Built for the Friction Hackathon

Stop rushing.
Think first.

Every vague prompt is a missed opportunity. Pause intercepts weak prompts in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and more — asking the questions you forgot to ask yourself.

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The problem

Vague prompts get generic answers

Most people type the first thing that comes to mind. AI tools reward specificity. The gap between what you typed and what you meant is where bad outputs are born.

Without Pause
"write an email to my professor"

The AI writes a generic, formal email missing context about who you are, what the situation is, what tone you need, and what you actually want the professor to do. You'll probably rewrite it anyway.

With Pause
"Write a formal email to my lecturer Dr. Rahman as a 3rd-year CSE student at BUET, informing him I'll miss tomorrow's lab due to illness, keeping it professional and under 100 words."

Pause asked 3 questions. You answered in 30 seconds. The AI now has everything it needs to write something you'll actually use.

How it works

Four steps to a better prompt

01

Type your prompt

Write whatever comes to mind in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini. Pause watches the input field.

02

Click Pause

Hit the ⏸ button that appears inside the input. Pause captures your draft and opens instantly.

03

Answer smart questions

Adaptive AI-generated questions fill in the gaps — one at a time, each informed by your previous answer.

04

Use the improved prompt

One click replaces your draft with a precision-crafted prompt, tailored to the specific AI model you're using.

Live demo

Try it — improve any prompt instantly

Type a prompt, pick your target AI, and Pause asks you clarifying questions — then rewrites your prompt the same way the extension does.

⏸ Pause — Prompt Improver

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Target AI:
0% — Vague
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help me write an email
fix my code
write a cover letter for a job
explain machine learning
make a business plan
Real examples

Built for students & professionals

Pause was designed with Bangladeshi students and professionals in mind — the everyday situations where a precise prompt makes a real difference.

University

Missing class email

Write to your lecturer about missing a class due to illness.

"write an email to my professor"
↓ Pause asked 3 questions
"Write a formal email to Dr. Rahman as a 3rd-year CSE student at BUET, apologising for missing tomorrow's OOP lab due to fever, requesting the lab materials, formal tone, under 100 words."
Career

CV & cover letter

Apply for a job or internship at a local or foreign company.

"help me write a cover letter"
↓ Pause asked 4 questions
"Write a cover letter for a Junior Frontend Developer role at Shajgoj. I'm a recent CSE graduate from NSU with React and Tailwind experience. Tone: confident but humble. Length: 3 paragraphs."
Freelance

Client proposal

Win a project on Fiverr or Upwork with a targeted proposal.

"write a proposal for a client"
↓ Pause asked 4 questions
"Write a Upwork proposal for a Shopify store redesign project. I'm a Bangladeshi freelancer with 3 years' Shopify experience. Client needs fast load time and mobile responsiveness. Tone: professional, show ROI focus. 150 words."
Research basis

Built on peer-reviewed science

Pause's question generation isn't guesswork. Every design decision is grounded in published research on how humans clarify ambiguous requests.

SIGIR 2025 · AT-CoT

Classify ambiguity before asking

Pause scans each prompt for the exact type of gap — WHO, WHAT, HOW, WHY, or SCOPE — before generating a question. This prevents asking about the wrong thing.

more relevant questions than random generation
ACL 2024 · CLAMBER

The wrong question is worse than none

CLAMBER identified 8 ambiguity types and found that 52% of clarification failures happen because the model asked about the wrong aspect entirely.

52%
of failures from asking the wrong thing
ICLR 2025 · STaR-GATE

3–5 questions is the sweet spot

STaR-GATE showed maximum clarification value peaks at 3–5 questions. More questions create fatigue. Pause enforces this with a hard cap and early-stop signals.

3–5
optimal questions per session
+47pts
avg. prompt score improvement
8
AI platforms supported
3–5
targeted questions per prompt
0ms
scoring latency (local heuristic)
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Works on ChatGPT · Claude · Grok · Gemini · Perplexity · Copilot · Mistral · Poe