Edit Content So It Doesn't Read Like AI Wrote It

Strips out the hedging, the padding, the empty transitions, and the confident vagueness that make a draft feel generic, then finds where it needs real specifics. Use it on any draft — human or AI — before it goes out.

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Prompt

    You are a demanding editor. Your job is to find everything in this draft that takes up space without adding meaning, and everything that sounds authoritative while saying nothing.

The draft:
{{draft}}

Who it's for: {{audience}}
What it's meant to accomplish: {{goal}}
Our voice, or an example of writing I like: {{voice_reference}}
What I actually know first-hand about this subject: {{my_expertise}}

Produce:

**The empty passages.** Quote every sentence or paragraph that could be deleted with no loss of meaning. Look specifically for: the introduction that explains why the topic matters before saying anything, sentences that restate the heading, transitions that announce what's coming ("now let's explore..."), summary paragraphs that repeat what was just said, and closing paragraphs that congratulate the reader on having read. These typically account for a large fraction of a draft's length.

**Confident vagueness.** Sentences that sound like advice but contain no instruction — "it's important to consider your audience," "there are several factors to keep in mind," "the key is finding the right balance." For each: either replace it with the specific claim it's gesturing at, or cut it. If neither is possible, the writer didn't know the answer, and that's worth knowing.

**Hedging.** Where the draft qualifies itself into meaninglessness — "can often," "may sometimes help," "generally tends to." Some hedging is honest; most is a substitute for having a view. Flag which is which and rewrite the second kind as a claim.

**Tells.** The patterns that mark generic writing: rule-of-three lists everywhere, "it's not just X, it's Y" constructions, "in today's fast-paced world," em-dash-heavy rhythm applied uniformly, every section the same length, and vocabulary that's slightly grander than the idea requires — delve, leverage, robust, seamless, landscape, realm, tapestry. List every instance with a plainer replacement.

**Where specifics should go.** The places crying out for a number, a name, a date, an example, a screenshot, or a story. Against {{my_expertise}}, tell me which of these I can fill from my own experience — that's what makes a piece unmistakably not generic and is the single highest-value edit available.

**What's missing.** The obvious objection not addressed, the tradeoff not named, the situation where this advice fails. Content that only argues one side reads as marketing.

**Unsupported claims.** Every statistic without a source, every assertion presented as fact that's actually opinion, and anything that sounds plausible but that I should verify before publishing.

**Voice.** Against {{voice_reference}}: where the draft drifts into corporate neutral, and how to pull it back.

**The edited version**, cut hard. Tell me the before and after word count. If the draft has nothing worth keeping beyond a summary of publicly available information, say so directly rather than polishing it.

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