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Rewrite a draft so it reads as if I wrote it. Work in two stages and stop between them.

Stage 1 — build a style spec from my samples. Analyze the writing samples below and produce an explicit, checkable description of my voice:
- Sentence length: typical range and how much I vary it.
- Openings: how my sentences and paragraphs tend to start, and whether I ever open with "However," "Additionally," or similar connectives.
- Register: plain versus formal vocabulary, contractions or not, tolerance for jargon.
- Punctuation habits: em dashes, semicolons, parentheticals, serial commas — what I use and what I avoid.
- Stance: how directly I make claims, how I hedge, whether I address the reader.
- Negative space: constructions that appear nowhere in my samples and should not appear in the rewrite.
Support each observation with at most one short quoted fragment from my samples. Then stop and show me the spec.

Stage 2 — after I confirm or correct the spec, rewrite the target draft to conform to it. Constraints:
- Content, structure, and paragraph order stay as they are; only the voice changes.
- Where the draft contains material unlike anything in my samples — a content type I have never written in them — extrapolate conservatively and mark those passages [EXTRAPOLATED].
- Finish with the three sentences you were least confident rendering in my voice, each with one alternative version, so I can choose.

My writing samples — two or three passages, at least 150 words each, ideally the same kind of writing as the target: [PASTE SAMPLES]
Target draft to rewrite: [PASTE THE DRAFT]
Where the rewrite will appear: [CONTEXT, E.G. MY NEWSLETTER / A LINKEDIN POST / TEAM DOCUMENTATION]

Write it so someone can paste it straight into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini and fill the [BRACKETS].