# Lucidry, Content Refinery for Translation and Naturalization

> Lucidry turns rough drafts, documents and transcripts into clean, natural, publish-ready content, and translates them across languages without losing facts, voice or structure. Use it from the dashboard, the REST API or an MCP client.

## Product
- Translate: 10 languages, glossary enforcement, certainty-marker retention, 5-dimension drift tracking
- Naturalize: removes AI language patterns under a bounded change budget
- Clean: encoding, typography and filler cleanup with protected spans locked
- Extract and OCR: PDF, DOCX, HTML and scans to structured text
- Validate: semantic fidelity plus the five-dimension LUCID quality score
- Assemble: DOCX, PDF, HTML and Markdown delivery with checksums
- Guided editorial review: preflight source check, editorial queries, tracked changes, style sheet, and human review before delivery on Professional Edit, Write Like Me, and Write For Me

## Developer Integration
- REST API: POST https://lucidry.base44.app/functions/v1Translate for translation, plus the v1 job endpoints at the same base. https://lucidry.io/docs/api
- MCP server: Content and translation tools over SSE for Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients. https://lucidry.io/docs/mcp
- Client samples: TypeScript and Python clients over the same v1 API. https://lucidry.io/docs/sdk
- MCP connection URL: https://lucidry.base44.app/functions/mcpHandleSse
- API base URL: https://lucidry.base44.app/functions

## Authentication
API key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header, or the X-API-Key header. Create and revoke keys at https://lucidry.io/developer/api-keys

## Pricing (per 1,000 words, billed per word)
- Essential Cleanup: $2.40
- Clarity & Flow: $4.50
- Professional Edit: $6.00
- Write Like Me: $9.00
- Write For Me: $15.00
- Translation: $20.00, multiplied by the language-pair tier (1.0 / 1.2 / 1.5)
- Past 500,000 words a month: a flat $10.00
- Free trial: 1,000 words, no card required
- Wallet minimum top-up: $25

## Key Links
- Product: https://lucidry.io/features
- Origin story: https://lucidry.io/origin-story
- Use cases: https://lucidry.io/use-cases
- Ghostwriters: https://lucidry.io/ghostwriters
- Copywriters and editors: https://lucidry.io/copywriters
- Who it is for: https://lucidry.io/who-its-for
- How Lucidry compares: https://lucidry.io/competitors
- For AI agents: https://lucidry.io/agents
- Agent pricing: https://lucidry.io/agents/pricing
- Translation: https://lucidry.io/translation
- Revision Tax Calculator: https://lucidry.io/revision-tax
- How it works: https://lucidry.io/how-it-works
- Pricing: https://lucidry.io/pricing
- Customer pricing: https://lucidry.io/customer-pricing
- Developer docs: https://lucidry.io/developers
- REST API reference: https://lucidry.io/docs/api
- MCP guide: https://lucidry.io/docs/mcp
- Client samples: TypeScript and Python clients over the same v1 API. https://lucidry.io/docs/sdk
- Status: https://lucidry.io/status

## Limits
- Max file size: 50MB
- Max pages: 500
- Data retention: 30 days after delivery, configurable down to zero
- Rate limits: per API key tier


