Company State
Every big decision starts with “what's true right now?” In most companies, nobody can answer without a week of digging. I keep that answer live.
Problem
Mechanism
Your tools, chats, uploads and the AI Suite’s own products flow in. I turn them into labeled facts: FACT, INFERENCE, ASSUMPTION, PREDICTION, TARGET, CONSTRAINT, PREFERENCE. Facts link to the things they’re about, those form one picture, and the picture answers your questions.
Four kinds of source become seven kinds of labeled fact, which link to the things they are about, which form one picture of the company, which answers a question.
Sources
Connectors
Finance · CRM · calendar
Conversations
Founder · team · Cortex
Uploads
interviews-01…12.pdf
AI Suite products
the products agents work in
Typed claims
FACTINFERENCEASSUMPTIONPREDICTIONTARGETCONSTRAINTPREFERENCEEntities
The graph
Answer · what’s true right now?
Delivery capacity is the binding constraint · 0.72 · 91% utilization
Anatomy
Click any field to see what it means. Hover a fact to draw the line to its source.
StateClaim
Dispute any fact and see everything it touches.
Sources · Customer segment
Worked example
The founder’s three answers have become 14 facts and guesses: 5 facts, 6 assumptions, 2 constraints, 1 target. The two guesses that would change the most are flagged to be checked before I draft any plan.
Company State · Aster · minute 4
Sources · the founder’s three answers
Answer 1 · What are you building, in one sentence?
“Software that turns customer interviews into product decisions”
Answer 2 · Who has this problem today — and what do they do about it now?
“Product teams. They skim interview notes and guess.”
Answer 3 · What would be true in 90 days if it worked?
“10 design partners using it weekly”
Claims · 14
The live picture
Fragments
What's true is spread across eleven tools and four people's heads. What you know, guess, promised and risk lives nowhere in one place.
Resolved
Goals, customers, money and promises in one live picture, each fact with its source and how sure I am. Not a folder of docs.
Queried
Every big decision starts with “what's true right now?” I keep that answer live.
Updated
Any fact can be disputed, reviewed and replaced, never edited quietly. And you can see when a fact goes stale.
Drag sideways to see the rest
You can fix it
What I know feeds the World Model. What happens updates what I know.
The hard question