SynthBoard routes each response into one of a fixed set of shapes — plan, decision, comparison, analysis, forecast, diagnosis, steps, ideas, research, a short direct answer, or a written draft — so the output is scannable and immediately usable. Shape mismatch is one of the quietest failures in AI tools: the content is right, the form makes it unusable.
Glossary
Artifact Shape
The answer in the shape you need.
In short
The structural form an advisory answer takes, chosen to fit the question rather than forced into one house template. A request to compare vendors should come back as a comparison; a request to plan a launch as a plan; a request for a number as a forecast; a request to write the actual email as prose.
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Where it shows up.
The product, not the theory.
In the written piece.
Ask for the comparison, the forecast or the plan and it comes back written — the whole piece, not a summary.
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Related terms.
Term
Anchoring Bias
A cognitive bias in which the first piece of information encountered — the "anchor" — disproportionately influences all subsequent judgments, even when that anchor is arbitrary or irrelevant.
Definition TermApproval-Gated Actions
A governance pattern in which an AI system may propose and prepare an action in a connected tool — draft the email, open the ticket, schedule the review — but cannot execute it until a human explicitly approves.
Definition TermBase Rates
The underlying frequency at which an outcome occurs across a reference class — for example, the percentage of seed-stage startups that reach Series B, or the share of acquisitions that destroy shareholder value.
Definition TermBayesian Decision-Making
A formal framework for choosing among actions by combining prior probabilities, observed evidence, and the value or cost of each possible outcome.
Definition TermBayesian Reasoning
A systematic method for updating beliefs based on new evidence, derived from Bayes' theorem in probability theory.
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The complete guide to making strategic calls with AI that disagrees on purpose.
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