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You pick the situation (trust a metric, spot dirty signal, automation vs judgment, compare branches, or build a signal culture), and the workflow responds with crisp checks and next actions—or hands off to a human when the call is inherently judgment-heavy.\n\n## Key features\n- Knowledge Base step up front to anchor guidance to your team’s actual definitions and recent changes.\n- One-tap routing into decision-shaped playbooks (trust, dirt detection, automation vs judgment, comparisons, culture).\n- “Meeting-proof” checks that focus on what fails first: instrument changes, selection effects, lag, and incentives.\n- A shared “What next?” step to loop back to the menu or hand off to a human owner.\n- Optional handoff path for cases where the right answer is a conversation, not a dashboard.\n\n## Step-by-step\n1. **Trigger:** The workflow starts when a user enters the flow.\n2. **Knowledge Base policy:** Calypso looks for relevant internal guidance (metric definitions, calculation notes, known tracking changes). 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