Skip to content
Doing Better with AI
Course Beginner 7 chapters 20 min read

Know When to Trust What AI Tells You

Evaluate AI output you can rely on

You’re past the beginner stage with AI. You use it several times a week for anything from research and content to strategy, client work, and admin. But lately, you’ve been getting more frustrated with the amount of time you spend fixing output: a statistic that didn’t hold up, a recommendation that missed something obvious about your market, an idea AI called strong that a colleague later questioned. AI delivers wrong answers and poor recommendations with the same confident tone as correct ones

What you'll be able to do

  • Know within minutes whether an AI output is safe to act on, or whether it needs a closer look first.
  • Spot the three specific ways AI misleads you (false confidence, sycophancy, and missing context) before they shape a decision you can't easily undo.
  • Get AI to lay out its own reasoning and name what it assumed about your business, instead of taking a polished answer at face value.
  • Make AI argue against its own answer, so you catch the weak spots before a client or a customer does.
  • Scan any AI output in about two minutes with a checklist that tells you whether to trust it, adjust it, or verify it.
  • Walk away with your own Personal Evaluation Protocol, a written rulebook for exactly how much checking each type of AI task needs.

Chapters

  1. 1 Introduction 3 min read Free
  2. 2 Know What You’re Looking For 4 min read 🔒
  3. 3 Make AI Show Its Work 3 min read 🔒
  4. 4 Push Until AI Disagrees With Itself 3 min read 🔒
  5. 5 Run the Red-Flag Checklist 3 min read 🔒
  6. 6 Build Your Personal Evaluation Protocol 3 min read 🔒
  7. 7 Next Steps 1 min read 🔒

Included resources

  • Learn

    AI Trust Workbook

    Workbook · fill in online, export as PDF

  • Learn

    AI Trust Cheat Sheet

    Cheat sheet · read on site

Workbooks are filled in on the site and exported with your answers. Included with a Learn plan.

Next on the path

The Business Blueprint

Write your business down once, and stop explaining it from scratch — to a designer, a proposal, or an AI

Continue →

See the whole path

Read the whole course

The first chapter is free. A Learn plan opens the rest — and the workbook.

No card required to start.

Hi there. Have a question? Message us here. Have a question?

Have a question?

Enter your question below and Jatinder will get back to you.