FAQ
Insight is an AI publishing platform developed by US-based technology company Veristage. Insight lets publishers work with their books and metadata in a secure workspace and includes AI tools for editorial, production, translation, accessibility, marketing, metadata, and sales. The platform interface is available in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish; Insight works with book content across many more languages.
No. Nothing publishers process through Insight is used to train AI models, not by Veristage and not by the model providers connected to Insight. Publishers’ content stays securely in their own private workspace, and access is restricted to the people they choose.
From Insight’s own usage records: the tokens processed by the platform’s AI systems across all servers, aggregated by month and by task. No publisher content was read for the analysis, and no customer is identified in the results.
Insight runs on commercially available models from leading AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
Yes. Publishers can connect Insight to their existing data flows, including support for ONIX and other industry formats. Insight’s developer API lets publishers run Insight jobs from their own systems.
Insight includes more than twenty AI tools, fully configurable and organized around a publisher’s documents. The platform supports a wide range of content types, from children’s books and graphic novels to fiction, nonfiction, textbooks, travel guides, and more. Uploading a document runs automatic analysis and generates subjects and classifications, synopsis, keywords, marketing description, comp titles, editorial analysis, marketing materials, and metrics. Document tools cover proofreading and typecoding with custom templates, translation, adaptation and manuscript scanning, index creation, EPUB remediation, and formatted text extraction. Image tools include alt text creation and generation of Amazon A+ and book mockup images. Audio tools produce audio samples and full-length audio narration. AI Chat, optimized for long-form content, works across one or many documents and includes tools like book keyword research and AI-powered backlist search. Insight also includes AI Profiles, which let publishers set writing style and contextual information across their work. On the content management side, Insight includes collections, advanced search, data import/export, and project tracking (like schedules and tasks).