The AI-assisted requirements workflow that actually works

I've watched BAs adopt AI tools over the last two years and noticed a pattern. The ones who use AI as a faster acceptance-criteria generator produce faster bad requirements. The ones who use AI as a thinking partner before they touch the AC produce something interesting. Same tools, opposite outcomes. This piece is the workflow that produces the second outcome. It is not theoretical. It is what the BAs I respect actually do when they sit down with a new stakeholder request and an open Claude or...