Writing inclusively in a consistent manner is hard. It's easy with Witty writing assistant. Make the world inclusive. For everyone.
Witty is an AI-powered assistant for inclusive language and behavior. With Witty, you not only create a more inclusive culture through language but also mitigate the risks of organizational bias that could lead to legal challenges in compliance with EU and US discrimination or AI regulations. Whether you’re communicating internally or externally, Witty empowers you to write and behave in a way that includes everyone, fostering an inclusive corporate culture.
How Witty Works:
* Detecting biased wording: Witty highlights words or phrases that may exclude, deter or stereotype certain groups.
* Micro-learning content: Witty provides micro-learning bites to explain the bias behind the word/phrase.
* Real-time inclusive alternatives: Witty suggests alternatives that are more inclusive, without disrupting your workflow.
* Spelling and grammar check: Maintain professionalism with built-in spelling and grammar correction.
Corporate Features:
* Corporate vocabulary management: Store your organization’s inclusive language or corporate vocabulary in Witty. Ensure every team member writes with consistent language by making your vocabulary available to all users.
* Bias detection across 50+ diversity dimensions: Witty analyzes language across over 50 diversity dimensions, including ethnicity, gender, age, and more. Organizations can configure which dimensions to focus on and the depth of analysis for each one.
* Statistics on bias traps: Witty provides detailed analytics that highlight patterns of unconscious bias in your organization’s communications. This helps you detect and address bias early, reducing legal risk in compliance with both EU and US anti-discrimination regulations. Also, with Witty you can monitor outputs from LLMs such as ChatGPT or MS Copilot and detect biased wording therein. In Human Resources, this protects you against legal issues in relation to the 'EU AI Act' or AI guidelines in the US. Finally, these statistics can be used for reporting in compliance with the EU Corporate Social Responsibility Directive (EU CSRD), section «ESRS S1 Own Workforce», in effect from January 2025 for all organizations larger than 250 employees.
* Languages: Witty is used by many international organizations. That’s why it is available in English, German, and now French, with Spanish and Italian coming soon.
* Clients: Witty works wherever you work. It’s a browser extension that integrates with any web-based application like CMS, ATS, Social Media, or project management tools. It’s also a Microsoft Word Add-in for Desktop (Microsoft Outlook coming soon). And we are working on a ‘wittified’ Copilot extension.
Benefits of Witty:
* Build an inclusive culture: Witty helps you choose language that resonates with diverse readers and creates a sense of belonging for everyone, helping to foster a culture of inclusion within your organization. For example in talent acquisition, you attract 3x more applications from diverse talent.
* Stay ahead of evolving language: Witty keeps you updated on changes in language that may affect specific social groups, so you can avoid unintentional bias or exclusion. With Witty, organizations are 12 times faster at inclusive writing than when they do it manually, taking the burden away from employees and making it fun to be inclusive.
* Corporate Vocabulary Integration: Ensure your whole team speaks with one voice. Witty makes it easy to store and manage corporate and inclusive language guidelines. Finally, consistency is given.
* Foster long-term change: Customers report that only after 2 days working with Witty, users became more bias aware. And after 2 weeks, they apply this learning into everyday interactions with partners, clients and co-workers. By using Witty regularly, employees develop inclusive behavior sustainably, saving costs for inefficient trainings.
* Risk mitigation: With Witty’s detailed bias statistics, organizations can address potential communication issues and organizational bias before they escalate, aligning with anti-discrimination regulations in the EU and US. By monitoring LLMs with Witty, you also make sure to act in according with the EU AI Act and the US AI directives.
Witty is easy and fast to install and to use. If you would like to talk to us, don’t hesitate to contact us: contact@witty.works
Latest reviews
- (2023-05-21) Priyanuj Sharma: I wrote two sentences to test the app. Sentence 1: "I am writing this mail to all the men in the company." Sentence 2: "I am writing this mail to all the women in the company" For the first sentence it underlined "men" in yellow and prompted that it impacts the visibility of marginalized genders. For the second sentence it underlined "women" in green and prompted that it strengthens collaboration and sense of community. I am failing to understand how can this be considered unbiased and accurate. The app clearly did not understand the context of the sentence and classified the usage of "men" as non-inclusive, whereas classified the usage of "women" as inclusive. If the app does not attempt to understand the context of sentences and in what capacity it is being used, for it to classify terms as inclusive and non-inclusive will remain highly inaccurate.
- (2023-03-23) Ich finde die Extension wirklich hilfreich. Gerade, weil man die Formulierungen leider oft nicht bemerkt. Auch wenn es eine Übertreibung ist oder eine ausschließende Beschreibung - Witty weist einen darauf hin. Finde ich super - weiter so!
- (2023-01-26) Jürg Unterweger: I use it all the time and it helps me a lot with writing more inclusive! It integrates seamlessly in Chrome and it's easy to install and to use :-)
- (2022-12-19) Daniel Hoss: Wirklich tolles Werkzeug. Es denkt mit und verhilft zu einem besseren Umgangston. Danke
- (2022-10-11) Justina Kilinski: Witty is the solution we have been waiting for so long! These days it is not enough for a top notch business to spell error free. Tonality and hidden bias tell people a lot about the company culture. Ignoring that is, well, kind of ignorant. There is so much to learn and to explore about de-biased language. Thank you for this amazing tool to help us with that!
