Lesson 1 — Draft first, send second

Learn

The most useful rule in this whole program fits in four words: outbound goes draft-first.

Anything that leaves your account with your name on it — a customer reply, an outreach message, a quote — the agent drafts, and you send. Not because agents write badly; yours, by now, writes rather well. Because judgment about *whether* and *when* to send is yours, and delegating it saves seconds while risking relationships.

This is how professionals run assistants, human or AI. The assistant prepares; the principal signs. The work still gets faster — drafting was the slow part — while the signature stays where it belongs.

Say it in the instructions, plainly: "Prepare drafts for my review. Never present a message as sent." An instruction the agent carries is worth ten you have to remember.

Build

Open each of your agents. Add the draft-first line to its instructions. If an agent's whole job is internal — research, summaries, planning — it has no outbound and nothing changes.

⚡ Do

Give your agent a real outbound task: a reply you owe someone. Let it draft. Change one thing — there is always one thing — and send it yourself. That loop is the shape of every workday with an agent.