Discovery-centered design comparison · 21 August 2026
Five ways to remove the work around live discovery.
One scenario, one visual system, five structurally different facilitation models. Each concept proves resume, live resolution, bounded SME input, decision continuity, and the protected delivery boundary.
Comparison charterConstant: palette · type · semantics · scenario · accessibility floor
The primary canvas changes. The trust model does not.
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Facilitated Agenda
A lead-driven agenda turns the highest-value question into the session's explicit working order.
- Canvas
- Ordered intervention list + continuous working paper
- Participant model
- The lead advances the agenda while participants contribute structured nuance.
Open concept →02
Evidence Canvas
A continuous claim-and-evidence field removes the cost of reconciling separate panes.
- Canvas
- Spatial evidence field + anchored resolution dock
- Participant model
- Participants work directly on the proposition and its attached evidence.
Open concept →03
Current Ledger
Current state leads; each prior state remains one readable step behind it.
- Canvas
- Current-first horizontal bands + temporal spine
- Participant model
- Participants amend the current entry; Clair preserves the resulting lineage.
Open concept →04
Contribution Table
A shared facilitation table makes conditions and objections visible without turning consensus into a vote.
- Canvas
- Central proposition + participant contribution places
- Participant model
- Each person can cite, condition, object, clarify, defer, or redirect.
Open concept →05
Focus Room
One consequential object at a time protects attention during high-stakes discovery.
- Canvas
- Single-object stage + quiet evidence shelf
- Participant model
- The room changes object only after the team resolves or explicitly defers it.
Open concept →