# Your World Model

> What your board remembers between sessions — the structured, private dossier that grounds every expert, how write-back works, and the Grounded vs Off-the-record controls.

**Canonical URL:** https://www.synthboard.ai/docs/world-model
**Markdown source:** https://www.synthboard.ai/docs/world-model.md

## What the board remembers

Your World Model is one structured record per user — not a pile of chat logs. It holds:

- **Identity** — who you are, your role, and the register you prefer to be spoken to in.
- **Company** — name, industry, stage, business model, team size.
- **Hard numbers** — the metrics you have shared (revenue, churn, runway, price points) so advice is quantified, not generic.
- **Goals and constraints** — what you are driving at and what is genuinely off the table.
- **Preferences** — how you like recommendations framed and delivered.
- **Open questions** — the things the board knows it still does not know, so it asks when they become decision-relevant instead of guessing.

Every grounded session renders this dossier into a tight, bounded context block for each seated expert — so session #10 on a topic is structurally smarter than session #1.

## How it gets written

1. **Seeded from your profile.** When you first describe yourself or your company, that context bootstraps the dossier — no extra setup step.
2. **Updated from intake.** When a board's facilitator asks you clarifying questions, the answers merge into the dossier so no expert asks you the same thing twice.
3. **Updated from the memo.** When a board delivers its call, what it learned about your situation writes back — the verdict, the numbers surfaced, the constraints that shaped it.

Write-back never blocks your session: dossier updates run after delivery and fail open, so a memory hiccup can never delay or break the answer you are waiting on.

## Grounded vs. Off the record

- **Grounded (default)** — the experts read your World Model before answering, and what the session learns writes back. This is what makes the board compound.
- **Off the record** — nothing is read, nothing is stored. The session runs from your question alone and is marked with an "Off the record" chip in the session and on its dashboard card.

Over the API and MCP there is a third scope for automation: `wm_scope` accepts `grounded`, `read_only` (the board reads your dossier but writes nothing back — useful for experiments and batch runs), and `off_record`.

## You stay in control

- You can view everything the board holds about you.
- Edits stick: correct a fact or delete a goal and the board respects it — a removed item does not silently resurface on the next write-back.
- Memory is strictly per-user. It is never shared across accounts, never visible to other users, and never used to train models.

## Where you meet it

- Experts cite your real numbers and constraints instead of asking for them again.
- Intake gets shorter over time — the facilitator only asks what the dossier does not already answer.
- When you reconvene a decision (https://www.synthboard.ai/docs/reconvene), the new round opens already knowing the context the last round established.