Glossary

What each tab does

Where AI support meets human judgment.

Trusted Advisor is a workbench, not a chatbot. Each tab is a distinct surface in the workflow — from shaping a fuzzy request to exporting a signed-off memo. Here's what every tab is for and when to reach for it.

New here? Start with Discover for guided framing, or jump straight to Workspace.

Start

Where new sessions begin.

Home

Open

Landing page that orients new visitors and points at the two entry paths: start a session or read a sample memo.

When to use

First visit, or when you want to share the product with someone new.

Discover

Open

Guided wizard that walks you through describing a workflow, naming pain points, and classifying it as recognition, utilization, or creation.

When to use

When the situation is fuzzy and you want help shaping it into a structured intake before opening the workspace.

Decide

Where the thinking and the memo live.

Workspace

Open

The main workbench. Capture the request, attach sources, answer framing questions, and run the advisor through its stages.

When to use

When you already know roughly what you want to think through and prefer the quick path to a memo.

Session summary

Open

The structured memo for the active session: what was heard, missing context, watchouts, recommendation, sources, sign-off.

When to use

After a session is drafted, to review, edit, and route for reviewer sign-off before export.

Memo history

Open

List of past sessions and their memos, with revision history and the ability to reopen any prior decision.

When to use

When you need to find a previous memo, compare revisions, or pick a session back up.

Actions

Open

Tracker for the next steps a memo committed to: owner, due date, status. Closes the loop between memo and follow-through.

When to use

After a memo is signed off, to keep its recommended actions visible and accountable.

Opportunities

Open

Ranks candidate workflows by repetition, risk, business impact, and ease of automation. Produces a numeric score and short explanation.

When to use

When you have several candidate workflows and need to prioritize which one to automate or attack first.

Export

Open

Turns a signed-off memo into a portable artifact (markdown, shareable link) with provenance and disclosure preserved.

When to use

When a memo is final and needs to leave the workbench — sharing with a customer, attaching to a ticket, archiving.

Govern

Guardrails, review, audit — the trust layer.

Guardrails

Open

Defines the safety rules the advisor must respect — what it should refuse, qualify, or escalate.

When to use

When tuning what the advisor will and won't do, or auditing why a response was blocked or qualified.

Review queue

Open

Sessions waiting on a named human reviewer before they can be exported or shared.

When to use

When you're the reviewer triaging incoming sign-off requests, or checking what's pending review.

Evals

Open

Evaluation harness. Replays known scenarios against the advisor to check that responses haven't regressed.

When to use

After changing prompts, guardrails, or scoring logic, to confirm behavior is still consistent.

Audit log

Open

Chronological record of session events: intake, stage transitions, edits, reviewer actions, exports.

When to use

When you need to trace what happened in a session, or evidence that a decision was reviewed.

Reference

Libraries and design references.

Playbooks

Open

Reusable prompts and playbook templates the advisor draws on. Read-only library you can reference or copy from.

When to use

When you want to see how a recurring scenario is normally framed, or borrow language for a new session.

Visual system

Open

Reference for the design tokens, panels, and status indicators that compose every screen.

When to use

When extending the workbench UI or checking that a new screen stays consistent with the rest.