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Module · What leaves the team unchecked
The Team Review Discipline Check
AI lets your team produce more than it can read. The risk is not that the work is bad, it is that nobody looked before it shipped. This module checks the five parts of a review habit that hold under volume: whether a gate exists at all, how deeply you sample, who is accountable, whether caught errors change the prompts, and whether scrutiny survives a deadline.
What the five levels look like
Every dimension in this assessment is scored 1 to 5. This is what the levels mean, dimension by dimension. The graded report diagnoses where your own answers land and what to do about it.
A review gate exists
- 1No gate at all
- 2Reviewed if remembered
- 3Gate for some work
- 4Gate for outbound work
- 5Gated, risk-tiered
At the low end: Work leaving the team unreviewed means the first person to catch an error is the customer. Define one line: nothing AI-touched goes outside without a named human reading it first. What good looks like: A risk-tiered gate is the right shape: heavy review where it matters, light touch where it does not. Keep the tiers written down so they do not quietly erode under load.
Sampling is deep enough
- 1Nobody reads it
- 2Skim for tone
- 3Spot-check surface
- 4Check the substance
- 5Depth scaled to risk
At the low end: Unread output is unreviewed output with extra steps. Pick the highest-stakes stream and have someone verify the substance of every item this week; the error rate will tell you how big the problem is. What good looks like: Substantive review scaled to risk is what makes AI volume safe. Keep sampling the low-risk streams occasionally too; that is how you notice when the model quietly gets worse.
A reviewer is accountable
- 1Nobody owns it
- 2Blame the tool
- 3Author owns loosely
- 4Named reviewer signs
- 5Sign-off logged
At the low end: When no human owns the output, review is theatre. Assign a named reviewer to each outbound stream so that shipping it is a person's decision, not the model's. What good looks like: Logged sign-off means every piece of work has a person behind it. Use the log when something slips: not to punish, but to find which part of the review missed it.
Errors feed the prompts
- 1Fixed and forgotten
- 2Mentioned in passing
- 3Fixed per person
- 4Shared informally
- 5Folded into prompts
At the low end: Fixing an error without changing the prompt guarantees you fix it again next week. Start a shared note: every recurring mistake gets one line and a prompt tweak. What good looks like: Feeding errors back into shared prompts is how a team compounds instead of repeating. Review the prompt library on a cadence; retire the fixes that the model no longer needs.
Scrutiny survives deadlines
- 1First thing cut
- 2Skipped quietly
- 3Shortened informally
- 4Protected minimum
- 5Held under pressure
At the low end: A review that vanishes on deadline day is exactly the review you needed most. Define a minimum check that is never cut, however tight the schedule. What good looks like: Review that holds under a deadline is a real discipline. Protect it by sizing the minimum check to be fast enough that skipping it never saves meaningful time.