AI Tells — Structural Review

A judgment-based pass that catches the subtle tells the surface scan misses. Cite each finding, name the family, suggest a fix-direction. Then offer to rewrite.

When To Use

• Public-facing artifacts: READMEs, shipped docs, blog posts, release notes
• Technical writing where the prose itself is the deliverable
• After ai-tells-scan has already stripped the obvious tokens
• When a draft "reads AI" but you can't articulate why
• Before publishing anything Nick wouldn't want attributed to a machine

Skip when: the artifact is internal-only and nobody cares, or the user only wants the mechanical pass (ai-tells-scan is enough).

Workflow