It attributed a revenue lift to an email campaign that had not sent yet. The chart was beautiful. Nobody checked the date range.
What guardrails do you put on narration agents so a nice paragraph does not become a board slide?
Every number in the narrative links back to the query that produced it. If it cannot link, it cannot be in the paragraph.
And a 'facts the model was given' box at the top. Readers check that before they trust the story.
Both added. The date range now shows in the header of every report.
Found this thread after our own confident-wrong report. The date range check in your checklist would have caught it. Bought the checklist, no regrets.
Glad it helped. The newest version makes the agent list the checks it ran at the top of the report, so a reader can see what was not checked.