Role quick-guides

Short entry points: where to start, the most important guides, and the one next line whose crossing raises your level.

Researcher / designer

Planning (DPE)

Your job: the research design — orientation, phenomenon, panel, questions.

Start: Orientation, variation and question architecture → Building the panel.

Next line: from assembling a single study → the Planning Handoff pipeline that seeds Pronoia without rebuilding.

Facilitator

Facilitation (Pronoia)

Your job: running Pronoia — Round 0, rounds, dialogue, anonymity, reports.

Start: The iterative process → Anonymity. Whole picture: Integration guide.

Next line: from building each round by hand → let PIRE suggest the between-round operations (you confirm); from reading descriptive reports → hand a round to DAE for interpretation.

Developer-partner

Analysis (DAE)

Your job: integration, handoffs, MCP/plugins, installation.

Start: Integration guide (handoff schemas) → DAE pipeline → Anonymity: data model.

Next line: from handling individual transfers → the handoff contracts (Planning Handoff Package, export contract) that downstream verifies automatically — a malformed dataset cannot slip through.

Panelist

Facilitation (Pronoia)

Your role: you take part in the panel — answer the theses, read others' reasoning and revise your position.

What you need to know: you answer independently first (others' answers are hidden until you commit), then you see an anonymized picture of the panel and can comment and update. You are anonymous to others under a pseudonym (e.g. Aurora); the facilitator may see your identity unless blind mode is on. AI panelists are always labelled "AI". The Home view shows a "since your last visit" digest — come back to see how the panel moved.

Next line: from a one-shot answer → coming back to revise: Delphi's value comes from reconsidering in light of others' reasoning.

→ A light participation guide is also in the app's in-app help.

Decision-maker / stakeholder

Analysis (DAE)

Your role: you read the results and reports to support decisions — you don't run the study yourself.

What you need to know: distinguish descriptive from interpretive. A Pronoia report tells you what the panel said and how views moved (distributions, consensus/dissensus, arguments) — it is source material. A DAE report interprets: themes, scenarios, synthesis under quality gates. Dissensus is a result, not a failure: stable disagreement signals a real tension. Scenarios are alternative paths, not forecasts.

Next line: from reading a single figure → ask what is description and what is interpretation, and what a conclusion rests on (data provenance).

Start: Overview (descriptive vs. interpretive) → DAE guide (outputs).