Start here
- Why AI skills now include business decisions. The problem in plain words, with research.
- What does judgment with AI mean? A short definition and five everyday examples.
- Questions to ask before acting on an AI answer. A one-page checklist to print.
Guides
- Why AI skills now include business decisions
- AI upskilling: tools and business decisions
- How AI answers become business results
- What does judgment with AI mean?
Research
Plain-English summaries of studies. Each one says who was studied, what was found and what the study did not test. See all research.
- Do people check AI answers at work?
- How AI is changing management decisions
- How AI changes checking and management work
- When AI helps with a task, and when it does not
- Does a person and AI always make a better team?
Fact sheets and checklists
Each one fits on a page and prints cleanly.
- From an AI answer to a business decision. A one-page introduction to send to a colleague or client.
- Questions to ask before acting on an AI answer. A checklist for one decision.
- What happens in a StepSim team session. A one-page brief about the half-day session.
Articles by question
Understand the problem
- Why an AI answer still needs a human decision
- AI used to do the work. Now it does the interpreting.
- When better AI makes experienced people worse
Check AI advice
- There are two ways to get AI wrong. Most advice covers only one.
- A confident answer is not a checked answer
- Asking the AI to explain itself does not make people check it
- Everyone agrees checking AI is their job. Most do not do it.
Manage AI actions
- Before you hand work to an AI agent, write down its limits
- An override count tells you how often. It cannot tell you whether.
Practise and learn
Try it yourself
The Friday file is a free business simulation. You decide whether to approve an AI rollout. No account. Nothing to install. Try a simulation.