Signal

See the updates your team needs to review.

Signal is the inbox inside Control. It gathers updates from connected tools and links each one to its source and affected workflow.

Inbox
One queue for important updates

Signal watches for changes in connected tools, messages, code, support notes, and review queues.

  • Source
  • Owner
  • Affected system
  • Reason to review
Map connection
Every signal lands on the map

Map connects the incoming Signal to the workflow, documentation path, reviewer queue, and downstream Proof record.

  • Composition: signal-decision-proof
  • Hub: Map
Signal operating boundary

One surface. Three questions.

Read what this view shows, how it works, and where to go next.

01 / 03 See the boundary

Signal owns the inbox.

Signal captures the incoming change, source, owner, affected system, and reason it matters.

Signal

API updates, Slack posts, PRs, incidents, and exceptions enter the inbox.

Decision

The queue decides whether the update changes docs, reviewer policy, or product behavior.

Map

The map shows which systems and owners are affected before action moves downstream.

Proof

The proof graph records the source, decision, action, receipt, and rollback note.

Evidence
  • Signal: API updates, Slack posts, PRs, incidents, and exceptions enter the inbox.
  • Decision: The queue decides whether the update changes docs, reviewer policy, or product behavior.
  • Map: The map shows which systems and owners are affected before action moves downstream.
  • Proof: The proof graph records the source, decision, action, receipt, and rollback note.
Receipts
Surface: inbox4 connected states
02 / 03 Inspect ownership

See what this view does and which records it keeps.

In production, Signal is required because it owns source event, account owner, affected system, urgency and authority context.

Owns
Source context

Each update includes its source, account owner, affected tool, urgency, permissions, and reason for review.

Produces
A review requirement

An update goes to review before it can change documentation, app behavior, or review rules.

Records
A proof seed

Signal gives Proof the starting evidence: who said what changed, where it came from, and what the workflow believed at intake.

Evidence
  • Source context
  • A review requirement
  • A proof seed
Receipts
source eventaccount owneraffected systemurgency and authority context
03 / 03 Continue with context

Map shows how this view connects to the rest of the workflow.

Keep the workflow plan, incoming tasks, approvals, and results connected.

Evidence
  • Map
  • Decision
  • Proof
Receipts
MapDecision queueProof graphProduct overview
Signal implementation

Attach this surface to a real workflow.

Start with one live task. Agree on who approves it and what record your team needs afterward.

Owner
Signal operator
Authority
Signal production contract
Proof
Connected workflow receipt
State
review
  1. 01 / Source Name the first watched channel

    Start with the Slack channel, API feed, PR path, or data source reviewers keep missing.

  2. 02 / Decision Choose the review queue

    Route the update to docs, product review, policy review, or an owner approval.

  3. 03 / Proof Define the receipt

    Decide what evidence should be saved after the update is reviewed.