Ask The W
Docs

Getting started

What Is Ask The W

Know what this product is for and why it matters for your team.

Ask The W is a shared operating map for teams that are making decisions faster than they can document them.

It is the judgement layer for AI-native product teams: a shared system where humans and AI agents can define the why, make better product decisions, and stay true to the North Star as work moves across tools.

It helps you keep important choices visible across chats, tickets, coding sessions, documents, and meetings. The product turns those sources into a practical view of what changed, why it changed, who owns the next move, and which outcomes need attention.

If everyone is making progress, you still need a reliable answer to:

  • what was decided
  • who owns each decision
  • what changed this week
  • what to do next

Ask The W turns that stream into shared product judgement instead of another place to paste status updates.

Product reference

Product reference: North Star panel showing the current operating target

Find it in Ask The W by opening Decisions from the left navigation. The North Star panel sits at the top of the operating view and gives W the workspace target it uses to interpret decisions, outcomes, and risk.

Core mental model

  1. Connect your best sources.
  2. Ask The W turns signals into linked product decisions and outcome candidates.
  3. You review and refine the resulting graph through decision actions.
  4. W helps you choose the highest leverage move when priorities shift.

What Ask The W tracks

Ask The W works with a few durable objects:

  • Signals: timestamped source records from tools, documents, links, hosted connectors, uploads, pasted context, and coding-agent checkpoints.
  • Decisions: recorded choices with a statement, rationale, owner, status, alignment, and source trail.
  • Outcomes: team-scoped target states derived from the workspace North Star.
  • Next moves: generated prompts for what to inspect, ground, review, or add next.
  • Makers: humans, agents, or collaborative pairs that created or carried decisions.
  • North Star: the workspace-level aim used to interpret risk, priority, and outcome fit.

Signals are inputs. Decisions are choices. Outcomes are the results those choices are meant to move. Next moves are suggestions derived from those objects, not another durable record type. Keeping that separation clear is what makes the product useful instead of noisy.

What it is not

Ask The W is not a generic task manager, transcript archive, or analytics dashboard that expects you to interpret everything manually.

Do not treat every source event as a decision. A decision should say what changed and why the team should remember it. Routine status, system noise, one-off milestones, internal reliability readouts, and unsourced claims belong in the signal trail unless they clearly alter direction.

How teams use it

Most teams start with one high-signal source, review the first decisions and outcomes, then add more context only after the map is useful.

A healthy loop looks like this:

  1. Open Decisions and confirm the North Star still reflects the current aim.
  2. Review new signals and the decisions they created or supported.
  3. Inspect stalling outcomes, conflicts, and ownership gaps.
  4. Apply one correction or next move before adding more inputs.
  5. Ask W for the narrowest useful next step when the path is unclear.

This keeps Ask The W focused on operating clarity, not collection volume.

Where to go next