The AI Reality Check
Four quick tools to pressure-test any AI course, tool, or “AI income” pitch before you hand over money. Run the offer through these first and see what actually holds up.
Built for skeptical people who have been burned before.
What’s on this page
Four tools, one job: protect you from getting fooled by AI-powered sales pitches. Tap any card to jump straight to that tool, or scroll down to see them in order with a worked example at the end.
Decision Stoplight
A risk check before you trust an AI answer about anything that costs money.
Privacy Scrubber
Removes emails and phone numbers before you paste anything into a free AI.
Hype Detector
Scans AI-written copy for marketing words that signal “sales pitch, not advice.”
Source Trust Check
Tells you whether a source has anything to gain from telling you what they tell you.
🚦 Decision Stoplight
Before you act on AI advice, check the stakes. AI is a starting point, not a final answer. The higher the stakes, the more you need to verify the answer with a primary source before you spend a dollar.
🛡️Privacy Check: This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to our servers or saved. For your own safety, please remove personal names or account numbers before pasting.
Decision Stoplight
Use this when you’re about to act on something an AI told you. Get a clear next move and a prompt you can copy.
🔒 Privacy Scrubber
Strip contact details before you paste anything into a free AI. When you analyze a sales email, a course pitch, or a forwarded message, it usually carries the email and phone number of whoever sent it. Free AI tools can store what you paste. Clean it first.
🛡️Privacy Check: This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to our servers or saved. For your own safety, please remove personal names or account numbers before pasting.
Privacy Scrubber
Paste sales copy, course descriptions, business notes, or forwarded emails here. Emails and phone numbers get removed before you share anything with an AI.
🎯 Hype Detector
Hype words signal marketing, not advice. AI-written sales copy floods the online income space. The Hype Detector scans for the words and phrases that show up in pitches but rarely in honest analysis. High count means you’re reading marketing.
🛡️Privacy Check: This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to our servers or saved. For your own safety, please remove personal names or account numbers before pasting.
Hype Detector
Paste an AI response, a sales pitch, or a course description here to spot the hype words and pressure language.
🔍 Source Trust Check
A source with something to sell is not a neutral source. A guru’s own affiliate page, a course’s own sales site, and a YouTuber paid to promote a product all have a financial stake in what they tell you. Independent reviews, regulator statements, and academic research carry more weight.
🛡️Privacy Check: This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent to our servers or saved. For your own safety, please remove personal names or account numbers before pasting.
Source Trust Check
Find out if a website, document, or organization is a primary authority or just a sales pitch dressed up as advice.
Worked Example: Marcus and the $1,997 course
Here’s a realistic example so the four tools above make sense in practice.
The setup. Marcus is 52. He has been thinking about starting an online side business for over a year. He just saw a Facebook ad for an “AI Affiliate Mastermind” course at $1,997. The sales page promises he will make $5,000 a month within 90 days by using AI to automate everything.
Before clicking buy, he runs the offer through all four tools.
Decision Stoplight
Marcus types “Should I buy the AI Affiliate Mastermind for $1,997?” Selects HIGH stakes and “Yes, specific claims and prices.” Result: 🔴 RED LIGHT. The tool generates a prompt for ChatGPT to flag every marketing claim versus verified fact about the course.
Privacy Scrubber
Marcus pastes the full sales email into the Scrubber. It removes the email address and phone number from the footer. Now he has cleaner text to paste into ChatGPT without handing over contact details.
Hype Detector
Marcus pastes the scrubbed sales copy into the Hype Detector. It flags 9 hype words including “unprecedented,” “transform,” “supercharge,” and “passive income.” Verdict: marketing copy, not advice. He uses the Repair Prompt to ask ChatGPT for a grounded version. The rewrite is shorter and a lot less impressive.
Source Trust Check
Marcus enters the course creator’s name and selects “Social Media, Forum, Personal Blog, or YouTube Influencer.” Result: Grade D/F. The tool generates a research prompt for ChatGPT to investigate independent reviews, complaints, and regulator actions tied to this person.
The result. Marcus walks away from the $1,997 purchase. He saved his money and learned to recognize the same pattern next time he sees an “AI income” pitch in his feed.
Spot the outright scams
Once these four tools are in your back pocket, the next step is recognizing the warning signs of a flat-out scam before you click the buy button.
Read: How to Know If It’s a Scam →For one more quick check before you pay, read the five-minute test, a fast way to judge an AI tool or course before you hand over money.
And if the offer checks out but you’re still not sure the timing is right for you, take the AI Online Business Reality Check. Eight questions about your time, experience, and expectations, and it hands you a starting path. The toolkit checks the offer. The reality check checks your readiness.