The words P8 uses, and what they actually mean
A few terms show up across this site more than once. Here's what each one means, plainly, without assuming you've read the rest first.
- The category word P8 uses for itself, on purpose.
- Most tools in this space stop at collecting or summarizing feedback. P8 doesn't stop there. It turns what customers actually said into a ranked call on what to build next. “Decide” is the word for that last step: not more data, an actual decision.
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- The step between customer signal and what a team decides to build.
- Most tools stop at collecting or summarizing feedback and leave the actual call to you. A decision layer is the step that's usually missing: it takes the signal and turns it into a ranked call, with the source attached, before anyone opens a meeting about it.
- Also called on this site: Decide layer
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- The source behind a claim, not the claim on its own.
- Every ranked item traces back to something real: a call, a ticket, a usage number. “Receipts” is the shorthand for that link: if a decision can’t point back to where it came from, it isn’t one P8 would surface.
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- What actually happened, not what's assumed.
- Ground truth is the raw material: the call transcript, the support ticket, the usage log, before anyone's opinion gets layered on top of it. P8's ranking works from that raw material first.
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- The question P8 is built to answer before you ask it.
- “Says who?” is the test every claim on this site, and every decision P8 ranks, has to survive. A number, a quote, or a source, not an adjective standing in for one.
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- The part of the noise worth acting on.
- Calls, tickets, and customer messages produce a lot of raw material. Signal is the subset of it that actually points toward what to build next; the rest is just volume.
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- The weekly output P8 hands you: a short list, not a dashboard.
- Every Monday, P8 turns that week's calls, tickets, and changelogs into a few ranked things to build next, each one traced back to what a customer actually said. It's built from real conversations, not a summary of them: three things to build and why, plus what P8 is deliberately not building yet.
- Also called on this site: Weekly brief
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- The loop P8 runs, start to finish, not just the first step.
- Most tools stop after the first arrow: they collect signal and hand you a summary. P8 closes the whole loop: it turns scattered customer and market signal into a ranked decision, then keeps tracking what happened after that decision shipped, so the next week's ranking is grounded in what actually worked, not just what was asked for.
- Also called on this site: The loop · Signal → action
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