06 · Make AI-assisted writing read like you wrote it

The AI Humaniser

For writers using AI who refuse to sound like everyone else using AI.

Definition

Humanising AI-assisted writing is the structural removal of the patterns that make machine text recognisable, principally uniform sentence length, announcing transitions, and abstract phrasing, replaced with rhythm variance and concrete detail.

You can spot it in two sentences. So can your reader. So, increasingly, can your client.

AI-assisted prose has a fingerprint: specific rhythms, specific transitions, a particular kind of tidy emptiness. This is the diagnostic and the repair, so you keep the speed without the smell.

What you get

  • The tell inventory: the specific patterns that make AI-assisted writing detectable
  • A scored diagnostic, so you can see what is wrong instead of vaguely sensing it
  • The structural repair pass, which fixes rhythm rather than sprinkling personality on top
  • Concreteness edits, the single highest-impact change to make text read as human
Not forAnyone trying to cheat a detector. This is about writing that is genuinely better, not disguised.

The problem

Why this keeps happening

The tells are consistent and learnable. A three-beat fragment cadence. Transitions that announce structure rather than carry meaning. Sentences of uniform length. Adjective pairs that add nothing.

Most humanising advice is to add typos or slang, which produces writing that is bad in a new way. The actual repair is structural.

The underlying problem is that models write toward the average of everything ever written. Removing that requires deliberately reintroducing the irregularity real writing has.

What is The AI Humaniser?

The AI Humaniser is humanising AI-assisted writing is the structural removal of the patterns that make machine text recognisable, principally uniform sentence length, announcing transitions, and abstract phrasing, replaced with rhythm variance and concrete detail.

A tell inventory, a scored diagnostic, and a repair pass that fixes structure rather than sprinkling personality, plus the rhythm techniques that make text read as human.

Output, with a systemOutput, ad hoc

Illustrative diagram. Shape of the argument, not measured data.

How it runs

How does The AI Humaniser work, step by step?

The AI Humaniser runs in 5 steps: detect, diagnose, restructure, specify, re-score. Each step is described below with what it produces and why its position in the sequence matters.

01
of 05 steps
  1. 01

    Detect

    Score a draft against the tell inventory. Most people cannot name what is wrong until they see it listed.

  2. 02

    Diagnose

    Identify which tells this specific draft has, since they cluster differently by model and prompt.

  3. 03

    Restructure

    Fix rhythm and sentence variance, which is most of the smell.

  4. 04

    Specify

    Replace empty phrasing with concrete detail, the single highest-impact edit.

  5. 05

    Re-score

    Check the draft again, because the goal is a measurable change rather than a feeling.

What is inside

What do you get with The AI Humaniser?

The AI Humaniser is delivered as a working skill file plus a written companion covering the method. It contains 4 parts: tell inventory, scored diagnostic, structural repair, rhythm techniques.

Tell inventory 30%Scored diagnostic 20%Structural repair 30%Rhythm techniques 20%
  • Tell inventory30%
  • Scored diagnostic20%
  • Structural repair30%
  • Rhythm techniques20%

Failure modes

What do people get wrong?

The 4 most common failures are: adding errors to seem human; trusting a detector score; sprinkling personality on top; editing word choice instead of structure. Each one is explained below with why it happens and what to do instead.

  1. 01

    Adding errors to seem human

    Bad writing in a disguise is still bad writing, and readers notice the disguise.

  2. 02

    Trusting a detector score

    A score tells you there is a problem without telling you which one, so you cannot fix it.

  3. 03

    Sprinkling personality on top

    Personality bolted onto machine rhythm reads worse than the original.

  4. 04

    Editing word choice instead of structure

    Most of the smell is rhythm and sentence variance, which word swaps do not touch.

You can spot it in two sentences. So can your reader. So, increasingly, can your client.

Bhavik Sarkhedi · somewhere over Australia

The alternatives

How does The AI Humaniser compare to the alternatives?

There are three ways to solve this: do it yourself, hire it out, or buy the method. The AI Humaniser is the third. It costs $25 once, the method stays yours, and you can re-run it without paying again.

ConsiderationDoing it yourselfHiring it outThis system
DiagnosisA feelingA scoreA named tell inventory
Cost shapeRewriting timeDetector subscriptionOne payment
Tells you what to fixNoNoYes, specifically
Improves the writingSometimesNoYes, that is the goal
RepeatableInconsistentlyn/aYes, scored

Key terms

The vocabulary, defined

Tell
A specific recognisable pattern of machine-generated text.
Rhythm variance
Deliberate variation in sentence length, largely absent from unedited model output.
Concreteness edit
Replacing an abstract phrase with a specific detail.
Three-beat cadence
The chopped fragment rhythm that is currently the loudest single tell.

Who is behind it

Built from the actual work

21Books published
1,200+Clients served
30+Countries
12+Years in practice

Named to the Forbes 2025 list of top personal branding experts. Published twice in The New York Times. Writing for HuffPost since 2016.

Before you buy

Questions

Is this for hiding AI use?

No. It is for making AI-assisted writing actually good. Text that has been through this is better on the merits, which is a different goal from evading detection.

Is this just a pack of prompts?

No. A prompt is one instruction. This is a production system: the method, the sequence, the failure modes, and the standard for finished work. It is the process I would charge a client for.

Can I use this on client work?

Yes. That is what it is for. Use it inside your own delivery, for as many clients as you like. You are buying the method, not a seat.

Could I not just ask an AI to do this?

You can ask. You will get an average answer, because the model writes toward the middle of everything ever written. Knowing what good looks like in this specific job is the part that took twelve years.

Do I need to be technical?

No. If you can use ChatGPT, you can use this.

What format do I actually receive?

A working skill file you install once, plus a written companion explaining the method so you can adapt it rather than follow it blindly. It runs inside Claude.

What happens after I click buy?

It opens an email to me, already filled in. I reply with a payment link and send the files the same day. Deliberately human, because I want to know who is using these.

Is there a refund?

Yes. If you use it properly and it does not do what this page said, tell me and I refund you. No argument.

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