The one-liner
Rawtake (rawtake.ai) turns raw, messy dictation or typing into clean, finished writing in the author's own voice — fixing mechanics only, never inventing a word — and seals a cryptographic Proof of Authorship record showing exactly what the writer wrote and what the tool touched.
Boilerplate
Short (~50 words)
Rawtake is a writing tool for Books and Pieces. Authors talk or type their raw words; Rawtake cleans the mechanics — spelling, punctuation, sentence breaks — in the writer's own voice, reports every change in plain English, and seals a verifiable Proof of Authorship record. Every word starts with the writer. rawtake.ai
Longer (~100 words)
Rawtake (rawtake.ai) is a writing tool built on one rule: you stay the author. Writers dictate or type exactly as the words come — typos, run-ons, and all — and Rawtake returns clean, finished prose in their own voice, fixing mechanics only and never inventing a word. Every paragraph shows three columns: the raw take, the clean take, and a plain-English report of every change. The whole history is sealed into a cryptographically verifiable Proof of Authorship record, giving authors a way to show what they wrote in an era of AI-authorship doubt. Founded in 2026 by novelist Matthew Hawkes. Built in Utah.
Founder bio
Matthew Hawkes — Founder, Rawtake · Author of The Book of Miner
Matt Hawkes is a Utah-based novelist, 184,000 words into a science-fiction trilogy, who built the tool he needed to finish it. His problem wasn't the writing — it was the mechanics: "My brain moves faster with the words than it does with the mechanics." A non-programmer, he designed and shipped Rawtake using AI coding tools, going from idea to a live product with real billing in a matter of days — then finished drafting his book inside it.
He talks candidly about dictation-first writing, keeping authorship provable in the AI era, and what it's like to build software when you can't write code.
Story angles
1 · Proof, not detection
AI detectors guess from the output — and get it wrong. Rawtake records the process: every raw word, every change, sealed and verifiable. As accusations of AI writing hit human authors, provenance is becoming the debate in publishing. Rawtake is a process-level answer.
2 · The middle path in the AI-writing wars
Not anti-AI, not "let the machine write it." Rawtake's line — AI for mechanics only, never inventing a word, with receipts — is a position many working authors hold and few tools embody.
3 · A novelist who can't code shipped a SaaS
Founder-as-user story: a non-technical author designed, built, and launched a full product — auth, billing, AI pipeline — using AI coding tools, in days, on a shoestring. The build itself is a story about what solo founders can now do.
4 · Talk your book
Dictation-first drafting from the truck, the trail, or the line at the bank — and the cleanup that used to make dictation impractical is the part Rawtake deletes.
Pull quotes
"My brain moves faster with the words than it does with the mechanics."— MATTHEW HAWKES, FOUNDER
"Rawtake doesn't shrink the thinking. It deletes the mechanical timeline."— RAWTAKE.AI
"You stay the author. Every change named. The record sealed."— RAWTAKE.AI
Quick facts
Proof of Authorship documents the creation and editing history recorded by Rawtake. It is not copyright registration or a legal determination of ownership.
Logos & assets
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Book an interview
Email: matt@rawtake.ai — the founder reads and answers his own inbox.
Location: Utah, USA (Mountain Time). Remote interviews any format — audio, video, or live demo where Matt dictates raw and cleans it on screen in real time.
Rawtake never pays for coverage, and never asks you to.