## Resources & Tools

- Resources & Tools: https://lucidry.io/help/resources
- The audit log that cannot tell you what changed: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/audit-log-cannot-tell-you-what-changed, Your audit log proves the pipeline ran. It cannot tell you what changed inside the text. Automation teams pass internal audits and still deliver claims that do not survive contact with the source. Thi
- The Fidelity-First Framework for AI Content Operations: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/content-ops/fidelity-before-fluency-daily-20261114, A tactical checklist for agency owners to replace AI fluency with factual fidelity, ensuring client work reflects actual expertise rather than algorithmically generated mimicry.
- The Hidden Revision Tax: Why AI Content Scaling is Eroding Your Agency Margins: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/hidden-revision-tax-daily-20261113, Agency owners scaling content with AI often overlook the silent profit killer: the hidden revision tax. This article identifies the structural failure points in AI-led workflows and outlines the opera
- Every manuscript reads better and more alike: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/every-manuscript-reads-better-and-more-alike-20261112, AI-assisted drafts are measurably better and measurably more alike, and both effects land on the same submission pile. The answer is not to reject smooth manuscripts. It is to score distinctiveness as
- The Ghostwriter Paradox: Why Syntactic Fluency Costs You Client Trust: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/what-did-the-ai-change-daily-20261111, Agency owners are grappling with a paradox where AI fluency generates volume but destroys distinctive brand voice. This analysis evaluates the shift from traditional drafting to high-level content arc
- Who gave your agent permission to spend money?: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/who-gave-your-agent-permission-to-spend-money, Drafting got cheap; spending did not. An agent that can call a paid API needs a ceiling set in code and a receipt naming who approved it. Here is the three-class spend model, the four mechanics that m
- Why HTTP 200 Does Not Mean Your Content Succeeded: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/http-200-is-not-content-success-daily-20261108, Publishing content that receives a 200 status code is a technical baseline, not a metric of performance. This guide explains why publishers must move beyond server health to measure actual business im
- The revision tax moved into your review queue: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/content-ops/revision-tax-moved-into-the-review-queue, Drafting became nearly free, so the cost of AI content migrated to the one stage that cannot scale: review. Here is how to see the revision tax in a queue, the four numbers that expose it, and how to 
- The Polished Error: Why AI Content Is Killing Agency Authority: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/the-polished-error-daily-20261106, AI content tools are creating a dangerous homogenization in B2B marketing. This piece explores why polished, AI-generated text is eroding brand authority and how agency owners can reclaim their value 
- The freelancer question: show me what changed: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/freelancer-question-show-me-what-changed, An agency carries the warranty for subcontractor work it never watched being made, and AI drafts removed the seams that used to expose a bad pass. The fix is procedural: a source list, a protected-ele
- Fidelity Before Fluency: The Operational Standard for Enterprise Automation: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/enterprise-automation/fidelity-before-fluency-daily-20261105, In the race to scale production, many agencies mistake generative fluency for quality. This guide breaks down why fidelity to source data and enterprise logic must precede linguistic performance to en
- Your retry loop can't fix a fluent error: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/retry-loop-cannot-fix-a-fluent-error, A retry exists for a call that failed in transit, not a call that returned a well-formed wrong answer. Here is how to separate transport failures from content failures, where the acceptance gate belon
- How to write a change-log clause into your AI contract: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/content-ops/change-log-clause-in-your-ai-contract, A vendor demo shows the good outcome. A contract governs the ordinary Tuesday, which is why the change log belongs in the agreement and not in the pilot. Here is the clause, what to require, and how t
- The Last Mile of AI Content: Why Your Quality Control Pipeline is Broken: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/last-mile-of-ai-content-daily-20261103, AI tools generate velocity but destroy nuance. This guide identifies the three core failure modes in AI-assisted content production and offers a structural solution for agency operators looking to mai
- Your agent grades its own draft: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/agent-grades-its-own-draft-verification-loop, When the model that writes the draft also grades it, the loop still closes and confident errors pass anyway. Here is where verification belongs in an agent pipeline, how to test an evaluator that favo
- Where the money went when drafting got cheap: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/where-the-money-went-when-drafting-got-cheap, The cost of drafting fell by orders of magnitude and the cost of standing behind the words did not move. This essay follows where the writing budget actually went: into edit minutes, review cycles, an
- The Integrity Gap: Moving Beyond Stochastic Content Generation: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/enterprise-automation/from-source-to-trusted-artifact-daily-20261031, This white paper defines the systemic transition from automated content generation to verifiable knowledge production for B2B agencies and publishers. We analyze the common failure modes of LLM adopti
- The 200 OK Fallacy: Why Your Automated Content Pipeline Is Failing Clients: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/content-ops/http-200-is-not-content-success-daily-20261030, Publishing volume is not a proxy for strategy. This case study details how a high-output agency broke their reliance on HTTP 200 codes as a success metric and redefined content operations through rigo
