I ran across WordRake while I attended the most recent ABA GP SOLO meeting, and it delivered such an amazing demo that I felt I had to share the tool with Slaw’s readership - I’d be keen to hear what you think of it in the comments. Hopefully Microsoft will acquire WordRake and incorporate its functionality directly into Word, but in the meantime you can subscribe to WordRake for $99/year. WordRake is a powerful add-on to Word, and is one of the only truly useful enhancements to Word’s core functionality that I’ve seen released in the last ten years. Here is example of WordRake’s automated editing in action:

Gary Kinder, a lawyer and writing expert, codified many of the patterns he saw while editing documents into a set of rules that WordRake utilizes while processing a document.

You can think of WordRake as an automated editor. This tool exists, and it’s called WordRake. We mine this data to fine-tune both our editing rules and our BriefCatch scoring system, which lets you compare your drafts with the writing of such luminaries as Paul Clement. Imagine a tool that would round out the existing built-in spell- and grammar-checking tools in Microsoft Word, but instead of simply correcting errors, this tool would make your writing more concise. Unlike products with stale technology and static edits, BriefCatch features the latest in natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

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