The Goodman Standard (Marginalia) is an editorial assistant for professional editors at law firms — people who polish reports, articles, features, columns, books, thought-leadership pieces, and marketing content before they're published.
Safe fixes, applied for you — clear spelling, grammar, and punctuation corrections. You can apply them one at a time or all at once. Crucially, it only auto-applies a fix when it's certain which instance you mean, so it never quietly edits the wrong occurrence of a repeated phrase. Substantive changes, only ever flagged — anything that would alter meaning (a deletion, a reworded claim) is surfaced for your review, never changed on its own. Repetition, voice, and consistency notes — it highlights repeated phrasing, mixed UK/US spelling, tense shifts, and the like, in neutral language for your discretion. Structure review — hea