How to Write LinkedIn Posts That Don't Sound Like AI

Readers spot AI writing fast: vague inspiration and hooks like "In today's fast-paced world." The problem isn't using AI. It's publishing the first draft unchanged.

LinkedIn rewards specificity. A post about "leadership lessons" gets ignored. A post about the Tuesday you fired a vendor after three missed deadlines gets read.

Paste 3–5 posts you've actually published. Note your sentence length, whether you use questions, and words you never say. Feed that into your content profile along with your role, audience, and content pillars.

The goal isn't perfection. It's constraint. AI performs better with boundaries than with "write like a thought leader."

Maintain a words-to-avoid list: "delve," "landscape," "game-changer," "it's not X, it's Y," and any phrase you've seen on ten other feeds this week.

Replace abstract claims with numbers, names, or timelines. Instead of "we improved retention," write "churn dropped from 8% to 4% in Q1 after we changed onboarding."

Before you publish, read aloud. Cut the first sentence if it's throat-clearing. Add one line only you would write: a mistake, a doubt, a contrarian take.

If every paragraph could belong to anyone in your industry, it's not ready.