What Kinds of Letters and Recipients Can You Use with Heavyweight?

Heavyweight (heavyweight.cc) is a document-formatting tool that produces "important-looking" letters without claiming any legal authority. You can use it for a range of everyday disputes and requests — repair requests, workplace complaints, overdue invoices, security deposit demands — and address them to a recipient you type in yourself, including preset options like Delta, Amazon, Tesla, or a landlord. The tool is built by artist WTTDOTM and lawyer Kendra Albert, and its own tagline is "All of the gravitas, none of the fees."

Recipients you can address

The recipient field is a free-text input, so in practice you can put any name or organization there. The site also surfaces a set of preset recipient options to pick from:

• Custom — type in any recipient yourself
• Delta
• Amazon
• Tesla
• Landlord

Because "Custom" exists alongside the named presets, the presets are shortcuts rather than a closed list. If your target isn't among them, you use Custom.

Topics and letter templates

The "Topic" field defines the subject of the letter. Heavyweight offers both example scenarios and generic templates:

The examples show the intended use cases: a tenant asking a landlord to fix something, an employee raising a workplace issue, or a freelancer chasing an overdue client. The generic templates (Overdue Client, Security Deposit Request) are reusable starting points you adapt to your situation.

Sender details you can customize

Heavyweight lets you shape how the sending party looks, which is where most of the "gravitas" comes from. Fields include:

• Firm — who is sending the letter
• Snootiness — a stylistic control
• # of Partners — how many partners your "firm" has
• Floor — the floor your office is on
• Age of firm — how long the firm has supposedly existed
• You — who the letter is written on behalf of, with title options Mr., Ms., and Mx.

There's also a "source of the names" selector with entries like Mayflower Manifest, Greenwich, CT. Town Representatives, Enron Executives, Equestrian Riders, and Declaration of Independence — these feed the name-generation for the letter.

What you get out

The output is a formatted PDF. The page provides Update PDF and Download PDF actions, plus an Upload Past PDF option to bring in a previous document. The generated letter uses a standard formal structure — recipient name and address, a subject line, "To whom it may concern," a body, and a "Sincerely" sign-off with a name.

The key limitation to keep in mind

Heavyweight's own description is explicit: it "uses the power of document formatting to make important-looking letters that never actually claim legal authority." So the recipient and topic options tell you what the tool is shaped for — consumer complaints, landlord and repair requests, workplace issues, overdue payments, deposit returns — not what it can legally enforce. It's a formatting and presentation tool, not a source of legal weight.

If your goal is a letter that looks serious and formal for a routine dispute, the preset recipients and templates cover the common cases and Custom covers the rest. If you need something with actual legal force, that's outside what this tool claims to do.