Other Analytical Panels
Beyond the core surfaces, the ⊞ Tools menu carries several focused panels. Each does one job well; this article is a short reference so you know what they're for and when to reach for them. Think of these as the specialist instruments in the drawer — not needed every day, exactly right when they are.
Confidence Matrix
A workspace for structured intelligence assessments with multi-dimensional confidence scoring. Rather than a single yes/no judgement, an assessment is rated across several dimensions, and the panel lists your assessments with confidence gauges beside an editor for the one you're working on.
Use it when a judgement is important enough to warrant being recorded explicitly, with its confidence shown and defensible, rather than left implicit. "We assess X, with moderate confidence, because…" is a professional judgement; "probably X" is a hallway remark — this panel is how you write the former. It pairs naturally with the structured techniques in the Analysis panel.
Link Analysis
A focused view for exploring the relationships between entities — who and what connects to whom. Where the Intel Causal Graph is built around events and causal chains, link analysis is for tracing the web of association around an entity: shared involvement, co-occurrence, and connection.
Reach for it when the question is "what is this connected to?" rather than "what caused this?" — the difference between mapping a family tree and reconstructing a timeline. It opens as a full panel or docked beside the map.
Intelligence Products
A home for finished, classification-marked intelligence products — the polished outputs you produce and hand on, rather than the working data. Products carry a classification banner and are managed in one place so a team has a single shelf of authored intelligence.
It's the destination end of the work that begins in the feed and the workbench: raw collection → analysis → a product you can disseminate. Keeping the shelf separate from the workshop matters — nobody downstream should have to guess whether what they're reading is a finding or a work-in-progress. (For generating report documents specifically, see the report tools in the Analysis panel and the Investigation Workbench manual.)
Bookmarks
Saved camera views of the globe. When you have a vantage point you return to — a city, a border sector, a theatre at a particular zoom — save it as a bookmark and jump straight back to it later instead of re-navigating. A small convenience that adds up over a long session.
Where to next
- The Intel Causal Graph — the events-and-causation counterpart to link analysis.
- Structured Analysis — formal techniques that feed assessments and products.