Upload your manuscript, tell us what you need, and get a clean, usable back-of-book index — AI-drafted and refined by a professional indexer. Choose the speed and price that fit your project.
Led by an MLIS indexer with 5,500+ indexes since 1999 · Trusted with unpublished manuscripts
Three simple steps from manuscript to finished index.
Upload your PDF and a few instructions — style, depth, any must-include terms, and your deadline.
Choose a fast AI-generated draft or a fully edited professional index, prepared to your specifications.
Delivered in your preferred format — Word, RTF, or embedded — ready to typeset and publish.
The same careful process — you choose how much human editing your index needs.
For authors on a budget and tight deadlines.
AI-assisted, then human-perfected by a professional indexer.
Priced by indexable page count; minimum project fees apply. Submit your book and we'll confirm your exact quote before any payment — no surprises.
Clear Indexing is led by Sheila Hill, MLIS — a professional book indexer with more than 5,500 completed indexes since 1999. Over 25 years, Sheila has indexed for many of the world's leading university presses and publishers, across health and medicine, law and political science, history, sociology, business and economics, the arts, psychology, and technical fields.
AI makes the first draft fast; that experience makes it right. Every Professional Index is personally reviewed, corrected, and shaped by Sheila — because a great index comes from understanding a book, not just extracting its words.
A representative selection from 270+ recent titles, indexed across a wide range of scholarly and trade subjects.
The AI Draft is generated automatically and lightly cleaned up — fast and affordable, but not editorially perfected. The Professional Index is that draft fully edited by a human indexer: merged concepts, proper subentries and cross-references, and your style guide applied throughout.
By indexable page count. Submit your book through the form and we'll confirm the exact quote before you pay anything, so there are no surprises.
Word, RTF, plain text, or an embedded index — just tell us what your typesetter or publisher needs.
Yes. Your file is used solely to create your index, handled in strict confidence, processed through a service that does not train on your content, and deleted after delivery.
Scholarly and academic titles, nonfiction, technical manuals, cookbooks, memoirs, and more. Tell us your subject area in the form and we'll confirm fit.
Send us your manuscript and instructions. We'll reply with a quote and a delivery date — usually within a few hours.
Start your index or email hello@clearindexing.com