PROJECT  MEDINFO 2027 · Dubai ROLE  SPC Co-Chair STATUS  Working prototype
Reinventing scholarly submission

The paper writes itself into the template.

For decades, authors have hand-formatted their work into a rigid publisher template — and more than half get it wrong. What if you just wrote, and the perfectly formatted proceedings paper appeared — with every citation verified before you ever hit submit?

Try it yourself ↓ How it works
The problem 01

A 2026 workflow, stuck in 1995.

The MEDINFO proceedings are published by IOS Press in a strict two-column Word template. Authors download it, fight with it, and break it — then a tiny volunteer committee spends weeks fixing PDFs by hand. Good science gets rejected over margins.

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submissions to MEDINFO 2025 — each a manual formatting touchpoint
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of authors mis-format the IOS template on first submission
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submission types, each with its own page & structure rules
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format checks done by the publisher — it all falls on the committee
The vision 02

One pipeline, end to end.

Submission, review, and proceedings as a single web-native flow. The first stage — the one that causes the most pain — is working today and you can run it below.

Stage 01Live now

Submit

Write in the browser. The platform generates the IOS-Press camera-ready, validates length & sections, and verifies every reference against Crossref & PubMed — at the point of submission.

Stage 02Designed

Review

Rolling, AI-assisted peer review on a clean rubric. Reference flags and scope checks travel with the paper so reviewers spend judgment where it counts.

Stage 03Designed

Proceedings

Accepted papers are already camera-ready. One click exports the validated package to the publisher — no back-and-forth, no PDF surgery.

The live demo 03

Write here. Watch it format itself.

The fields below are pre-filled with a sample paper (including two real citations, one swapped DOI, and one fabricated reference). Hit Generate — everything runs live in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

Your submissionstructured · minimal copy-paste
Camera-ready previewIOS Press · Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Your formatted paper will appear here.
Press Generate to compose it.
Length & structure
Awaiting generation…
Reference verification
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On Submit, the layer files this in the conference's review platform with one authenticated API call — no re-entry, one login. (This public demo stops here; it doesn't post.)
What gets filed in OpenReviewclient.post_note_edit()
Awaiting generation…
Under the hood 04

Not magic. Just the right architecture.

Deterministic formatting

Structured in, styled out

Each field maps to the publisher's named paragraph styles. The output isn't "close" — it's built from the official template, so it can't drift.

Citation integrity

Verified at submission

Every DOI/PMID is resolved against Crossref and PubMed and compared to what you cited — catching swapped, wrong, and fabricated references before review.

Open & ownable

Built on open rails

The layer rides on an open, API-first review system (OpenReview) — no per-use licensing, fully self-hostable. The conference owns its data.

Prototype by Maxim Topaz for the MEDINFO 2027 Scientific Program Committee. The reference check queries live public APIs from your browser; your text never leaves this page.