Quality Controls
The control plan for keeping speed useful: validate inputs, reject incomplete work, make failures recoverable, and keep final judgment with a person.
Control principle: An AI workflow is not complete when it generates text. It is complete when the output can be checked, corrected, and safely handed to the next person.
Control register
| Risk | Potential effect | Control / response |
|---|---|---|
| Incomplete output | An article ends mid-sentence or misses required sections. | Validate required fields and completion signals; route incomplete output to repair. |
| Weak source coverage | The draft sounds plausible but is not grounded in the supplied material. | Record sources, check expected evidence, and keep the source boundary visible to the editor. |
| Instruction drift | Brand rules or exclusions are lost between stages. | Carry structured brief and brand context through each job; check the final document against them. |
| Provider variability | Latency, rate limits, or a failed response interrupts production. | Use asynchronous stages, retries, bounded attempts, and explicit failed states. |
| Duplicate or repetitive content | Fast production creates output that is technically complete but not useful. | Run revision and humanization checks before the editor handoff. |
| Unsafe handoff | The editor receives a document without context or cannot tell what was checked. | Attach status, checks, and recovery notes to the review-ready document. |
Review gates
Gate 1 · Input readiness
Brief, brand context, sources, and required fields are present before generation begins.
Gate 2 · Draft completeness
The generated document has the expected structure and does not contain an obvious truncated result.
Gate 3 · Quality review
Source use, tone, formatting, and prohibited output are checked before document creation.
Gate 4 · Human approval
An editor remains responsible for the final correction, approval, or request for changes.
Decision rules
- Do not treat successful API responses as proof that the content is complete or publishable.
- Do not hide retries: preserve the failure reason and the recovery action in the job record.
- Do not turn production volume into a claim about traffic, backlinks, or business impact without separate evidence.
- Keep the smallest useful human review point visible in the delivery story.