The whole checklist, written out.
People can smell AI right now. The em dashes, the tidy summary bow at the end of every paragraph. This is the exact fix from the video: what to scan for, the rewrite prompt, and the Project that makes it stick without you repeating yourself. Free, no signup wall. You already did that part.
- The 7 AI tells that make readers close the tab, in a scannable list
- The rewrite prompt, word for word, that keeps your point and drops the robot voice
- The 3 levels: chat, Project, and settings, so you know exactly where the fix lives
- The click-by-click Project walkthrough, so it holds for good without you repeating yourself
- Works in ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot. Nothing here costs money.
The fix, in order
Read it here, free to copy. Steps 3 and 4 are what make it stick, do those even if you skip the rest. (The PDF below covers the scan and the rewrite prompt, steps 1 and 2. The Project walkthrough is here on the page.)
1. Spot the tells
Scan the draft for: em dashes doing a period's job, a summary bow at the end of every paragraph, resume words nobody says out loud (delve, leverage, robust, seamless), "it's not just X, it's Y" on repeat, zero contractions, every sentence the same length.
Any draft before you send it. One or two tells is fine. All of them together is the smell. This is a read-through, not a prompt, it takes about ten seconds once you know the list.
2. Run the rewrite prompt
Rewrite that like a real person wrote it: contractions, short sentences, no em dashes, never say "delve" or "furthermore," no cheery summary line at the end, keep the point exactly the same.
Any draft that fails the scan. Emails, posts, captions, sales pages. The point survives, the robot voice doesn't. Same email, sounds like a person now, sounds like you.
3. Ask for the Project version
Turn these writing rules into instructions I can paste into a Project, so every chat there writes this way.
Type this in the same chat where you just ran the rewrite. ChatGPT turns your own rules into instructions written for a Project. Copy what it gives you back, you'll paste it in the next step. Claude works the same way with its own Projects. Copilot doesn't have this yet, pin the rules at the top of your prompt instead.
4. Test it with nothing pasted
Write a short email to my team letting them know Friday's stand-up is moving to async updates in the group chat.
Ask this inside a brand-new chat, in the Project you just built, on a different topic than your first draft. Paste no rules, remind it of nothing. If the Project is set up right, it already sounds human. That's the whole test.
Build the Project, click by click
This is the part from the video. Do it once and every chat inside this Project inherits the rules for good, no re-pasting, no re-explaining.
Open Projects
In ChatGPT, click your name or the sidebar, then Projects, then New project.
Name it for the work, not the client
Something generic that describes what it's for. "Team Comms" works. You'll reuse this Project for anything that fits that description.
Open Instructions
Inside the new Project, find Instructions, the custom instructions field that only applies inside this Project.
Paste what ChatGPT gave you
The text it wrote back in step 3 above, the one you asked it to write for a Project. Paste the whole thing in, then save.
Start a new chat inside the Project
Not your old chat, a fresh one, started from inside the Project you just built.
Ask for something new
A different topic than your test draft. No rules pasted, nothing reminded. It already writes in your rules, every time, for that work.
Where the rule lives
Once
Type the rules into a normal chat and they hold for that conversation. New chat, you're back to explaining yourself.
Every time, for that work
Paste the same rules into a Project's Instructions once. Every new chat you start inside that Project already knows them, nothing outside it does.
Everywhere
Put the rules in your account-wide personalization settings and every chat, in every Project, follows them. The biggest reach, so use it for rules you always want, not just one job's worth.
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