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Bureaucracy score

1/10

Actually Human

A person wrote this and meant it.

Where it came from

Buzzwords
0

No recognised jargon.

Passive voice
0

Someone is doing the doing.

Hedging
0

No escape hatches.

Actual meaning
83%+0.8

83% of the words carry content. The rest is scaffolding.

Counted from the text, not estimated. The same sentence always scores the same. A playful measure of style, not a judgement of anyone who writes this way.

What you gave us

Draft the SOW before contacting procurement.

No glossary phrases detected in this text.

Plain English

Rules, not AI

Draft the SOW before contacting procurement. (SOW = Statement of Work) In practice: "acting" means temporarily doing a higher-level job, and being paid at that level while you do it..

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Confidence

Medium confidence

We recognised 1 glossary term, but the sentence-level rewrite is rule-based rather than written by a person. Compare it with the original.

Readability

32→52

About 20 points easier to read. Approximate measure only.

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