Determine factor-selection intervention for faster confidence
Repeated exploration does not always reveal the decision people are trying to make.
Signals can point toward faster search, better recommendations, or missing confidence in the underlying data.
“We keep hunting through the same descriptions, but I’m not sure whether we need better search or better judgment.”
Tigist Abebe · ESG Data Program Manager
Oversees procurement-data categorization and factor selection across multiple business units.
What pulls against what
- search convenience vs. decision confidence
- qualitative signals vs. behavioral evidence
- fast direction-setting vs. discriminating experiments
- generic semantics vs. customer-specific meaning
What is at stake
The observed behavior is real, but its cause is unclear. A disciplined experiment can prevent investment in the wrong kind of assistance
Why Watershed
For Watershed, understanding where interpretation slows emissions work can shape more useful assistance over time.
Written for
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.