1 min lesson
If AI assistance is barred this round
Put this idea into your own words. "Save your AI-native value for a round where AI is allowed."
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Generalize before they ask. After the pricing-page case, say “this is one instance of a signal → enrich → score → route → write-back primitive; swap the trigger for a docs-signup or a partnership referral and the same plumbing serves a new program.” That systems-thinking jump from one workflow to a reusable primitive is the highest-value signal in this round.
Ask beforehand whether AI help is allowed on the craft screen. If it is off, don't fumble for it. Narrate cleanly: the trigger, the dedup step, the waterfall order and why, the threshold, the fallback, the retry and idempotency story. Save your AI-native value for a round where AI is allowed.