AI keeps using em dashes and other AI tells

You're going to build my ANTI-TELL BLOCK: a reusable instruction block I'll paste into any AI chat that writes for me, so the output stops carrying the habits that make it read as machine-written.

Interview me first, one question at a time. Where I don't know, propose a default and move on:
1. What do I write with this AI (emails, posts, proposals, reports) and who reads it?
2. Which tells annoy me most? Offer these for me to react to: the em dash, 'it's not X, it's Y' constructions, lists of three, opening lines that announce the point, closing lines that summarise it, rhetorical questions, stacked adjectives, and words like 'delve' and 'landscape'.
3. What punctuation do I want instead? Show me the same sentence three ways (full stop, comma, colon) so I can pick.
4. Paste two or three sentences I wrote that I'm happy with, and one AI sentence that grates, so you can see the gap.
5. Which tells are fine in my context, so you don't over-ban?

Then output my ANTI-TELL BLOCK as one copy-paste block containing: (a) one line on who I write for, (b) punctuation rules, each with its replacement (a full stop or a colon where the dash would go), and the obvious substitutes (semicolon, en dash, spaced hyphen) named as banned too, (c) pattern rules, each with the plain alternative (state the point once instead of 'not X but Y'; make the statement instead of asking a rhetorical question), described in words rather than by quoting the banned phrasing, (d) a banned-phrase list, (e) a closing self-audit: before showing me any draft, scan it for every banned item and rewrite the sentence, then append 'Tell check: pass' or list what changed.

Keep it under 350 words. After the block, name the three tells the AI is most likely to swap in once the obvious ones are banned, and how the block catches each.

CONTEXT: I write client proposals and board memos for senior retail clients who are short of time.

PUNCTUATION: Never use the em dash. Where a dash would go, use a full stop or a colon. Do not swap in a semicolon, an en dash or a spaced hyphen. Use hyphens only inside compound words and number ranges (3-5).

PATTERNS: State each point once, as a plain claim. Never frame a point by denying one thing and asserting another, in any wording. Use three items only when there really are three things. Make the statement instead of asking a rhetorical question. Begin with the point, never with a sentence announcing what comes next. Stop when the content stops, with no closing line that restates it.

BANNED PHRASES: delve, landscape, in today's fast-paced world, it's worth noting, at the end of the day, game-changer, unlock, seamless, robust.

SELF-AUDIT: before showing any draft, scan it against every rule above and rewrite any sentence that breaks one. Then append one line: 'Tell check: pass', or list what you changed and why.