Where AI helps, and where it doesn't.

AI can accelerate almost everything in innovation. It still cannot replace judgment, empathy or real-world evidence. This checklist sorts the tasks in your project into three honest zones, so you use AI for leverage instead of false certainty. Your work saves automatically on this device.

This checklist follows its own rule. It does not make the call for you. It asks a few honest questions and shows you the consequence. The output is only as sharp as your answers, which is exactly the lesson: AI gives you confident output fast, but the moment you treat that confidence as evidence, you are building on synthetic certainty. Sort honestly and the map is useful. Tick boxes to feel productive and it is just decoration.

The initiative where you are deciding how much to lean on AI.

Sort every task into a zone.

Add the tasks and decisions in your project. For each one, answer three honest questions. The task moves to the zone it belongs in. If a task needs a human but you are leaning on AI for it, you get a warning.

Summarise interviews Market analysis Cluster insights Generate concepts Create personas Write report Decide the problem User testing Concept validation
Each task starts in To sort. Answer the three questions on its card and it moves to the zone where it belongs.
To sort 0
Answer the three questions on each card to file it.
Let AI run it 0
Repetitive, pattern based, low risk
Use AI to prepare 0
Hypotheses, structure, blind spots
Human validation 0
Empathy, behaviour, real-world proof
The more human the question, the less reliably AI can answer it.

Your AI Decision Record.

Your triage on one page, including every spot where you risk mistaking AI's confidence for evidence. Save it as a PDF and share it before the project starts.

anté · AI Decision Record
Decide before you build.
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Let AI run it
No tasks here yet
Use AI to prepare
No tasks here yet
Human validation required
No tasks here yet
Synthetic certainty risks
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Have AI challenge your own triage.

The honest test: ask AI where you are over-trusting it. This prompt turns any model into a critical reviewer of how you plan to use it, so you catch the synthetic certainty before it costs you. It already contains your full triage.


      

AI removes the work around a decision. It does not remove the decision. When the call is too expensive to get wrong, Anté runs the full Decision Sprint: AI for speed, humans for judgment, real evidence behind one defensible direction.