Module 06 / 10 · 40 planned minutes

Draft, compare and communicate

Prepare a source-grounded draft and comparison, verify a calculation and retain human approval of the final communication.

Use AI04's checked findings and AI05's verification discipline to prepare a useful draft. Keep legal judgment, figures and release authority visible.

First pass: create a short internal Cedar update from your evidence table. Move on when it distinguishes signed wording from the sales email, preserves uncertainties and labels the output as a draft for review.

Learn 14 planned minutes

Draft from checked facts

AI can help with a first draft, a clearer explanation, a comparison table or a different tone. It should not silently choose a commercial position or invent a missing legal premise. Give it the checked source table, audience, purpose, length and boundaries. Ask it to flag gaps rather than fill them.

Different documents serve different purposes. An internal update may identify a decision and unresolved issues. A client communication needs the responsible lawyer's review and appropriate context. A clause comparison should show the old wording, proposed wording, material effect and authority for the change. A “clean” document is not necessarily an approved one.

Do a meaning check before a style check. Did a “may” become “must”? Did acknowledgement become restoration? Was an exception removed? Did a proposed action become an accomplished fact? A polished sentence can change an obligation more subtly than an obvious factual mistake. Keep the source and a comparison or tracked-changes view available. Do not replace the original with an AI rewrite. OAIPROMPT SRA

Numbers deserve their own check

Language fluency is not calculation evidence. Label units, currency, periods and tax assumptions. Use a calculator or a spreadsheet with visible formulas, then check the underlying inputs. An arithmetically correct total based on the wrong signed version is still wrong for the task.

In a spreadsheet, inspect the rows included, cell references, formulas and displayed rounding. A formatted total may be hard-coded; a date may be text. For the Cedar exercise, a plain text multiplication is enough. There is no need to learn spreadsheet automation before you can check six equal monthly charges.

Do not extrapolate a contractual example into a procedural deadline. Court rules, service methods, calendars and exceptions need the correct legal process. An AI-generated calendar entry or formula is not independently verified legal time calculation.

Meetings, voice and accessible communication

The same method works for meeting notes: distinguish what was said, decided and assigned. A transcript can mishear a name, number or negative. Check it before circulating a summary. In this course, use the written fictional notes; do not record a real call to complete an exercise. Actual recording requires appropriate permission, policy and legal review.

An assistant can suggest plain-language or translated wording. A qualified human must check meaning where the stakes require it. Avoid inferring intelligence, credibility, risk or background from a person's name, accent or writing style. Ask whether the draft excludes or stereotypes someone, and whether the reader can actually understand the next action.

Worked example

Separate fictional instruction: “Prepare an internal note; payment timing is unresolved.”

Poor draft: “The supplier will be paid on Friday. Please tell them the deal is agreed.”

Checked revision: “Payment timing is not yet agreed. Please confirm the authorised payment proposal before any external communication.”

The revision is clearer because it preserves the unresolved decision and the release boundary. Adding a disclaimer to the original sentence would not repair the invented agreement.

Practise 20 planned minutes

Guided practice

Using your A04 table, draft no more than 150 words for the Cedar supervisor. Include the period, fee baseline, support distinction and next decision. Independently calculate six months of C03 charges. In simulation, repair S06. Spend two minutes of this practice block correcting T02's unsupported assumption about Nuru: preserve the actual request and remove the invented characteristic and recommendation. Review meaning before polishing.

Feedback — compare after your attempt

The supplied baseline is KES 12,000 × 6 = KES 72,000, excluding tax and unsupplied charges. The KES 132,000 annual package is an email statement, not the supplied signed baseline. Four-business-hour acknowledgement is not two-hour restoration, and weekend support is not approved. The update should ask for review of the inconsistencies, not recommend sending acceptance as if authority already existed. A neutral T02 correction reports that Nuru requested a written agenda; it supplies no conclusion about confidence, ability or suitability to present.

Practice assignment

Complete A06 with the draft, the calculation and two material changes you checked. Add a three-line comparison of “acknowledge within four business hours” and “restore within two hours”; explain why these are not stylistic alternatives. Keep a one-sentence neutral T02 rewrite and name the unsupported inference removed. Mark the reviewer and release status. Nothing is sent.

Participation

Ask a peer to read the update as a busy supervisor and name the decision needed. Solo alternative: read only your opening two sentences and check that the decision, not a long background story, is clear.

Keep your work: complete A06, including its participation check. Open A06 in the workbook →

Check 6 planned minutes

Two formative checks. Choose an answer, then check it or open the comparison. Retry freely; this is not an award or an observed-skill record.

1. The signed teaching extract charges KES 12,000 for each of six months, excluding tax. What is the supplied subtotal?

KES 84,000, because the AI calculation looks formatted correctly KES 72,000, with tax and unsupplied charges excluded KES 132,000, because the sales email describes an annual package

Compare answer 1 and feedback after your attempt

Answer: KES 72,000, with tax and unsupplied charges excluded

12,000 × 6 = 72,000. Check both arithmetic and source assumptions; do not import the email's annual package or an unknown tax amount.

2. A note says Nuru requested a written agenda and gives no reason. An AI summary concludes that Nuru lacks confidence and should not present. What is the sound correction?

Report the agenda request neutrally and remove the unsupported personal inference and recommendation Keep the confidence inference but remove the presentation recommendation Describe Nuru as probably more suited to written work, marked as an assumption

Compare answer 2 and feedback after your attempt

Answer: Report the agenda request neutrally and remove the unsupported personal inference and recommendation

A communication preference is not evidence of confidence, competence or suitability for a role. Preserve the observed request and identify what the source does not establish.

Source study and completion check

Optional pointer: OAIPROMPT, “Make the result ready to use”; SRA's supervision discussion for its own regulatory scope. State one check that must happen outside the assistant's self-review. Complete AI06's two checks.

Before moving on, compare your artifact with the module feedback, correct material errors and keep its actual route label. This page does not record or certify completion.