How to read a style score (and when to ignore it)

Every version Samesay writes comes with a style score from 0 to 100. It is tempting to treat it like a grade. It is not one. The score counts habits that make text sound assembled rather than written: stock openers, filler connectors, sentences that all have the same length, and punctuation tics such as dashes in every other line.

A score in the 90s means we found very few of those habits. It does not mean the text is clear, correct or persuasive. A dull paragraph can score 100. A vivid one with two long dashes might score 85 and still be the better piece of writing.

Use the score as a pointer. Open the AI checker, look at the highlighted sentences, and ask whether the highlighted phrase is doing work. If it is, keep it. If you would never say it out loud, cut it.

And ignore the score entirely when the text has a format of its own: legal clauses, technical specifications, poetry, quotes. Those follow rules that a habit counter knows nothing about.