Draft and review
Prepare a bounded draft while keeping evidence checks and final ownership human.
Purpose
Prepare a bounded draft while keeping evidence checks and final ownership human. The workflow is acceptable only while its evidence, permission, review, and stop boundaries remain true.
Prerequisites
- A named sender who owns the message and knows the facts.
- A written brief listing audience, purpose, confirmed facts, and forbidden content.
- Acceptance criteria the sender can check in minutes.
Worked example
Brief (input). Audience: existing customers of a scheduling app. Purpose: announce maintenance. Confirmed facts: F1 window is 14 November, 02:00–04:00 UTC; F2 calendar sync pauses during the window. Must not: promise compensation or give unconfirmed dates.
Draft excerpt (output). “Scheduled maintenance on 14 November from 02:00 to 04:00 UTC will pause calendar sync. Bookings made during the window will sync automatically afterwards.”
Claim review.
| Draft claim | Brief support | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Window is 14 November, 02:00–04:00 UTC | F1 | Pass |
| Calendar sync pauses | F2 | Pass |
| Bookings sync automatically afterwards | None | Reject: confirm with the engineering owner or delete |
Procedure
- Write the brief before generating: audience, purpose, numbered confirmed facts, and forbidden content.
- Supply only the brief and approved reference text; do not let the draft depend on model memory for facts.
- Generate the draft, then list every factual claim in it and map each claim to a numbered brief fact.
- Delete or confirm any claim without a brief fact; check tone and forbidden content against the criteria.
- The sender reads the final text and sends it themselves, recording who approved it.
Deterministic and review checks
- Every factual claim maps to a numbered brief fact; unmapped claims fail.
- Dates, times, names, and figures match the brief exactly.
- No forbidden content appears, such as an unapproved promise.
A case that must fail
The automatic-sync sentence above is plausible but absent from the brief. It fails review even though the rest of the draft passes.
Human boundary
The sender owns accuracy and the decision to send. The workflow drafts only; it has no permission to send, schedule, or publish.
Stop and escalation
- Do not publish automatically.
- Stop when source facts are missing.