SERICA/ORACLE
ORACLE TOURCOVER
THE SERICA ORACLE

The Serica Oracle: a guided tour

Short scenes on everything the Oracle can do today. Nothing here touches a real record.

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The Oracle orb above the chapters available in this guided tour.

SCENE 1 OF 17 · MEET IT

One window over the OS

Ask about the buyer register in plain words. Reads run under your account; anything that would change a record comes back as a card for you to stamp.

  • Desktop: a slim threads rail on the left that widens into a searchable panel, the conversation in the middle, the Canvas on the right. The ⤢ button makes the Canvas full width.
  • Phone: THREAD and CANVAS sit side by side, and you swipe between them.

A miniature of the Oracle: threads, the conversation and the Canvas.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 2 OF 17 · MEET IT

The orb

The only place motion means something: it shows what the Oracle is doing right now.

The five orb states: idle, listening, reading, drafting a card, waiting for you.

SCENE 3 OF 17 · ASK

Watch it work

Every read shows up while it runs, then folds into “How I answered” with the reads, timings and model.

  • PROSPECTS ↗ and NEXUS ↗ chips open the tab that owns the data.

A live trace of three reads, then the folded “How I answered” line.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 4 OF 17 · ASK

Answers are OS objects

Counts, company lists and briefs are filled by the server from the reads, so the model can't invent a company or a number.

  • Verdicts use the partners' words: tier 1, watch, divisional, dropped.
  • Lists open in Prospects at full size.

A count by verdict, a three-company list and one company brief.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 5 OF 17 · ASK

Honest edges

When a read needs a warning it says so in amber, never truncated; an empty read says it is empty; a failure says what failed.

  • The Oracle never states TARIC, anti-dumping or REACH status. Broker verification governs.

An amber caveat, an empty-result note and an error note.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 6 OF 17 · ASK

Cards you stamp

/list and /goal never change anything by themselves. They come back as cards, and nothing happens until you stamp one.

  • A stamp in the thread is the same stamp as in Nexus: same card, same record.
  • Only the owner and operators can stamp; everyone else sees “Waiting for an operator or the owner to stamp”.

A save-list card and a goal card, each waiting for a stamp.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 7 OF 17 · ASK

Compliance cards

Ask about duty, anti-dumping or REACH for a material and you get a card built by the system, not written by the model. It says 'clean' only where an instrument read backs it; everything else says 'not verified — broker verification governs'.

A sample compliance card with one instrument line and one not-verified line.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 8 OF 17 · ASK

Tell it when it's wrong

Thumbs up or down goes to the ledger with that turn's calls; thumbs-down asks what was wrong, if you want to say.

  • Suggested follow-ups come from the Serica glossary, not a script.

The thumbs bar with its optional reason, and three suggested follow-ups.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 9 OF 17 · REACH IT

Summon from anywhere

Press ⌘K (Ctrl K on Windows) or click “Ask the Oracle” in the top bar on any page. The page you're on rides along as a context chip.

  • Remove the chip with × to ask without it.
  • “Continue in the Oracle ↗” moves the conversation into a full thread.
  • Phone: tap the orb in the top bar and the Oracle opens as a bottom sheet.

The summon panel with a Prospects page chip and two suggestions.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 10 OF 17 · REACH IT

Ask about this row

On Prospects, hover a company and click “Ask about this row”: the company comes with your question.

  • Phone: tap Ask on the row, or press and hold it.

A Prospects row with its Ask button, and the row chip it creates.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 11 OF 17 · REACH IT

Slash commands

Type / in any composer to see the commands your account holds.

  • /find and /brief read.
  • /list and /goal come back as cards you stamp.

The slash menu with four commands: find, brief, list, goal.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 12 OF 17 · KEEP IT

The Canvas

Pin a count, a list or a company brief from any answer. Pins stay live and re-read their source when you open the Canvas.

  • Three sections, Jobs, Waiting for you and Pins, each folds and shows a count.
  • Each pin sits on one line with how fresh it is: FRESH, RE-READING, CHANGED or STALE. Tap it to open; BY KIND groups pins by type.
  • Up to 12 pins. Phone: swipe from THREAD to CANVAS.

The Canvas with three counted sections and three one-line pins.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 13 OF 17 · KEEP IT

Drift notes

When a pinned read changes, the Oracle writes you a note, and only when something changed.

  • SHOW THE 6 lists the newcomers.
  • UPDATE THE PIN takes today's read as the new baseline.

A drift note listing new tier_1 companies since the pin was made.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 14 OF 17 · KEEP IT

Live jobs

A goal you stamp becomes a live job card: stamped, queued, dispatched, running, done. Several can run at once, and the Canvas keeps a Jobs tile.

A sample supplier-goal stepper and two anonymous Jobs tile rows.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 15 OF 17 · HANDS-FREE

Voice in, voice out

Tap the mic, speak for up to two minutes, tap again: your words land in the composer, with Serica terms fixed by the glossary.

  • The audio is dropped once it is transcribed.
  • Spoken replies are off unless you turn them on, with the speaker in the Oracle header or in Settings. They read short answers only; tables, lists and cards are shown, never read.
  • Voice appears only when it is switched on for your account.

The composer idle, listening and transcribing, the glossary line, and the listen pill.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 16 OF 17 · AROUND IT

Your way around

The Oracle sits first in the rail on every page and in the centre of the phone's tab bar.

  • Computer: point at a rail icon for its name and what it does. Expand the full sidebar on any page except the Oracle.
  • Phone: More opens every section.
  • Compact or comfortable rows, dark or light: in Settings, or with the sun/moon in the top bar.

The rail with a hover label, the phone tab bar, and the density and theme switches.

Invented data — not the register
SCENE 17 OF 17 · LIMITS

What it never does

The Oracle proposes; people decide. Some things are never an Oracle action, for any account.

Six things the Oracle never does.

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The Serica Oracle: a guided tour