Signals

A place for the outside world. Market movements, competitor activity, published research, anything relevant that did not originate inside your organization. Signals are captured, verified at source, and kept.

Most high-stakes communication needs context nobody in the room can cite from memory. Left uncaptured, that context is either omitted or half-remembered into the work, where it becomes the least defensible sentence on the page.

A signal is added and lives alongside your own intelligence, marked as external so its provenance is never confused with what your organization knows first-hand. Open a signal's source and mark it verified, and it records who checked it and when. Nothing automatic ever marks one verified.

Getting into the work is a deliberate climb, in three rungs. Starring one is private to you, and starring is on purpose NOT how something becomes citable: if a private bookmark made a source foundational, everybody's bookmarks would end up grounding everybody's work. Putting one forward, and then sharing it across the organization, are separate steps a person takes.

A signal you reject is kept, never deleted, and that is the part worth understanding. Refusing to hand a discredited claim to the writer is only half the job, because a figure repeated across the internet for twenty years is already sitting in the model's training data whether you supply it or not. So the rejected ones become a register, and every composed Expression is checked against it before review. The check reports; it does not block. It cannot tell a claim being used from a claim being refused, and a piece that says out loud "this statistic has no traceable source and we do not use it" would be stopped by a check that could not read intent.

1. Add a signal when you see one. For a quick note that does not need checking, use Note a signal under Noted by you: a note is not verified or shared, and with a link or a file Gyrium also reads it for facts.
2. Star the ones you want to find again. That is yours alone.
3. Put forward the ones the whole organization should be able to cite, and share them.
4. Reject the ones that do not hold up. They stay, as a register of what must never be quoted.
5. Compose with them as context. Anything drawn from a rejected claim is raised before review.
6. A signal about one customer is filed in that customer's folder in Workspaces, next to the account's documents, so whoever looks after the account finds it there. To put any other signal in a customer's folder, open the folder, choose Connect…, type a word from the signal and Connect the one you want. A signal you capture on a workspace's Context card is added here as well, connected to that workspace. It stays in Signals too; nothing is copied.

No automated monitoring, and no scheduled sweep of external sources on your behalf. Research goes out of date, and nothing yet marks a signal as stale or tells you when one has been sitting too long. Looking for evidence happens when you ask, one claim at a time.