Use AI to review your email draft and flag confusing sentences, buried requests, and tone problems before you send.

Before you hit send on an important email—especially one with a lot of moving parts or a delicate ask—paste it into ChatGPT and ask it to act as your reader. Tell the AI who your recipient is and what you're trying to accomplish. It will highlight sentences that are unclear, flag places where your main point is buried, and catch tone problems you might miss when you're deep in the weeds. This works especially well for emails you've rewritten multiple times, emails sent under pressure, or messages that combine multiple requests. The AI doesn't know what you meant to say—only what you actually wrote—so it catches the gaps between your intention and your words. You'll often find that what felt clear in your head reads confusing on the page. Use this before sending anything high-stakes: requests to leadership, emails coordinating multiple people, messages clarifying a misunderstanding, or follow-ups on something that's already gone sideways. It takes two minutes and routinely catches problems that would've caused confusion, extra replies, or worse—radio silence because no one understood what you needed.

February 24, 2026