How to review AI drafts without waving them through

Review is now the job

On a platform where AI does the making, the working day changes. Less time goes to blank pages, and more goes to reading what has been prepared and deciding. Review done well is fast and catches what matters. Review done badly becomes a reflex tap on 'approve', and the gate exists in name only. A short, fixed checklist is the difference.

The four-pass check

Run the passes in this order, because a wrong fact outweighs a clumsy phrase.

• Facts. Price, date, time, address, stock, link. AI drafts sound confident whether or not they are right, so check against the source and not against your memory.
• Voice. Would one of your regulars believe it came from you? Cut the words your business would never use.
• Visuals. Look at the product, any lettering in the image, hands and faces, and the first second of a video.
• The ask. A single next step, with a link that lands on exactly that page.

Extra checks by type

Some drafts need one more question.

• Replies. Has the customer's actual question been answered? Is the tone right for someone who is annoyed?
• Ad drafts. Read the cost for the month before you look at the creative. Confirm the end date.
• Reports. Do the numbers match what you can see in the platform? Is the recommendation one you would act on?
• Plans. Does the week collide with anything the AI could not have known?

How to send a draft back

Vague feedback gets a vague second draft. Name the one thing to change and the reason. 'Use the weekday price, the weekend price is wrong here' is better than 'not quite right'. Keep a note of the corrections you make again and again. They are the house rules to state at the start next time.

A routine that keeps it short

Review in set sessions instead of reacting to every notification. As an illustration, a café owner might look at posts and the plan once in the morning, at reply drafts mid-morning and mid-afternoon, and at an ad draft only when sitting down, never while serving. Batch the low-risk items. Read the high-risk ones singly.

If you notice you have approved ten items in a row without changing one, slow down and read the next one properly. Either the drafts are very good or you have stopped looking.

Where Link AI fits

Reviewing is the job that Link AI by Linkme, the agent we recommend, leaves to you. On Linkme's page Link AI drafts your posts and your replies, creates the content and prepares Meta ad drafts labelled 'Needs review'. Your part is summed up in three words: 'You just approve.'

It is a chat interface, so ask in the demo how a correction is given and whether it carries over to later drafts. This reference does not state that. Try Link AI in a demo, ask for a post, and send it back once with a specific change to see what returns. The list of what must be reviewed is in what needs human approval.

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