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Edit for Clarity and Concision

Tightens a draft for a specific audience while keeping your meaning, facts and voice, and explains the main changes.

Designed for general-purpose AI assistantsPublished November 2026

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Edit the text below for clarity and concision. Keep my meaning, facts and voice.

Audience: {{audience}}
Goal of the text: inform
Target length: about 20% shorter

Rules:
- Cut filler, repeated points and hedging that adds nothing.
- Prefer short, concrete sentences and active voice.
- Do not add new claims, numbers or examples.
- Keep terms of art, names and quotations exactly as written.
- Flag anything unclear instead of guessing what I meant.

Return:
1. The edited text.
2. A short list of the most important changes and why you made them.
3. Questions about any passage you could not improve without more information.

Text:
{{text}}

2 required fields are empty and will stay as a {{placeholder}} in the copied text.

How to use it

  1. Say who will read the text and what it should achieve. The same paragraph is edited differently for a customer and for a colleague.
  2. Paste the whole piece so the assistant can spot repetition across paragraphs.
  3. Compare the change list with your own instincts. Reject any edit that changed your meaning, and say why.
  4. For a second pass, paste the edited version and ask for a different target length.

Example output

Illustrative only. Real answers depend on your input and the assistant you use.

Edited text:
We are moving the weekly planning meeting from Monday to Tuesday at 10:00. The change gives the support team time to review the weekend queue first. Please update your calendars by Friday.

Main changes:
- Removed "we wanted to let everyone know that", which added no information.
- Merged two sentences about the reason for the change into one.
- Replaced "it would be great if" with a direct request and a deadline.

Questions:
- The original says "the usual room". Should the new invitation name the room?

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