A change on someone else’s page means nothing by itself: maybe the blocks were just rearranged. An event is a change that has evidence. That is why an event card always answers the question “where did you get this”.
What an event is
An event appears when a monitor noticed a change and that change passed the threshold. An event contains:
- what was and what became — the previous and the new value;
- by how much — the difference in numbers and in percent;
- what confirms it — quotes from the page and a link to the archived copy of exactly that version;
- where — the monitor and the source it fired on.
What the event card shows
- The summary — a short retelling of what happened, with links to the exact quotes from the material.
- The materiality rating — a number from 0 to 10 and a band (“noise”, “worth knowing”, “material”, “existential”).
- The “before and after” comparison — a table of changes with percentages: every field is visible, not only the main one.
- Snapshots — what the value was and what it became.
- The link to the archived copy — the page version where the change happened.
- The delivery list — where this event has already gone and what the recipient answered.
The event timeline
One more part of the card is the timeline. It is the sequence of all the steps: when the page was collected, when the AI produced the summary and the rating, which rules fired, which alerts went out, what happened with the publication. The timeline is the main tool when you need to understand why a message arrived — or why it did not.
Materiality
Materiality is a rating of the event’s importance, so that you do not read everything in a row. Four bands briefly describe what it means in practice:
- Noise — small changes you can skip reading.
- Worth knowing — background, useful for the overall picture.
- Material — a reason to look today.
- Existential — a reason to call and sort it out right now.
When the rating looks wrong, that is not a reason to put up with it. Tell the agent what exactly it misunderstood, and it will fix the rating rule. There is also the honest “unscored” mark: it appears when the AI was not called for the event. The product substitutes no invented number in place of a real rating.
The “read” mark and hiding
A human in the interface has exactly two edits, both safe: mark an event as read and add it to favorites. Hiding an event from the feed changes only whether you see it — the data is not deleted. The archive, the value history and the delivery records stay in place.
Search and filtering
Events pile up over time, so there is filtering: by source, tag, story, period, materiality band and words. Full-text search over the collected material is described separately — in the Analytics, Search & Exports section.
Who to show an event to
Every event has its own address: the link can be forwarded to a colleague, and they will see the same card with the same evidence. On a wide screen the address is visible in the browser bar; on a phone the “back” button works — it returns you to the list you came from.
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