Watch a check run
A template checks a draft one check at a time. Each check passes or fails, and a failed check shows its fix. Pick a template, then watch.
A check runSample
Draft email: plan for the new client portal
1Can you approve the portal plan by Thursday, so we can book the developers?
2The pilot cut support calls by 18%, based on the June usage report.
3We will have the portal delivered in two weeks, ready for the board meeting.
4Cost stays at $42,000, as in the approved budget sheet.
Every number matches the sourceWaiting
Every claim names where it came fromWaiting
The ask is in the first paragraphWaiting
No promise the team cannot keepWaiting
Under one pageWaiting
Four kinds of checks
Writing a good checkCompare to the source
Numbers, names and quotes must match what you gave it.Counted automaticallySampleSource: Budget: $42,000Draft: Cost stays at $42,000.MatchesSource: Pilot cut calls by 18%Draft: The pilot cut calls by 30%.Does not matchChecklist
Yes or no items: is every part there, in the right shape?Counted automaticallySample- The ask is in the first paragraphYes
- A deadline is namedYes
- The cost is statedNo
Scoring guide
Rate it against what good looks like, with the evidence.A second look by the AISampleThe summary leads with the bottom lineWeakPartlyStrongEvidence: The decision needed shows up in the third paragraph, not the first.A person looks
The points where your judgment has to come in.You check this oneSampleWe will have the portal delivered in two weeks.You lookIs this a promise the team can keep? Only you and the team know.
What a failed check does
- 1The check names the problemIt says which check failed and which lines it looked at.
- 2It shows the fixIt says what to change or who to ask. It does not change the draft for you.
- 3You decideYou change it, or you keep it and know why. Either way nothing slips through unseen.
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