Signal Architecture

Why the model exists

Teams collect evidence in different formats and time horizons, then debate conclusions without exposing how each signal affects a decision. Signal Architecture creates a common path from observation to interpretation, threshold and action.

Dimensions it makes visible

The dimensions create shared language without reducing the decision to a formula.

• ✓ Source reliability: direct evidence, proxy or opinion
• ✓ Time horizon: immediate, emerging or structural
• ✓ Decision relevance: which belief or commitment may change
• ✓ Threshold: watch, investigate, experiment or act

Questions for using it

The model begins with questions that expose assumptions and boundaries.

• ✓ Which signal changed a decision in the last quarter?
• ✓ Where do two functions interpret the same evidence differently?
• ✓ What would make the current thesis untenable?
• ✓ Who owns synthesis across sources?

Where it creates value

Use the model to design executive sensing, market reviews, strategic early-warning systems and the evidence layer for a growth thesis.

Evidence that it is working

These signals show that the model changed the decision, not only the conversation.

• ✓ Fewer signals with named consequences
• ✓ Faster movement from anomaly to investigation
• ✓ Documented changes to the growth thesis