Expert Letter Studio helped me ask better questions of my letter writers

The thing that actually helped wasn't the drafting itself, it was the structured prompts pushing me to ask my letter writers for specifics instead of general praise — which, per another post in this community, is exactly the difference between a testimonial and real evidence. Concretely: instead of emailing a former collaborator "would you be willing to write me a reference letter," I sent a more specific ask — could you speak to the actual outcome of the project we worked on together, and what changed because of the specific contribution I made. That framing got me a genuinely stronger letter than my first, more generic ask did on an earlier draft. One thing worth knowing going in: it doesn't write the letter for your letter-writer, and it shouldn't — a letter that reads like it was generated rather than written by the person who supposedly wrote it is a real credibility risk. What it's actually good for is helping you, the petitioner, ask for the right things.