Documentation.

Reference for using The Detective. Start with your first analysis if you just signed up, or jump straight to the topic that brought you here.

Getting started

Sign up and intakeComing soon
Create an account with a magic link and answer the eight intake questions that shape your analyses.
Your first analysis
Step by step from the intake form to the finished report in your dashboard.
Reading the reportComing soon
Verdict labels, source tiers, salvage angles, and the ranked list. Where to look first.

What the pipeline does, what it refuses to do, and how the verdict is rendered.

Methodology overviewComing soon
The research, distill, source gate, synthesis, and critic stages. What each one is responsible for.
Source tiers and confidenceComing soon
Primary, industry, media, and low confidence sources. How citations are graded and why some lines are downweighted.
Verdict labelsComing soon
Go, Go with caveats, No go, Preliminary, and Refused. What each label commits to.
Salvage anglesComing soon
When the original idea fails the preflight, the pipeline offers reframes. How they are generated and when to take them.
Idea LabComing soon
The chat surface for exploring partial ideas before committing one to a full analysis.

Where your analyses live and how to move between them, save niches, and run side by side comparisons.

SearchComing soon
Full text search across every analysis you have run. Operators, filters, and saved queries.
WatchlistComing soon
Save niches you want to revisit. Capacity varies by tier; saved niches surface in the weekly digest.
Project TrackerComing soon
Promote a verdict into a tracked project. Milestones, kill conditions, and reopen rules.
CompareComing soon
Put two analyses side by side. See where they agree, where they disagree, and which sources overlap.
Cross analysis fingerprintComing soon
The pattern that emerges across all your reports. What you keep refusing, what keeps surfacing, what shifted month over month.

How analyses reach you and how to tune what arrives.

Email deliveryComing soon
Transactional email delivery. Sender domain, deliverability tips, and what to do if a report goes missing.
In app bellComing soon
The notification feed inside the dashboard. What counts as an alert and how to mark things read.
Weekly digestComing soon
Mondays 14:00 UTC. A scannable rollup of the past week of analyses and watchlist movement.
Slack deliveryComing soon
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Discord deliveryComing soon
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WhatsApp deliveryComing soon
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Plans, upgrades, downgrades, cancellation, refunds. Our payment processor handles the money; we handle the access.

Plans and tiersComing soon
Starter, Explorer, Hunter, Operator. What each one includes and how cadence works.
Upgrades and downgradesComing soon
How proration works, when new cadence kicks in, and what carries over between tiers.
CancellationComing soon
Cancel from your dashboard at any time. What stays accessible after cancellation and what stops.
RefundsComing soon
The refund policy in plain terms, including the automatic credit path when a pipeline run fails.

Send analyses into the rest of your stack.

Profile, identity, team seats, and switching between workspaces.

Profile and identityComing soon
Name, email, country, avatar. What is stored, what is visible, and how to change it.
Team seats (Operator)Coming soon
Invite teammates, manage roles, and revoke access. Operator tier only.
Switching workspacesComing soon
If you belong to more than one workspace, this is how you move between them without signing out.