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About Onaji.

Onaji is the Japanese word for “equal; alike; equivalent.” It's also the whole point of this product: the voice that leaves your keyboard under your own name should sound, to your readers, like the same person they'd meet in a hallway. The AI stays out of the voice.

i. The Name

同じ: equal, alike, equivalent.

Professionals have never posted more and sounded less like themselves. Feeds are full of identical openings, identical cadences, identical rhetorical habits: a collective tic that nobody asked for and everybody ships. The cause is structural, not moral. The writing tools most people reach for (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and all the rest) have never read a word they've written, so they hand back something generic. Ship it or rewrite it by hand; either way, the tool learns nothing and the next session starts from zero.

Onaji is built around the opposite assumption: the person at the keyboard already has a voice worth publishing. The job is to learn it, steady it, and point it at what's happening in their field this week. Every edit folds back into the Voice Profile, so the next draft is closer than the last. The writer keeps their hand on the pen.

ii. What Onaji Believes

Three principles.

01

Sound like yourself.

A writer who sounds like themselves gets read to the end. A writer who sounds correct gets skipped. Readers decide in the first sentence. Onaji is tuned to that moment specifically.

02

A good tool is invisible.

The best tools don't announce themselves. Onaji disappears into the draft, so the only visible hand on the post is the writer's.

03

The real constraint is rarely writing.

Instead, professionals are stuck on what to write about, on whether it still sounds like them, and on finding thirty minutes between meetings to write in the first place.

iii. How Onaji Works

A Voice Profile, then news, then drafts.

Specimen · Voice Profile
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Six dimensions. Each one a drawer of rules Onaji learns from how you actually write.
i.

Onaji learns how you write.

Paste in a few samples (a long email, a performance review, something posted on a blog) and Onaji builds the Voice Profile above from how you actually structure your thinking. The profile is visible, editable, and yours to steer.

ii.

Onaji watches the news.

Based on the topics you select, Onaji pulls current events from roughly a hundred sources and surfaces the ones worth reacting to. No feed scrolling. No tab hoarding.

iii.

Onaji drafts, then listens.

Pick an article and Onaji hands back a post in your voice. Edit what needs editing. Onaji asks why you made the changes and folds your answers back into the profile, so the next draft is closer than the last.

Over weeks, the drafts stop needing much editing. A quiet milestone, week after week.

iv. House Rules

Some of what Onaji chooses not to do.

No watermark.

Nothing in the output signals that Onaji was used. The post that goes up carries your name, your fingerprints, your professional reputation. The software behind it stays invisible.

No ads.

Onaji sells software to the people who use it. It does not sell their attention, their writing, or their reading habits to anyone else.

No dark patterns.

Pricing is simple. Cancelling takes one click. Plan tiers are named for what they do, not for what sales wants you to buy.

No engagement engineering.

Onaji is not trying to become a platform. It hands back a clean draft and gets out of the way.

No committee roadmap.

Features earn their way in by solving something a real user asked for, not by scoring well in a planning meeting.

v. How Onaji Holds Your Voice

Voice is personal data.

A voice model is closer to a biometric than to a notes file. A pattern detailed enough to sound like you can be used by anyone who has it, including people who aren't you. That changes the stakes of where it lives.

Onaji was built on the assumption that voice is the most identity-relevant data a professional could hand a writing tool. The five practices below are the shape of that assumption in operation.

i.

Names kept separate from voice.

Your Voice Profile, writing samples, and drafts are stored under a random user ID. Your name and email live in a separate table that the product operator has to join them against. A snapshot of voice data on its own doesn't say whose voice is whose.

ii.

Encrypted in transit and at rest.

Your browser refuses unencrypted connections to Onaji for the next two years. The database itself is encrypted, so a stolen backup is unreadable without the key.

iii.

The database refuses cross-user access.

Row-level ownership checks are enforced by the database, not just by Onaji's code. Even if a future bug tried to hand one user's profile to another, the database would refuse the request.

iv.

Every request verified against your login.

No endpoint trusts a user ID sent in the request body. Your session lives in a cookie scripts in your browser can't read, which makes it much harder to steal. Every read or write is checked before anything is returned.

v.

Your writing can't be used to manipulate the AI.

Samples and drafts are wrapped before they're sent into the model, so text like "ignore what you were told" is treated as words on the page, not an instruction. A prompt-injection attempt in one person's sample can't reach across into another person's session.

The full list, in plain language, lives in the privacy policy. The reasoning behind it is in the editorial Your writing voice is personal data.

vi. The Door Is Open

For professionals whose readers should be hearing them.

Onaji is for professionals whose work gets better when their readers actually hear them, in their own voice, without rehearsal, in the places where their field is paying attention.

If that sounds like you, start where the rest of Onaji starts: sign in, paste a few samples, and see the Voice Profile it builds on the other side.