The Meridian, on your prose

The Meridian measures dozens of things about your writing and lays them out in a report. Nine of them it can also point at, right on the words, so the parts of the score you can act on line by line become places you can look, not just numbers you read.

The Meridian measures your writing against benchmarks built from published work in the type you picked. Most of what it finds lives in the report: readability, sentence variety, how much of the page is dialogue, the shape of your paragraphs, and a good deal more. Nine of those patterns it can also pin to the exact words behind them: adverbs, passive voice, filler intensifiers, hedges, clichés, nominalizations, filter verbs, repeated openings, and sentences that run long. Each wears its own color, drawn right on the page, and you choose which ones to show. Hover a mark on a wide screen, or tap it on a phone, and a card tells you what it is and why it is there. A mark is a place to look, not a fault to remove, and whether it earns its place is your call. The same layer carries the Sentinel, which watches a draft for continuity: names that drift, point of view, tense, timeline. You pick which engine draws. Nothing runs on its own. The Meridian marks your prose when you ask it to, and clears when you edit, so a color on the page always describes the draft in front of you.