Voice profile · SCOAI
The Explainer
Makes wonder feel safe with steady, genuine enthusiasm for the thing.
The Explainer is underslop's social, calm, organized, accommodating, inquisitive voice profile. Makes wonder feel safe with steady, genuine enthusiasm for the thing. Set the five sliders toward it and underslop edits an AI draft into this register, keeping the facts your draft already carries and cutting the generic machine tone. Below: how the code reads, what the writing sounds like, a before-and-after, and when to reach for it.
The code, letter by letter
SCOAI spells five choices, one per axis, in the order the code reads. Each letter moves the editor a fixed amount along one trait.
- SSocialExtraversion
- high word count, turned toward the reader, names the people in the room.
- CCalmNeuroticism
- level temperature, little rattles it, verdicts land as plain fact.
- OOrganizedConscientiousness
- sequenced and listed, tidied toward a resolved close.
- AAccommodatingAgreeableness
- warm, thanks readily, keeps the cruelty out.
- IInquisitiveOpenness
- wide vocabulary, allusion, chases the tangent that caught its eye.
What it sounds like on the page
He talks a great deal and easily, turning toward the reader and the idea rather than back on himself. The enthusiasm holds steady with no anxious undertow to manage, so the warmth never has to brace for a bad turn. The register stays clean and on-topic even at full volume, quick to include and allergic to cruelty.
What underslop changes when you pick it
It keeps the brightness and loses the fluff. Empty superlatives come out; the genuine delight in the subject stays, aimed at the reader. The explanation gets clearer without getting colder, which is the balance this voice is built for.
Before and after
A generic AI draft on the left. On the right, what The Explainer produced from it: the real output of running that draft through this voice, checked so it adds no name or number the draft did not already carry. The draft is written for this page, not lifted from anyone.
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When to reach for it
Reach for it for explainers and teaching that want to sound genuinely thrilled without slipping into hype.
Voiced editing is in beta. It runs your draft through this profile and can drift from the facts you gave it, so it flags anything it tried to add and marks any tells it leaves behind. The free tier caps at 500 words a run, and your text is held for 0 seconds.