Step 11 Proofread with Grammarly or Chatgpt

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Run the finished draft through Grammarly or ChatGPT for grammar, tone, and readability – without letting the tools sand off the speaker's voice (Blog Posting Guidelines Step 11).

Category: Content Factory – Process

Use this when the article is complete with links, images, and embed (Step 10 done) – the final Process-stage pass before the Post stage takes over.

Inputs

  • The complete article draft
  • Grammarly or ChatGPT access
  • The verified transcript (fact-check source) and the GCT statement
  • The correct spellings list (Marko Sipila, Zach Peyton, George Paladichuk, NaiL AI, etc.)

Steps

  1. Run the draft through Grammarly or ChatGPT scoped to grammar, punctuation, readability, and tone consistency – explicitly instruct the tool NOT to rewrite voice, add content, or "enhance" phrasing.
  2. Review every suggestion individually. Accept mechanical fixes; reject any change that genericizes the speaker's phrasing or injects AI-fluff vocabulary.
  3. Fact-check against the transcript: every number, name, claim, and quote in the article must match what was actually said or the cited research.
  4. Verify all proper nouns against the spellings list – proofreading tools routinely "correct" real names into wrong ones.
  5. Read the article aloud (or via text-to-speech) top to bottom – the strongest catch for clunky sentences, repeated words, and broken flow.
  6. Re-verify the load-bearing SEO elements survived editing: focus keyword still in the first paragraph, title under 60 characters, meta under 160, headings intact.
  7. Check formatting hygiene: short paragraphs held, no double spaces, consistent capitalization in headings, captions present.
  8. Update the tracker ("Step 11 done – Process stage complete") and hand off to the Post stage (step-12-post-article-on-wordpress).

Definition of done (QA checklist)

  • Grammar/readability pass completed with each suggestion reviewed, not bulk-accepted
  • Speaker's voice intact – spot-check 3 passages against the transcript
  • All facts, numbers, and names verified (spellings list applied)
  • Keyword, title, and meta specs still satisfied post-edit
  • Read-aloud pass completed with fixes applied
  • Linked back to the definitive article and relevant siblings

Example(s)

  • The proofread gate is Step 11 of every run documented at /blog-posting-guidelines, immediately before WordPress posting.
  • Example needed as a standalone meta-article – run the Meta-Article Prompt after first documented run.

File in the zip: skills/content-factory-process/step-11-proofread-with-grammarly-or-chatgpt.md. Download the Task Library zip.

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