# Artifact Shape

> The structural form an advisory answer takes, chosen to fit the question rather than forced into one house template.

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## Definition

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. 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.

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- [What a session produces](https://www.synthboard.ai/product)


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