Deliberately bad copy

Unlock the transformative power of authentic writing.

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, it's not just about content, it's about crafting a rich tapestry of meaningful connections. Let's delve into a seamless, game-changing journey that empowers you to navigate the complexities of the modern writing ecosystem. Moreover, it is important to note that this is just the beginning.

We wrote that badly on purpose.

Every highlighted phrase is an entry on one of the Prosodeus hit lists, coloured by list. Your own drafts get marked the same way.

Prosodeus finds stock phrases and repetitive sentence patterns in a text and points to the paragraphs that have the most. It can rewrite them for you. The code is MIT licensed. You supply the model key, and the text is sent to that provider only.

What it checks

The hit lists hold 1,000 phrases in 12 categories, each entry with a signal strength and a false-positive risk. "Game-changing" is filed under synthetic significance, "Moreover" under transition filler, and "It's not X, it's Y" under symmetrical templates. The engine also scores structure, so a page of sentences that are all about the same length can score high without containing a single listed phrase.

A single hit means little, because models learned every phrase on the lists from people who wrote that way first. Two hits in a paragraph of about 100 words are worth checking. With five or more, start the paragraph over.

Rewriting a flagged sentence

For each flagged sentence, the rewrite guidance looks for the claim that the stock phrase is standing in for. Where you can supply the fact, the fact replaces "transformative power". If you don't, the sentence is cut or left with a bracketed note saying what is missing. The model is told not to add facts that are not in your text.

To do the rewrite in your own chat window, run constrain and paste its constraints in with the text. rewrite does the revision with the model you configured. Run compare on the two files afterwards to see whether the numbers moved.

Where it runs

Command line
Writes an HTML heatmap report or prints a summary. Commands
Claude Code and Codex
A plugin with three skills: scan, fix and verify. Install
MCP server
Gives any MCP client the same analysis and rewrite tools as the command line. Tools
Editor app
Shows the heatmap beside your text and has a panel for rewriting flagged sentences. Run it

Limits

Prosodeus describes the prose in front of it. It does not try to work out who wrote a text. OpenAI withdrew its own detector in 2023; at launch it had identified 26% of AI-written text. We built the hit lists with LLM-assisted research and have not checked all 1,000 entries by hand. Evidence and policy lists the sources.