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Sensemaking

The sensemaking workbench helps a team reason about a question: the concepts in play, the observations and evidence behind them, the interpretations people draw, situational assessments, the probes they run and strategic maps.

These are reviewed judgments, not objective classifications. The workbench keeps them separate from the brain's factual records.

Turn it on

Sensemaking is opt-in. Add the sensemaking overlay to the profile in client.config.json:

{
  "profile": {
    "base": "core",
    "overlays": ["engagement", "data", "sensemaking"]
  }
}

Then rebuild:

make build

The overlay composes the sensemaking record kinds into the brain's schema and shows the workbench page at /sensemaking/. Its records live in app/sensemaking.json.

Turn it off

Remove sensemaking from profile.overlays and rebuild.