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Your AI draft is too smooth to be yours.

It reads clean, confident, and completely anonymous. This checklist gives you 19 ways AI writing gives itself away, and the one line fix for each.

See it work

A 9 page PDF. No course, no fluff. Run it on a draft you wrote this morning.

19named tells
1line fix each
9page PDF
$0yours free

See the method

Spot the tell. Then watch it turn human.

Each card is a real AI line and its rewrite. Hit fix it and a person walks back in. The checklist does this for all 19 tells.

The tell: Business jargon
Before · sounds like AIMoving forward, let's leverage our community to drive engagement and unlock new growth opportunities in this exciting landscape.
After · Tomas, a community hostHere is the plan for spring. We ask the twenty members who show up every week to each bring one friend to open night. Forty new faces who already know somebody at the door.
The tell: False agency
Before · sounds like AIThe feedback becomes a roadmap, and over time the culture shifts toward shipping faster.
After · Priya, a blunt ops leadI read every support ticket, pulled the four complaints that came up most, and put them at the top of the sprint. We shipped three by Friday.
The tell: Vague declaratives
Before · sounds like AIThe reasons our latency spiked last week are structural, and the implications for the roadmap are significant.
After · Wen, a deadpan engineerLatency spiked because we run every search through one database node that was never built for this load. Until we shard it, every feature we add makes the spike worse.

What is inside

All 19 tells, grouped the way you read for them.

Phrase level tells are word swaps you fix on the spot. Structural tells need you to step back and reshape a sentence. Each row gives you the signal to scan for and the move that fixes it without flattening your voice.

The full descriptions, the worked examples, and the editing pass live in the book. The checklist is the desk reference you keep next to it.

Phrase level

Throat-Clearing OpenersEmphasis CrutchesBusiness JargonAdverbsMeta-CommentaryPerformative EmphasisTelling Instead of ShowingVague Declaratives

Structural

Binary ContrastsNegative ListingDramatic FragmentationRhetorical SetupsFormulaic ConstructionsFalse AgencyNarrator-from-a-DistancePassive VoiceWh- Sentence StartersRhythm PatternsWord Patterns / Lazy Extremes

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Who it helps

Anyone who writes with AI and does not want to sound like it.

You do not need to know how a model works or write for a living. If you have ever read an AI draft and felt it was a little too smooth to be yours, this is the fastest way to find out exactly why, in one read.

The other half

The checklist is the spotting half. The book teaches you to keep your voice while you fix the tells: prompt so fewer show up, run the step by step edit, and study a gallery of real rewrites across six voices.

Write With AI Without Sounding Like AI, the $19 book. The checklist stands on its own. The book is there when you want the whole craft.

Questions

Before you download

Is it really free?
Yes. It is pay what you want with a zero minimum, so you can take it for nothing. If it earns a tip, the box above is there. No pressure either way.
What format is it?
A 9 page PDF, about 55 KB. It opens on any phone, tablet, or laptop, and it prints clean if you like a paper copy on your desk.
Do I need a specific AI tool?
No. The tells are the same across models. The checklist works on a draft from any of them, and on the things you write yourself.
Will it go stale when the models update?
No. There are zero model-specific tricks here. You are learning to recognize the shape of an averaged sentence, which holds no matter which model wrote it.