Does Signal Triage use a benchmark or AI?

No. The result uses visible deterministic rules and only the user's inputs. It is not compared with other customers.

When should I take the Signal decision card into a workshop?

When the unresolved work requires team challenge, evidence reconciliation, ownership, and a committed organizational decision.

Core strategy instrument · Decision Card

Signal Triage

Q: What does Signal Triage produce?

A versioned Signal decision card with visible reasoning, evidence status, next action, review date, and structured exports.

Evaluate a real signal with visible rules, then assign the next action and review date.

Start with my inputs

No account. No email gate. The primary result and exports are free.

Work locally. Strategic working text stays in this browser by default. Do not enter confidential, regulated, privileged, customer-identifying, or personal information.

Definition and worked example

See the method before entering your own evidence.

Who should use it: Decide whether to ignore, monitor, test, or act on a market signal.

Decision basis: Signal Triage combines evidence quality, magnitude, persistence, urgency, decision relevance, reversibility, and cost into a visible route. Act requires strong evidence, high impact, repeated signal, and costly delay.

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Clearly fictional input

Market signal: Buyers now ask for evidence governance before an AI pilot
Source: Five sales conversations
Evidence quality (1 to 5): 4
Potential magnitude (1 to 5): 4
Persistence (1 to 5): 4
Decision affected: Launch AI Assurance offer

This sample runs through the same method and artifact structure as your own work.

Structured work

Build the signal decision card

Every field affects the result or the working artifact. Add up to 8 records.

Ungated result

Your signal decision card

Method 1.0.0 · Input schema 1.0.0
Artifact · Due · Review

Decision state

Input confidence

Strongest evidence

Riskiest input

Do within seven days

Limits

Import a prior JSON Download blank template Watch the 90-second walkthrough

Team operating path

Run the decision without inventing the process

The pack includes private pre-work, simultaneous reveal, a 60-minute agenda, priority selection, decision ownership, dissent, and a 30-day review.

Carry the work forward

Create a Workshop Pre-Read

The default pre-read includes versions, result, open questions, and requested outcome. Your raw working text stays out unless you deliberately include it.

Include my strategic working text

Where the free tool stops

The artifact makes the issue visible. The engagement resolves the organizational decision.

Petrichor helps the team reconcile disagreement, challenge evidence, assign ownership, and leave with a committed decision. You will not be asked to recreate this artifact.

Take this into the matching Petrichor work

Self-serve

Run this on your own company

This scored you once. The kit is the full rubric, built to paste straight into your LLM. Feed it to Claude or ChatGPT and score everything, on your own data. Includes the paste-ready file plus the designed PDF.

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Transparent method

How this instrument reaches a result

Signal Triage combines evidence quality, magnitude, persistence, urgency, decision relevance, reversibility, and cost into a visible route. Act requires strong evidence, high impact, repeated signal, and costly delay.

See the fields and decision basis

Market signal: required input used in the result and artifact.
Source: required input used in the result and artifact.
Evidence quality (1 to 5): required input used in the result and artifact.
Potential magnitude (1 to 5): required input used in the result and artifact.
Persistence (1 to 5): required input used in the result and artifact.
Decision affected: required input used in the result and artifact.
Reversible test available: required input used in the result and artifact.
Time sensitivity (1 to 5): required input used in the result and artifact.
Cost of acting: optional input used in the result and artifact.
Cost of waiting: optional input used in the result and artifact.
Decision owner: required input used in the result and artifact.

Questions about Signal Triage

What do I leave with?

A versioned signal decision card with visible reasoning, evidence status, next action, review date, and structured exports.

Does the result use a benchmark or AI?

No. The result uses the visible deterministic rules for this instrument and only the inputs you provide. It is not compared with other customers.

When does the paid work begin?

After the artifact. Petrichor helps the team challenge evidence, reconcile disagreement, assign ownership, and commit to the organizational decision without making you repeat the free work.

The method is versioned. No cross-customer benchmark is used. Review the full method and change history, the relevant plain-language answer, or the permanent Tool Trust Charter.

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