{"version":"1.2.0","schema":"https://www.oneagentaday.com/api/schema.json","agent":{"title":"Less Robot","slug":"less-robot","date":"2026-11-06","issue":63,"category":"productivity","categoryLabel":"Productivity","tags":["writing","email","voice","chatgpt"],"difficulty":"easy","runtimes":["ChatGPT","Claude","Gemini"],"excerpt":"Paste a draft ChatGPT wrote for you and two things you wrote yourself. Get the same message back without the \"delve\", the \"I hope this finds you well\" and the three-part lists, in your own voice.","problem":"ChatGPT wrote you a decent email in ten seconds, but it opens with \"I hope this message finds you well\", wants to \"delve into\" something, and your colleague will know in one line that you didn't write it.","videoUrl":null,"url":"https://www.oneagentaday.com/agents/less-robot","apiUrl":"https://www.oneagentaday.com/api/agents/less-robot.json","promptUrl":"https://www.oneagentaday.com/agents/less-robot/prompt.txt","configUrl":null,"configFilename":null,"license":"CC-BY-4.0","howItWorks":"ChatGPT is good at getting the facts of an email in the right order. It's also very easy to spot. \"I hope this message finds you well\", \"delve\", \"rest assured\", three adjectives in a row and a cheerful offer to answer any questions. People read one line and know.\n\nThis agent keeps what the draft gets right and takes out what gives it away. It uses two or three things you wrote yourself, so the result sounds like you on a normal day, not like a different chatbot.\n\n## What to paste\n\nThe AI draft. Two or three messages you wrote yourself, to anyone, like old Slack messages or emails. Who the new message is for.\n\n## What you get back\n\nThe same message rewritten in your voice, with every fact, date and number kept. Then a short list of what it cut or changed, so you can check nothing important went missing.\n\nIt won't add facts that weren't in the draft. If something in the draft looks wrong or unclear, it flags it instead of smoothing it over.","steps":[{"name":"Paste the AI draft","text":"The email, message, post or cover letter ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini wrote for you. Keep the facts in it that are right."},{"name":"Add two things you wrote","text":"Two or three messages you wrote yourself, to anyone. Old Slack messages or emails are perfect. This is how it learns how you sound."},{"name":"Say who it's for","text":"Your boss, your team, a stranger, a client. It keeps the tone right for them without making it stiff."},{"name":"Get it back in your voice","text":"The same message with every fact kept, the AI phrases cut, and a short list of what it changed so you can check."}],"demo":[{"second":0,"label":"The robot draft","detail":"\"I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to take a moment to delve into the current status...\" 78 words to say the dashboard is late."},{"second":8,"label":"How you actually write","detail":"Two real messages: short sentences, \"heads up\", no exclamation marks, says sorry once and moves on."},{"second":16,"label":"Less robot","detail":"\"Quick one: the Q4 dashboard is going to be a week late. The data from finance came in messy, new date is 14 Nov. Shout if that breaks anything for you.\""},{"second":24,"label":"What it cut","detail":"\"hope this finds you well\", \"delve\", \"rest assured\", \"robust, scalable and user-friendly\", \"don't hesitate to reach out\". Facts kept: late, data problem, 14 Nov."}],"sampleInput":"The draft ChatGPT wrote (email to my team):\n\"I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to take a moment to delve into the current status of the Q4 dashboard project. It's important to note that, due to unforeseen data challenges, our timeline has shifted. Rest assured, we remain committed to delivering a robust, scalable, and user-friendly solution. The new target date is November 14th. Please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions or concerns!\"\nTwo things I wrote myself:\n1. \"Heads up: the export is broken again. Looking at it now, should be fixed by lunch.\"\n2. \"Can we move Thursday to 3? I've got the dentist at 1, sorry.\"\nWho it's for: my team of five, we talk on Slack all day.\n","prompt":"You rewrite AI-written drafts so they sound like the person sending them. You keep every fact and cut everything that makes text sound machine-written.\n\nINPUT\n- The draft an AI wrote.\n- Two or three samples of the user's own writing.\n- Who the message is for, and where it will be sent (email, Slack, LinkedIn, letter).\n\nHOW TO WORK\n1. If there are no writing samples, ask for two or three short messages the user wrote themselves. If they don't have any, say you'll make it plainer but can't match their voice, then continue.\n2. List the facts in the draft: names, dates, numbers, decisions, requests. These must all survive.\n3. Study the samples: sentence length, how they open and close, punctuation, contractions, emojis, words they use, how formal they are.\n4. Rewrite the draft in that style, for that reader. Cut:\n   - Stock openers and closers (\"I hope this finds you well\", \"don't hesitate to reach out\", \"I wanted to take a moment\").\n   - AI words: delve, robust, seamless, leverage, crucial, navigate, landscape, tapestry, foster, rest assured.\n   - \"It's important to note\", \"in today's fast-paced world\", lists of exactly three adjectives, em dashes, exclamation marks they don't use.\n   - Repeating the same point twice.\n5. Keep it about as short as the user would write it. Shorter is usually right.\n6. If a fact in the draft looks wrong, vague or invented, flag it. Don't fix it silently and don't add new facts.\n\nRULES\n- Never invent facts, names, numbers or feelings the draft and the user didn't give.\n- Match the reader: a note to the boss can be polite without being stiff.\n- No explaining the rewrite inside the message.\n\nOUTPUT\n## Your version\nThe rewritten message, ready to send.\n\n## What changed\nShort bullets: phrases cut, facts kept, anything flagged to check.","config":null}}