heddle check --only humanizer
Humanizer Check
The humanizer check fails copy whose vocabulary, punctuation or rhythm reads as machine-written, using rules a script can apply. Without it, copy can carry the words and rhythms readers have learned to spot as machine-written, and they discount everything else on the page. The mechanically checkable half of reading as written by a person. The other half, whether a paragraph says anything, is the quality check's model. Two kinds of rule.
When Heddle is set up on your site, this check runs on every build alongside 15 others, so a page that fails it is fixed before a buyer or a search engine sees it.
Why it exists
The mechanically checkable half of reading as written by a person. The other half, whether a paragraph says anything, is the quality check's model.
Two kinds of rule. Line rules a word, a character or a phrase on one line (banned vocabulary, em dashes, "not only... but", filler) document rules the shape of the whole piece. Sentence-length spread, contraction ratio, colon payoffs, specifics per 500 words, paragraph spread, three short sentences in a row
Each threshold was set on real pages that read as generated and had passed every vocabulary rule: seven posts with 85 expanded forms and no contractions, thirteen "claim. Item, item, item" sentences, twelve paragraphs of 44 words each. A company whose house style differs turns a rule off by id in site.json humanizer.disable.
From lib/checks/humanizer.mjs in the Heddle repository at de0c02b.
Questions
What does the humanizer check look for?
Vocabulary, punctuation and rhythm that read as machine-written.
Does the humanizer check need an AI model?
No. It reads the built pages or the sources directly, so it runs offline and costs nothing per run.
How do I run it?
Build the site, then run node bin/heddle.mjs check <site> --only humanizer from the Heddle repository.
Work with us
Let the agents bring you the leads.
Tell us about your business and who buys from you. On a short call we'll show you the searches your buyers make where you don't show up yet, and what the agents would do about them in their first month.
On the call, for your site
- The searches your buyers makeMeasured, with how many people make each one
- Where you show up, and where you don'tOn Google and in ChatGPT's answers
- The agents' first monthThe pages, fixes and links they would start with