Why I Built a Readability Analyzer That Sends Your Text Nowhere

Why I Built a Readability Analyzer That Sends Your Text Nowhere Most productivity tools that analyze your writing send your text to a server. That's true of Grammarly. It's true of most AI writing assistants. And it's worth thinking about, because writers paste a lot of sensitive material into these tools — drafts of internal reports, client work, things under NDA, early chapters of books they haven't published yet. ProseScore doesn't send your text anywhere. Here's why that was a deliberate choice, and what it took to make it work. The problem with sending your text to a server When you paste something into a web-based writing tool, you're implicitly trusting that tool with whatever you wrote. That might be fine for a recipe. It's different for a confidential internal memo, a legal brief draft, or a chapter from a novel you've been working on for two years. The data minimization argument is simple: if you don't need a server, don't have one. A server is a liability — it's a place wher