In September 2026, LinkedIn began surfacing Post Proofreader to Premium members — a feature that reviews, shortens, or clarifies a draft you wrote, replacing the discontinued AI "post enhancement" that rewrote posts outright.
2026-09-21 · by Moe Ameen
In September 2026, LinkedIn began rolling out Post Proofreader, a writing feature for Premium members, and confirmed the change in its own Help Center; Social Media Today reported it on September 20, 2026. LinkedIn's description is narrow on purpose: "Use Post Proofreader to review, shorten, or clarify a post draft before publishing." It replaces the AI-powered "post enhancement" tool LinkedIn pulled the prior month — the one that rewrote your post with AI and let you drop the result straight into an update. LinkedIn's older help page for that tool now reads that its "AI-powered writing tool is not available at this time," with a promise of new tooling "in the near future."
How it works is deliberately hands-on. Inside the post composer, an eligible Premium member picks one of three options — Review, Shorten, or Clarify — and Post Proofreader returns suggested edits in a pop-up. You accept the changes, which drop into your draft, or close the window to keep your original wording, and a regenerate option offers an alternative when available. LinkedIn notes several limits: the feature supports English-language drafts only for now, manual editing is blocked while you are reviewing suggestions, and any suggestions you do not resolve disappear if you close the proofreader or discard the post. LinkedIn also states that your draft is used to generate the suggestions and that feedback may be used to improve the experience.
The rename is the story. The old tool generated language — it could produce a post that did not originate with the person publishing it, which is exactly the behavior behind the "AI slop" complaints LinkedIn has spent 2026 trying to contain. (Its "Seems like AI slop" report button passed a million uses within about three weeks of launch.) Post Proofreader reframes the assist as polishing your own words rather than manufacturing new ones: review, shorten, clarify — not "write this for me." As with any staged rollout, availability and the exact behavior of each option may still be settling; LinkedIn's Help Center is the source of truth.
Post Proofreader is a sensible last-mile edit for one LinkedIn post: review, shorten, clarify, publish. What it cannot do is produce that post, and it cannot touch the eight other feeds you are expected to fill. [Kompozy](/) works the production side of that line — and it is built to keep AI-assisted content on the human-sounding side of LinkedIn's crackdown rather than tripping it.
Bring one source into Kompozy — a talk, a client win, a long post you are proud of — and a [Persona Brief](/glossary/persona-brief) locks your voice, phrasing, and banned words so every output reads like you, not a template. From that source Kompozy generates the whole set: text posts and document-style carousels sized for LinkedIn, [Clipped Shorts](/glossary/clipped-short) and captioned [Persona Shorts](/glossary/persona-shorts), quote graphics, a blog write-up, and a newsletter. [Autopilot](/glossary/autopilot) then schedules and publishes across the eight social platforms plus blog and email, with every piece clearing a per-post review gate before it goes out. Use Post Proofreader to polish the single LinkedIn draft; use Kompozy to generate and distribute the week — and to keep it sounding human at a volume no manual proofread could cover.
A LinkedIn Premium writing feature that reviews, shortens, or clarifies a post draft before you publish. It shows suggested edits in a pop-up you can accept or dismiss, and it edits text you wrote rather than generating a new post. It currently supports English-language drafts only.
The earlier post-enhancement tool generated or rewrote your post with AI and let you apply the result directly. LinkedIn discontinued it and replaced it with Post Proofreader, which is intentionally narrower — it polishes your existing wording (review, shorten, clarify) instead of writing the post for you, a shift aimed at reducing AI-generated "slop."
It is available to eligible LinkedIn Premium members, so it requires a paid Premium subscription rather than a separate charge. It is English-only for now and works inside the LinkedIn post composer.
No. Post Proofreader only edits a single LinkedIn draft on LinkedIn. To turn one idea into on-brand posts across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, and more — plus blog and email — you need a generation-and-publishing engine such as Kompozy.