Write it rough.
Send it polished.

Type the rough prompt. Get the one that works. Right where you typed it, in every app.

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Works where you already type

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  • LinkedIn
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Same model. Better prompt

Neither of these prompts is wrong. The second one just says the things you only think to say on the second attempt, and the difference shows up where the work gets seen.

Generated from the one-line prompt: a wide, evenly lit cafe interior with no focal point12:04
I tried the €18 coffee at Ember
Your channel
Generated from the engineered prompt: one face, one cup and two words, readable at any size12:04
I tried the €18 coffee at Ember
Your channel
You typed

make me a thumbnail for a video about a coffee shop

  • no focal point
  • no text
  • nothing about small sizes
With Polido

Create a thumbnail for a video about a coffee shop. The composition should fill a 16:9 rectangle completely, with the subject positioned for that shape. Include a coffee element as the visual focus, a cup, beans, latte art, or steam, and convey warmth and inviting atmosphere through colour and lighting. Use bright, saturated colours that stand out in a small size and read clearly at thumbnail scale. Add a short text overlay (one to three words maximum) in a bold, legible typeface if the title or hook would help, but keep the visual primary. Make it photorealistic or stylized illustration, whichever will catch the eye more. Output as a high-resolution image suitable for YouTube or similar platforms.

Generated from the one-line prompt: an ornate badge with curved text, a detailed cup and engraving linework
Generated from the engineered prompt: one solid mark, with the wordmark set in type beneath it
You typed

logo for a coffee shop called ember

  • every cliché at once
  • detail that vanishes
  • no size constraint
With Polido

Design a logo for Ember, a coffee shop. Create a single mark that works as both a standalone icon and alongside the business name. The design should feel warm and inviting, with a modern aesthetic that's memorable at small sizes. Use a limited colour palette of two to three colours that evoke coffee and warmth. The mark should be simple enough to work in solid black and in full colour, scale cleanly from favicon to signage, and avoid gradients, photographic elements and ornamental detail. Provide it as a scalable vector on a transparent background.

The difference shows in the result

What you typed

make me a workout app

What Polido sent

Build me a workout app with exercise logging, a progress view, and a workout history. Include the following screens: (1) a home screen showing today’s workout and recent activity, (2) a workout selection screen with a library of exercises organized by muscle group, (3) a logging screen where users can record sets, reps and weight for each exercise, (4) a progress view showing performance over time for individual exercises, and (5) a history view listing completed workouts. Make it responsive on mobile and desktop. Use clear typography and a simple colour scheme that does not distract from the content. Deliver working, runnable code.

💪 FitTrack Pro 🏋️
Welcome back, User! 👋
Your progress: 0%
Today’s Workout
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
Exercise 1
3 sets × 10 reps
›
Exercise 2
3 sets × 10 reps
›
Exercise 3
3 sets × 10 reps
›
START WORKOUT 🚀
Upgrade to Premium (coming soon)
🏠📈⚙️👤
PUSH DAY · WEEK 3
ON TRACK
28 is a PR.
You pressed 26 last Tuesday. Spot says go.
12 wk
streak
12.4k kg
this week
3
PRs in Sept
Incline DB press
last week · 26 kg
28
kg
UP NEXT
Cable fly
3 × 12
15 kg
Overhead press
4 × 6
45 kg
Rest 1:30
TodayHistoryYou

The hundredth rewrite sounds more like you than the first

Polido builds a picture of how you write from your own drafts, and carries it into every rewrite.

Four drafts you typed
  • hey can you push the roca build to testflight today, the QA pass is blocked on it
  • roca crashed on launch again. same stack as friday. can we prioritise it
  • no worries. i'll take the QA pass myself and organise the rest tomorrow
  • moved the milestone to tuesday. QA needs the extra day
What it wrote down about you

write in lower case throughout, including the first word of sentences. use short sentences and keep drafts brief. omit greetings unless essential. when you rewrite, preserve the terminology the author uses and their direct, unadorned phrasing.

Not a rewrite. This is the profile itself, sent with every one.

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writes in lower casenever uses emojiBritish spellingshort sentences
Leaves your words alone
rocaQA
In image prompts

avoid technical camera terminology; use plain language for visual descriptions

Your drafts

Kept here, summarised remotely

A capped file in Application Support, emptied every time the profile is rebuilt. Rebuilding it sends that batch to be summarised, and keeps none of it.

Your profile

Yours to read

The same words it sends to the model, not a summary of them.

Your language

Stays yours

Portuguese stays Portuguese, Japanese stays Japanese. Never quietly translated.

One key, wherever you type

Polido knows where you are typing before it writes a word: which app you are in, and which site is in your address bar when that app is a browser. A prompt gets the constraints it was missing. A message gets shorter.

For

A single question

Sharpens the question without answering it. Your prompt stays a prompt.

You type: whats the difference between a mutex and a semaphore. Polido rewrites it in place to: What's the difference between a mutex and a semaphore? Explain when you'd use each one, what happens when you get it wrong, and give a concrete code example for both in a language of your choice.

Works in any app

Select it, and Rewrite appears

Select text anywhere and a small Rewrite button appears at the end of it. Click it, or double-tap, and only what you selected is rewritten; the rest of the field is left exactly as it was.

blockers: art assets, store screenshots, QA signoff

Try again, from your own words

Every retry starts from what you wrote, never from the last rewrite. Double-tap again, or press 1, 2 or 3 for Casual, Neutral or Formal, and you are one keystroke from where you started.

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Tab to say what you actually wanted

Type an instruction, “much shorter”, “add examples”, “be blunt”, and press Return. Your caret never leaves your own field: the typing is read through the event tap, not by stealing focus.

tabmuch shorter

Bringing Polido to your team?

Tell us how many people would use it and where they write. We will set up a trial for the whole team and help your IT team approve it.

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  • Works in the apps your team already uses
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Talk to usor write to hello@polido.app
# launch-week
  • Ana Ribeiro09:14

    mockups r done, can u check the hero before i export, font feels off

  • Ravi Menon09:31

    deploy blocked bc staging db is down, looking into it, eta 1h maybe

  • Lena Fischer09:48

    acme wants a demo thurs or fri, who can take it

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