Catch AI's Mistakes Before Your Client Does
AI sounds equally sure when it is right and when it made something up. Here is a short check that catches the second kind.
It sounds sure either way
The risk with AI isn't that it writes badly. It writes well, and it sounds just as confident when it invents something as when it's right. A draft that reads clean can still say a house has a new roof that you never mentioned.
For an agent, that matters more than for most people. A client message with a made-up number or a wrong detail about a property is your name on it.
The three mistakes worth looking for
Facts you didn't give it. Numbers, prices, square footage, school names and market stats that look right and came from nowhere. This is the one to check first.
Language that isn't yours. A draft that suddenly says "we're thrilled" when you never write that way. Clients notice, even when they can't say why.
Fair Housing problems. Phrases that describe who should live in a home instead of the home itself, like "perfect for a growing family" or "walking distance to church." AI writes these without noticing, because listing copy is full of them.
Make it show its source
The simplest fix is to make every claim point back to something you gave it. Add this to the end of any draft request, or run it as a second pass.
Add to any draft
For every number, price, or claim about a property or the market in this draft, quote the exact line from what I gave you that supports it. If you can't find one, mark it UNSUPPORTED. Don't fix anything yet, just list them.
An unsupported line is either something you forgot to tell it or something it made up. Either way you know where to look.
Then have it review the whole draft
Start a fresh chat for this. If you ask the same chat that wrote the draft to judge it, it tends to agree with itself.
The prompt
Review this draft before I read it. Check it against my voice file and these standards: [your rules, e.g. "no exclamation points," "always include my phone number," "never mention price in writing"] Give me: 1. A verdict: send as is, small fixes, or needs a rewrite 2. Every specific problem, quoted, with a fix 3. Anything that could be a factual, legal, or Fair Housing problem, flagged first Don't rewrite the whole thing. Just flag and fix. Draft: [paste]
Putting the risky problems first means you look at those while you're still fresh, not after you've skimmed the nice parts.
You still read it
This is a second set of eyes, not the only set. Anything that goes to a client, you read once yourself first, with the numbers next to your source. It takes a minute, and it's the minute that keeps a small mistake from becoming a story you tell later.
What it won't do
A check catches mistakes in drafts you asked for. It doesn't decide who to write to this week. In Full Circle, I draft each message in your voice and you approve every one before it goes out, so nothing reaches a client you haven't seen.