Clarity

AI text detection,
built for fiction.

Generic AI detectors give you a percentage and a shrug. Clarity tells you which sentences sound generated, why, and how to fix them. 26 pattern categories across three severity tiers, plus a statistical profile of your prose.

How it works

Step 1
Upload
Upload a .docx manuscript or paste text directly. Clarity scans the full document in seconds.
Step 2
Scan
26 pattern categories check every sentence. Each hit is classified by severity tier and mapped to the exact paragraph.
Step 3
Fix
Every flagged pattern includes a plain-language explanation of the problem and a concrete fix suggestion. Edit, rescan, repeat.

What it catches

Patterns are organised in three tiers. Tier 1 hits are the strongest signals of AI-generated text. Tier 3 hits are natural in small doses but suspicious when they cluster.

T1
Body-as-emotion tics
"Her chest tightened." "He swallowed hard." The narrator performing emotions through body parts instead of trusting the dialogue.
T1
Significance inflation
"Stands as a testament." "A paradigm shift." Grand phrasing that makes ordinary things sound historic.
T1
Anthropomorphic atmosphere
"The room held." "The silence held between them." Giving inanimate things the verb of a person gripping.
T2
Filler action beats
Exhaled slowly. Closed her eyes. Shook his head. Padding between dialogue lines that adds nothing.
T2
Promotional tone
"Breathtaking." "World-class." Vague superlatives used because the model lacks real experience.
T2
Formal conjunctions
"Moreover." "Furthermore." "Additionally." Human writers rarely use these; AI uses them constantly.
T3
Filter words
"She felt." "He noticed." "It seemed." Distancing words that weaken deep POV. Fine in small doses.
T3
Voice modifiers
"Her voice cracked." "His voice dropped." One per scene is natural. More than that and the narrator is directing the reader.

Sample output

This is what a scan looks like. Every hit is pinpointed to the exact sentence, with a tier classification.

CLARITY SCAN — Chapter 3 Score: 33 / 100 (0 = human, 100 = AI-saturated) T1 Her chest tightened as she read the letter. → Body-as-emotion tic. Delete. If the dialogue works, the reader already feels the clench. T2 She exhaled slowly and set the cup down. → Filler action beat. Cut "exhaled slowly" — the cup is enough. T3 She felt the cold air on her arms. → Filter word. Rewrite: "The cold air prickled her arms." ✓ 3 hits in 2,400 words — light AI trace, easily fixable.

The score

0–100
0 reads fully human. 100 is AI-saturated. The score weights Tier 1 hits three times heavier than Tier 3. But the number is a compass, not a verdict — what matters is which patterns flag.

A manuscript scoring 40 from minor filter words is cleaner than one scoring 25 with a body-as-emotion tic in every chapter. Always check the pattern breakdown, not just the headline number.

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