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Watchboard

The standing list of signals a scan named to watch, checked on a schedule the reader sets.

The product’s working definition.

How to read it

When Watchboard appears on a page

Where the signals a scan named to watch are kept and checked. A research page tells you what would change its read; the Watchboard is the standing order to look for it, run on a schedule you set and charged like any other scan.

The family

The product's own words

The handful of nouns the pages use for the things the product makes and keeps.

ScanOne run of one kind of research on one subject: the unit of work, priced in credits, that produces a research page.The recordThe material a scan actually read during its run and the sources it cites.SourcesThe list of what a research page cites, rendered only from URLs the output genuinely carries.Structured ThinkingThirty named frameworks run over a subject with the same grounding a scan gets, priced flat.CreditThe unit every scan is priced in; a scan names its cost before it runs.
Where you will see it

On these pages

Kinds of research that print it
Event →Ask →
Surfaces
Every public research page
The rubric

The whole grading vocabulary, on one page

Every grade here is assigned by the same rules on every scan, and the methodology page renders those rules from the code that enforces them.

How the grades work →The whole glossary