AI at work · fictional workplace scenes
Citations no one opened
A citation is a lead to check, not proof that a claim is supported. Otto gives Ollie a market brief with six neat footnotes. Casey selects its biggest number for the investor slide. When Ollie opens the source, the number describes a different market and a different year.
Why it looked good
The footnotes look specific enough to copy. Their formatting hides the gap between a linked source and the claim on the slide.
Q1 · What is this really for?
What question must this number answer for the investor?
Q2 · Who decides, and did they?
Who signs off on the slide, and have they seen what the source actually measures?
The next move
Ollie puts the source’s market and year beside the number and asks Casey whether it belongs in this comparison.
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