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The flow nudges users toward practical guardrails without turning the conversation into an academic lecture.\n\n## Key features\n- Uses the **Calypso Knowledge Base** first, then routes into a structured coaching menu if the KB can’t confidently answer.\n- Interactive menu routes users to **specific decision scenarios** (trusting metrics, dirty signal detection, automation vs judgment, attribution pitfalls).\n- Advice responses are **short, operational, and meeting-ready** (what to check, what usually lies, what to do next).\n- “Return to menu” loop enables quick multiple checks in one session.\n- Optional **handoff to a human analyst** for high-stakes or disputed numbers.\n\n## Step-by-step\n1. **Trigger:** A user starts the workflow (Input).\n2. **Knowledge Base pass:** The workflow attempts to answer using your **Knowledge Base Policy** (best for “What does this metric mean?” or “How do we define X?”).\n3. **Decision menu:** If the KB doesn’t resolve it, the user sees a menu of coaching paths (Interactive Message).\n4. **Routing by choice:** The workflow routes based on the selected button (If nodes):\n   1. *Which numbers to trust* → a checklist for reliability (Text Message), then returns to the menu.\n   2. *Spot dirty signal fast* → fast “pre-meeting” tripwires (Text Message), then returns to the menu.\n   3. *Automation vs judgment* → when to let systems decide and when to intervene (Text Message), then returns to the menu.\n   4. *Messy evidence → usable insight* → how to summarize without “cleaning away the truth” (Text Message), then returns to the menu.\n   5. *Comparing branches & attribution* → the misreads that break comparisons (Text Message), then returns to the menu.\n   6. *Build a signal culture* → habits that produce decisions, not slides (Text Message), then returns to the menu.\n   7. *Talk to an analyst* → hands off to your Research Ops / Analytics team (Fallback).\n\n## Setup requirements\n- **Calypso Knowledge Base**: Recommended. Populate entries for metric definitions, branch reporting rules, attribution logic, and known data caveats.\n- **Department for handoff (optional)**: Configure the “Research Ops / Analytics” department so the fallback handoff goes to the right team.\n- No external credentials are required by this workflow.",{"id":13,"teamId":14,"name":9,"version":15,"workflowVersion":16,"nodes":17,"connections":181,"routingEnabled":8,"active":34},"wf-metrics-trust-coach-v1","calypso-public-library","1.0.0",1,[18,35,41,53,89,99,105,111,116,121,127,133,141,147,153,159,165,171],{"id":19,"name":20,"type":21,"typeVersion":16,"position":22,"parameters":25,"category":33,"deletable":34,"connectable":34},"fc1","Workflow settings","flow-configs",[23,24],-240,60,{"name":9,"description":26,"tags":27,"triggerType":32},"Decision-focused coaching to pressure-test metrics, spot dirty signal, and avoid confident wrong decisions.",[28,29,30,31],"metrics","signal-quality","decision-making","branch-analytics","input","policy",false,{"id":36,"name":37,"type":32,"typeVersion":16,"position":38,"parameters":40,"category":32,"deletable":34,"connectable":8},"in1","Start",[39,24],-60,{},{"id":42,"name":43,"type":44,"typeVersion":16,"position":45,"parameters":47,"category":52,"deletable":8,"connectable":8},"kb1","Knowledge Base answer (if possible)","knowledge-base-policy",[46,24],140,{"enabled":8,"fallbackToRouting":8,"sticky":34,"stickyMode":48,"activationOpener":49,"personalization":51},"default",{"enabled":8,"instruction":50},"Use the Knowledge Base to answer definitions, metric meaning, and documented reporting rules. If the user is asking for judgment, troubleshooting, or decision guidance, fall back to the routing menu.",{"useContactName":8},"response",{"id":54,"name":55,"type":56,"typeVersion":16,"position":57,"parameters":59,"category":52,"deletable":8,"connectable":8},"menu1","Choose what you’re deciding","interactive-message",[58,24],360,{"messageType":60,"headerText":61,"bodyText":62,"footerText":63,"sectionTitle":64,"buttons":65,"ctaDisplayText":87,"ctaUrl":88},"list","Signal & decision coach","Pick the situation. You’ll get a fast checklist that’s designed to prevent the classic failure: clean-looking data that leads to a confident wrong decision.","Tip: In a meeting? 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If not, it’s not a KPI—it's a rumor with formatting.\n2) Stability: Does the definition change month to month (filters, time windows, “active” rules)? If yes, trend lines are cosplay.\n3) Completeness: What % of events can be missing without anyone noticing? If you can’t answer, assume it’s higher than you’d like.\n4) Incentives: Who benefits if this number looks good? If the answer is “the person presenting it,” require a second measure.