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Professional Email Rewriter
A free prompt to rewrite an email or message so it sounds more professional, with your key points kept intact. Paste in your rough draft and use it in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Copilot.
Make it yours
Fill in the boxes and the prompt updates as you type. Then copy it and paste it into your AI tool of choice.
Their role or relationship to you
The topic of the email in a few words
Paste your rough draft here. It does not need to be polished.
How you want it to come across
How long the rewritten version should be
Your prompt
I've drafted an email to my manager / a client / a new contact about requesting a deadline extension. Here's my draft: Hi, I wanted to ask about... Please rewrite this email to sound more professional. Keep it concise and make sure all my key points come across clearly. Put the main point or request near the top, cut filler, and keep it polite without over-apologising. If anything in my draft is unclear or could be misunderstood, fix that too, and keep it sounding like me rather than a template.
Tips
What "more professional" usually means: - Lead with the point. Say what the message is about in the first line or two. - Make the ask specific. "Could you send the report by Friday?" beats "let me know your thoughts". - Be polite, not grovelling. One "sorry" is plenty, and "thanks for your help" reads better than three apologies. - Cut the filler. "I was wondering if maybe" can usually become "Could you". - Check the facts yourself. Make sure names, dates, figures and attachments are right before you send, because the AI cannot know them. It works for more than email. Paste in a Slack or Teams message, a LinkedIn note or a text to a client, and change "email" to "message" in the prompt if you like. Try the same draft with a few different tones to see how the wording changes, and ask the AI to explain what it changed and why. It is a quick way to sharpen your own writing.
What a good result looks like
BEFORE (the rough draft): hey, the report still isnt done cos we never got the figures from finance. can we push the deadline? sorry!! AFTER (the professional rewrite): Subject: Revised deadline for the quarterly report Hi Sarah, I'd like to ask for a short extension on the quarterly report. We are still waiting on the final figures from Finance, and I would rather send you something accurate than something rushed. Could we move the deadline to next Thursday? I will confirm as soon as the figures arrive. Thanks for your understanding, Alex
Works well with
ClaudeChatGPTGeminiCopilot
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