Review an AI email draft before it makes a promise for you
Check commitments, dates, recipients and attachments, then edit the tone and send only after your own final review.
In brief
An email draft can sound polished while adding a deadline, approval or attachment that you never supplied. Check what it commits you to before improving the wording.
This is a practical way to use drafting help while keeping responsibility for the message and its facts.
Separate facts from requested tone
Tell the drafting service what is confirmed and what is tentative. “Ask whether Friday is possible” differs from “confirm Friday.” Specify the relationship and tone without demanding promotional enthusiasm for an ordinary professional note.
Check commitments first
Look for phrases implying approval, delivery, payment or completed work. Compare them with what actually happened. Replace an invented certainty with the real status; do not let a courteous closing hide a false promise in the middle.
Review the actual send context
Check names, addresses, copied recipients and the attachment list in the mail app. Delete unnecessary sensitive history from the quoted thread. Read the final version as the recipient will see it and keep sending separate from generating the draft.
Before you act
Product features and data processing vary. A generated draft is not authorization to send, and a mention of an attachment does not mean the file is attached.
What to do next
- Provide the intended recipient, purpose and confirmed facts without unnecessary private material.
- Review every promise, amount, date and referenced file.
- Edit to your own natural tone, verify recipient and actual attachments, then send deliberately.
