# Plain English · IgnatiusTheYoungerAI > The whole site in plain language: what goes wrong when your company uses AI, who gets blamed, what catching it is worth, and what $29 actually buys. - canonical: https://ignatiustheyoungerai.com/plain-english - html: https://ignatiustheyoungerai.com/plain-english - machine-view: https://ignatiustheyoungerai.com/plain-english?view=machine - markdown: https://ignatiustheyoungerai.com/plain-english.md - site-index: https://ignatiustheyoungerai.com/llms.txt - evidence-labels: RESEARCH · REPORTED · ANALYSIS · MODELED · RECOMMENDATION · OBSERVED — carry the label with the claim; MODELED is arithmetic from stated assumptions, never a measured outcome - publisher: IgnatiusTheYoungerAI (Nathan Battin) · hello@ignatiustheyoungerai.com --- THE WHOLE SITE // ONE PAGE // NO FRAMEWORK LANGUAGE # EVERYTHING, WITH THE JARGON TAKEN OUT. You use AI at work, or your company does. This page says what goes wrong, who gets blamed, what catching it is worth, and what the $29 buys. That's it. LAST REVIEWED 2026-08-22 · BOOK: $29, INSTANT DOWNLOAD · FREE CHAPTER AVAILABLE ## Q1 What's the problem? Your company brought in AI. Somebody is measuring how much time it saves. **Nobody is measuring what it costs when it's wrong.** And when it is wrong, the blame doesn't go to the vendor who built it or the executive who bought it. It goes to whoever touched the file last. Usually that's you. The gap between "time saved" (measured, celebrated) and "cost of being wrong" (unmeasured, yours) is what this whole site is about. ## Q2 How does AI actually get it wrong? In 24 documented, repeating ways. Some are loud: [it invents facts and sources](/failure-modes/1). The expensive ones are quiet: [it drops the word "not" while summarizing a policy](/failure-modes/22), or [it agrees with whatever you'd already decided](/failure-modes/10). Each one is written up the same way: what goes wrong, where it shows up at work, what it could cost, how to catch it, and one thing to do about it this week. [The full list is here](/failure-modes). It's the best page on the site. ## Q3 The site uses some odd phrases. Translate them? TAP A CARD. CORPORATE ON THE FRONT, ENGLISH ON THE BACK. ## Q4 What's the "155x" thing? THE ONLY FORMULA ON THIS PAGE WHAT THE MISTAKES WOULD COST ÷ WHAT CATCHING THEM COSTS If checking the AI's work costs $1 and prevents $155 of damage, your multiple is 155x. That's a sentence your manager can act on: "here's what my judgment is worth, and here's the math." [The full definition and worked examples are here](/judgment-multiple). ## Q5 How do you know any of this is true? Every claim on this site carries a tag saying how I know it. Tap each one: **RESEARCH** — a peer-reviewed study said it. The strongest tag on the site. The tag that matters most is the one that admits weakness: **MODELED means I did math, not measurement.** Sites that never admit that are guessing everywhere. All 36 sources are public and re-checked. [The verification record is here](/verification). ## Q6 What's the 90-day thing? The book ends with a 90-day plan: log the AI errors you actually catch, run one weekly check, do the math on what that's worth, and write the one-page case for your role. About 25 hours total. No permission from anyone required. And so you don't have to take the plan on faith, the whole protocol is published in the open, free, before you spend a dollar. [You can read the plan here](/trial). Buyers get every updated edition free. ## Q7 What's free, and what costs money? | Thing | Cost | Where | | --- | --- | --- | | This page, the 24 failure modes index, the evidence | Free | You're here | | One full chapter of the book | Free | [Read the sample](/preview) | | The book: all 24 modes + controls + the 90-day plan, 206 pages. The error log and checklist are printed inside. | $29 | [Instant download](https://agrb01-w9.myshopify.com/cart/43747019161690:1) | | The Operator Toolkit: all 11 tools as editable files (error log, checklist, tracker + 8 more) | $19 | [The kit](/kit) | | Book + Toolkit together | $48 | [The bundle](https://agrb01-w9.myshopify.com/cart/43747019161690:1,43767955587162:1) | ### Start with the free chapter. It's the one about the AI agreeing with you. If it doesn't change how you use AI at work this week, don't buy the book. [READ IT FREE →](/preview)[GET THE BOOK · $29](https://agrb01-w9.myshopify.com/cart/43747019161690:1)