The 42nd Period | STEM Education Hub

Client: a small auto repair shop with four employees (invented). Rep: Jordan, a sales rep. Everything here is invented. The numbers in [brackets] mark each claim.

Hi, I'm Jordan from QuickQuote Auto. [1] QuickQuote is the smartest AI ever built for repair shops. [2] Shops that switch to us see 40% more booked jobs.

[3] Dale's Garage says it saved them "a lot of time." [4] QuickQuote writes the final price for every job, with no staff review needed. [5] And it rarely makes mistakes.

[6] Your customers' data is safe with us. [7] Try it free for 30 days, cancel anytime, and export all your data whenever you want. It's in the contract, and I can email it today.

Try it: how much evidence does each claim come with?

[1]QuickQuote is the smartest AI ever built for repair shops.

[2]Shops that switch to us see 40% more booked jobs.

[3]Dale's Garage says it saved them "a lot of time."

[4]QuickQuote writes the final price for every job, with no staff review needed.

[5]It rarely makes mistakes.

[6]Your customers' data is safe with us.

[7]Try it free for 30 days, cancel anytime, and export all your data whenever you want.

On check day the pitch is a new one, on paper. Nothing in it is new to you. You'll do what you just did, and more.

🧭 Plot Summary

There's nothing new to learn here. A sales rep pitches an AI tool to a client, and you audit the pitch on paper. For each claim, how much evidence comes with it? For each task the tool would do, what level fits, and why? What would you ask the vendor, who would check the tool's work, and what happens when it fails?

Then you make a recommendation and defend it: your best reason, the strongest objection, a reply, and what you don't know. A few students also talk through their audit in the days that follow. Checkable claims count in the vendor's favor, so don't doubt everything the same.

Resource Map: where each skill comes from

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3.2.2Talent Stack

Claim versus evidence

3.2.1Substitute or Complement?

The four questions, the four levels, and the two stop signs

3.2.4Task X-Ray Report

Can versus should, and saying what you don't know

3.3.1AI Guidance for a Real Client

Checks, failure points, and the guide you built

3.1.2Data Footprint Audit

What a tool collects, and who else sees it

✅ Self-Check Before You Roll On

Check off each item as you get there. These aren't grades. They're your own signal.

I can tell a claim with nothing to check from one I could check before signing.I can say what is missing from a number: who, how many, compared to what, and when.I can sort a task into level 1, 2, 3 or 4 and use the four questions and two stop signs to explain why.I can write a question a vendor could answer with a fact.I can say who checks a tool's work, when, and what happens when it fails.I can give a recommendation, the strongest objection to it, a reply, and what I don't know.