Signal
API updates, Slack posts, PRs, incidents, and exceptions enter the inbox.
Signal
See the updates your team needs to review.
Signal is the inbox inside Control. It gathers updates from connected tools and links each one to its source and affected workflow.
Synthetic exampleNo connected tools
Support request → draft → human review
Needs review
A support answer changed.
A source article has a new revision. The draft still cites the earlier version.
Owner: support lead · Source: example article, revision 2
Next: compare the new source before using the draft.
Signal operating boundary
One surface. Three questions.
Read what this view shows, how it works, and where to go next.
01 / 03 See the boundary
Signal owns the inbox.
Signal captures the incoming change, source, owner, affected system, and reason it matters.
Decision
The queue decides whether the update changes docs, reviewer policy, or product behavior.
Map
The map shows which systems and owners are affected before action moves downstream.
Proof
The proof graph records the source, decision, action, receipt, and rollback note.
Evidence
- Signal: API updates, Slack posts, PRs, incidents, and exceptions enter the inbox.
- Decision: The queue decides whether the update changes docs, reviewer policy, or product behavior.
- Map: The map shows which systems and owners are affected before action moves downstream.
- Proof: The proof graph records the source, decision, action, receipt, and rollback note.
Receipts
Surface: inbox4 connected states
02 / 03 Inspect ownership
See what this view does and which records it keeps.
In production, Signal is required because it owns source event, account owner, affected system, urgency and authority context.
Each update includes its source, account owner, affected tool, urgency, permissions, and reason for review.
An update goes to review before it can change documentation, app behavior, or review rules.
Signal gives Proof the starting evidence: who said what changed, where it came from, and what the workflow believed at intake.
Evidence
- Source context
- A review requirement
- A proof seed
Receipts
source eventaccount owneraffected systemurgency and authority context
03 / 03 Continue with context
Map shows how this view connects to the rest of the workflow.
Keep the workflow plan, incoming tasks, approvals, and results connected.
Evidence
- Map
- Decision
- Proof
Receipts
MapDecision queueProof graphProduct overview
Signal implementation
Attach this surface to a real workflow.
Start with one live task. Agree on who approves it and what record your team needs afterward.
- Owner
- Signal operator
- Authority
- Signal production contract
- Proof
- Connected workflow receipt
- State
- review
- 01 / Source Name the first watched channel
Start with the Slack channel, API feed, PR path, or data source reviewers keep missing.
- 02 / Decision Choose the review queue
Route the update to docs, product review, policy review, or an owner approval.
- 03 / Proof Define the receipt
Decide what evidence should be saved after the update is reviewed.