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I’m dyslexic. Words move on me sometimes — a sentence looks right, and it isn’t, and I don’t always catch it the first three times I read it. That’s a real problem when your website is doing the talking for you before a client ever gets you on a call. A few months ago I started using Claude to catch outdated website copy on my own site, and it’s turned into one of the most useful habits in how I work. Here’s how it actually runs, not the pitch version.
The Problem With Editing Your Own Website When You’re Dyslexic
Every time I update a site, language drifts. A slogan changes. A page gets rewritten. And somewhere — a footer, an old widget, a page nobody’s looked at in six months — the previous version survives.
I recently changed my web design slogan back from “From Code to Craft” to something closer to the original line: the professional that serious creatives turn to. Simple change, one line, done in five minutes. Except it wasn’t done. When I ran a copy check afterward, the old slogan was still sitting in the site footer, untouched.
That’s the kind of thing I used to hunt for by eye, one page at a time, second-guessing myself the whole way through because I know how easily this stuff slips past me. Now I don’t hunt for it. I ask Claude to.
Two Ways I Run the Check
There isn’t one method — I use two, depending on how much I want to babysit it.
The quick version. I take a screenshot with Mac’s built-in screen capture, or I use GoFullPage to grab an entire page in one image, and I drop it straight into a Cowork chat. I’ve already got my brand kit, site build notes, and brand voice guide uploaded as reference documents in the project, so Claude has something to check the page against — not just “does this read okay,” but “does this match what I actually decided the brand should say.”
The overnight version. For a full sweep — main site plus all three subdomains — I turn on “Allow JavaScript from Apple Events” in Chrome’s developer settings, connect the browser and Mac tools, and hand the whole job over. I point Claude at the same reference documents and ask it to read every page across all four sites and flag anywhere the old language is still live. Then I leave it running and go to bed.
The Reference Files Are What Make It Accurate
None of this works if Claude is guessing at what “correct” looks like. The reason the checks are useful instead of just noisy is that I’ve built a small library of reference documents — a brand kit with my colours, fonts, and logo rules, a brand voice guide with the language I do and don’t want used, and a site build document that tracks what’s changed and when.
Those files sit in the project alongside the conversation, so every time I ask for a check, Claude isn’t comparing my site against some generic idea of “good copy.” It’s comparing it against decisions I’ve already made and written down. That’s the difference between a spell-checker and something that actually knows my business.
It also means the checks get more accurate over time. Every rebrand, every repositioning, every slogan change gets added to those files, so the next scan already knows what’s outdated without me having to explain it again.
What Twenty Minutes Overnight Actually Looks Like
The morning after one of these overnight scans, I came back to a full report — every page across the build that still had remnants of the old brand language, listed out page by page. Not just “something’s wrong here,” but exactly what was wrong and where.
Claude also turned that report into a step-by-step document I could work through in order, so fixing it wasn’t its own separate project. I just opened the list and started clearing it, one item at a time.
The Math That Made Me a Believer
Checking four sites by hand, page by page, reading closely enough to trust myself with dyslexia in the mix — that’s a day, maybe a day and a half of real effort. The overnight scan did the same job in twenty to thirty minutes of processing time while I wasn’t even at my desk.
That’s not a small efficiency gain. That’s the difference between copy review being a task I dread and put off, and one I run every time I make a change of any size. I’m building toward doing this work from anywhere, on my own hours — that only works if the fine-detail tasks that used to eat a full day stop needing a full day.
This Isn’t Just for My Own Sites
I do this on my own build first because it’s the fastest way to test whether something actually works before I bring it into client work. It does. The same method applies to any site with more than a couple of pages — a rebrand that didn’t fully land everywhere, a pricing change that’s still showing the old number on one page, a legal update that missed a footer link. Anywhere copy has to be consistent across more pages than one person can comfortably hold in their head at once, this is worth running.
I Still Check the Report Myself
I don’t take the report as gospel. Claude can get things wrong — that’s true of any AI tool, and it’s worth saying plainly instead of pretending otherwise. Standard practice for me now: I keep the page open in my browser next to the report and confirm each flagged item against what’s actually live before I change anything.
The tool doesn’t replace the check. It replaces the hours I used to spend finding what needed checking.
Where to Start If You Want to Try This
Don’t set up the full overnight scan first. Start smaller: screenshot one page of your own site, drop it into a Claude conversation along with whatever brand or messaging notes you have, and ask directly — does anything here not match what I actually want this to say? That’s the whole method, scaled down to five minutes.
If it catches something, you’ll know immediately whether it’s worth building into a habit. I cleaned up a full site rebrand this way — you can read more about keeping a WordPress build clean and current here. And if you’re not sure whether your own systems have this kind of drift built up, the Readiness Quiz is a fast way to find out where to start.
My dyslexia used to mean every piece of copy I published needed a second pair of eyes I didn’t always have time to ask for. Now that second pair of eyes runs overnight, without me.
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