Free re-runs on still-flagged passages: finish the paint map, don’t wash the chapter again

The second AI-writing report is where panic gets expensive. A few continuous-prose spans are still painted; the LMS card still looks loud; the reflex is to paste the entire chapter into another “humanize” box and hope a private meter moves.

That reflex optimizes for throughput. It does not optimize for matching this attempt’s highlight map, keeping DOCX layout, or explaining to a supervisor which paragraphs actually changed.

This post is a recheck worklist—product-page wording about remaining flags, not a clearance certificate and not a detection-evasion guide.

Recheck literacy before you rewrite anything

Institutional AI-writing exports (Turnitin / iThenticate and peers) usually paint qualifying continuous prose. Lists, tables, captions, and reference blocks are often outside that map. Similarity still answers a different question than AI writing. Rewriting for one dial does not reliably move the other.

Before you spend a single credit on a second pass:

1. Download the full AI writing report for the same attempt you will resubmit.

2. Rank still-painted continuous-prose spans by confidence / intensity.

3. Edit those spans. Leave unflagged paragraphs alone unless they are factually wrong.

4. Freeze citations, verified numbers, formula objects, and claim strength unless the report itself painted them.

5. Prefer a DOCX / PPTX return path so styles and tables are not thrown away for a chat paste.

Track A: free re-runs until * under 20% (product page, not a promise)

HumanPen’s product page describes free re-runs on still-flagged passages when a recheck still shows ≥20%, toward * under 20%. That is a workflow and billing statement about remaining flagged continuous prose—not “guaranteed pass,” not “undetectable,” and not advice to bypass any school process.

In plain English:

• The loop is scoped to spans the new report still paints.

• Clean paragraphs stay out of the rewrite bill.

• You bring your institutional export; we do not invent detector percentages beside the editor.

Track B: whole-document wash vs the free crumb

Many paste-box tools optimize for “rewrite everything you pasted.” After a recheck, that usually means paying again (or burning a subscription dump) for prose the new paint map never marked.

HumanPen’s mechanical difference:

Put the free ~1,000 words on the highest-confidence remaining spans first. That is usually enough for a realistic section-level second pass—not a second thesis wash.

Five artefacts worth keeping for office hours

1. Attempt number + report timestamp for both exports.

2. A short list of spans that stayed painted vs spans that cleared.

3. Note of which citations / numbers / formulas you deliberately froze.

4. File identity: DOCX vs PDF, filename, word count.

5. The full PDF (or official export)—not a cropped badge screenshot.

Soft CTA

If you want a document-level loop—import the AI writing report, rewrite still-flagged passages under the product’s free re-run wording toward * under 20%, keep citations and layout where possible, and use the 100 free credits ≈ first ~1,000 words—start at https://humanpen.net (hub: lnk.bio/humanpen).

No honest tool should be sold as a guaranteed pass.

— Charles Li · HumanPen · https://humanpen.net