Free for students. Funded by their school.
pricingVoice and tone
Inline reads the whole draft and asks questions in the margin; it never writes for the student. The voice holds the same posture in every sentence: it asks, it stays plain, and it claims nothing the product does not do.
Principles
Five commitments every sentence keeps, from a button label to the pricing page. Each sits beside the line that proves it.
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Questions are the product The voice asks rather than instructs. Where another tool would say "add evidence here", Inline asks what evidence would convince the reader.Clarity 04
Which reader is this paragraph written for?
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Plain beats clever Short declarative sentences in everyday words. A line that needs a second read ships rewritten.
Free for students. Funded by their school.pricing
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Say the uncomfortable thing plainly The refusal to write is the pitch. Lead with it and never soften it.
The AI that refuses to write your essay.homepage hero
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Evidence over adjectives Claims carry a number or a named mechanism, never a stack of adjectives.
We did not scrape the internet. We earned every essay.training data
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The student is never the problem Errors blame the system, limits state facts, and no sentence implies suspicion of the writer.
Feedback didn't come back. Your draft is saved.error toast
Tone by context
One voice, five registers. The register moves with the reader's situation; the principles never do.
| Context | Register | It reads like |
|---|---|---|
| Product UI | Calm, short, factual. The interface narrates state; it never celebrates itself. | 412 words will be read. |
| Errors | What happened, what is safe, what to do next. The draft is always safe and the message always says so. | Feedback didn't come back. Your draft is saved. |
| Marketing to institutions | Clear, concrete, respectful of faculty expertise. Sell time and rigor, never fear. | Office hours end; deadlines don't. |
| Legal and consent | Complete sentences, no softening, no persuasion. The reader is deciding something. | Inline does not store raw keystrokes. |
| Release notes | Plain past tense. What changed and for whom, without launch theater. | Fixed a case where rerunning feedback could duplicate questions. |
The institutional register
Inline reads the full draft, then asks focused questions in the margin. It never writes a sentence for the student.
Do describe the mechanism and the refusal in plain sentences a dean can quote.
Answers to the questions that matter most. We handle the formatting instantly. Writing is hard. We get it.
Don't ship filler: a content-free subhead, an over-promised trivial feature, and empathy that reads empty to a faculty buyer.
Vocabulary
The words Inline reaches for, the words it never prints, and who gets the verb. Terms govern student-facing and faculty-facing copy.
Reach for
| Term | Meaning | Do not substitute |
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| draft | The student's writing at any stage | document, submission, content |
| question | The unit Inline returns | insight, suggestion, comment, tip |
| pass | One full read of the draft | scan, analysis |
| margin | Where questions sit, beside the writing | sidebar, panel |
| feedback run | One metered feedback request | credit, token, generation |
| Brainstorming | The named pre-draft mode; keeps its capital | chat, ideation |
| process report | The fixed, expiring report a student chooses to share | activity log, audit trail |
| professor | The faculty reader, as students say it | instructor, educator |
| writing center | The campus partner unit | tutoring service |
Never write
| Group | Never write | Write instead |
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| Marketing buzzwords | AI-powered, seamless, empower, revolutionize, leverage, cutting-edge, game-changing, unlock, supercharge | The mechanism or the number: "reads the whole draft", "a set number of runs each week" |
| Surveillance framing, in any student-facing sense | detect, catch, flag, risk score, authenticity | Plain activity counts: "typed, pasted, and deleted totals", "checkpoints", "active time" |
| Category names | AI detector, never, in any context | "AI tutor" is acceptable when a category name is needed |
Who gets the verb
Inline only asks questions; it never rewrites your essay.
Do make Inline the actor, with plain verbs: reads, asks, saves, never writes.
Our AI thinks your thesis needs work.
Don't give the model a mind or a judgment. Inline asks about the thesis; it doesn't rate it.
Microcopy patterns
Six flows where wording carries the most weight. Copy the shape, not just the strings.
Button labels
Do start with the verb and name the outcome. A label is a promise about what happens next.
Don't use buzzword verbs or generic labels. "Unlock" sells, "Submit" and "Go" name nothing.
Empty states
No drafts yet
A draft here is read in full before Inline asks anything.
Do say what the space is for and offer one action.
Nothing here yet!
Create a draft to spark deeper thinking.
Don't fill the space with cheer and filler. "Spark deeper thinking" names no mechanism, and the exclamation mark is banned everywhere.
Errors
Feedback didn't come back. Your draft is saved.
Do follow the canonical shape: what happened, what is safe, what to do next. The draft is always safe and we always say so.
Oops! Something went wrong. Please try again later.
Don't apologize vaguely. This answers none of the three questions, and "oops" makes a system failure sound like a personality.
Quota and upgrades
You reached this week's feedback limit. It resets Monday. Your draft is saved and ready when it does.
Do state the limit, when it resets, and the path up. No pressure; the draft keeps working.
You're out of runs!
Upgrade now before you fall behind your class.
Don't manufacture urgency or guilt. Fear of falling behind is exactly the feeling Inline exists to remove.
Confirmations and destructive actions
Delete this draft?
Monument essay and its 6 questions will be gone for good. There is no undo.
Do name the thing and the consequence, and label both buttons with verbs. Keeping is the safe default.
Are you sure?
This action cannot be undone.
Don't ask "Are you sure?". It names neither the action nor what is lost, and "OK" confirms nothing in particular.
Consent and privacy moments
Do show the exact boundary before the student joins: one plain list of what a professor can see, one of what they cannot.
Join Modern political thought?
By joining, you agree to the class integrity features that keep student writing authentic. You can manage visibility anytime in settings.
Don't gesture at settings or wrap visibility in integrity language. "Authentic" frames the student as a suspect.
The contrast sentence
Two short clauses: the first states the expected thing, the second turns it. These four are canon, and the device is at saturation; a new one needs a strong reason.
Think with AI. Don't write with it.
philosophyOffice hours end; deadlines don't.
availability · the semicolon form countsWe did not scrape the internet. We earned every essay.
training data
One per screen.
The turn carries the argument and dulls with repetition. Cap it at one contrast sentence per screen or section, and keep every neighboring line plain.
Office hours end; deadlines don't.
Inline reads the whole draft and asks its questions at any hour a student writes.
Do spend the turn once, then support it with plain sentences.
Think with AI. Don't write with it.
Free for students. Funded by their school.
Office hours end; deadlines don't.
Don't stack turns. Three reversals on one screen read as a tic, and none of them lands.
Rules
The checklist a review runs against any new copy, in product or marketing.
- No exclamation marks. If a sentence only lands with one, the sentence is not done.
- No em or en dashes. Use a period, comma, semicolon, or colon; two short sentences beat one long one.
- Contractions are welcome. Inline writes like a person explaining, except in legal and consent text, which stays formal.
- Verbs first on actions. A label names what happens next: Get feedback, Save draft, Start Brainstorming.
- Evidence or a smaller claim. Attach the number or the named mechanism; without one, shrink the claim instead of inflating the language.
- Hedge honestly. Unshipped is "planned", unconfirmed partners are "in discussion", and disclaimers travel with their comparison.
- Errors follow one shape. What happened, what is safe, what to do next; the draft is always safe and we always say so.
- One contrast sentence per screen. The turn is the signature move; repetition blunts it.
- Surveillance words never reach students. Activity is plain counts, never detection, risk, or authenticity; "AI detector" appears nowhere.