\n5) Cross-check: Pick one independent proxy (cash, footfall, complaints, staffing hours). If proxies disagree, don’t argue—investigate.\n\nIf you want, choose another menu item for a fast dirty-signal scan before your next meeting.",{"id":142,"name":143,"type":136,"typeVersion":16,"position":144,"parameters":145,"category":52,"deletable":8,"connectable":8},"msg_spot_dirty","Guidance: spot dirty signal fast",[138,103],{"text":146},"Fast dirty-signal tripwires (run these before the confident meeting):\n\n• Sudden smoothness: If variance mysteriously disappears, something got bucketed, filtered, or backfilled.\n• “Only up and to the right”: Real operations wobble. Perfect improvement is usually a definition change.\n• Timing weirdness: Spikes at midnight / month-end / right after a rollout often mean logging, not behavior.\n• Missing negatives: If you only see conversions and never see drop-offs, you’re looking at a success-only telescope.\n• One-source truth claims: If the presenter can’t name failure modes, they haven’t looked for them.\n\nIf any trigger fires: pause the decision, write down the assumption that could be wrong, and ask for a single independent cross-check.",{"id":148,"name":149,"type":136,"typeVersion":16,"position":150,"parameters":151,"category":52,"deletable":8,"connectable":8},"msg_auto_vs_human","Guidance: automation vs judgment",[138,109],{"text":152},"When to trust automation vs require human judgment:\n\nTrust automation when:\n• The decision is frequent, low-regret, and reversible.\n• Inputs are instrumented consistently (same definitions, same clocks, same populations).\n• You have a clear feedback loop (you’ll know within days/weeks if it was wrong).\n\nRequire human judgment when:\n• The model is optimizing a proxy (e.g., ‘leads’) and the business cares about a different outcome (e.g., ‘profit’).\n• The environment changed (new offer, new policy, new competitor, new reporting pipeline).\n• The cost of a wrong call is asymmetric (one bad automation run can poison weeks of ops).\n\nRule of thumb: automate the *repeatable mechanics*; keep humans responsible for *goal changes and exceptions*.",{"id":154,"name":155,"type":136,"typeVersion":16,"position":156,"parameters":157,"category":52,"deletable":8,"connectable":8},"msg_messy_to_insight","Guidance: messy evidence → usable insight",[138,24],{"text":158},"How to turn messy evidence into usable insight without ‘cleaning away the truth’:\n\n1) Don’t rush to averages. Start with ranges and outliers—mess is usually the point.\n2) Keep raw categories visible (unknown / other / missing). Hiding them makes dashboards prettier and decisions worse.\n3) Write the decision question first (e.g., “Should Branch B copy Branch A’s staffing model?”). Then pick only signals that can change that answer.\n4) Separate measurement error from behavior change. If a rollout happened, assume the first explanation is logging.\n5) Summarize with ‘because’: “We think X because Y, but if Z is true the conclusion flips.” That’s not weakness—that’s leadership.\n\nWant to sanity-check comparisons across branches? Choose that option next.",{"id":160,"name":161,"type":136,"typeVersion":16,"position":162,"parameters":163,"category":52,"deletable":8,"connectable":8},"msg_compare_branches","Guidance: comparing branches & attribution",[138,46],{"text":164},"What teams misread when comparing branches, conversations, and attribution:\n\n• Different populations: Branches serve different mixes (new vs returning, business vs consumer). Normalize or you’re comparing weather.\n• Different opportunity: A quieter branch can look ‘efficient’ because it had fewer hard cases.\n• Channel mix: If one branch gets more phone calls and another gets more walk-ins, conversion rates won’t mean the same thing.\n• Attribution gravity: The last touch often gets the trophy, not the credit. Don’t ‘optimize’ what merely shows up last.\n• Conversation bias: One memorable call can override 200 boring ones. Require counts + context.\n\nGood practice: pick one primary metric, one guardrail metric, and one ‘reality proxy.’ If they disagree, slow down.",{"id":166,"name":167,"type":136,"typeVersion":16,"position":168,"parameters":169,"category":52,"deletable":8,"connectable":8},"msg_signal_culture","Guidance: build a signal culture",[138,125],{"text":170},"How to build a signal culture that produces decisions (not slides):\n\n• Make “definition drift” a first-class incident. If a metric changes meaning, it gets announced.\n• Require one independent cross-check for any metric used in a high-stakes decision.\n• Reward bad news early. Teams hide mess when they’re punished for surfacing it.\n• Keep a short ‘known failure modes’ list for your top KPIs (missing events, duplicates, backfills, seasonal distortions).\n• End meetings with a decision + a measurement plan. 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