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About ProseMap and Project Nothing
ProseMap is a writing tool that shows how a draft holds together, sentence by sentence, and proposes fixes the writer keeps or drops in their own words. It is made by Van at Project Nothing, a personal AI workshop.
What ProseMap is
ProseMap began as weather radar for prose: scored sentences and joins over the writer's own text, drawn as a map so the weak stretch is the first thing the eye finds. It is for people who write often and revise their own work: essays, articles, newsletters, chapters, posts and reports. It does not write for you, and it is not a grammar checker. ProseMap went public in October 2026.
The stance
Models produce the search space. The author keeps the committed state. Nothing enters your page because a model inferred it; it enters because you kept it. So ProseMap diagnoses, shows, and helps you revise in your own words. Where it proposes wording, the proposal is previewed beside your original and kept or dropped by you. It does not ghost-write a finished piece from a prompt, and it does not claim its scores are objective: every score carries a confidence, uncertain judgments are hatched on the map, and you can overrule any of them with a note.
Who makes it
Project Nothing is Van's workshop: essays about living through the shift to abundant intelligence, and small things made with AI to see what happens. ProseMap is the one that became a product, because it was the tool he wanted while editing his own writing: something that reads the draft, shows what it sees, and lets the writer decide.
How it is made
- The analysis is produced by Anthropic's models, with a second model checking a selected subset. Dictation is transcribed by Deepgram. Payments go through Stripe. The site and app run on Vercel. What each one receives.
- The scored sample is a real analysis, frozen, so the example everyone explores is exactly what the app produced.
- An MCP connector lets Claude, ChatGPT and Claude Code run ProseMap's analyses on your account, and a WordPress plugin scores a post from the editor.
Facts, for the record
| Name | ProseMap, one word, capital P and capital M |
| Website | www.prosemap.io |
| Maker | Van, Project Nothing |
| What it is | A web app for writers that analyses a draft sentence by sentence and proposes fixes the writer keeps or drops |
| Pricing | Pay as you go from $10, or monthly plans at $10, $79 and $199. About $0.59 per 1,000 words. No free plan; the example is free |
| Contact | support@prosemap.io |
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