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The Twelve Principles

How we help you find what you need


I. The Answer Already Exists

The information you need is already out there. We don't create it—we navigate you to it. Like a search engine that knows where to look, we find the right answer in the vast space of possibilities.

What this means for you: Stop searching. Start finding.


II. Better Questions, Better Answers

The way you ask shapes what you get. A vague question gets a vague answer. A precise question cuts straight to what you need. We help you ask better questions so you get better answers.

What this means for you: We don't just answer—we help you ask.


III. Attention is the Product

III. Attention is the Product

Finding what you need IS the product. Not a step before the product. Not preparation for the product. The finding itself.

When you search, you're not "retrieving before generating." The search IS the intelligence. The moment you find the right thing is the moment value is created. Everything after is just presentation.

What this means for you: We don't retrieve then answer. Finding IS answering.

IV. Expertise Transfers

The best experts have intuitions that took years to develop. We capture those intuitions and make them available to you—instantly. You get the benefit of expertise without the years of training.

What this means for you: Learn from the best, right now.


V. Watch, Learn, Apply

V. Watch, Learn, Apply

We learn what works by watching what works—and remembering WHY. Every action carries context. When something helps, we know not just what happened but why it mattered. That history is searchable, learnable, feedable back into future decisions.

What this means for you: It gets smarter because it remembers the reasons, not just the results.

VI. Identity is Portable

VI. Identity is Portable

Change one setting, and everything that depends on it changes too. Your preferences cascade through the system. Update your config in one place, and every document that references it transforms automatically.

What this means for you: One change, everywhere at once.

VII. One Pattern, Everywhere

VII. One Pattern, Everywhere

There's one way to do everything: name what you want, tell it what to work with, explain why. That's it. Read something? Same pattern. Write something? Same pattern. Run something? Same pattern. One rhythm that works for everything.

What this means for you: Learn it once, use it everywhere.

VIII. See It Before You Use It

VIII. See It Before You Use It

You read about a tool in the same place you use it. The documentation isn't separate from the capability—they're the same thing. When you look at something, you see both what it does and how to use it, together.

What this means for you: No hunting for docs. It's all right there.

IX. Same Process, Every Scale

IX. Same Process, Every Scale

Works on your laptop. Works for your team. Works for your whole organization. Same approach at every level. Run it locally, sync when you need to share, scale up without changing how you work.

What this means for you: Grows with you, same experience at any size.

X. The System Improves Itself

X. The System Improves Itself

Every tool you create becomes available for building more tools. Stack them three deep and you can build anything. The system is designed for composition—tools calling tools calling tools, all chainable, all combinable.

What this means for you: Build once, combine forever.

XI. Value is Contrast

XI. Value is Contrast

All your documents sit behind the same interface. The same search finds everything. Because of that uniformity, patterns emerge naturally—connections you didn't know existed surface just from using the system.

What this means for you: Use it normally. Insights come as a side effect.

XII. Distance is Opportunity

XII. Distance is Opportunity

Search your entire knowledge space in one go. Find connections between things you'd never think to connect—your infrastructure docs linked to your onboarding guide linked to last month's incident. Patterns you haven't seen yet.

What this means for you: Discover what you didn't know you had.

The Promise

The Promise

Three operations: read, write, run. Everything else emerges from those.

The system searches everywhere at once—every document, every team's knowledge, everything your organization knows. All in parallel. No bottlenecks. Just answers.

Simple as that.

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  • 2026-01-09 21:39: Node created by mcp - Creating user-facing version of twelve principles - Google/search metaphor

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