One artifact: a map of how your company really runs. What makes it worth having is not that it is pretty — it is that it is honest about its own limits, argues with itself in the open, and will not act without a person behind the decision. Four things below. Each is what separates a map from a diagram.
Most tools present output with uniform confidence, which teaches you to trust all of it or none of it. Maharishi marks what is unresolved and says exactly why — so you know which parts to act on and which parts to go ask about.
confidence: 8 of 11 runs verified against source · 3 unresolved · last verified 14 Mar
Note the absence of a lone percentage. Every indicator here carries the thing it was derived from — a number you cannot interrogate is decoration.
The tempting move is to merge both accounts into one clean sentence. That is how you lose the only thing worth knowing. Maharishi asks a short question, puts the answer against the signals it came from, and shows what settled it.
“I send the cut to the client once Dan has signed off on it.”
“I don't sign off on cuts. Ayla sends those straight out.”
Both accounts describe an approval. Neither claims it.
Nobody approved them. Three of the last three sends went to the client with no approval in any channel. The step exists in both people's description of the work and in none of the evidence.
settled by: 3 message threads · 2 direct answers · 0 contradicting signals
This is not a documentation gap. It is an unowned approval that has been shipping to your client for a month — and no process document would ever have revealed it, because both people documented it correctly.
Autonomy is not a slider to push right. Every proposed automation arrives with a named approver, a risk class, what it is allowed to touch, and what happens when it is wrong. “Do not automate” is a first-class answer, not a failure state.
The proposal is blocked by its own dependency. An automation that would send status to a client cannot deploy while the approval it depends on has no owner. The map knows that, so the gate holds.
Most organizations re-learn the same lesson every eighteen months, because it lived in someone who left. A realization is a learning attached to the workflow it came from and the evidence it rests on — and it returns as a proposed change, for a person to accept or reject.
Every screen on this page is an illustration, drawn by hand with sample data. Acme Films does not exist. Ayla and Dan do not exist. The numbers are written into the markup — they are not output.
Maharishi is opening to its first design partners. We are showing you the shape of the product and the standard we hold it to, not a system with a track record. When there is real evidence to publish, we will publish that instead — and this page will change.
Your map is built from your own signals, never from a template.
We are opening discovery to a small group of creative-production companies. If you want the map before the tool, write to us.
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