private beta · early access
Make your writing human again.
Discover the AI-native workspace for writers. It rewrites only what you mark and learns to sound just like you.
01/ the problem
A chat was never made for editing.
Writing with AI starts out fine… until the thread becomes the workspace, and text you wanted left alone keeps coming back modified.
Rewrote the full draft · 4 of 4 paragraphs
what it costs you
We turned these costs into four questions to ask of any AI writing tool.
02/ how it works
Content that refuses to look AI-generated.
Point. Don’t prompt.
A comment is not a prompt. It carries the passage with it, so the model never has to be told which sentence you meant — and never gets to decide that for you.
Every writing tool I tried wanted to hold the pen. Not help hold it — hold it.
We spent the winter arguing about whether the overhead was the square footage. It was never the square footage.
The intro is still the intro.
“We spent the winter arguing about whether…”
too long
Untouched means untouched.
Rewrite, and every paragraph you didn’t mark comes back character-for-character identical. Not “mostly the same.” The rule is absolute: if a change can’t name the comment that asked for it, the original is restored.
Your taste, not re-explained every session.
A comment is feedback with the context around it — the kind AI usually never sees. After a few dozen, Remark distils your own editing rules from them and carries those into every rewrite that follows: a corpus of how you edit that exists nowhere else.
Cut the wind-up. Start on the verb.
from 9 of your comments · 6× “too long”One idea per sentence. No stacked clauses.
from 14 of your commentsNumbers live in the sentence, never in a bullet.
from 7 of your commentsIt suggests back.
Ask for a second pass and Remark leaves notes in your margin, in the voice of a colleague reading your draft. Reactions, not line edits. You accept the ones you agree with — the AI never gets the last word on your passages.
“…and that is arguably the most important shift of the decade.”
I don’t buy this. Which decade, and says who?
“You point at a sentence and the comment stays pinned to it.”
You already said this — it’s your third paragraph.
“We are excited to announce a new chapter for our team.”
This doesn’t sound like you anywhere else in the draft.
Every version is a place.
Not a scroll — a list. Name one “the good intro” and go back to it in a click.
03/ projects
Every project speaks its own language.
A project holds the language, the instructions, the references and the rules — once. Switch projects, and all four switch with you.
- saltmarsh.blog/essays/on-rewriting
- notes.oakhollow.dev/craft
- theseventhdraft.co/archive
- Cut the wind-up. Start on the verb.
- One idea per sentence. No stacked clauses.
- Numbers live in the sentence, never in a bullet.
04/ questions
What people ask before they start.
What is Remark?
Mark what to change and the AI rewrites only that — every paragraph you didn’t mark comes back identical, and every comment teaches it how you edit.
What kind of writing is Remark for?
Long drafts that get revised in passes — a book chapter, an academic paper, a thesis or dissertation chapter, an article, an episode script, a newsletter, a page of copy. The longer the piece, the more of it a chat hands back rewritten when you only wanted one paragraph changed.
Is Remark an alternative to ChatGPT for writing?
It is a different room for the same models. In a chat you paste the draft and describe the sentence you meant; in Remark the draft stays where it is and you mark the sentence itself, so the rewrite lands where you pointed and the rest of the page is never touched.
What is a comment in Remark?
A comment is not a prompt. It carries the passage with it, so the model never has to be told which sentence you meant — and never gets to decide that for you.
What happens to the paragraphs I didn’t mark?
Rewrite, and every paragraph you didn’t mark comes back character-for-character identical. Not “mostly the same.” The rule is absolute: if a change can’t name the comment that asked for it, the original is restored.
How does Remark learn how I edit?
A comment is feedback with the context around it — the kind AI usually never sees. After a few dozen, Remark distils your own editing rules from them and carries those into every rewrite that follows: a corpus of how you edit that exists nowhere else.
Does the AI get the last word?
Ask for a second pass and Remark leaves notes in your margin, in the voice of a colleague reading your draft. Reactions, not line edits. You accept the ones you agree with — the AI never gets the last word on your passages.
How do versions work?
Not a scroll — a list. Name one “the good intro” and go back to it in a click.
Which model does Remark use?
Claude, GPT or Gemini, per project. Your comments travel with you.
What does a project hold?
A project holds the language, the instructions, the references and the rules — once. Switch projects, and all four switch with you.
Is Remark a desktop app or an online tool?
It runs in the browser, and there is nothing to install — the same account opens the same projects on any machine. Every draft, every version and every comment stays there, rather than in a thread you have to scroll back through.
Can I write a whole book in Remark?
Chapter by chapter, in one project. The project holds the language, the instructions and the references, so chapter twelve is edited against the same rules as chapter one — and every version of a chapter stays a place you can name and go back to.
Is Remark free?
Remark is free during early access. Invites go out in small batches, and writers working on the same kind of thing get in together.
If you are weighing Remark against a chat or another tool, start with what to look for in an AI writing tool.
early access · invites in small batches
Write something remarkable.
Every line on this page was written and edited in Remark.