Days 31-60: Double Down or Adjust
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Days 31-60: Double Down or Adjust
By now you know if this is working. The first month gave you enough data to make a real decision.
If it’s saving time: Double down. Refine your prompts, streamline the workflow, and start applying it more consistently. Look for adjacent tasks where the same approach might work — if AI-assisted client research is saving time, could you use a similar prompt for competitor analysis or content planning?
If it’s not saving time: Don’t just keep doing the same thing and hoping it gets better. Either adjust your approach (different prompts, different workflow) or try a different tool for the same task. The hypothesis was specific — check your numbers against it.
Week 7-8: The AI Slop Checkpoint
This is important regardless of your scale. By Week 7, AI-generated content is flowing through your work — client emails, proposals, social posts, whatever you’re using it for. This is when generic output becomes a real risk.
Stop and audit a sample of your recent AI-assisted output:
- The specificity test: Could this email/proposal/post have been written for any business in your industry? If yes, it’s AI slop. Rewrite it with specifics.
- The flattery sandwich check: Are your AI-assisted communications following the pattern of compliment-generic pitch-compliment? That’s the telltale sign.
- The insight test: Does this output show your actual expertise, or is it generic filler that sounds professional but says nothing?
- The competitor test: Could your competitor send essentially the same message? If yes, you’ve lost what sets you apart.
The fix isn’t complicated: add your own knowledge, specific details, and genuine insight to every piece of AI-assisted content before it goes out. The AI provides structure and efficiency; you provide the substance that makes it yours.
Pause and apply: Pull up three recent AI-assisted outputs. Run each through the four-question slop check. Score them: clean, borderline, or slop. If two or more are borderline or worse, your voice is drifting.