the AI
ReadyToEdit uses AI to read what you connect and to write the first draft from it. The decisions after that are yours. Below, one place it reads closely: the opening of a video.
Close read
In the productSelect the opening of a cut, up to 30 seconds, and it reads it closely: when you start speaking, when the picture first changes, how fast you talk, and what is written on screen.
What it reports
Each finding names the second it happened at, so you can scrub there and check it.
Nothing is said for the first 0.4 seconds of this span. The first word lands at 0:00.40.
You start speaking at 0:00.40, 1.35 seconds before the picture first changes at 0:01.75.
208 words per minute — 9 words between 0:00.40 and 0:03.
The span ends part-way through a line that runs on to 0:04.20: “and that is the part nobody warns you about”
What it compares against
Your own previous openings, and nothing else: no outside benchmark, no rule of thumb about hooks. Each line prints its count, so you can see how much it rests on.
9 of your 12 other read hooks open with a question. This one opens with a finished statement.
The first word here lands 0.4 seconds in. 3 of your 12 other read hooks start speaking sooner than that.
You open this one at about 208 words a minute. Your 12 other read hooks run between 164 and 233, so this sits inside the range you already work in.
It also reads any words on the picture back exactly as they are written, with when they appear and when they are gone.
Nothing is said out loud in the three seconds below. The whole opening is on the card.
0:00
The first sampled frame. Nothing to read yet.
0:00.25
We deleted a third of the codebase last quarter
One frame later the card is up, and stays up for ten.
0:02.75
On purpose
It resolves with two frames of the span left.
What came back
Text on screen from 0:00.25 to 0:02.50, across 10 frames: “We deleted a third of the codebase last quarter”
Text on screen from 0:02.75 to 0:03, across 2 frames: “On purpose”
There is no score, and none is planned. Boyd, Blackburn and Pennebaker tested structural conformance against popularity across 18,074 films and 639 novels and found nothing (Science Advances, 2020). Wu and colleagues found the rank correlation between views and watch time runs +0.80 in Music and −0.34 in News: when an outcome flips sign from one niche to the next, no threshold on an input carries over to yours. A score out of a hundred cannot be checked. Every line a close read returns carries a timestamp, so you can check it.