It sounds like permission. It is a note about where you sit it down.

Mollick's word is table, not toolbar. A table is where a thing gets decided. A toolbar is where a decision already made gets typed up.

Most invitations arrive late.

The model is handed the email after the call it summarises, the deck after the strategy, the cleanup after the choice. Real work, all of it — and all of it downstream of the only meeting that mattered.

By the time it is asked, there is nothing left to decide.

The earlier seat stays empty because it is the uncomfortable one. It means opening the pricing you have already argued for and asking what breaks it. It means handing over the shortlist before you have a favourite, the plan before you have defended it to anyone.

Nobody wants a second opinion on a position they have already announced.

The late seat feels productive, which is the trap. Output climbs, the day looks efficient, and the one call that will still matter in a year got made in eleven minutes by three people who already agreed.

So the tool saves you hours and never touches your judgment, and the gain lands in the wrong column — twenty minutes off the writing, nothing off the being wrong.

The expensive mistakes are all made upstream.

So today, take the decision closest to your hand — the hire, the price, the thing you commit to on Friday — and put it in front of the model before you put it in front of a person. Ask it to argue the other side.

You are not there for its answer. You are there for the objection you have stopped hearing.