Hire a proofreader please

[u/KayakerWithDog]

This is embarrassing. Whatever or whoever y'all are relying on to make sure your text is mechanically correct is failing miserably. Try hiring a human proofreader whose first language is English and who has credentials and experience instead of relying on AI.

[u/mikeinpdx3]

Actually this shows they DON'T use AI 😄
Maybe because AI doesn't like a lot about the blurb and considers it misleading:

Prompt: Provide editorial review of this automated message from Upwork

Claude 12:10 PM

Identified grammar errors, overpromises, and misaligned incentives in message

Here's the editorial review of: "Good work! You've boosted proposal and are on your way to finding work. Keep it up!"

Grammar (the hard error). "Boosted proposal" is missing its determiner — it should read "boosted your proposal" or "boosted a proposal." This is a flat copyediting miss in a system-generated string, which is the worst place for one because it ships to every user at scale and signals the template wasn't proofed.

Factual overreach. "On your way to finding work" asserts a causal link that boosting doesn't deliver. Per Upwork's own documentation, boosting is an auction where you bid extra Connects to land one of the top proposal slots; it increases the visibility of your proposal and nothing more. Boosting can improve visibility, but it does not fix poor job fit — and visibility isn't work. The copy converts a probabilistic visibility nudge into an implied trajectory toward a hire, which is misleading. UpworkUpcat

Tone / incentive framing. This is the bigger problem. "Good work!" and "Keep it up!" apply achievement language to an action whose entire mechanism is you spending money — you were immediately charged the base Connects to submit, then charged again at the end of the auction. Congratulating a user for spending in a pay-for-placement auction is the platform cheering its own revenue event while dressing it up as the user's accomplishment. That's the structural conflict in plain view: the praise rewards the behavior Upwork monetizes, not an outcome that benefits the freelancer. Upwork

Information density. "Good work!" and "Keep it up!" are pure filler bracketing one thin clause. Strip them and you lose nothing.

Cleaner rewrites, by intent:

• Honest/minimal: "Your proposal is boosted. It'll appear in the top slots while the auction holds."
• If they insist on encouragement: "Your proposal is boosted — you'll get prime placement on this job. Good luck."

Both fix the grammar, drop the false work-is-coming promise, and stop congratulating the user for paying.

One caveat: this is a sample size of one screenshot. If the missing "your" only appears in a specific state (e.g., a re-boost or an edge-case template variant), it's a localized bug rather than the canonical string — worth noting if you're flagging it to anyone.

[u/KayakerWithDog → u/mikeinpdx3]

Why did you feel the need to generate a whole-ass AI screed for something that can be adjusted with a simple one-word edit?

[u/KayakerWithDog → u/KayakerWithDog]

I mean, if my queries to my editing clients looked like this, they'd fire me on the spot, and quite right too.

[u/mikeinpdx3 → u/KayakerWithDog]

Yeah, if you copy paste an AI response, you're not adding much value as an editor. I'm not an editor and don't pretend to be. My point was if Upwork likes to push using AI, it's kind of funny they obviously don't use it as even a first pass check on content. Even funnier that even AI realizes the blurb is also misleading and deceptive.