Dinno.
From manuscript to typeset book.

Word manuscript

The Official Book exactly as authored — no cleanup needed. Dinno is built for messy, real documents.

Dinno engine

Reads the document and writes down what should happen, as a plan that can be checked before a single page is touched. Runs in the PeopleCert cloud — nothing to install server-side. Settings → Engine → Target picks which one you talk to, and the version at the top of this page is always the one that served it.

InDesign panel

Applies every element natively: real paragraph styles, tables with merges and shading, anchored figures, and contents pages kept free for InDesign’s own lists.

Designer finishes

You get a working, styled book and spend your time on design decisions — front matter, openers, polish.

The whole book

One press in Word, one consent in InDesign, and about five minutes later a styled document — text, styles, fonts, tables, figures and info boxes. On the reference book that is 3,627 operations, none deferred, unattended after the single press.

One thing, right now

Select it in Word, put your cursor where it belongs in InDesign, send. A table that came back from review, a figure that changed, a run of paragraphs that moved. Five kinds are live — table, component box, figure, paragraphs, floating drawing — and the card names what it found before it goes. No plan, no permission card, no page budget. This is where the copy-paste hours actually go.

Courseware from a deck

A trainer's PowerPoint builds the Learner Workbook or the Trainer Guide: every slide as a picture with its notes beneath, split by audience the way the old macros split them. Which slides are core, non-core, or out of the book is shown — with the rule that decided each one — before the build, and a designer can overrule it.

Info boxes on your box styles

Word’s Key Message, Definition and Tip boxes arrive as your template’s boxes: their title, text and bullets on the box styles you choose in the Mapping tab, and your template’s own icon inside the box.

Release notes ›

Tables on your table styles

Choose a table style, a header cell style and a body cell style in the Mapping tab, and every table of the transfer takes them as InDesign’s own styles. Change the style in InDesign, and every table follows.

Into your own template ›

Measured every round

The whole ITIL Experience v5.1, sent into a fresh copy of the ITIL5 template: in round 3, 99.1% of paragraphs on your styles, 0 frames or tables past the margins, 0 headings with two numbers, every heading with its own chapter number — and what is still open, said as plainly.

The benchmark ›

What comes next

1.1 builds on this: your own figures and icons by Figure Replace and Icon Replace, the Claude plugin, the Quiz from the PowerPoint pane, and your ePub feedback. Nothing there is promised as shipped until it is.

Roadmap ›

What it actually is

Four surfaces and one service, with what each does today and what it refuses. Including the part that is not on the path to a book: the engine answers the Model Context Protocol, so ChatGPT and Claude connect to it as a connector, and Co-pilot mode is the same rail from inside the InDesign panel.

What Dinno is ›

How people sign in

On your own machine, they do not — nothing asks. On a deployed engine, an account exists so the service can tell whose plugin is asking: an invitation, a password you set here, then an eight-character code approved once per plugin per machine. Your password is never typed into the pane or the panel. Signing in with your PeopleCert account (Microsoft Entra ID), enforced, is planned for 1.0.

Your account and your devices ›

How you get the Word pane

Not yet by yourself, and the page above should not imply otherwise. The InDesign panel is a download on this site and installs in a double-click. The two Office panes are not: today each one is a developer sideload from a server running on that developer's machine.

Central deployment through the Microsoft 365 admin centre — an administrator uploads one manifest and it appears on the ribbon for the people you choose — is built and tested and waiting on a decision, not on code.

What the Word pane does, and does not ›

What happens to the document

Where the file goes, what the engine keeps and for how long, what the panel is allowed to do to the document you have open, and how the API decides who may call it. The last section is the list of things that are not built — read that one if you are signing this off.

Security and your documents ›