- (2022-06-28) Klaus Fuchs: Witty is targeting such an important topic. It's so easy to fall into bias traps - this tool makes this a thing of the past! 5 stars!
- (2022-04-13) Afsheen Ismail-Wey: Imagine the magnifying impact of shifting innate language patterns that hold us back from being truly inclusive! Witty is helping us do that. And our favourite feature? The on time micro-learnings offered around words that aren't inclusive, while you type! Way to go Witty Works! We're sharing Witty with everyone we know.
- (2022-04-02) Tom Lee: I've only just started using this as an extension, but so far it's proving to be useful. It's handy in your native language, but I think especially helpful if you're writing in a second language - certainly worth giving it a try!
- (2022-03-29) Lisa Done: What an amazing extension. It's a lot like Grammarly but includes inclusion. I love it! So useful. Should be every writer's new normal! Cool thing about it: it's very non-invasive and super easy
- (2022-03-23) Belinda: I've been using Witty for a few months now and I'm so thankful to have it. Whether in an email or in a long-form blog post, Witty helps catch things that would go unnoticed otherwise. I've used it primarily in English, but from what I've used of the German version it's been so nice to be able to choose the gender-ending-form that suits best. I have Grammarly installed as well and sometimes the correcting of both apps overlaps each other. I would be so happy when this tool is also available for Safari :)
- (2022-03-23) Andrea: I've been using this tool for a few weeks now and I'm impressed with how quickly it gets better and better. Although I thought I was someone who paid attention to writing inclusively, it is opening my eyes every day. I've learned a lot from it and feel more relaxed knowing I have a tool to nudge me in the right direction.
- (2021-12-02) Markus Gehrig (power-affairs.ch): Die Erweiterung wird als nicht vertrauenswürdig eingestuft, bitte nachbessern.
- (2021-12-01) Jürg Waeber: It's perfect for my profession! I am a copywriter - in German and English. I have had workshops about inclusive and non-inclusive language and afterwards tried to apply it as much as I could. But it was hardly possible since while writing I am in the flow and, as marketer, often think in stereotypes. So this tool is perfect for me. It integrates easily in my writing flow and helps me to detect when I am thinking in stereotypes. A workshop would never able to do this!
- (2021-12-01) Kasperli vo Züri: Wow, auf sowas habe ich lange gewartet. Mir ist es extrem wichtig, dass ich in meiner Theater-Tätigkeit auf all meinem Marketing-Material auch wirklich inklusiv unterwegs bin, so dass auch schon die Kinder inklusive Sprache hören. Und Witty hilft mir dabei! Ich merke jetzt selbst, wo ich was übersehen habe. Und es ist auch so einfach. Schreiben und dann wird's mir schon angezeigt. Es kann natürlich noch verbesserungswürdig (ich nehme jetzt mal an, Witty Works arbeitet an der stetigen Verbesserung). Aber nur schon die erste Version hat schon einen grossen Wert für mich.
- (2021-11-26) Frank Welsch-Lehmann: Witty.works ist super einfach zu benutzen. Gerade bei der Erstellung von Sales und Marketing Material ist es noch ungewohnt auf die Feinheiten der inklusiven Sprache zu achten. Witty Works hilft mir dabei und macht mich schneller und produktiver.
- (2021-11-23) Konstanze Schade: Giving the extension 5 stars. There is nothing like it out there and even in its current form its already super helpful to make myself aware of how I use language. The color coding helps quickly see where the biggest potential issues are. The spell checker is a super nice bonus since I can quickly switch between "high" German and Swiss German. I don't even have a "ß" on my keyboard and now I just type Swiss German, enable "high" German spell checking and with a click I can change "Gruss" to "Gruß". Not everything works perfectly yet. By I have faith they keep improving the extension so that it works with more websites and updating the vocabulary.
- (2021-11-23) Khazar Khakbaz: I love Wiity! I work in HR and writing job ads that are inclusive was difficult. Now the tool helps me to express our inclusive culture of our teams in a perfect way and is actively forming our corporate language o that it sounds/reads very natural and like us. To install and use it is very easy, only that its yet not working with every browser like Safari or all my write pads is a bit meh. But I guess another update will have it...
- (2021-11-23) Dieter Heck: Everyone, including professional writers, might have trouble to write inclusive and bias-free. Even when you get the basics right, doing higher-level nuances that eliminate exclusive writing and biased wording can be overwhelming. Witty can help in those scenarios. This browser plug-in suggests Witty helps you to use wording that involves everyone and creates belonging. It suggests changes in real time and you can even edit in the interface. I still learn to write inclusively in my communication and Iwork on my own flaws based on unconscious bias. It works perfectly with Google Chrome, integrates with many tools and platforms and I can't praise it enough for all to use it.