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SCADS 2026 / Problem 01

Organizational sensemaking

Follow the evidence.

Agents · evidence · provenanceIn progress

The task

How can an agent understand an organization whose activities, dependencies, and claims are spread across many sources?

My solution

I built an evidence workspace that resolves an organization, follows its relationships, retrieves source material, and produces a brief with a traceable record of the investigation.

A small set of MCP tools separates entity lookup, graph traversal, source retrieval, and reporting. Each consequential statement can be traced to an evidence ID and a source location. Images and sampled video frames provide another view of the same evidence.

How it works

Python · MCP · local models · source-linked reports
  1. 01

    Resolve

    Match the organization before investigating. Ambiguous names produce a clarification request.

  2. 02

    Trace

    Follow relevant relationships and read the evidence behind each connection.

  3. 03

    Explain

    Separate source claims from observations and inferences in a cited analytic brief.

Try it

Interactive browser demonstration

Interactive browser demo

Follow a finding back to its evidence

Choose a question, then open its sources. Compare dated claims and see why the conclusion keeps its qualifications.

Loading the bundled evidence…

Browser demo · saved Riverwatch14 analysis of the fictional Cedar Basin dataset. Findings are recorded model output; source text comes from the original fixture. Shared-origin sources are not independent corroboration.

Inspect demo dataSource fingerprints

Methods / evidence / reproduction

Read the research.

The documented Riverwatch investigation uses 15 tool calls and 9 sources. Its review assesses one authored synthetic case; the record preserves the report, citations, and tool sequence.

The paper connects the research question to the implementation, worked examples, and evidence. The project directory includes the runnable software, documentation, and tests.