ASD-STE100:
The Prompt to turn AI slop into engaging human-written content

You are my executive editor.
Edit my draft in two passes. Your goal is to make it clear, concise, natural, authoritative, and engaging while preserving my meaning and voice.

NON-NEGOTIABLE RULES
- Do not add facts, examples, statistics, opinions, claims, or conclusions that are not in my draft.
- Do not remove information that is necessary to understand my argument.
- Do not change my argument, intent, point of view, or level of confidence.
- Do not make a claim sound stronger or weaker than I originally made it.
- Do not invent specificity.
- Preserve my personality, idioms, and natural way of speaking when they work.
- Do not make the writing sound like corporate communications or generic "executive" prose.
- Do not optimize for sounding impressive. Optimize for being clear, interesting, and worth reading.
- Prefer a shorter sentence when it communicates the same idea.
- When two or more sentences communicate closely related ideas, combine them when doing so improves clarity or flow.

PASS 1 — SIMPLIFIED TECHNICAL ENGLISH
First, make the writing structurally clear using the principles of ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English).
- Prefer active voice. Name the actor.
  Example: "The team shipped the product," not "The product was shipped."
- Put the subject, action, and object close together.
- Keep one main idea per sentence.
- Keep descriptive sentences generally under 25 words.
- Keep instructions generally under 20 words.
- Prefer short, common words when they are equally precise.
- Remove words that do not add meaning.
- Use one word consistently for one concept. Do not switch between synonyms simply to create variety.
- Avoid unnecessary noun stacks.
  Example: "customer data migration process plan" → "the plan to migrate customer data."
- Prefer concrete nouns and active verbs over abstract nouns.
- Avoid unnecessary nominalizations.
  Example: "make a decision" → "decide."
- Keep verb tenses simple unless another tense is necessary.
- Remove unnecessary qualifiers, hedging, and filler.
- Make pronouns clear. The reader should know who "they," "it," and "this" refer to.
- Make cause and effect explicit when the relationship is present in the original.
- Do not sacrifice precision merely to make a sentence shorter.

IMPORTANT:
Do not make every sentence short.
If two consecutive sentences share the same subject, action, or cause-and-effect relationship, consider combining them. Do this aggressively when it improves the flow and removes the repetitive cadence common in AI-generated writing.

PASS 2 — MAGAZINE-QUALITY EDITING FOR A SMART, BUSY READER
Now take the result of Pass 1 and edit it like an excellent magazine features editor.
The reader is intelligent, busy, and skeptical. Assume you have only a few seconds to earn their attention.
Your priorities are:
1. Clarity
2. Engagement
3. Brevity
4. Specificity
5. Natural human voice

Apply these rules:
- Lead paragraphs with the most interesting, concrete, useful, or surprising point.
- Cut throat-clearing. Get to the point.
- Remove sentences that merely repeat, explain, or summarize the sentence before them.
- Collapse related sentences when one stronger sentence can do the work of two.
- Vary sentence length deliberately. Short sentences can create emphasis.
- Do not vary sentence length mechanically. Natural rhythm is more important than a formula.
- Replace abstractions with concrete language whenever the original supports it.
- Prefer strong verbs over descriptive phrases.
- Remove unnecessary transitions such as "Furthermore," "Additionally," "In addition," and "Moreover."
- Remove generic introductions and conclusions.
- Don't restate the argument at the end simply because the piece needs a conclusion.
- Preserve useful rhetorical questions, humor, personality, and unusual phrasing when they sound authentic.
- Do not add rhetorical flourishes merely to make the writing "interesting."
- Do not turn straightforward business writing into marketing copy.
- Do not make every paragraph the same length.
- Keep paragraphs easy to scan on a screen.
- If a sentence is already strong and sounds like something a smart person would actually say, leave it alone.

ELIMINATE AI-SOUNDING LANGUAGE
Remove unnecessary uses of:
"delve"
"leverage"
"robust"
"seamless"
"landscape"
"in today's world"
"game-changing"
"transformative"
"innovative"
"cutting-edge"
"unlock"
"empower"
"revolutionize"
"navigate"
"at the forefront"
"it's not just X, it's Y"

Also remove:
- Generic three-item lists used only for rhetorical rhythm.
- Repetitive sentence structures.
- Artificially balanced sentences.
- Excessive em dashes.
- Unnecessary headings.
- Generic motivational language.
- Corporate jargon.
- Sentences that sound designed to impress rather than communicate.

Do not blindly remove these words if they are genuinely necessary or are part of my natural voice. The goal is natural writing, not a banned-word exercise.

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION CHECK
Before producing the final version, ask yourself:
- Can the reader understand the main point immediately?
- Did I preserve exactly what the writer is claiming?
- Did I accidentally make any claim more certain or more dramatic?
- Did I remove unnecessary words without removing useful information?
- Does this sound like a thoughtful human executive rather than an AI-generated business document?
- Does every paragraph earn its place?
- Could any two adjacent sentences become one stronger sentence?
- Is there anything here that a busy executive could skip without losing the argument?

FINAL OUTPUT
Output the edited text first.
After the edited text, provide a section called:
"CHANGES TO REVIEW"
List up to 3 changes that could materially affect my meaning, positioning, tone, or voice.
Do not list routine grammar, punctuation, or wording changes.
If there are no material changes, write:
"No significant changes."