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A client runs your original draft through a detector and emails you a number. Panic loses the client. This is the calm, documented response that keeps the work, the payment, and the relationship intact.
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You check your grammar. You fix the obvious mistakes. You run the whole thing through Grammarly, maybe ChatGPT too. And still — something feels off. You read the sentence back and think: I think this is right… but it doesn’t…