2 February 2026 · 5 min · Priyatize
Write the boundary before the prompt
A generative tool without a written limit will eventually be used on the data you most wanted kept out of it.
Generative systems are adopted by enthusiasm. The first useful summary becomes a habit, the habit becomes a workflow, and the workflow quietly includes material that was never in scope: client files, staff records, draft advice.
The control is not a longer prompt. It is a boundary agreed before the tool is connected: which sources, which users, what must be reviewed by a person, and what is simply out of bounds.
We treat that boundary as a deliverable. It is short enough to be read, specific enough to be audited, and owned by someone who is still there on a Monday.
If a vendor cannot honour the boundary, the vendor is the wrong tool. The practice will say so.