Degree 3 · Unit 3.6
Verify before you sign
Everything before this in the degree has made you fast. This unit on its own is what makes you accountable. And the difference between those two things shows up in the first crisis you meet.
Scale the depth of verification
Not every output deserves the same effort. The measure is neither its length nor the time it took you, but the impact of an error in it. Something internal and temporary needs a quick read and a check of the figures. Something going out to a client needs the full four-part protocol. And a decision that touches a person needs the protocol plus a review by an independent colleague.
Responsibility does not transfer
When you sign a report in your own name, you are certifying that you reviewed it. And there is not one body anywhere in the world — no professional association, no court, no board of directors — that will accept "the system wrote it" as an excuse. The tool changes the way work gets produced; it does not touch the contract of the profession at all: whoever signs, guarantees.
This is why the most useful habit you will take away from this degree is to keep a record — a simple file will do — of what you used, where you verified it, and what you corrected. That record is what protects you, and it is also the first brick of the governance you are going to build in the fifth degree.
GATE · LEVEL THREE
A real professional output, with its verification documented
Produce real work from your job — a report, an analysis, teaching material, a contract review — with the help of AI. Then attach to it one page setting out: the template you used, the sources you gave it, what you found at each step of the four-part protocol, and what you corrected by hand.
The standard of success: that you hand the work over in your own name without reservation, and can defend every figure in it to whoever asks.
