Plain-language answer
Should we ignore, monitor, test, or act on this signal?
Signal Triage combines evidence quality, magnitude, persistence, urgency, decision relevance, reversibility, and cost into a visible route.
Short answer
Use evidence that can survive a second reader.
- Act requires strong evidence, high impact, repeated signal, and costly delay.
- Test requires meaningful impact, unresolved uncertainty, and a reversible test.
- Monitor is used for plausible but not persistent or decision-relevant signals.
- Ignore is used for low evidence and low impact.
- Users may override the route and should record why.
Worked example
See the decision in a fictional case.
- Signal
- Buyers now ask for evidence governance before an AI pilot
- Source
- Five sales conversations
- Evidence Quality
- 4
- Magnitude
- 4
- Persistence
- 4
- Affected Decision
- Launch AI Assurance offer
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What this answer cannot establish
- The route is a decision aid, not an organizational approval.