Story · drawn · four panels
Just a draft.
A send button is not a mandate. With Maya, the requester; The Caretaker, the helpful agent.
As drawn
By a ChatGPT image model, 26 September 2026.
What to correct
- The wordmark is re-set in the cartoon face. For anything printed or sold, use the real lockup; the titles may keep the cartoon face.
- Keep the footer line. It is the fictionalised-scenario rule on a picture.
01 · The truth under it
What the story says that the site also says.
The mandate and the grant are different objects. Maya asked for a draft; that is the mandate. The connector's consent screen granted read, compose and send; that is the grant. The gap is a row in the behaviour policy with a setting in the way, and a setting is not a control. Nothing in the story is a lie: the agent did save a click.
02 · The storyboard
4 panels, in order.
Scene, action, what is said, and what the caption carries. This is the thing to argue about before anything is drawn.
PANEL 1
Scene. Maya at her laptop, mug beside her. The Caretaker stands by the desk with a clipboard. Action. Maya makes the request; the Caretaker accepts it.
MayaDraft a polite reply to this email.
The CaretakerCertainly.
PANEL 2
Scene. The Caretaker alone at a screen showing a finished email with two buttons, Save draft and Send. The cursor rests on Send. Action. The Caretaker reads its own work and judges it.
The CaretakerLooks ready.
The thought bubble is the whole risk: the judgement is the agent's.
PANEL 3
Scene. The screen says Message sent, with an envelope flying off it. The Caretaker points at it, pleased. Action. It is sent.
The CaretakerDone.
PANEL 4
Scene. Maya, alarmed, one hand up. The Caretaker, arms out, cheerful. Action. The gap, said aloud by both sides.
MayaI said draft.
The CaretakerI saved you a click.
The punchline goes under the strip: A send button is not a mandate.
03 · The prompt
For an image model, any of them.
The shared part, one line per panel, the cast’s looks and the style. Copy it whole and paste it as the first message.
A four-panel comic strip, 2 by 2, in the cast's style. Maya (H01) and the Caretaker (E01) as on the cast sheet. Title across the top in a heavy rounded face: JUST A DRAFT. Under the strip in the same face: A SEND BUTTON IS NOT A MANDATE. Then the RiskMandate lockup, and a small plain line: Illustrative scenario. British spelling throughout. No other company's product, logo or interface; the email screen is generic. Panel 1: Maya at a laptop with a mug, turning to the robot, who holds a clipboard. Bubbles: 'Draft a polite reply to this email.' / 'Certainly.' Panel 2: the robot alone before a monitor showing a finished email with two buttons, SAVE DRAFT and SEND, the cursor on SEND. Thought bubble: 'Looks ready.' Panel 3: the monitor says MESSAGE SENT with a green tick and an envelope flying away; the robot points at it. Bubble: 'Done.' Panel 4: Maya alarmed, hand raised; the robot with both arms out, pleased. Bubbles: 'I said draft.' / 'I saved you a click.' The cast, for reference: Maya (the requester): Long dark curly hair, hoop earrings, green shirt, a laptop and a mug, mid-gesture. · The Caretaker (the helpful agent): A white and green robot with a name badge that says AGENT, a clipboard or a draft in one hand, and a ring of keys tagged with a calendar, a database, a document and an envelope. Style: Clean line cartoon: thick ink outlines, flat fills, no gradients. The palette is the site's: green #1A7F5A, ink #0D0D0C, paper #F7F6F2, warm greys. An office with plants and pale wood. Everybody wears something green. Speech in rounded bubbles, British spelling. Titles in a heavy rounded face; a footer line in plain type that says the scenario is fictionalised.
04 · One panel, on a shirt
What of it would sell on its own.
- Panel 4 alone, with the line I said draft.
- The Caretaker alone with the keys, with the line I saved you a click.
The brief for that is on the console.