Wide-view situational review

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Official · updated Nov 4, 2026 · v1.0.0

Steps back from an urgent number or event in the way Musashi's Book of Five Rings describes the gaze: lists the surface, sets it against history, reads the other side, then acts, watches, or lets go.

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When to use it

A metric swing, an alert, or one loud message has the team reacting
A competitor's announcement is pushing a fast response
Before a decision meeting, to separate real changes from noise

What you give it

The pending decision or the event that started it
Surface events with dates and sizes
8 to 12 periods of history for the same numbers
What customers, rivals, or partners actually did

What you get

A one-page review: surface events, the same events against history, slow changes tied to the decision, the other side's intent, each event sorted into act, watch with a trigger, or let go, and a standing set of signals.

Changelog

v1.0.0 · Nov 4, 2026 · First release.

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