Use AI to review your work for assumptions you forgot to explain to someone new.

You've written something — a guide, instructions, a proposal, a handoff document. It makes perfect sense to you. But you've been living in this project for weeks. You know the backstory, the acronyms, the unwritten context. A new reader won't. And they'll get confused or ask the same basic questions you could've answered upfront. Before you share your work, use AI to flag what you're assuming people already know. It'll spot jargon you forgot to define, steps you skipped because they seemed obvious, or context that only makes sense if you were in last month's meeting. This catches the invisible gaps that slow people down. Step 1: Paste your draft into ChatGPT. Step 2: Ask it to read your document as if it's someone totally new to this topic — a new hire, a different department, or someone who wasn't in the loop. Step 3: Request a list of anything that would confuse a first-time reader: unexplained terms, missing background, unclear references. Step 4: Review the AI's feedback and add a sentence or two wherever something needs unpacking. Step 5: Paste the updated version back in and ask if it's now clear to someone unfamiliar. Step 6: Make final tweaks and send it with confidence that no one will reply asking what you meant.

March 6, 2026