Lesson 1 of 8 · Sorting customer messages, then your own work
212 emails, one question
From Sort Tickets, Applications and CVs with Jev: Somebody spends their morning reading the same kind of thing over and over, answering the same question about each one. Most of that is not writing. It is one question, asked again and again, and the answer is one word. There is a kind of AI built only for answers like that. People call it a decision model. The steps here work with any decision model. The one you set up is called Jev. You write the one question, and the list of answers it is allowed to give. Every answer comes back with a number saying how sure it was. You decide which answers you accept, and which few get a second look. Eight short lessons. You finish with one filled-in card for a job of your own — hand it to your assistant, or to a developer.
212 emails, one question
- Course: 8 lessons
- Time: ~38 min
- Free: This lesson, no account
212 unread emails. You need the ones who want to buy, and you need them by nine.
Nobody has asked you to write anything yet. You are asking one question, 212 times: is this a sales enquiry?
The answer is one word. Yes, or no.
There is a kind of AI built only for answers like that. It cannot write you a paragraph. It picks one of the answers you offer it and stops. People call it a decision model.
We ran a batch of our own through one: 112 questions of this kind. All 112 answers came back in under four seconds, and the whole run cost less than a fifth of a cent.
Most of us send this work to a chat model and pay writing prices for it.
Writing, or deciding?
If a person reads the answer, that is writing. If the answer comes from a list you wrote in advance, that is a decision. Writing is what you are paying for. Deciding is nearly free.
Topics: decision models, sorting work, answer lists, confidence scores, AI running costs, automation, interactive