The plain language rewrite that keeps the numbers

Turn a dense paragraph into something a stranger can act on, without losing a single figure, date or name.

Ask a model to simplify something and it will often simplify away the specifics, because specifics are what make a sentence hard. You get friendly prose and a lost deadline.

This version separates the two jobs. First it extracts every number, date, name and condition into a list. Then it rewrites. Then it checks the rewrite against its own list and reports anything that went missing. The check is the part that matters.

Copy this into any chat model

Rewrite the passage below in plain language for someone reading it for the first time.

Passage:
"""
<paste the passage here>
"""

Work in three steps and show all three.

STEP 1: LEDGER
List every number, date, name, deadline, price, percentage and condition in the passage. One per line, exactly as written.

STEP 2: REWRITE
Rewrite the passage at a reading level a careful fourteen year old would follow. Short sentences. Active voice. No new claims. Keep every item from the ledger.

STEP 3: AUDIT
Go through the ledger line by line and mark each item KEPT or MISSING in the rewrite. If anything is MISSING, produce a corrected rewrite that includes it.

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Receipt

Source: first party

Cost: Free.

Free alternative: This is the free version.

Tested: 2026-07-25

Material connection: None.

The catch: You get three blocks of output instead of one clean paragraph. Read the audit, then keep the rewrite and throw the rest away.