Six kinds of work to keep human in 2026. Answer each question honestly. Tick a box only when your honest answer matches the right answer. The empty boxes are where your value is leaking.
How to use this. Click Duplicate (top right) to make your own copy, then run the audit on your business.
- [ ] 1. The original thought. Did this take come from me, or did AI hand it to me?
- [ ] 2. Pattern recognition. Am I doing the diagnosis, or just running AI's plan?
- [ ] 3. Final judgment. On a genuinely hard call, am I deciding or deferring to the model?
- [ ] 4. Trust transactions. Am I the person in the room for the moments that build trust?
- [ ] 5. Reputation-cost decisions. Did I read and own everything that went out under my name?
- [ ] 6. The closing handshake. Is the commitment mine, or has the yes become a template?
The right answer, the wrong answer, and an example for each one are in the worksheet and in The Stays-Human Stack. buildtothrive.co