The Verification Habit Checklist

What’s inside

The lite version covers the full loop: frame the decision, check the evidence, verify by hand, and log what you decided.

1. Name the decision. Write down what decision this output supports before you read it.
2. Check the sources. Are the data sources named, current, and complete?
3. Hunt the counter-evidence. Ask what the output left out, not just what it included.
4. Verify one number by hand. Recompute the single most load-bearing figure yourself.
5. Ask what would change your mind. If nothing could, you are not verifying. You are confirming.
6. Name the accountable human. Someone signs off. AI drafts, humans decide.
7. Log it. Record the decision, the evidence you checked, and the date.