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What Originality.ai reports

Originality.ai is aimed at people who publish: agencies, affiliate sites, editorial desks. Give it a draft and it returns an AI detection result, together with checks for plagiarism and readability. That bundle is genuinely useful at the top of a workflow, because it sorts a stack of submissions into "looks fine" and "needs a closer look".

It is a reporting tool, though. The output is a result about text that already exists, and the rewriting still happens somewhere else — usually in a word processor, by a person, without a score to tell them when to stop.

Why publishers need the sentence, not the document

Editors do not edit documents. They edit sentences, and a document-level number gives them no way to tell a genuinely flat paragraph from one that simply followed a flagged heading.

Sentence-level highlighting turns a fuzzy task into a list. You can see that three consecutive sentences share the same length and open with the same kind of transition, which is a concrete thing to fix. It also stops the opposite failure: rewriting a whole section that was never the problem, which is how a clean draft turns into a worse one.

The edit, step by step

DeAIze checks the draft first, marking every sentence by how machine-made it reads and listing the ones that need attention. You then rewrite those sentences — or let the editor propose them — and keep the version that sounds like you.

Each suggestion has to clear a meaning check before it is kept. If the sense moved, the suggestion is thrown away. That is what separates an edit from a paraphrase: a synonym swap changes what a piece of text looks like while quietly changing what it says, and nothing about the surface tells you that happened.

Keeping house style, and the file

A publisher's draft is rarely plain text. It has headings, pull quotes, tables of specs and a house font, and a rewrite that destroys them costs more time than it saves. DeAIze accepts .docx, .pdf and .txt uploads and returns the document with Word formatting preserved.

Confidentiality matters as much as layout. Text is processed per task only: never used for training, never resold. When you are rewriting a client's pre-launch page, that is the difference between a tool you can use and one you cannot.

Where each tool fits

Use a detection platform to triage. Use DeAIze when the triage comes back bad and somebody has to edit it on a deadline.

The two are not in conflict; they answer different questions. "Does this draft look machine-written?" is a screening question. "Which sentences made it look that way, and what do they read like after a rewrite that preserved the meaning?" is an editing question, and it is the one DeAIze was built to answer.

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