Intelligent Editing Launches Draftsmith, Seamlessly Bringing AI’s Writing Refinement Abilities to Microsoft Word
LONDON, December 6, 2023—Intelligent Editing, the leading provider of software for professional editors, is transforming the writing process again with the unveiling of a new AI app, Draftsmith.
Draftsmith lets writers use AI to improve any draft. It features a suite of nine tools that help with everything from increasing engagement and empathy to readability and plain language. It can even fix dictation and transcription errors and help trim word counts.
Draftsmith seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Word. It works at the sentence level, offering suggestions and allowing the user to replace text without ever leaving Word. You never have to copy/paste text into a browser or a different app. And all changes can be tracked with Word’s track changes.
While most AI writing tools create a first draft or offer fixes in the final stage, Draftsmith is a writing refiner. It helps to create compelling content that readers truly want to engage with. Draftsmith uses AI to offer suggestions and spark ideas. But it stops there. In that way, it helps professionals to make decisions faster and more efficiently, while leaving the user firmly in control.
The result is an application with capabilities far beyond traditional writing tools. For people who write their own drafts, it gives access to AI in a way that makes creating text more efficient. For anyone preparing a first draft with AI, Draftsmith can assist at the refining stage to help personalize AI-generated text. For experts working outside their first language, Draftsmith helps to level the playing field.
Daniel Heuman, CEO of Intelligent Editing said “Draftsmith reflects our belief that people make the best editing decisions and they always will. We’re not interested in the kind of AI that writes for you. The goal with Draftsmith is to help writers make decisions faster so that they can deliver the best text in their own voice”.
Since Draftsmith provides suggestions based on the existing text, it doesn’t suffer from AI hallucinations, false citations or other ethical challenges that have stalled AI adoption in the workplace. Intelligent Editing uses Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service, and Draftsmith does not store text or use it to train any AI models, making it secure and ethical.
For more than a decade, Intelligent Editing has made PerfectIt the leading tool for professional editors worldwide, earning its reputation through its unmatched checking capability for consistency and house style. PerfectIt is the only proofreading software platform that offers checking for The Chicago Manual of Style. And PerfectIt’s success extends beyond editing, with medical writing teams at seven of the world’s top ten global pharmaceutical firms relying on PerfectIt.
With the launch of Draftsmith, Intelligent Editing is filling a vital gap in the writing workflow. Draftsmith offers a powerful and secure tool for refining content, from the moment after a first draft is created until a document is ready for the final polishing stage. Draftsmith specifically addresses that often-overlooked, middle stage of document production—redrafting, reviewing, and revising— making it a boon for professionals whose work involves writing, regardless of their official title. Unlike paraphrasing apps and simplification tools, Draftsmith enhances the user's ability to communicate their ideas, stories, and vision more effectively.
"Our goal is to empower writers," said Daniel. "Draftsmith isn’t about altering documents on its own. It’s about offering suggestions and sparking ideas, all designed to help people to communicate their ideas, stories, and vision more effectively."
About Draftsmith:
Draftsmith is an AI writing refiner for everyone who writes at work. It works directly in Microsoft Word. It bridges the gap between AI tools like ChatGPT and the word processer where most professionals work. Draftsmith helps you turn your first draft into your very best work, saving rounds of back-and-forth revisions. Its suite of tools includes empathy and engagement enhancers, readability and plain language tools, a dictation fixer, a word count trimmer, as well as tools to help anyone using English as their second or third language.
About Intelligent Editing:
Since the debut of PerfectIt in 2009, Intelligent Editing has been a leader in professional editing solutions. Intelligent Editing’s belief is that “people make the best editing decisions, and they always will”. The company was launched in 2009 by Daniel Heuman.
About PerfectIt:
PerfectIt is used globally by professionals to save time and improve their writing. It runs in Microsoft Word and highlights inconsistencies, allowing users to spot hard-to-find errors in their documents, such as inconsistent acronym definitions or inconsistent capitalization and spelling of industry-specific terms. PerfectIt was the first software to offer consistency checking in Microsoft Word in 2009, and it became the first proofreading software platform for The Chicago of Manual of Style in 2021.
Katy Alderson, Head of Partnerships
Intelligent Editing
+1 (501) 288-9711
katy@intelligentediting.com