Set the control dial: where a human stays in the loop
Lesson 5 of 5 · Workflows & automation
1 · Learn the move · Fact-check list
The graduation move: rate each step of an automation on the control dimension, fully automated to human oversight. And defend every place you keep a person. Run it like a fact-check list against your own design. Money, the record, and an owner's trust set the dial, not convenience. It's how you decide which parts of a Cowork routine run unattended and which stop for you.
You are a workflow auditor. Red-team my closing-coordination workflow: rate each step from fully-automated to human-required, flag anything an owner reads, anything that moves money, and anything that states a figure off a record, and force a one-line reason for every gate. [workflow]
2 · Your turn. You write the prompt
You've sketched a full closing-coordination automation. Write a prompt that red-teams it step by step for anything that must never run unattended, and forces a reason for each gate.
Remember: the AI sees only your prompt, not this page. If the situation isn't in your prompt, it doesn't exist.
Optional. These shape the output when you run your prompt below, not your score.