Intelligence
The more the institute leans on the brain, the more it surfaces unmet demands, actions and knowledge gaps, often before anyone names them, leapfrogging layers of management and giving leadership higher-touch levers on the organisation.
Demand by department
Adoption
Queries logged per month.
61% answered · 25% low-yield · 14% withheld
Signals worth attention
SyntheticPatterns the brain reads across the whole institute's questions: what people keep asking about, what it likely means, and what to do. The point of an intelligence layer everyone uses, leadership sees the organisation think.
- People
Rising questions about hiring freezes and team changes
Act now41 related questions from 26 people across 5 teams this month, 3.2x the trailing average.
An undercurrent of job-security worry, the kind that builds after reorg rumours or a quiet quarter on headcount.
Get ahead of it with a direct, honest note on headcount plans before the narrative sets itself.
- People
Lots of people asking how to grow here
Watch29 questions on promotion criteria and career paths from 22 people, steady for three months.
A retention risk: strong people who can't see their next step start looking for it elsewhere.
Publish a clear career framework and promotion calendar, and brief managers to hold growth conversations.
- People
Questions about pay bands and raises are climbing
Act now23 questions on salary bands and review timing from 17 people across 3 teams, up 2.4x.
Compensation dissatisfaction building, and the cheapest moment to address it is before resignations, not after.
Run a market-band review for the affected roles and communicate the comp cycle openly.
- People
A spike in workload and time-off questions in one team
Watch18 questions on overtime, deadlines and leave concentrated in Operations, up 2.1x over six weeks.
The early signature of burnout in a single unit, well before it surfaces as attrition or sick leave.
Review that team's load and deadlines with its lead, and rebalance before it breaks.
- Knowledge
The same question keeps coming back unanswered
Watch'How do I request MareNostrum compute quota?' asked 34x this quarter, low-yield every time.
A real documentation gap, where every repeat is wasted time and a quietly frustrated researcher.
Commission one canonical, owned answer, and the brain serves it to everyone who asks next.
- Operations
New joiners re-asking the same basics
WatchNew-starter accounts drive 2x the 'where do I find / how do I get access' volume in their first week.
Onboarding leaves people hunting, which means a slow ramp and a poor first impression.
Turn the top ten first-week questions into a single onboarding guide the brain owns.
- Strategy
Questions clustering around one funding call near its deadline
Act nowA surge of proposal and eligibility questions on a call closing in 18 days, from four research groups.
Several teams scrambling on the same deadline with no coordinated support.
Stand up a short PMO clinic for that call, where one briefing answers most of the open questions.
Aggregate only, never per person. These examples are synthetic, illustrative of the detection itself.