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Scott Wu

Make the AI offer specific and possible to check.

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Scott Wu — Make the AI offer specific and possible to check

Inherited source references. Read the original before attributing advice to the person. These applications are not quotations or an official collaboration.

Describe the defined tasks the agent can perform and what users need to provide.

Explain how the result is checked and when a person needs to take over.

Questions to work with:

What counts as a finished job?

How can the customer tell whether the result is correct?

Sources from the original project:

How Devin's team built an autonomous AI engineer: stickiness, speed and fighting for talent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI0ZNhA0rvE

Cognition's AI Productivity Guarantee: pricing AI on measured outcomes, not usage
https://cognition.com/blog/ai-guarantee

How Scott Wu built Cognition (Devin): focus, enterprise-first wedge, and the AI agent future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYobZzjW_ic

Use this perspective to examine the brief. Write directly in English in the brand’s voice. Preserve facts and terms; do not use the person’s name as product evidence.

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How to use Scott Wu’s perspective

Describe the defined tasks the agent can perform and what users need to provide.
Explain how the result is checked and when a person needs to take over.

Our own applications for copy – not quotations and not an endorsement.

Questions to work with

What counts as a finished job?
How can the customer tell whether the result is correct?

Sources from the original project

Inherited source references. Read the original before attributing advice to the person. These applications are not quotations or an official collaboration.

Frameworks that pair with this perspective

Peter Yang · EvaluationCut the AI tells, keep the voicePeter Yang's no-ai-slop skill names the patterns that make writing sound machine-made: empty superlatives, false…Alex Hormozi · OfferMake the offer easy to valueAlex Hormozi's value equation: perceived value rises with the customer's dream outcome and their belief that they'll…Claude Hopkins / our application for evaluation · EvaluationTest the message in the real worldClaude Hopkins held that advertising exists to sell, so it should be judged by what it gets people to do, not by…

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