Show HN: I built a skill, grounded in research, to make your writing less boring (opens in new tab)

My job at a large tech company requires me to write. A lot. Mainly I write docs to help align technical people on a technical strategy, or to inform executives about technical matters, or to make requests of executives about technical proposals.

I wanted to ensure that my writing was captivating and that the audience didn't just read the summary and skip the rest.

I used a chat agent to build a research report on the academic literature about what makes writing boring or not-boring ("not-boring" is NOT the same thing as "interesting"). I synthesized that into a taxonomy, and built tooling for mechanistic analysis and prompts for LLM analysis, synthesis and recommendation.

What this is: research-grounded analysis of a document with concrete evidence-based suggestions of how to improve it.

What this is NOT: it's not a simplistic prompt "Help me make my document better" or even "make every section/paragraph/sentence earn its place". (I am developing a separate skill for that in the same repo, but with a much more diligent approach).

I hope this helps you improve your own writing and effectiveness in business communication.