Use AI to review your document for hidden assumptions that confuse readers who lack your context.

You've been working on something for days or weeks — a proposal, a plan, a recommendation, a summary. You know it inside and out. But here's the problem: you're too close to it. You've made assumptions about what people already know, skipped over explanations that seem obvious to you, or used shorthand that makes perfect sense in your head but nowhere else. When someone outside your context reads it, they get lost — and you don't find out until it's too late. Before you send your document out, use AI to role-play as a reader who wasn't in the room for all your conversations and decisions. Ask it to flag anywhere you've assumed knowledge, skipped a step, or used terminology without defining it. This helps you catch the gaps that make readers confused, annoyed, or unable to act on what you've written. Step 1: Paste your draft into ChatGPT and tell it to read as someone unfamiliar with your project or context. Step 2: Ask it to identify any assumptions you've made — things you didn't explain because they seemed obvious to you. Step 3: Review the list and ask AI to suggest one or two sentences you could add to clarify each assumption. Step 4: Ask it to flag any acronyms, jargon, or internal terms that an outside reader might not understand. Step 5: Revise your document by adding the missing context, definitions, or explanations that make it readable for someone new. Step 6: Paste the updated version back in and ask AI: 'Does this make sense to someone who wasn't involved in this project?' Adjust based on its feedback.

March 6, 2026