EthosMeter

EthosMeter is an AI-assisted web app (with a lightweight mobile companion) that helps users craft persuasive messages and spot rhetorical weaknesses before publishing or presenting. You paste a speech, email, op-ed, pitch deck script, or debate notes, then choose your audience profile (skeptical CFO, progressive student group, conservative voter, etc.). The app scores clarity, credibility (ethos), logic (logos), and emotional appeal (pathos), and highlights fallacies, manipulative framing, and “gotcha” lines that will backfire. It then proposes alternative phrasings with different rhetorical strategies (story-first, data-first, concession, steelman) and provides a rebuttal simulator that generates likely counterarguments. It’s not a magic “make people agree” button—persuasion is messy—but it can reliably reduce unforced errors, tighten structure, and improve audience fit. Export to Google Docs/Word and track versions over time.