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The prompt

Rewrite the text below in a different tone while keeping its content exactly intact.

Current tone: [HOW IT READS NOW, E.G. STIFF AND BUREAUCRATIC / BLUNT / OVERLY CASUAL]
Target tone: [HOW IT SHOULD READ, E.G. WARM AND DIRECT / NEUTRAL AND FORMAL / CONFIDENT WITHOUT SOUNDING SALESY]
Audience: [WHO WILL READ THE REWRITE]
Relationship or stakes: [E.G. APOLOGIZING TO AN UNHAPPY CUSTOMER / ASKING A FAVOR / DELIVERING BAD NEWS]

Hard constraints:
- Every factual claim, number, date, name, and commitment survives unchanged. Tone work happens in word choice, sentence rhythm, and framing — never in what is being said.
- Do not soften or strengthen any promise, deadline, or refusal. "We will" must not become "we hope to," and the reverse is just as much a violation.
- Keep every caveat and condition. Deleting a hedge changes meaning.
- Stay within 15% of the original length unless I said otherwise.
- If any sentence looks legally or contractually precise, carry it over verbatim and mark it [KEPT VERBATIM].

After the rewrite, add a short table — three or four rows — showing what you changed at the tone level: for example sentence length, hedging words, directness of requests, formality of address. One before/after example per row. This is how I check that you changed the register, not the substance.

Text:
[PASTE THE TEXT]

Write it so someone can paste it straight into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini and fill the [BRACKETS].