- Five Questions a Publisher Should Ask Before Accepting an AI-Assisted Manuscript: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/five-questions-publisher-ai-assisted-manuscript, Editorial review catches what a reader notices, not the number that quietly moved, so the question that matters at acceptance is what changed and whether anyone can prove it. This guide gives the five
- Your AI Pipeline Has No SLA for the Part That Matters: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/ai-pipeline-no-sla-for-content-quality, Teams instrument uptime, latency, and token cost, then discover a fabricated claim shipped through every green dashboard. An outcome-level guarantee rests on three measurable commitments.
- The Human in the Loop Is Not a Safety Rail: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/the-human-in-the-loop-is-not-a-safety-rail, The phrase human in the loop got flattened into a checkbox. The real loop is three jobs: the creative who decides what is worth saying, the editor who decides what survives, and the mechanic who keeps
- Detection Scores Will Not Protect a Publisher: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/detection-scores-will-not-protect-a-publisher, Detection scores estimate the odds a machine wrote something, and they move with editing. Publishers cannot build policy or contracts on a probability. Claim inventories and change records are what pr
- Why Polished Copy Hides the Errors That Matter: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/why-polished-copy-hides-the-errors-that-matter, Polish hides provenance. AI drafts arrive finished-looking, so reviewers lose the visible seams that flagged where to look, and errors travel further into client work. The fix is visible editorial evi
- The Hidden Maintenance Bill for AI-Generated Docs: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/the-hidden-maintenance-bill-for-ai-generated-docs, AI-generated documentation carries a second invoice: maintenance. Without a provenance record, re-verification grows to cover every claim ever made, and support pays the bill in engineer hours. A thre
- Why Your AI Bill Keeps Rising While Model Prices Keep Falling: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/why-your-ai-bill-keeps-rising-while-model-prices-fall, Model prices keep falling while AI application bills keep rising, because cheaper intelligence invites hungrier workflows: reasoning loops, tool calls, fan-out, and retries turn one user request into 
- The Correction Cycle That Eats Publishing Margins: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/the-correction-cycle-that-eats-publishing-margins, A correction cycle bills three times: the fix, the re-verification of everything the error might have touched, and the reader trust it spends. Here is how to price the cycle honestly and cut it with a
- The Audit Question Your Clients Are About to Ask: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/the-audit-question-your-clients-are-about-to-ask, A client audit asks for three kinds of evidence: a change log of every edit, a list of protected facts, and proof the client's voice survived the process. Here is why disclosure no longer satisfies cl
- The Outcome API Economy: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/the-outcome-api-economy, Model prices keep falling while AI application bills keep rising, because cheaper intelligence invites hungrier workflows: reasoning loops, tool calls, fan-out, context, retries, and iteration that tu
- Polish Is Camouflage: The Errors That Survive Review: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/polish-is-camouflage-errors-that-survive-review, Polish Is Camouflage: The Errors That Survive Review
- Detectors Guess. Receipts Prove.: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/detectors-guess-receipts-prove, A client runs your deliverable through a free AI detector and gets 87 percent AI-generated. The number is a guess about statistical texture, not a verdict about authorship, and the detector industry's
- OpenAI's Watermark Breaks the Moment You Edit It. Receipts Don't.: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/ai-watermark-breaks-under-editing-receipts-dont, OpenAI's textGrain watermark dissolves under ordinary editing, dropping to 17% detection when a quarter of words change, by OpenAI's own evaluation. This article breaks down what watermarks can and ca
- The Editorial Standard AI Publishing Is Missing: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/editorial-standard-ai-publishing-is-missing, Fluent AI drafts removed the editor's excuse, not the editor's job. The editorial standard that survives machine assistance has five checkable parts: fidelity, provenance, accountability, a change rec
- Why Do Writers Use AI They Don't Trust?: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/why-do-writers-use-ai-they-dont-trust, Writers use AI they don't trust because the leverage is real and the receipts are missing. Medium's State of Writing survey found most writers now use AI while most also distrust their own AI-assisted
- The Editorial QA Layer Playbook: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/content-ops/editorial-qa-layer-playbook, AI made the front of your content pipeline fast and left the middle untouched. This playbook covers how an in-house content team runs a QA layer over its review queue: what the layer does to a draft, 
- The Outcome API Starter Playbook: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/outcome-api-starter-playbook, Your AI feature ships text, and every output is a product your users can screenshot and open a ticket about. This playbook covers how to attach a machine-readable LUCID receipt to every artifact witho
- The Attribution-Ready Archive Playbook: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/attribution-ready-archive-playbook, AI answers now cite and remix publisher content at scale, and licensing conversations keep coming. This playbook covers the part you control: keeping a machine-verifiable receipt for every published p
- Your Content Feature Is Only Worth What It Can Prove: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/your-content-feature-is-only-worth-what-it-can-prove, Generation is now table stakes, so platform content features get priced like commodities. The upcharge lives in verification: per-job quality receipts, protected fields, and an audit trail enterprise 
