Output Evaluation and Validation

Judge Claude's output: hallucinations, verification, citations, bias and quality checks.

1. 2.1Hallucinations and How to Spot ThemWhat a hallucination is, why fluent text can be wrong, the tell-tale patterns that should trigger a check, and how to reduce the risk at the prompt stage.9 min
2. 2.2Verification Habits and Source CheckingA proportionate routine for checking Claude's output before it leaves your hands, from a thirty-second scan to a full source audit.8 min
3. 2.3Citations, Grounding and Uploaded DocumentsHow grounding Claude in your own documents, web search and Research changes the reliability of its answers, and how to read the citations it produces.9 min
4. 2.4Quality Rubrics for Business OutputHow to define what good looks like before you prompt, turn it into a short rubric, and use that rubric both to evaluate output and to make Claude evaluate its own.8 min
5. 2.5Bias, Tone and Audience FitRecognising when Claude's output carries unwanted assumptions, mismatched register or a one-sided framing, and how to correct for each.8 min
6. 2.6Validating Numbers, Tables and CalculationsWhy numerical output needs its own checks, how Claude's analysis capability changes the picture, and a routine for reconciling figures before they reach a spreadsheet or a slide.9 min