A question and the relevant information.
“What should we change?” Bring customer feedback, the current onboarding plan and the limits on time or budget.
AI for thinking and moving work forward
Make sense of the work.
Move it forward.
Talk through a question with AI, develop ideas and plans on a visual canvas, and keep the reasons and next steps connected as the situation changes.
For a question you’re exploring, an idea you’re developing, or work you’re leading with others.
How Phossil is designed to work
Start with a question.
Build something you can use.
Bring the information behind your work into the conversation. Use AI and a visual canvas to think it through, develop the work and decide what to do next.
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Bring your question and material.
Start with a problem, decision or idea you want to explore. Bring the relevant notes, documents, research and conversations. You can begin with an unfinished thought.
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Talk it through. See how the pieces fit.
Ask questions, examine evidence and explore alternatives with AI. A visual canvas helps you see relationships, compare options and notice what is missing. Check and correct the picture as you go.
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Develop useful work and next steps.
Shape a comparison, proposal, plan or draft. Keep the reasons behind it in view. Review the work with the people involved and agree who will do what.
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Pick it up when the work changes.
Return after an interruption or hand work to someone else with the reasoning and open questions available. Revise the plan as circumstances change, then review what happened.
An ordinary example
You need to recommend a better way
to help new customers get started.
Here is how that piece of work could develop with Phossil.
Options, evidence and trade-offs.
Compare guided setup with a simpler self-serve approach. Examine what each would require, what supports it and what you still need to find out.
A recommendation people can review.
Create a draft proposal with its reasons, open questions and proposed next steps. The team reviews it before making commitments.
Illustrative example of the product direction. It does not describe a customer result.
What it helps with
Your thinking.
The work you share.
Phossil is being built to help with the work between finding information and knowing how to move forward.
Get a clearer picture.
Bring the relevant information together, investigate a question and challenge assumptions. See what you know, what you can rely on and what needs another look.
Turn an idea into useful work.
Explore possibilities and develop something you can use: a recommendation, proposal, plan or draft. Keep its supporting evidence and reasoning available as you revise it.
Help people move forward together.
Make decisions, responsibilities and dependencies clearer. Give others the reasons behind the plan and the questions that still need an answer.
Carry forward and learn
Keep the thinking
behind the work.
When you return, hand off or start something new, the useful part is more than the final document. It includes how you got there and what still needs attention.
What carries forward
- The basis
The question, relevant information and assumptions behind the work.
- The reasons
The options you considered, what you chose and the conditions it depends on.
- The next steps
The decisions, commitments and open questions someone needs to continue.
Use what happened to improve what comes next.
After a change, compare the intended benefit with the outcome. In the onboarding example, that means checking whether customers actually got started and what help they needed. Review the evidence, uncertainty and exceptions before carrying a lesson into other work.
Check the basis.
Look at the sources and reasons behind a conclusion. Keep missing information and uncertainty visible.
Revise the understanding.
Question assumptions, correct interpretations and reconsider what still applies when the situation changes.
Keep people responsible.
People set direction, approve changes and own commitments. A draft, a proposal and an agreement mean different things.
Why the name Phossil?
Every piece of work leaves
something to build on.
Fossils preserve traces of what came before. Phossil takes that idea into work: keeping useful ideas, evidence and reasoning available so people can build on them. Revisit what still applies, correct what has changed and create something new.
Useful thinking, carried forward.
A few practical questions.
Is Phossil for individual work or teams?
It is being designed for both. Explore a question or develop an idea on your own, then bring others into the work where useful. For teams, the aim is to connect perspectives, decisions and experience across projects and handoffs while respecting access boundaries.
What information matters?
The goal, research and ideas, reasons for decisions, people and responsibilities, current plans, constraints and past experience can all matter. So can conflicting evidence and what is still unknown. Relevant information may live across documents, messages, meetings and other tools.
Phossil can only work with information available to it within authorized access. An unrecorded conversation or a change outside the team may be important without the system knowing about it. People need to be able to add missing information and correct the picture.
How do conversation and the visual canvas work together?
The product direction is to let you talk through the work while developing it visually. Depending on the question, that might mean a map of relationships, a comparison of options, a draft or a plan. You can move between the overview and the details, examine the reasoning and revise the work.
Work with Phossil
What are you trying
to move forward?
Tell us about the question you are exploring, the work you are developing or the handoff that is difficult to get right.
Contact the Phossil teamPhossil is in active development. This page describes the product direction; capabilities described here are not all available today.