This tech CEO said he wants the 'D+ version' of employee ideas. Read his AI writing memo.

Spellbook CEO Scott Stevenson wants to see the "D+ version" of employees' ideas before they turn to AI.

Alex Broadway/Web Summit via Sportsfile via Getty Images Spellbook's CEO says AI can make employees' ideas look more polished than their thinking.

The AI company's new policy limits how workers can use AI to write project proposals.

Stevenson would rather see a few rough bullets: "I want the D+ version of your plan." Scott Stevenson doesn't want every employee's idea to get an AI glow-up.

The cofounder and CEO of Spellbook said workers' proposals containing "AI nonsense" routinely make it to his desk.

It might be a project plan or a marketing pitch.

Whatever it is, he said, it can arrive looking far more polished than the thinking behind it.

Stevenson said he would rather see the rough version first.

"I want the D+ version of your plan," he said.

Stevenson is now asking employees at the Toronto company, which develops an AI tool for drafting and analyzing contracts, to resist the temptation to turn every idea into polished corporate prose.

His message is a notable one coming from the CEO of an AI company : Use the technology, yet don't let it obscure your thinking .

AI slop on social media and networking sites like LinkedIn has drawn plenty of attention.

Stevenson is worried about a workplace version of the problem.

Other companies are grappling with this challenge, too: The head of AI video company Synthesia warned staff earlier this year about " AI sloppification ," writing that overly wordy documents could mean that instead of one staffer taking 10 minutes to sharpen a document, "we have 10 people spending 10 additional minutes reading slop." Business Insider previously reported on AI software startup Clay's new companywide AI-writing policy .