Sign-off checklist by risk level
Decide the stakes first, then apply the checks that level deserves: a read-through for low-risk drafts, claim-checking for anything that leaves your team, and full tracing and second review for the high-stakes work.
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# Sign-off checklist for AI-assisted work
Checking everything to the same standard is as unhelpful as checking nothing.
Decide the stakes first, then apply the checks that level deserves.
## Step 1: decide the level
Ask three questions:
1. **Who will see it?** Just you, your team, a client, the public, a regulator, a court?
2. **What happens if it's wrong?** Embarrassment, wasted time, lost money, harm to someone, legal exposure?
3. **Can it be corrected easily?** A published claim, a signed contract or a sent invoice is hard to take back.
| Level | Typical examples |
|---|---|
| Low | Personal notes, first drafts, brainstorms, internal agendas, rewording your own text |
| Medium | Customer emails, internal reports, social posts, meeting summaries others will rely on |
| High | Contracts, quotes and invoices, published claims, anything legal, financial, medical or safety-related, anything about a named person, board papers, regulatory submissions |Shortened for the page. The download is the complete file with every fact filled in and dated.
