You will be able to place each task in one of three zones and set the check each zone needs.
Marcus from lesson 8.2 now has scores for his Monday tasks. The client status updates scored high on all three questions. The volume report scored low on checkability and fit. The complaint reply scored well but he chose to keep it for the relationship. Scores are useful, but on a busy morning he does not want to look up numbers. He wants to glance at a task and know what to do with it.
That is what zones are for. Every task goes into one of three, and each zone comes with its own kind of check. Three is enough to be useful and few enough to remember.
The first zone is for tasks you can hand over: AI does the work and you give it a light check before it goes anywhere. These are tasks that scored high on all three questions. They are quick to check, cheap if wrong and a good fit for what models do.
Typical examples are reformatting, such as turning meeting notes into a table or a list of names into a tidy email; first drafts of routine messages, such as a meeting reminder, a polite chaser or an out-of-office reply; and summarising your own notes, where you know what the original said.
Handing over does not mean skipping the check. It means the check is short and specific. For a routine message, read it once before sending and confirm that names, dates and amounts match what you meant. For a reformatted table, compare the row count with the original and spot-check a few entries. Write down the check you will run, so it does not quietly shrink to nothing over time.
The second zone is for tasks you work together on. AI drafts, suggests or critiques, and you decide what stays. These are tasks that matter enough to carry your name, where the AI can save real time on the writing but cannot be trusted with the facts or the judgement.
Reports, plans, proposals, presentations and analysis you will put your name to all belong here. Marcus's quarterly review notes are a good example. He can ask an assistant to draft the structure, suggest questions the client might ask, and point out weak spots in his argument, as lesson 4.3 recommended. The figures, the conclusions and the recommendations are his.
The check here is heavier. Every factual claim gets the routine from lesson 6.3, with numbers checked against your own records and sources opened. Any conclusion should be one you could defend without the AI's help. A useful test is to ask yourself whether you would be comfortable explaining each line to your manager in person.
The third zone is for tasks you keep: AI plays no part, or only a very small one you control fully, such as checking your grammar after the thinking is done.
Three kinds of task tend to land here. The first involves confidential data you are not allowed to share with an outside tool. That covers client records, staff details or anything covered by your company's policy or the PDPA, unless your company has approved a specific tool for it. Next come final decisions about people: who to hire, who to promote, whose contract to end, how to rate someone's performance. AI can help you organise your thoughts, but the decision and the reasons belong to a person. The last kind is anything you cannot check. If you have no way to tell whether the output is right, you cannot use it safely, however good it looks.
Some tasks also stay here for the reasons in lesson 8.2: your signature, your professional licence, or a relationship that needs your own words.
Zones are not permanent. Models improve, and a task that sat outside the jagged frontier in lesson 8.1 may move inside it. Your own checks also teach you things. If the light check on a handed-over task keeps finding errors, move it to work together. If months of working together on a task show the AI's drafts rarely need more than small edits, consider handing it over.
Put a reminder in your calendar to look again every three or four months. Each time, ask what errors your checks found, and whether the tools you use have changed. The map is only useful if it matches what is true now.
When Marcus placed his tasks, the status updates went to hand over, with a check on names and shipment dates. The quarterly review notes went to work together, and the volume report and the complaint reply stayed with him. Ten tasks from your own week is enough for a first pass, and the check you write beside each one matters as much as the zone you choose.
Place ten of your tasks into the three zones and write the specific check you will run on each task in the first two zones.
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