Most indie authors are marketing without the data traditional publishers have. Romintel is the behavioural data layer for romance authors — we read the Amazon top 50 across eight subgenres every morning, so you can read your readers.
Four principles behind every finding — so the data tells you what to do, not just what's happening.
Every finding starts with something specific and surprising. Not “dark romance is popular” — that's noise. “17 of the top 20 share the same cover composition, and it's not an accident” — that's a signal.
This is our edge. Readers aren't choosing consciously — their brains pattern-match on cues before they've read a word. A face turned away activates threat-detection. Enemies-to-lovers triggers loss aversion. The data tells you what. We tell you why.
Every insight ends with a clear implication for the author reading it. Never “you're leaving money on the table.” Always “here's what this means — and here's what I'd try if this were my book.”
The data doesn't exist to expose what you're doing wrong. It exists to show you what's possible. Every insight starts from the assumption that you're already trying, already capable, and already worthy of better information.
The problem: You see that enemies-to-lovers is everywhere right now — but you can't tell if that's relevant to your subgenre, or whether the market is already saturated.
How Romintel helps: We track trope performance per subgenre — so you know whether the trend applies to your corner of the market, not just romance in general. And we explain the psychology behind it, so you know whether to lean in or step back.
Open the dashboard. Find your subgenre. Look at the top 3 tropes. Ask yourself: does my current WIP have any of these? If not, is there a natural way to layer one in — without forcing it? That one check could change how you position your next launch.
See how this works in practice.
Open the dashboard →A daily snapshot of what's actually sitting at the top of the Amazon charts, with the interpretation layer that tells you what to do with it. See how it works →
Free to read. Create a free account to unlock your subgenre views.
Create your free account →Romintel is built in stages — each one more powerful than the last.
Daily Amazon data across 8 subgenres. Trending tropes, price benchmarks, velocity signals, Goodreads sentiment. The market, interpreted — free, always.
Open the dashboard →Upload your manuscript. Romintel reads it against the live market and returns your full positioning report — sub-genre fit, trope analysis, pricing, cover direction, and exactly who your reader is.
Founding member pricing at launch — 50 slots, locked for life.
Join the waitlist →The complete author operating system. Market intelligence plus WIP positioning plus your ad analytics — all in one place, interpreted through a behavioural economics lens.