Mission
AI tools made everyone a writer. That created a new problem.
The problem
AI-generated text has patterns. Em dashes everywhere. "Moreover" and "furthermore" connecting every thought. Hollow intensifiers like "robust" and "comprehensive" doing no actual work. Uniform paragraph lengths. Formulaic transitions.
Readers notice. Search engines are starting to notice. When everything reads the same, nothing stands out. The writing isn't bad. It's generic. And generic doesn't build trust, grow audiences, or close deals.
The tool
avoid-ai-writing is an open-source skill that detects 36 categories of AI writing patterns across a 109-word replacement table. It flags the patterns, rewrites the text, and runs a second pass to catch anything that survived the first edit.
It hit 500+ GitHub stars in its first 24 hours. The community found it useful. Then they did something unexpected. (More on why I built it on the about page.)
The token
Someone on pump.fun created $avoid, a Solana token named after the project. The community picked it up and ran with it. Instead of ignoring it, we built utility into it.
Every time someone uses this web app, they burn $avoid tokens. These tokens are removed from circulation permanently. The supply shrinks with every audit.
Revenue from transaction fees goes back into the project: buy backs, development, hosting, and charitable donations (starting with the University District Food Bank).
What's next
We're adding card payments so non-crypto users can access the tool. Pay with a card, and the server buys $avoid tokens and burns them on your behalf. No wallet required.
The skill is open source and will stay that way. The token is community-driven. The point is the same as day one: make AI-assisted writing sound like a person wrote it.