I'm working on a dataset to show that the best public chatbots give feedback with 50-75% slop. ChatGPT can occasionally spark an idea, but if you ask it qualitatively score your work, it's effectively a random number generator. Even though LLMs have binged a trillion words and read the classics, it doesn't know what makes them good. I've build a system to run thousands of prompts, test their accuracy, and refine them. Essay Architecture is an orchestra of models and equations: every upload runs 120 methods, which are constantly being calibrated. The goal here is get an AI to match my own scoring set of 100+ essays.

Every reader has preferences around topics, time periods, and tones. However, under all possible tastes, I believe there are objective patterns in composition. You can find them in essays across history. They arise from shared constraints in prose and psychology. Regardless of your idea, there's a way to shape your essay so that it's more likely to resonate with strangers across time without any context.

A pattern is not a template, it's a question with infinite solutions. There are multiple ways to solve the same problem. Two essays might score 5 of 5 on sequence; one could be the heroes journey, the other could be non-linear. It's also worth noting that this is more of an editing philosophy than a writing process. Your first draft should be yourself, and your second draft should be for a stranger. Each idea warrants its own form and voice, and Essay Architecture is a tool to help you communicate it.

If you're writing an essay, then yes. Of course there are sub-genres that favor some patterns over others (the personal essay, the argumentative essay, the lyrical essay). But an essay is unique in that it can integrate the best parts of multiple genres (memoir, philosophy, poetry, marketing, journalism, fiction). I want to encourage writers to synthesize all these patterns, and to unify the different sides of their psyche.

essay (n.): a short, standalone work of nonfiction; it is an author-centered, linear exploration through an ideascape, crafted for readers across time; compositionally, it unifies literary devices across genres; culturally, it makes specialized experience universal. (Note: while books or fiction might have some overlapping patterns, this tool is designed for essays).

This tool is not for someone looking to automate business writing or generate marketing content. This is for anyone who has a writing practice or is looking to start one. It's for people who see the pursuit of mastery as something inherently worth doing. It takes 10,000 hours to master something, but maybe technology can bring that down to 1,000 hours? At the very least, I hope to increase the slope of progress so people are more likely to stick with something that's pretty hard. You can use this early (to help discover your thesis), at the end of the process (to find the patterns you need to practice), or anywhere in between.

Don't be lazy. I'm not against using AI to augment the process, but something gets lost when you delegate your sentences. The slowness and friction of editing is what makes the process transformative. Editing is not rewiring words, it's rewiring synapses. Most people are intimidated by editing because they don't even know where to start. This tool solves that, but it won't do the work for you.