Nudge Buddy is a writing coach that never writes your text. It reads your draft, scores how well the argument holds, and asks the sharp questions your reader would — then hands the pen back. It doesn't write, rewrite, or detect; the words stay yours.

Will it write or rewrite my draft?

No. Nudge Buddy only asks — the sharp questions your reader would, and the phrases that sound machine-made. You keep the pen; every word you hand in stays yours.

Is my writing used to train AI?

Never. Your draft is used only for the read you asked for — it trains no model, and we never sell or share it.

What do I get for free?

Five full reads a day — both Deep Read and Human Voice — with no card and no trial countdown. Upgrade only if you want more.

How is this different from ChatGPT or Grammarly?

They write for you — a draft, a rewrite, a suggestion to accept. Nudge Buddy writes nothing. It asks the questions your reader would and flags machine-sounding phrasing, then hands the draft back for you to fix in your own words. And it never trains on your text. The work stays yours.

Will this get flagged as AI, or show up in Turnitin?

We can't promise how any detector behaves — Turnitin included; that's their call, not ours. What we can say is that Nudge Buddy adds none of its own words to your draft. It asks questions and points at phrasing to reconsider — what you turn in stays entirely what you wrote. There's nothing of ours in there to flag.

What's the difference between Deep Read and Human Voice?

Deep Read scores how well your argument holds up and asks the questions behind the gaps. Human Voice flags the phrasing that reads like a template — and points you back to your own.

Students defending an essay, job-seekers who need to sound like a person, and professionals saying the hard thing clearly. Anyone who'd rather be asked than answered for.

Questions, never answers

The writing coach that won't write for you

Paste your draft — starting with the essay you have to defend. Nudge Buddy asks the sharp questions your reader would and flags what sounds machine-made, then hands the pen back. What you hand in holds up, and stays provably yours.

Not a ghostwriter. Not a rewriter. Not a detector.

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Four drafts · four reads

Your draft

Why cities should price the curb

0/100

Every city already owns a scarce, valuable asset it gives away for free: the curb. Parking is priced as if land were infinite, and the result is predictable — drivers circling, buses stuck behind them, deliveries double-parked in the bike lane. In this rapidly evolving urban landscape, the fix is not more asphalt but a price that moves with demand. San Francisco tried it and the circling dropped. Ultimately, pricing the curb is not just about parking — it is about fairness, efficiency, and the future of our cities.

Strong instinct, thin evidence. The argument names a mechanism but never shows it working — and the closing paragraph slips into borrowed cadence.

Deep Read4 questions

Evidence

“San Francisco tried it and the circling dropped”

Dropped by how much, over what period, measured how? A reader who disagrees with you will stop exactly here.

Counterargument

“a price that moves with demand”

Who pays more under demand pricing — and what do you say to the shift worker who can't move their hours?

Scope

“Every city already owns…”

Every city? Does this hold for a town of 20,000 with empty curbs, or is your claim really about dense cores?

Stakes

“buses stuck behind them”

What does the delay actually cost riders in minutes or dollars? Right now the harm is described, not sized.

Human Voice2 tells

“In this rapidly evolving urban landscape”

A throat-clearing opener that could sit in front of any sentence about any city. It carries no information your reader doesn't already have.

FixCut it, or replace it with the specific change you mean — a year, a policy, a number.

“it is about fairness, efficiency, and the future of our cities”

The three-part abstract flourish is the single most common machine tell. Each noun is unarguable, which is why none of them persuade.

FixPick the one you can defend with the evidence you have, and end on it.

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Sharper argument. Same voice. No rewrite.

This isn't a grammar checker. Every draft gets read twice — once for whether the argument holds, once for whether it still sounds like you.

Deep Read

A score, and the questions your draft raises

One number for how well the draft holds up — then the specific gaps behind it: claims without evidence, jumps in logic, stakes left unnamed. Each one arrives as a question, tied to the line that prompted it.

EvidenceLogicCounterargumentStakesScope

Human Voice

Does it still sound like you?

The tells that mark a sentence as machine-made: symmetrical triads, hedged abstractions, transitions that connect nothing. You get the phrase, why it reads generic, and a direction — never a replacement.

Abstract triadsHedgingEmpty transitionsBorrowed cadence

I never write for you. I only ask.

Who it's for

Students

Write the essay you'd defend out loud

Turn in work that survives the tutorial. Nudge Buddy asks what your marker will — and because it never writes a line, nothing you hand in is anyone's but yours.

Job-seekers

Sound like a person, not a template

Cover letters and posts get read in fifteen seconds. Find the sentences a recruiter has already seen a hundred times today, and the one detail only you can give.

Professionals

Say the hard thing clearly

Client emails, memos, updates. Catch the hedge before it ships, and the missing number your reader will fill in with the worst case.

Pricing

Free forever, 5 reads a day

Free

The whole coach, five times a day. Enough to take one piece of writing seriously.

5 reads a day (40 a month)

Deep Read score + questions

Human Voice tells and fixes

General + ENEM presets

Pro

≈ $5.99/month · planned

For people rewriting the same piece six times. Our most advanced model reads deeper — with more reads a day and the full history behind them.

Our most advanced model — deeper, sharper reads

20 reads a day (200 a month)

Every preset, tuned per format

Full version history + score movement

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Schools

Custominvoiced

Departments and writing centres. Seats you control, billing your finance office accepts.

Roster import, seats reassignable each term

Class view: score movement, not drafts

Invoiced billing, purchase orders

Admin controls and data retention settings

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A reader you can trust with your draft

Never

used to train a model

Your draft is analyzed only for the read you asked for — never used to train a model, never sold, never shared.

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written in your place

Nudge Buddy only asks — it writes none of it for you. Every word you hand in stays unmistakably yours.

5 / day

reads on the house

Five full reads every day — both Deep Read and Human Voice. No card, no trial clock.

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