The Slop Tells Checklist

19 ways AI writing gives itself away, and the one-line fix for each.What it isA one-page desk reference you run against any draft. Nineteen named tells, the exact signal to scan for, and the move that fixes each one without flattening your voice. Throat-clearing openers. Reflexive adverbs. The "not X, it's Y" reversal. The em dash the model glues everything together with. You read your draft once looking for the pattern, fix what you find, and the piece starts to sound like you again.It is free, it is instantly useful, and it works on a draft you wrote this morning.Who it helpsAnyone 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.One soft pointerThe checklist is the spotting half. If you want the other half, prompting so fewer tells show up at all, plus the step-by-step human-back edit, plus a gallery of real rewrites across six voices, that is the $19 book, Write With AI Without Sounding Like AI. The checklist stands on its own. The book is there when you want the whole craft.Stay curious, stay clever.Licensed, not sold. Full License & Terms apply (ref KESS-LIC-2026-001). By downloading or purchasing you agree to the version in force on your purchase date.Questions before you buy, or support after? Contact mathieu@kesslernity.com.Terms of Service · Privacy Policy