DraftThis concept page is in progress. Industry Intel is shipped, Discovery Agent is partial, Behaviors is in active development.
The Intelligence Layer, Designed
Reactive AI tells you what you asked. Proactive AI tells you what you didn’t know to ask. The intelligence layer is the second pattern, running on its own schedule against three sources: your backlog, your industry, and the way your team actually operates.
What follows is a designed concept of the surface where this lands — a Monday morning brief — followed by a closer look at each of the three pillars feeding into it.
Centerpiece · The Brief
The Intelligence Hub opens to a single unified surface. Three findings, one from each pillar. Each carries what it is, why it matters, and a recommended action you can take with one click.
ProductIntel · Intelligence · Monday Brief · 8:47 AM
Three things that need 30 seconds of your attention.
Generated 8:47 AM · 3 of 47 candidate signals surfaced · Today: 2 Discovery + 1 Strategy
For Mike
Three open stories all touch account-health calculation.
PB-412 (widget), PB-421 (health score nightly recompute), PB-429 (factor-weight admin UI) are clustering around the same area. No epic, no shared owner.
Why it matters · Each story is being scoped independently. Without grouping, they will land with three different score calculation paths.
Two competitors shipped account-health updates this week.
Linear-style customer health scoring released by Vendor A on Tuesday. Vendor B added trend visualization Thursday. Both with marketing pushes targeting CS leaders.
Why it matters · Customer questions about feature parity will arrive within two weeks. Worth deciding response posture now, not when the first ticket lands.
Stripe Billing v2 shipped yesterday. Two of your products could ship the upgrade in under a week.
The new API collapses subscription updates from three calls into one and adds proration controls. Easycomm and Acme CRM both currently route through the v1 endpoints. Migration is mechanical and pattern-matched against three similar Stripe v2 migrations already in the wild.
Why it matters · The v1 path is the source of 23 of your last 50 'subscription update failed' cases across both products. Upgrade likely cuts that failure surface by ~40%.
44 lower-priority signals filtered out · view all
Next brief · Tuesday 7:00 AM
Cadence · Continuous · evaluates each new artifact
Source · pb_artifacts table, knowledge graph edges, story content embeddings
ProductIntel · Intelligence · Discovery · Backlog Cluster Detail
Source artifacts
Detected · 7:42 AM · embedding similarity 0.87
What Discovery synthesized
All three stories touch the account-health concept but were captured by different people across three days. None reference the others. The widget assumes a calculation method, the recompute story implies a different cadence, and the admin UI implies a third interpretation of how factor weights should work. Without grouping, they will land with three divergent implementations.
Recommended path
Group into a EPIC-Account-Health umbrella. Resolve the calculation method and factor-weight model once, before any of the three stories enter the next sprint.
Cadence · Daily · 7:00 AM brief generated · ad-hoc on breaking signals
Source · Reddit, Hacker News, RSS feeds, customer chatter, competitor product updates
ProductIntel · Intelligence · Strategy · Industry Brief
Source signals · 7-day window
8 sources monitored · 3 surfaced
What Strategy synthesized
Two adjacent vendors moved on customer health scoring within 72 hours of each other. The market signal is loud enough that customers will start asking about parity in 2–3 weeks based on prior pattern. Your team is already building in this space (see Discovery cluster). Worth a 30-minute strategy call this week to decide posture: differentiate, match, or skip.
Filtered out
5 other signals from the same window were filtered as noise: 2 unrelated launches, 1 funding announcement, 2 hiring posts. Filter rules are tuned to your product context.
Cadence · Weekly summary · ad-hoc when a strong pattern emerges
Source · assignment data, sprint outcomes, PR review patterns, time-to-merge by story shape
ProductIntel · Intelligence · Behaviors · Pattern Detail
Source data · last 12 sprints
Confidence 91% · 12 of 12 visualization stories
What Behaviors learned
Maya has been the lead for visualization work in 10 of 12 sprints where it appeared. The two exceptions were both during scheduled time off. The platform now has enough confidence to propose Maya as the default owner for incoming visualization stories — but will not assign automatically. The PM stays the decider.
How the heuristic gets used
When a new story matching the visualization shape enters the backlog, Smart Assign suggests Maya as owner with a one-line explanation: “Pattern: 10 of last 12 visualization stories.” The PM accepts or overrides in one click.
The Cadence
ProductIntel · Intelligence · Cadence · One Week
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Continuous
Re-evaluates on every new artifact, edge, or status change. Surfaces patterns once confidence crosses threshold.
Daily · 7am
Weekday brief generated each morning before standup. Ad-hoc if a breaking signal lands (competitor launch, market move).
Weekly · Mon
Pattern summary at the start of each week. Ad-hoc when a strong signal emerges (new heuristic detected with high confidence).
What ambient intelligence feels like
You did not search for the backlog cluster. You did not ask whether competitors moved this week. You did not query whether your payment vendor shipped a relevant API change. All three landed on the surface you opened anyway.
The intelligence layer does not generate signal that was not there. It surfaces signal you would have missed because no one had time to look. The cost of looking goes to zero. The benefit of finding patterns goes to the team.