AI USE CONTROL CARD — SAMPLE
Free sample from AI Parameters — setparameters.com. The full toolkit has one of these for every AI tool your team touches.
Why this exists: A staffer drafts a client email in ChatGPT and pastes in the client's name, account number, and private details "to get the tone right." That data now lives on someone else's servers, outside anything you control — and nobody told them not to, because the rule was never written down. This card is that rule.
The rule in one sentence: Use AI to write better. Never feed it anything you wouldn't tape to your front window.
Tool: ChatGPT (any version) — drafting client emails, marketing copy, summarizing documents
Who may use it: Anyone on the team whose job includes writing to clients or the public
This tool MAY see:
- Your own draft words (you type them in)
- Public facts about the business — address, hours, services already on your website
- Anonymous examples — "a customer complained about a late delivery" (no names, no numbers)
This tool must NEVER see:
- Client names, phone numbers, emails, or addresses
- Account numbers, policy numbers, financial figures, SSNs
- Employee personal info
- Anything marked private or confidential
Before anything AI-written goes to a client or the public: the person who wrote the prompt reads the output word for word and signs off on it. No exceptions, no "it looked fine."
The 30-second check (all three, every time):
- Facts are right — names, dates, prices
- No client info slipped into the prompt or the output
- You'd be comfortable if the client saw the exact words you typed into the AI
If someone breaks this: tell the owner or manager the same day, and the rule gets updated so it can't happen the same way twice.
How to use this card: Print it. Hand it to everyone who writes to clients or the public. Takes five minutes to explain. That's the whole rollout.
This is part 1 of the card. Part 2 covers who approved it, how you test the limits, and what to do when something goes wrong.
Your team doesn't use one AI tool. They use five. This is the card for one of them. The full AI Workplace Guardrails toolkit gives you both parts of this card for every tool they touch — fill one out per tool — plus the company policy, the employee training, and the manager rollout kit. $299, one time, yours forever.