Watch: check a draft
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AI Tools
AI Writing Pattern Highlighter
Paste a draft and see the stock transitions, inflated vocabulary, and structural tics associated with AI-generated prose, highlighted in place with a reason for each one.
Check a draft locally
Runs locally in your browser. Plain code, no AI model. Your text is not uploaded, saved, or shared.
Checks as you type. Best suited to paragraphs of prose; markdown tables and code blocks are ignored.
Highlighted draft
Matches will be highlighted here.
Paste a draft to check it.
What matched
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Check a draft in three steps
- 01Paste the draft
An article, email, or any paragraph of prose you're about to publish or send.
- 02Review the matches
Each one is highlighted in place, with the pattern it matched and why it's worth a second look.
- 03Revise or ignore it
These are patterns, not rules. Keep what reads naturally, and copy the report for the rest.
What it looks for
- Stock transitions: "it's important to note", "in today's fast-paced world".
- Inflated vocabulary: "delve into", "unlock the potential of", "a testament to".
- Structural repetition: "no X, no Y" chains, repeated sentence openers, echoing sentence skeletons, stacked questions.
- Stage-managed reveals: "here's the thing", "turns out", performative honesty.
Frequently asked questions
Does a match mean this text was written by AI?
No. These are patterns commonly associated with AI-generated prose, not proof. Human writers use every one of them too, sometimes deliberately. Treat a match as "worth a second look," not a verdict.
Does a clean result mean the text is human-written?
No. A pattern-matching tool can only find the patterns it has. A clean result just means none of them matched; it says nothing about who or what wrote the text.
Why do markdown tables and code blocks get ignored?
Table rows and code are short, repetitive, and parallel by nature, which falsely resembles the structural patterns this tool looks for (repeated openers, echoing structure). They're masked out before those checks run, so only prose is compared.
What does "matches per 1,000 words" mean?
The match count divided by word count, scaled to a fixed length. It lets a short paragraph and a long article show a comparable density instead of the longer one simply having more matches.
Is my draft sent anywhere?
No. Checking runs in your browser, and nothing is uploaded, saved, or put in share links.