Check Before You Send: A Workshop Workbook on Verifying AI Output

A fillable workbook for small business owners and nonprofit leaders who use AI to write grants, bids, donor letters, and web copy.

AI writing tools sound equally confident whether they are right or wrong. They invent sources, repeat outdated rules, miscalculate totals, and add credentials your organization never earned. A weak human draft looks weak, so you slow down. An AI draft looks finished, so it goes out the door. Then a funder, a buyer, or a donor finds the mistake first.

Check Before You Send gives your team a practical system for catching AI errors before they reach the public, without giving back the time AI saves you. This workbook teaches judgment and verification for the documents that carry real consequences.

What you will learn

• Why AI gets facts wrong, the six kinds of errors to watch for, and three public cases that show what happens when nobody checks.
• How to decide how much checking each document deserves, so a social post gets a glance and a grant application gets a full review.
• A line-by-line method for pulling every checkable claim out of a draft and confirming it against a real source.
• The specific checks that matter most for grant applications, bids and proposals, donor communications, contracts and policies, and website claims, and where to find the right answer for each.
• How to rebuild the numbers in any AI draft, including totals, percentages, units, and funder caps.
• What information should never go into an AI tool, and how to set simple data rules your team will actually follow.

Practice with real documents

Two live exercises put you in the checker’s seat. You will review AI-drafted quotes, web pages, grant narratives, and donor letters for a composite HVAC contractor and a composite food pantry. Each exercise comes with the source records you need to find every error.

What’s inside

• 30 pages with fillable worksheets you can type into and save.
• Ten sections, from why AI makes mistakes through building your own review routine.
• Two hands-on exercises with complete source packets.
• Worksheets for sorting documents by risk, logging claims, checking numbers, and writing your team’s data rules.
• Quick reference cards to keep next to your keyboard.

Who it is for

• Small business owners who use AI to draft proposals, quotes, marketing copy, and customer messages.
• Nonprofit executive directors, development staff, and grant writers.
• Chambers of commerce, economic development organizations, and business advisors who train members and clients to use AI responsibly.

The workbook is built for group workshops and also works well for leaders who prefer to work through material on their own.

Bring this workshop to your organization

The price shown is for a single-user download. Chambers, economic development organizations, nonprofit associations, and advisors can license participant copies for workshops and teams. Request organizational pricing at www.ticalearningsystems.com/licensing or call 312-878-8824.

Download your copy now and make checking AI output a routine your whole team can follow.