Day 5: Draft with it, never ship it

The one idea

Day 5 is where the real time-saving starts: letting AI write first drafts of the emails and messages you send anyway. And it comes with the rule that keeps your name safe: AI drafts, you ship. Everything that leaves your outbox is yours — the assistant will not be in the meeting when a wrong promise gets read back to you.

Compare:

Generates a reply, skims the first line, hits send. The draft politely commits you to a Friday deadline you never mentioned.

versus

Generates a reply from YOUR bullet points — "confirm receipt, we need until Tuesday, warm tone" — then reads every line before sending, checking names, numbers, and promises.

The two-part method

Part one: your bullets first. Give the decisions and facts; let AI supply the sentences. The content stays yours, only the wording is borrowed. Part two: the ship check. Before sending, read the full draft once, watching for the three places drafts go wrong — names (right person, right spelling), numbers (dates, amounts), and promises (anything that commits you). Thirty seconds, every time, forever.

Try it now

Take a real email you owe someone. Write three bullets of what it must say. Ask for a draft from those bullets in your preferred tone and length. Run the ship check — names, numbers, promises — fix what needs fixing, and actually send it.

Your win today

You sent a real email in half the time, with the checking habit that means faster never becomes sloppier.