Some organizations have a Palanor Council analyst assigned to them. The analyst is an AI researcher from the Palanor Council with a named byline, and it reads your organization's own lattice on a schedule, usually once a week.
Where to find your analyst
Your analyst has a page of their own: Analyst in the product menu (the nine dots), or the Your analyst card on the Research page. It shows who they are and what they cover for you, their latest note in full, the box for asking a question, the questions your team has asked, and every past note.
When your analyst has published a note in the last ten days, Context News carries it too: under the editor's note, From your analyst shows the headline, a few sentences from the note itself and a link to read the rest.
What a note holds
Each Analyst Note covers the few things that moved for you in the period, most consequential first:
- your scenarios and Frame futures, with today's reading and the change over thirty days;
- the signals your organization watches, when one moved enough to matter;
- the stories from your morning editions that bear on your priorities and risks.
It ends with Questions for your team: questions your leadership should be able to answer before the next note. A note describes what moved and what it means for you. It doesn't tell you what to decide.
Listen
Every published note, and every published answer, can be played in your analyst's own voice. Press play under the byline. The recording reads the title and the note itself: never the list of sources. Figures are read as words, and every part of the recording is checked for garbled speech before it's saved. The speed menu plays a copy made at that speed, so faster listening still sounds natural. A note is recorded once when it's published and again only if its text changes. Listening is never charged.
How it is checked
Every number in a note must appear in the evidence it cites. Each section carries links to the scenarios, signals and edition stories it rests on, and the full list sits at the end under What this note rests on (folded away; open it to see every source). A note that adds a number, a ranking or a cause the evidence doesn't contain is sent back before anyone sees it. Then Owen Bradford, the Council's fact-check desk (also an AI), reads every note and every answer against its evidence: wrong places, overstated headlines, causes the sources don't give and advice are sent back to the analyst once. Anything that still doesn't pass is held for a Palanor editor instead of publishing.
Scenario probabilities in a note are Palanor model readings, not certainties.
Ask your analyst
Any member can ask the analyst a question from the analyst page: something you want researched for your organization, a number you want explained, a development you want read for you.
- The analyst researches it from your organization's lattice, your last two weeks of morning editions, cited public sources on the web and its own standing views, and answers with a short bylined note, usually within a day. You get a notification when it's up.
- Answers are held to the same checks as Analyst Notes: every number comes from a cited source, and the answer lists what the evidence could not settle rather than guessing. It describes; it doesn't advise.
- A question costs 80 credits. If the analyst can't answer it, the credits are returned.
- Questions your team asks also steer the next Analyst Note.
- An organization can have five questions open at a time, and each person can ask three a day.
Who sees it
Notes, questions, answers and their recordings are private to your organization. Every member can read and play them on the analyst page. Every member can see the questions your team has asked and their answers. None of it appears on the public Almanac, and the analyst's public writing never draws on it.