Status — Planned
Source-traceability explanation patterns
Question
Which explanation makes source traceability feel necessary rather than optional: a failure story, a diagram, or a worked example?
Hypothesis
A concrete failure — a confident answer traced to a stale page — communicates the need faster than an architecture diagram.
Who it concerns
Product teams shipping AI answers to end users.
Intervention
Three parallel explanations across the platform page, the research note, and guide four.
What would be observed
- Which version reviewers quote back
- Whether reviewers change how they describe their own citation handling
What would count as a useful signal
Reviewers independently raise provenance as a requirement in a later conversation.
Notes
Needs a written protocol before running.
provenanceexplanation design
This entry records a design intention. It does not report measured results, traffic, rankings, or customer outcomes.