- The Client-Proof Delivery Playbook: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/client-proof-delivery-playbook, The complete delivery playbook for AI-assisted ghostwriters: the four-line delivery standard, the AI question answered with scripts for all three cases, when the quality receipt travels with the draft
- How to Deliver an AI-Assisted Draft Without Losing the Client Writing Style: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/ghostwriters-delivery-guide, The delivery email is where ghostwriting trust is won or lost. This guide covers leading with the work, answering the AI question with evidence, forwarding the quality receipt as diligence, when not t
- Keep the Human in the Work: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/keep-the-human-in-the-work, AI can make a draft read better while quietly changing what it says. This founder manifesto names the three failures of AI-assisted writing, proposes five commitments for keeping the human in the work
- A plain truth beats a polished error: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/plain-truth-beats-polished-error, Readers forgive plain writing. They never forgive a discovered error. That asymmetry runs the whole publishing business, and it is the reason polish is dangerous without proof. This article covers why
- The Skill Revaluation: What Ghostwriters Sell Now: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/skill-revaluation-what-ghostwriters-sell-now, AI repriced the two halves of ghostwriting. Drafting collapsed; judgment held. Here is what the revaluation means for how ghostwriters position, price, and prove their work.
- Show the Work: Why Content Receipts Are a Product Feature: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/provenance-as-a-product-feature-app-builders, If your product generates content for customers, the most valuable feature you could ship this quarter is a receipt: a record of what the machine changed between source and final draft. When customers
- The Almost-Right Problem: When AI Content Is Nearly Correct: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/almost-right-problem-ai-content-nearly-correct, Almost-right content is more expensive than wrong content, because it survives review and bills rework hours nobody tracks. Here is where the revision tax actually hides for publishers and consultants
- Your Clients Already Know You Use AI: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/your-clients-already-know-you-use-ai, The "do you use AI" question is dead. Clients now wonder what AI did to the deliverable they're paying for, and most agencies have no answer that survives the follow-up. This article covers the new qu
- How Unverified LLM Output Damages Developer Trust: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/unverified-llm-output-damages-developer-trust, Technical audiences execute documentation instead of just reading it, so unverified LLM output breaks trust instantly through altered identifiers, invented endpoint values, and plausible-looking but w
- The Hidden Revision Tax: What Rework Actually Costs Your Agency: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/hidden-revision-tax-what-rework-costs-agency, Every agency working with AI drafts pays a tax it never invoices: the rework loop. The draft got cheap while the revision did not, and the margin evaporates in the gap between fast drafts and finished
- Why Every AI Content Tool Stops at the Draft: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/why-every-ai-content-tool-stops-at-the-draft, Generation is solved. Almost every AI content tool stops exactly at the line where the work becomes valuable, and the human editor becomes the integration layer carrying context between five half-tool
- The Black-Box Rewrite: Ask Vendors to Show the Work: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/black-box-rewrite-ask-vendors-show-the-work, A rewrite you cannot see is a rewrite you cannot trust. Content tools hide their work as a business model, because a tool that shows its work can be held to it, while a results-only box is judged by v
- The Polished Error: When Better-Sounding Copy Is Worse: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/polished-error-when-better-sounding-copy-is-worse, The most dangerous content failures read best. A polished error improves the sentence while breaking the fact, and no grammar tool or readability score catches it, because those tools reward exactly t
- HTTP 200 Is Not Content Success: Acceptance Criteria for Agent Pipelines: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/http-200-not-content-success-agent-pipelines, In an agentic pipeline, a successful API call is not a successful piece. Status codes measure transport, not truth, so green dashboards happily ship content that says 40 languages when the source says
- From Source to Trusted Artifact: The Publishing Standard: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/from-source-to-trusted-artifact-publishing-standard, The unit of content work is not the draft, it is the trusted artifact: traceable to its source, refined under guardrails, validated, and returned with receipts. This piece defines the five properties 
- Voice Fidelity: Protecting the Client's Voice as a Load-Bearing Fact: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/voice-fidelity-protecting-clients-voice, A ghostwriter's product is not words, it is the client's voice rendered on the page. Generic tools erase that voice by averaging it toward the internet's default tone, and the client feels it on the f
- Closing the Rework Loop in Automated Content Pipelines: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/automation-teams/closing-rework-loop-automated-content-pipelines, Automated content pipelines lose their margin in the rework loop: the cycles of regenerate, rework, and manual rescue that hide between the success metrics a dashboard actually shows. This piece maps 
- Fact Standards That Survive Automation: https://lucidry.io/help/resources/publishers-consultants/fact-standards-that-survive-automation, Editorial fact-checking was built for human volumes and human authors, and machine-drafted content breaks that safety net in three ways: drift with no fingerprints, fluency that masks accuracy, and cl
- What the AI Changed in Your Content (and What It Did Not): https://lucidry.io/help/resources/agencies-ghostwriters/what-ai-changed-content-refinery, Every AI rewrite touches more than grammar. It can shift voice, drop facts, and flatten the edges that made the piece yours. This field note traces what a refinery actually changes, what it preserves,