The CLEAR Framework v2.1

Audit your content the way trust is actually built.

The internet is flooded with confident, well-formatted, fundamentally untrustworthy writing. CLEAR is an open scoring framework that grades any article, post, or page against the five things readers actually use to decide whether to believe you.

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Five pillars of trust

Each letter of C.L.E.A.R is a measurable dimension of trustworthy writing. Every audit scores 28 questions across these five pillars on a 0–2 scale.

C

Clarity

Is the message unambiguous, scannable, and free of jargon?

L

Logic

Does the argument hold up? Are claims connected by reasoning, not assertion?

E

Evidence

Are claims grounded in named sources, data, or first-hand experience?

A

Authenticity

Does the voice sound human, original, and accountable - not generic AI?

R

Relevance

Does it actually serve the reader's job, decision, or moment?

How CLEAR works

1

Hard Gate filter

Before scoring, your content passes through 5 deal-breaker gates - undisclosed AI authorship, factual hallucinations, manipulative tone, and more. Fail any one, and the audit halts with a structural alert.

2

Weighted scoring

All 28 questions are graded 0, 1, or 2 by a calibrated model. Pillar weights shift based on content mode (trust-building, decision-making, teaching, conversion) and target audience.

3

Remediation playbook

Every question scoring below 2 gets a concrete rewrite suggestion - what's missing, how to upgrade. Plus a sharable nutrition-label badge you can paste on your site.

Who is CLEAR for?

Content teams shipping at AI scale

Bring measurable trust standards to your editorial pipeline. Use CLEAR as a pre-publish quality gate - not as a content-generation tool, but as the bar you generate against.

Founders writing in public

Your blog, your launch posts, your landing pages - graded by the same dimensions investors, customers, and Google E-E-A-T raters actually look for.

Agencies and consultants

Defend your strategic recommendations with a transparent, auditable score. Show clients the before-and-after on every brief.

Educators and operators

Teach writers what trust actually looks like on the page, line by line, with grounded remediation instead of vibes.

Score your first piece in under 60 seconds

Paste a draft, upload a file, or point us at a URL. We'll return a weighted score, pillar breakdown, hard-gate audit, and a line-by-line remediation plan.

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