A method where people and AI make each other better, instead of competing or making each other worse. Three checks, Assumptions, Biases and Complexity, show the hidden thinking on both sides before an answer becomes a decision you cannot undo.
For leaders · Why now
AI has changed how work gets done. How leaders decide has to change too.
Each check has its own moment. Choose A, B, C or the return step to see what to ask and the research behind it.
The AI fills every gap with a likely default. A default can look like a checked fact.
“List the assumptions your answer depends on. Which one, if wrong, changes the recommendation?”
A model also fills a vague brief with the most likely meaning. Ask it what it assumed, then check.
In a brain-imaging study, people’s brains prepared a picture of what they expected to see before the image appeared.
Kok, Mostert & de Lange, 2017AI writes polished text before anyone has checked the evidence. Polish is not proof.
People judged the same statements as true more often when the statements were easier to read.
Reber & Schwarz, 1999Research-informed, not a lab result: none of these studies tested ABC.
How to use it at work
Not every AI answer needs a meeting. Use the one-minute check on daily drafts and analysis. Step up to the six-step decision loop when a choice is expensive or hard to reverse.
Three questions · ~60 seconds
Run in your head or in one follow-up prompt before forwarding an AI draft or recommendation.
Six steps · Written record
Wraps A, B and C inside clear ownership, a dated forecast, and a reality review so teams learn.
“…that ABC, which I really, really loved in your book…”
Run the free interactive map in your browser in two minutes, or bring a live decision to a team session.