Check this before you approve

Checklists work because they're boring. A five-item list you actually run before every post beats a comprehensive audit you perform once and abandon — the same reason pilots use them. AI-generated content needs one precisely because the drafts are good: fluent writing lowers your guard, and the errors that survive fluency are the expensive kind. A typo embarrasses you; a confident wrong price costs you. The checklist exists for the second category.

Here's the list. Under a minute per post, every post — and "every post" is the load-bearing phrase. A checklist run on the posts that feel risky is a checklist run on the posts that were never the problem.

1. Facts: is every concrete detail one you supplied? The price, the date, the address, the spec. Well-built generation never invents facts — GigaDrip's is instructed to stay qualitative or ask rather than guess — but the check is cheap and the failure isn't. Read every number and proper noun and confirm you recognize its source. A detail you didn't supply is a detail to verify or delete.
2. Claims: does anything promise an outcome? "Best in town," "guaranteed," "results in two weeks" — anything that commits you. If a claim survives this line, it should be because it's true, provable, and one you'd make out loud to a customer's face. Otherwise soften it or cut it; the post survives fine without it.
3. Voice: would you say this sentence out loud? Read it in your speaking voice. If a phrase snags — a word you'd never use, an enthusiasm you don't have — edit the post. And if the same snag keeps appearing across posts, stop patching drafts and fix the voice profile itself; it's editable, and one fix there beats twenty downstream.
4. Platform fit: is this caption doing its platform's job? The Instagram caption should support its image; the X caption should stand completely alone — including surviving the no-link rule, so if it says "tap the link," it fails. If both platforms show the identical caption, someone skipped a step.
5. Compliance: is this the regulated kind of sentence? In real estate, legal, health, or finance, friendly phrasing can be a violation — describing the buyer instead of the property, promising results, implying advice. GigaDrip screens generated copy for these regimes before it reaches your queue, but the screen is a filter, not a signature. You're still the one signing. When a sentence feels borderline, it is; cut it.

Then approve — which, in a well-built workflow, is the same act as scheduling. That's worth appreciating on your way past the button: the check you just ran is the entire membrane between the machine and your audience, which is exactly how it should be designed.

Two habits make the list stick. Run it in order — facts before voice, because a beautifully voiced wrong fact is still wrong, and the fluency is exactly what would have carried it past you. And keep rejection cheap: a draft that fails two items isn't a task, it's a skip. The queue will have another. Reviewers who feel obligated to salvage every draft end up negotiating with their own checklist, and the checklist always loses.

A note on where the list runs best: inside a workflow built for it, where the machine checks — compliance screens, platform sizing, caption limits — ran before the draft reached you. Then your five items are purely the human ones, which is why they fit in a minute. Running this list against drafts from a tool with no screening layer is possible, just slower: you're doing the machine's checks and yours.

What you're protecting is under your name in the feed forever; what you're spending is a minute per post. That trade — reviewed-by-you at production-by-machine speed — is the whole bargain, and what it costs is here.

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