The review

When a piece is close, the Review tab beside the arc has one button: Review my draft. The coach reads what is on the sheet and answers the way a colleague would, not as a checklist. It needs about twenty words to have anything to say, and it spends one coaching session.

What comes back

The verdict first, two or three sentences on how the piece reads. Then What’s working, then What to change, and then the named flags when they apply: Before you post for something that should not go out as it stands, About your audience, and Where it went when the piece has drifted from what you set out to write.

Every note leads with a number, and the number is a button: press it and the line it is about scrolls into view on the sheet. Two counts run separately, one for what works and one for what is waiting on you, so you can see the balance without reading a word. The quotes stay on the page where you wrote them, said once.

One read per text

There is no “review again” button, on purpose. Ask twice without changing anything and the same read comes back, at no further cost. Change the words and it is a new read. Once every note is dealt with and the text has moved on, Read it again appears. That read is handed every read you have already had on this draft, and what became of each note: the ones you carried out, and the ones you read and decided against. Both are settled. The coach will not raise either of them again in different words, and if there is nothing new left to say it says less rather than repeating itself.

Who does the editing

Under the verdict the coach asks whether it should make the changes, and there are two doors.

I’ll edit myself closes the question and turns the notes into something you tick off, the way you would resolve comments on a document. The tick takes the note and its mark off the page.

Yes has the coach apply its own notes and show you the result before anything lands: your draft with the changes, and Show what changed if you want them marked. Then Take this version or Keep mine. Taking it is recorded as the coach’s words and stays undoable; keeping yours says so in one line and leaves your text exactly as it was. The edit belongs to the same read, so it does not spend a second session.

The one sentence it may write

The rule that the coach never writes your post holds here too, with one bounded exception: at most one note per read may carry a sentence in the coach’s own words. Every other note has to reword or tighten what you already wrote. That is why the question above is a real decision and not a formality.