Write with AI and still sound like you.
The Writing Style Guide builds a piece from your idea or notes, or repairs a draft that came out generic, and makes the result read like you wrote it. It runs in Claude, ChatGPT, or any model that takes pasted text.
The failure mode
Clean grammar. No clichés. Still sounds like AI.
You know the draft. The banned words are gone, the filler is gone, the sentences are fine. And it still reads machine-made.
When that happens the problem is rarely the vocabulary. It is the skeleton, the proof, the voice, or the rhythm, and swapping words reaches none of those.
What makes it different
It gives the model something good to imitate.
A model copies the style of what you show it more closely than it follows the rules you give it.
So this works by showing it good writing and your own material, and it spends almost no effort on lists of words to ban. That is the difference between this and a prompt that hands the model ten words to avoid.
What it does
Two ways in: build, or repair.
Bring an idea or a few notes and it builds a draft with you, asking only for what it needs first.
Bring a finished AI draft and it repairs the parts that read as machine-written and leaves the parts that already sound like you alone.
Either way, you supply the material and it does the shaping.
Proof
Watch it work.
A real product announcement, before and after.
Before, scored 9 of 10 for sounding machine-made
We're thrilled to announce that our new dashboard is live! This game-changing update will revolutionize how you track your metrics. With a sleek, intuitive interface, you can now see all your data in one place. We can't wait for you to try it!
After
The dashboard is live. Your metrics used to live across four separate screens, and now they sit in one. You can see traffic, revenue, and churn on a single view without switching tabs. It does not yet let you build custom reports, and that is the next thing we are working on. If you tracked metrics the old way, this is the change worth a look.
The hype came out. A specific change went in. The version that admits a limit is the one a reader believes.
The score
It grades the draft, then points at the fix.
Every pass returns a score. One number for how machine-made the writing reads, from 1 for human to 10 for machine, and three more for voice, specificity, and rhythm.
Then one line on the single change that would raise the weakest number the most.
The score keeps the tool honest, and it tells you where to push.
Who it is for
Made for people who publish under their own name.
Newsletter writers, founders writing their own posts, marketers and solo operators who use AI to move faster and refuse to read like everyone else.
If your name is on the work, the work should sound like you.
Start free, or get the tool
See the problem free.
Get the fix when you're ready.
The Tells names the patterns that give AI writing away and hands you the Personal Style Card to capture your voice. The Writing Style Guide is the tool that repairs the patterns and writes to that voice, every time.
Free lead magnet
The Tells
The patterns that give AI writing away, each with an example, plus a prompt that finds them in your own draft.
- ·The field guide to the tells, with a fix for each.
- ·The Pattern Scan prompt, to find them in your writing.
- ·The Personal Style Card, a printable template, plus a filled example.
Build — repair — score
Writing Style Guide
The standard the model runs on. It builds from your notes and repairs AI drafts, in your voice, then scores the result.
- ·Build and repair modes, for drafting from scratch or fixing an AI draft.
- ·Twelve revision methods, run all at once or one move at a time.
- ·The full pattern library, every tell with an example and a fix.
- ·Worked examples, the standard run on real drafts.
- ·A ready-made Claude Skill and ChatGPT Project, set up and ready.
- ·Writes to the Style Card you started in The Tells.
Compatibility
Works with the tools you already use.
No subscription, no login, no lock-in.
Use it in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any model that takes pasted text or uploaded files.
The Claude Skill needs Code Execution turned on in Settings, under Capabilities, and runs on the free plan as well as Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise. The ChatGPT Project drops in the same way.
FAQ
Common questions.
Is this a prompt pack?
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Can it write from scratch, or only fix AI drafts?
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Will it make AI write in my voice?
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Will it beat AI detectors?
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Do not ask AI to sound human.
Give it something real to work with, keep the parts that are yours,
and make the writing move.