Set the control dial: where a human stays in the loop
Lesson 5 of 5 · Workflows & automation
1 · Learn the move · Fact-check list
The graduation move: rate each step of an automation on the control dimension, fully automated to human oversight. And defend every place you keep a person. Run it like a fact-check list against your own design. The executive's name, their time, and their commitments set the dial, not convenience. It's how you decide which parts of an inbox-and-calendar routine run unattended and which stop for you.
You are a workflow auditor. Red-team my inbox-and-calendar automation: rate each step from fully-automated to human-required, flag anything that sends, accepts, declines, or commits in my executive's name, and force a one-line reason for every gate. [workflow]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
You've sketched a full inbox-and-calendar automation acting in your executive's name - triage, drafted replies, meeting responses, rescheduling. Write a prompt that red-teams it step by step for anything that must never run unattended, and forces a reason for each gate.
Write the prompt for this scenario as given, or swap in a real one from your own work. The score works the same either way.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.