Triage sheet · run it on next quarter's content plan
Generate, record, or cut
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List what you were going to publish this quarter. Answer the four questions for each line, then read the decision rule at the bottom. The point is not to ban a tool — it is to stop spending human hours on work that is now free, and to move those hours onto the things that require someone to have been there.

The piece you planned A · Substance already exists? B · Needs someone to have been there? C · Can a named person be accountable? D · Would a buyer want to check it? Decision
The decision rule
Generate
A yes, B no. The substance exists and you are reshaping it: outlines, summaries, variants, alt text, translation, format conversion. Spend minutes, not days.
Record
B and C yes. Somebody has to have been there and can be named: customer outcomes, founder decisions, an employee's actual day, the objection you always get.
Cut
D no. Nobody would ever want to check it, which means nobody needed it. Publishing it adds volume and no value — the definition Google's scaled-content policy actually uses.

Column C is the one that matters. A model can write a customer story; it cannot be a customer, be named as a source, be cross-examined, or consent. Those are properties of a witness, not of a writer — and no improvement in fluency produces them.

Disclosure line · fill this in and hold yourself to it
☐ We disclose generation wherever the reader's trust depends on provenance.
☐ No generated words in a customer's mouth — including paraphrase, including quotes they would approve.
☐ Every sentence in quotation marks was said out loud, on a recording we still hold. Retention: ________ months
Re-run once a quarter. The Record column grows; the Generate column gets faster. Free to copy and use · seventhslate.com/blog/storytelling-ai-era