Pre-post lab for X

Score the draft
before you post.

Inspired by For You ranking writeups circulating on X — a local, transparent grader for hook, substance, distribution, and bait. No account. No model. No leaking your draft to a server.

Open the lab Read the playbook

Signals: 16 checks
Latency: Instant
Network: None

Hook

The first line is the product. Needle grades whether it stops a thumb or clears a throat.

Substance

Numbers, first-person proof, and a length that can actually be finished.

Distribution

Links leak dwell. Threads need pacing. Hashtags are usually costume jewelry.

Risk

Bait phrases, stacked emoji, and comment LOCK IN are the easy negatives.

A score you can argue with.

Needle is not the algorithm. It is a checklist compiled from public ranking notes: original content over quote-slop, dwell over outbound links, no engagement bait, a first line that can survive truncation.

Sample

I killed our pricing page last Tuesday. Replaced the three-tier grid with one number and a 90-second loom.