B — The Brain
Recollection, not retrieval.
Retrieval finds a paragraph that looks relevant. Recollection knows what your organization decided, on what evidence, what it did not know at the time, and what happened next.
01 — The object model
Five kinds of memory.
◆ Signal
Something happened, and here is where we heard it. Carries its origin document, timestamp and confidence.
Every instance carries · provenance · materiality · correction history
02 — A worked example
One decision, four months.
This is what the Brain holds after a single supply-chain decision runs its course. Note that the unresolved gap never disappears — it stays attached to the decision that depends on it.
- Signal
Supplier flags a 6-week lead-time increase on the Kestrel line.
↳ Mail thread · procurement@
- Decision
Dual-source the Kestrel components. Owner: Ops. Reviewed quarterly.
↳ Steering minutes · D-114
- Knowledge gap
Second supplier has no audited quality record. Unresolved.
↳ Vendor assessment · open
- Outcome
Lead time recovered to 3 weeks. Unit cost up 4%.
↳ ERP export · Q2
- Learning
Dual-sourcing paid off under supply shock — but only where a qualified second source already existed.
↳ Derived · applicability noted