THE FIVE SCOPING QUESTIONS
Draw the AI/human boundary first

Answer in writing. Twenty to thirty minutes.

1. WHAT AM I PRODUCING?
Name the deliverable specifically — not "a market analysis"
but length, contents, audience, and deadline.

2. WHAT'S THE QUALITY BAR?
Name what good enough looks like: "sendable to the client
without embarrassment" / "publishable under my name" /
"good enough to think with."

3. GIVEN THAT BAR, WHAT CAN AI RELIABLY CONTRIBUTE?
Drafting from my structure · transformation between formats ·
extraction · pattern recognition in known domains · code
under supervision · expansion of my points · summarization.
Which of these apply here?

4. WHERE'S THE HUMAN-ONLY CONTRIBUTION?
Novel reasoning · judgment only an expert in this can make ·
anything I can't verify. Which parts of this project are those?
(Be honest — under-claiming this list is the expensive move.)

5. THE BOUNDARY, EXPLICITLY STATED
One or two sentences naming where AI's contribution ends and
mine begins. Write it down. Pin it to the top of the
working doc.

From "Before You Build" - topfiveaitech.com/worksheets