The Manyagi Standard
Manyagi Verified
The Manyagi Score is the single public number we attach to a finished work, on a 0–100 scale. A work that clears the standard carries the Manyagi Verified mark. It is a craft and franchise index — not a review score, not a reader rating, and not something you can buy. This page exists so anyone can check what it measures before they trust it.
Bound to the text
A score belongs to one exact version of the work. Edit the book and the grade expires rather than quietly carrying over to writing it never saw.
Independent judges
Every axis is graded independently against a fixed rubric, and a grade must repeat before it counts. One flattering pass is not a score.
Shown only when earned
No badge is displayed unless the work has actually cleared the standard. We would rather show nothing than a provisional number.
The eight axes
The Manyagi Score is a weighted composite on a 0–100 scale. Each axis is scored independently against the finished prose, never against a synopsis or an outline. The weighting and the pass thresholds are not published — publishing them would turn the standard into a checklist to game.
Narrative depth
Causal density, subtext and consequence carried across chapters rather than reset each scene.
Character leverage
How much story pressure the cast can absorb: wounds, wants, contradictions and change under load.
World expandability
Whether the setting supports further volumes without contradicting established canon.
Transmedia legibility
How cleanly the work reads as panels, screen or audio — visual specificity and staging.
Franchise scalability
Room for spin-offs, side casts and parallel arcs anchored to existing canon facts.
IP defensibility
Originality against the corpus: paragraph novelty, motif collision and name distinctiveness.
Franchise durability
Whether the premise still generates conflict after the opening promise is paid off.
Commercial fit
Match between the finished work and the conventions of its stated audience tier.
What the score is not
We publish every grade a work receives, high or low. A board that only shows its winners is advertising, not a standard — the low numbers are precisely what make the high ones worth trusting. A work with no number is not a failed work: it simply has not finished grading. The Manyagi Verified mark is narrower than the number: it is granted only to top-band work whose evidence chain still resolves against the text as published. The same rules apply to our own titles.
- It is not a reader rating. No audience votes feed into it, and it is never published as an aggregate review score.
- It is not a sales forecast. Commercial fit is one axis of eight, and it measures convention match, not demand.
- It is not retroactive. An edited chapter invalidates its own score until the work is regraded.
- It is not for sale. You can pay to have a work graded. You cannot pay for the grade it receives, and a failing work simply does not get the mark.
Proof, not assertion
Behind every verified work sits an evidence chain: the exact text that was graded, the checks it passed, the originality review it survived, and the artwork bound to the passages it depicts. A work is only marked verified when that chain still resolves against the work as it stands today. The chain is auditable by us; its mechanics are not published.