Polido vs typing “improve this” into an AI

Same AI, same 57 real drafts. Each square is one answer. Orange means it did what the writer needed.

90 / 100
With Polido
answers that got it right
51 / 100
With “improve this”
answers that got it right

How the test works

1
57 real drafts
Slack messages, emails, prompts for ChatGPT, Claude and Midjourney.
2
Sent twice
Once through Polido. Once with “Improve this text”. Same AI both times, Claude Haiku 5.5.
3
Marked
A stronger AI (Claude Sonnet 5) asks: did this answer do what the draft needed? A script checks no name, number or link changed.
4
Done twice
The whole test ran twice. Both runs landed within 2 points of each other.

Right answers, by what you’re writing

Everything
all 57 drafts
51%
90% · +39%
AI prompts
20 drafts
21%
89% · +68%
Anything else
5 drafts
35%
100% · +65%
Messages
18 drafts
71%
93% · +22%
Emails
9 drafts
72%
86% · +14%
Kept your details
no name, number or link changed
94%
99% · +5%
“Improve this”Polido

See for yourself

Three drafts from the test, with both answers exactly as the AI wrote them.

An image prompt
What they typed
product shot of my new coffee grinder
“Improve this” · ✗ wrong
Product shot of my new coffee grinder.

Why it’s wrong: it sent the draft back almost unchanged: no lighting, background or angle.

Polido · ✓ right
product shot of my new coffee grinder, centred on a clean neutral backdrop, soft diffused studio light from the side, gentle soft shadow beneath, eye-level camera angle, sharp focus on the grinder, minimal and uncluttered, photorealistic
A quick Slack reply
What they typed
nope, that wont work, the schema changed last week
“Improve this” · ✗ wrong
I don't see any text to improve yet. Could you paste the text you'd like me to work on?

Why it’s wrong: it said there was no text to improve, and asked for some.

Polido · ✓ right
nope, that won't work, the schema changed last week
A Midjourney prompt
What they typed
wide shot of a lighthouse in a storm, moody, dont want any people in it
“Improve this” · ✗ wrong
Wide shot of a lone lighthouse standing against a violent storm at sea, dramatic and moody. Towering waves crash against its rocky base, sheets of rain sweep across the scene, and dark, churning clouds fill the sky. The beam of light cuts through the gloom. No people, just the lighthouse and the raging elements.

Why it’s wrong: it left “wide” and “no people” as words, so Midjourney ignores them (no --ar or --no).

Polido · ✓ right
Wide shot of a lighthouse in a storm, moody and atmospheric, the lighthouse small against the frame so the scale of the storm carries the image, with no people anywhere in the scene, photorealistic, cinematic composition, muted cool palette with dramatic low light --ar 16:9 --no people

The fine print: a half-right answer counts as half. We never tweak Polido using these 57 drafts. With this many drafts, gaps under about 10% can be luck; the ones above are far bigger.