Check a draft

Score a piece before it goes out, while it can still be changed. You get the projected score and a short list of what would raise it. Nothing here is saved and the ledger is left alone — a draft must not use up a number's novelty before the piece actually runs.

This is worth zero points. It just steers which rungs get suggested, and catches the case where one of our own people is the named author.

Outlet weight and US-facing are scored for this outlet. A draft has no outlet of its own, so without this those two checks can't be judged fairly.

A Google Doc link works when it's shared as “Anyone with the link” (view or edit) — the links inside it (LinkedIn, cross-references) are read too. A private doc can't be read, so paste the text instead.

Context to judge the checks fairly. It won't win points for claims the draft itself doesn't make.