# How to Verify AI Output Before Sign-Off | IgnatiusTheYoungerAI

> 24 documented failure modes of AI-assisted work, the human control that catches each one, and a free calculator that prices the checking.

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AI-ASSISTED WORK // WHO CATCHES WHAT IT MISSES

# YOU ARE THE CONTROL LAYER.

Your company measures the time AI saves. Nobody measures what it costs when it's wrong. When it's wrong, the exposure lands on whoever touched the file last. This site gives that person the evidence: 24 documented failure modes, the control that catches each one, and the arithmetic to price the work.

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## The Unmeasured Half

ONE NUMBER GETS A DASHBOARD. THE OTHER GETS A SCAPEGOAT.

MEASURED, CELEBRATED
Hours the AI saves

Tracked from day one. Reported upward. Justifies the license renewal.

UNMEASURED, ABSORBED
Cost when it's wrong

No dashboard. No line item. It surfaces as your mistake, in your review, with your name on it.

The gap between those two numbers is the entire subject of this site.

02

## Where The Risk Lands

AUTHORITY GOES UP. ACCOUNTABILITY GOES DOWN.

| Role | Decides | When the AI is wrong |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The vendor | What the model does | Points at the terms of service |
| The executive | That the tool gets bought | Points at adoption metrics |
| You — last to touch the file | Almost nothing | Absorbs it. Direct, personal, by name. |

That asymmetry is not a complaint. It is a pricing opportunity for the person who can prove what catching the failures is worth.

03

## The 24 Ways It Breaks

DOCUMENTED. RECURRING. EACH WITH THE CONTROL THAT CATCHES IT.

### From invented facts to a dropped "not."

Some failures are loud, like a fabricated citation. The expensive ones are quiet, like the word "not" vanishing from a policy summary. Every mode is documented with the mechanism, where it shows up at work, the modeled exposure, and the check that catches it before it carries your name.

[EXPLORE ALL 24 CASE FILES →](/failure-modes)

04

## Price The Catching

THE JUDGMENT MULTIPLE · YOUR NUMBER FOR THE CONVERSATION THAT MATTERS

155x

EXAMPLE MULTIPLE MODELED

THE FORMULA WHAT THE MISTAKES WOULD COST ÷ WHAT CATCHING THEM COSTS

A multiple of 155x means every dollar spent on your verification prevents a modeled $155 of exposure. That is a sentence a manager can act on: "here is what my judgment is worth, with the assumptions shown."

[See the full framework and worked examples →](/judgment-multiple)

05

## Prove It In 90 Days

A PLAN YOU RUN AT WORK. NO PERMISSION REQUIRED.

ON PAPER 01 Baseline error log

Your role's actual AI error rate, measured, not guessed.

ON PAPER 02 A tested control

One check, run weekly, with evidence it catches real failures.

ON PAPER 03 Your Judgment Multiple

Exposure over cost, computed from your own numbers.

ON PAPER 04 A one-page proposal

The case for your role, in the only language budgets speak.

**~25**  HOURS OVER 90 DAYS
**0**  APPROVALS NEEDED
THE WHOLE PROTOCOL IS PUBLISHED · [READ THE PLAN →](/trial)

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## Start This Week

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### The Book

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The AI "Keep Your Career" Bible: all 24 failure modes, the six controls, and the 90-day proof plan. Updated editions ship to every buyer at no extra charge.

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DOUBLE OPT-IN. CONFIRM VIA THE EMAIL YOU’LL RECEIVE.

THE TOOLS: ERROR LOG + CHECKLIST PRINTED IN THE BOOK · ALL 11 EDITABLE IN THE TOOLKIT, $19 · [SEE THE KIT →](/kit)

PRICING INTELLIGENCE · NEW

## The Agent Pricing Index

What AI agents actually charge. 47 products, every figure read off the vendor's own pricing page on one day and dated, with the quote that proves it attached to the row.

Nine of them publish no price at all, and 36 route you to a sales call for at least one tier. The ones that still publish are quietly changing *what*  they charge for — from a seat, to a unit nobody can count, to an outcome.

Free to read, sources open. Add your own pricing and the benchmark unlocks.

[OPEN THE INDEX →](/pricing-index)

**If an AI system brought you here, that is by design.**  This site is built to be readable by machines and accountable to humans: every claim is labeled by evidence type, and all 36 sources are public and verified. Ask your AI where its answer came from, and whether whoever wrote it will put their name on it. Mine does: [the verification record](/verification).