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The guidance is intentionally plainspoken: it helps operators pressure-test definitions, sampling, incentives, and attribution—without cleaning away the inconvenient truth.\n\n## Key features\n- Knowledge Base first: answers common signal/measurement questions before routing.\n- Interactive decision menu with targeted coaching paths (trust, hygiene, automation, messy evidence, comparisons, culture).\n- “Route to analyst” option that hands off to a human when the situation needs judgment.\n- Loop-back design: after each coaching response, the menu reappears so users can run multiple checks.\n\n## Step-by-step\n1. **Trigger:** A new inbound message starts the workflow.\n2. **Knowledge Base assist:** The workflow attempts to answer using your Signal/Research/Measurement KB; if it can’t, it continues to the menu.\n3. **Choose a coaching path (buttons):** The user selects what they’re trying to decide (e.g., which branch numbers to trust, or whether automation is safe).\n4. **Routing by selection:** The workflow evaluates the selected button and delivers the matching, decision-ready guidance.\n5. **Repeat or escalate:** The workflow returns to the menu for another check, or the user can choose **Route to analyst** to hand off to a human.\n\n## Setup requirements\n- **Calypso Knowledge Base** populated with your measurement definitions (metric glossary, branch reporting rules, attribution rules, known data pitfalls).\n- **Calypso routing** enabled with an “Analytics Support” (or equivalent) department to receive handoffs.\n- No additional credentials are required beyond your Calypso workspace access.",{"id":13,"teamId":14,"name":9,"version":15,"workflowVersion":16,"nodes":17,"connections":187,"routingEnabled":8,"active":33},"wf_branch_numbers_trust_noise_v1","calypso-public-library","1.0.0",1,[18,34,40,52,87,97,105,111,117,123,129,135,141,146,152,158,164,170,180],{"id":19,"name":20,"type":21,"typeVersion":16,"position":22,"parameters":25,"category":32,"deletable":33,"connectable":33},"n_flow_cfg","Workflow settings","flow-configs",[23,24],-240,60,{"name":9,"description":26,"tags":27,"triggerType":31},"Guided coaching to stress-test branch signals, spot dirty data, and escalate to an analyst when judgment is needed.",[28,29,30],"signal-design","decision-systems","branch-metrics","input","policy",false,{"id":35,"name":36,"type":31,"typeVersion":16,"position":37,"parameters":39,"category":31,"deletable":33,"connectable":8},"n_input","Inbound message",[38,38],0,{},{"id":41,"name":42,"type":43,"typeVersion":16,"position":44,"parameters":46,"category":51,"deletable":8,"connectable":8},"n_kb","Knowledge Base assist","knowledge-base-policy",[45,38],220,{"enabled":8,"fallbackToRouting":8,"sticky":33,"stickyMode":47,"activationOpener":48,"personalization":50},"default",{"enabled":8,"instruction":49},"Use the Knowledge Base to answer questions about branch metrics, signal quality, attribution, and research practices. 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It wears a suit.\n\n**Early warnings that your signal is contaminated:**\n- **Too smooth:** sudden stability after months of chaos (often a logging or filtering change).\n- **Edge cases disappear:** the messy middle goes missing (e.g., fewer “Other/Unknown” categories overnight).\n- **Timing weirdness:** spikes at shift changes, month-end, or right after reminders.\n- **Perfect symmetry:** every branch ‘improves’ by the same % at the same time.\n\n**Quick checks before the meeting:**\n- Pull **5–10 raw examples** (records/calls/tickets) and ask, “Would a stranger classify these the same way?”\n- Compare **source-of-truth vs report layer** (what the system recorded vs what the dashboard shows).\n- Look for **missingness**: nulls, defaults, and backfilled fields. 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