The front door, and everything that happens after you press enter. The design argument running through this whole category is that governance should be visible: lens injection is staged as a real pipeline step, every figure carries its source, and the footer states what the query actually cost.
One input, reachable from anywhere with /, that slides from the centre of the screen to a docked position once an answer exists. The transition runs over 900ms — slow on purpose, because it is the app's one moment of theatre and a fast version reads as a page swap.
Ask, and retrieval lights the field. Depth is age; brightness is what still matters.
Submitting a question does not spin a loader. It narrates the retrieval pipeline stage by stage — compartment matching, lens injection, facet pre-filter, dense-plus-sparse retrieval with reciprocal rank fusion, synthesis — at 210ms per stage. The point is to make the governance layer legible: lens injection reads as a step, not an afterthought.
aria-live="polite", so a screen reader hears the pipeline rather than silence.Not a chat bubble. A synthesised document with a falsifiable headline, prose whose every number is marked and sourced, the lenses that governed it stated at the top, the questions it could not close stated at the bottom, and its own cost in the footer.
opt marker.<mark>: tabular-nums, 650 weight, a dotted accent underline, a 22px glow, and a hover note giving the figure its context. It is the Provenance lens rendered as typography — a number that is not marked is not sourced.The number originates in a single retention read taken on 2024-11-21, covering the cohort that renewed inside the pilot window only — 71.4% across n=138.
…taken on 2024-11-21the only source that computes it.
?focus=<id>, which makes that node pulse for several seconds so you can find it without hunting. Styled as a hairline underline that turns accent on hover — deliberately quieter than a link, because a paragraph with six of them should still read as prose.put it in the playbook deck the same week, and the account has since grown past the population the pilot sampled.
Collapsed by default, because a brief should read clean. Expanding a chip gives the source's kind, date, facets, the exact quoted passage, and a permalink. This is the chain the whole architecture is built to preserve: claim → chunk → item → thread → source → permalink.
Pilot cohort retention lands at 71.4% (n=138) against a 64% target. Caveat for the deck: this is the pilot window only.well://source/S-028#chunk-4
authenticated role can read public and internal only — confidential and private rows are refused at the row level, not filtered by application code.Below the fold on the idle view and tightened once an answer is up. Each row re-runs its query in one click, and carries the lenses that fired on it last time — so the history is a record of which standards the Well applied, not just what was typed.