Reading the verdict
Understand the Quality Check headline, move between findings and your draft, and notice when a result covers only part of the text.
Start with the headline, then work down through the problems, the lines worth keeping, and the checks that came back clear.
Start with the headline
Quality Check uses these verdicts:
- Needs attention means the check found a serious problem.
- Worth a look means it found milder problems.
- Reads clean means it found nothing to fix and confirmed the listed factors.
- Not fully assessed means no problem was reported, but some factors could not be confirmed.
The count beside the verdict separates issues, lines to keep, clear factors, and factors not assessed.
When a complete assessment is available, Quality Check also shows a score out of ten. Open its breakdown to see how each factor was assessed. The weakest factor has more influence than the others, so several strengths cannot hide a serious weakness. Fixing a cosmetic detail may leave the score unchanged.
The score describes writing quality in the checked text. Persona Reaction uses the same ten-point display for a different question: how the selected persona reacts. Neither number is a measured reply rate.
Older checks and results without a complete, consistent assessment show no numeric score. Their findings are still available. History shows QC and the latest completed Simulation score beside the saved version they describe; the Simulation score belongs to the named persona.
If the run did not cover the whole draft or lost part of its output, the result is limited to what the check received. New checks withhold clear claims until the assessment is complete. Older saved checks may say Clean in what was read; treat their clear claims as limited to that part.
Work through the problem map
In a sequence, findings are grouped by message step. Within each step, the strongest findings appear first. A single-message draft has one list.
Each finding has one of four levels: Must fix, Should fix, Worth fixing, or Optional. Use the level to choose what to inspect first, then open the finding before deciding what to change.
The panel initially shows up to twenty findings. If there are more, open the more findings row to see the rest. Highlights for those extra findings can still appear in the draft while the row is closed.
Connect a finding to the draft
Hover over a finding to preview its highlight. Click the finding or the highlighted words to keep it open.
Some findings have no inline highlight. This can happen when the wording appears more than once, the relevant text is no longer present, or the finding is about the message as a whole. Open the row in the panel to read it.
Only the active test paints highlights. Switching between Quality Check and Persona Reaction swaps the marks in the draft.
Keep what already works
Lines worth keeping appear with a green mark. Open one to see why it worked and what to preserve in a rewrite.
Checked and clear lists factors with a confirmed successful assessment and no related problem. Expand a factor to see the kinds of patterns it checked.
Not assessed lists factors the check could not judge or confirm, with a reason for each. A draft may lack the material a factor needs, or the check may return incomplete or inconsistent evidence. These factors are not counted as clear, and the result has no numeric score.
When the draft has changed
After you edit the draft, the result is still tied to the saved version that was checked. Its highlights dim and the panel says Results are from the previous version. Use Re-run when you want a result for the current text.