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.
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. 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?". 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. (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.