Pre-publishing Checklist and Skills!
Before You
Hit Publish.
AI writes with total confidence — even when it's fabricating a fact, missing an FTC rule, or shipping a plugin with a hole in it. Facts. Rules. Risk. is the 3-question habit that catches all three before anything goes live.
Grab the free kit: the printable checklist plus two Claude skills that run the check for you.
Part one
Confident isn't the same as correct.
Fluent, well-formatted output earns trust it hasn't actually earned. That's not a knock on judgment — it's how the psychology works. AI never hedges the way a careful colleague would, so the confident wrong answer and the confident right answer read identically.
On the record
In a case that made national headlines, an attorney submitted a legal brief built on court citations that turned out not to exist — invented whole-cloth by an AI chatbot and never checked before filing. The talk walks through this and other cases where trained professionals, working at major firms, published AI's confident fabrications as fact.
Part two
The three places creators get burned.
For non-technical creators publishing with AI, the damage clusters in three specific spots. Each one has a real, documented example behind it.
Facts
Unverified claims. Newsrooms and marketing teams have published AI-fabricated quotes, stats, and sources — because the sentence read like something a careful writer would produce.
Rules
FTC-regulated claims. AI drafts testimonials, earnings numbers, and "guaranteed results" copy without knowing those exact claims are federally regulated — and creators publish them without knowing either.
Risk
Security gaps. AI-built tools — a WordPress plugin, a form handler, a "quick app" — ship with real, exploitable holes that non-technical builders have no way to spot before launch.
Part three
The 3-question habit.
One pass, three questions, run before anything goes live. It takes longer to explain than to actually do.
Facts
Did I actually verify this, or does it just sound right?Every name, number, quote, and claim gets traced back to a source that isn't the AI itself.
Rules
Am I making a claim the FTC actually regulates?Testimonials, earnings claims, and guarantees each carry specific disclosure and substantiation rules — whether or not the AI that wrote the copy knew that.
Risk
Could this AI-built thing be exploited?Anything AI wrote that runs — a plugin, a form, a script — gets a second look for the obvious holes before it goes anywhere near production.
Run all three, every time, before you hit publish — not after. That's the whole habit.
What's in the kit
A checklist for you. Two skills for Claude.
Keep the checklist where you can see it, then hand the actual checking to Claude. Upload the skills once and they kick in whenever you're about to publish something AI helped you make.
Before You Hit Publish
Your friendly, plain-English second opinion. Share a draft, sales page, email, or AI-built plugin and Claude walks you through all three questions, explaining why each one matters as it goes.
- Built for creators who are newer to AI
- Translates every finding into plain English, zero jargon
- Tries to verify your stats and quotes, not just flag them
- Ends with an encouraging "here's what's solid, here's what to fix"
Pre-Publish Validator
The no-nonsense version. Runs your content or code through a full Facts, Rules, and Risk pass and hands back a structured report with a clear verdict: ready to publish, or fix first.
- Prioritized fix list, most important first
- Flags testimonials, earnings claims, and guarantees against FTC rules
- Checks AI-built plugins and forms for common security holes
- Won't wave a draft through just because it sounds good
The One-Page Checklist
The Facts / Rules / Risk habit on a single page. Print it, pin it next to your screen, and run it on everything before it goes live.
- All three questions at a glance
- Space to run it on your next 3 publishes
- Works with or without Claude
Take it home
Get the Before You Hit Publish Kit.
The printable Facts / Rules / Risk checklist plus both Claude skills, so the habit sticks and Claude does the heavy lifting. No summit notes required.