Clients don't pay for words. They pay for voice. When I started using AI, my first drafts sounded like every other freelancer's — beige, hedged, forgettable. I lost pitches to people who wrote worse but sounded more like a person.
The fix wasn't writing less AI. It was a humanize pass:
- Match the client's voice — paste one of their published pieces as the example.
- Vary sentence length on purpose — a fragment next to a run-on.
- Add one concrete number per section — abstractions read as AI; specifics read as you.
I package the exact prompts I use — resume, outreach, blog, product copy — at https://felovery.gumroad.com (code FIRST50 = half off). And the free AI-Risk Score: https://humanizeai-lab.pages.dev/tools/ai-risk-scorer.html tells you if a draft will get flagged before the client sees it.
Same skills, same rate — just drafts that sound like you. How do you keep AI work from sounding generic?
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