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Discourse opportunity

The discourse opportunity is the card at the center of Today. It answers a single question. Given everything Sadie knows about you, and everything it is watching in live discourse, where do you belong in the conversation right now?

Three a day, at most. Editorial and selective. Not an infinite feed.

What a card contains

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Each opportunity is structured, not a prose blurb:

  • Title and summary. What the topic is, in one line.
  • Why now. Why this conversation is live at this specific moment. Which feed items or clusters triggered it.
  • Why you. Why you, given your Soul and wiki, are positioned to contribute. Grounded in specific entries and voice evidence.
  • Who’s talking. A few voices already in the discourse, with handles, stances, and sample quotes so you can see the room before you enter it.
  • Three to five candidate angles. Each angle carries a confidence score, an optional engagement score, and a top critique (the single most useful refinement to consider). These are things you could plausibly say, not things Sadie is posting for you.

Cards also carry relatedWikiIds, sourceFeedItemIds, a Clay accent color, and a rank within Today’s three slots.

Status lifecycle

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active, saved, dismissed, or expired. Active cards show on Today. Saved cards persist for you to return to. Dismissed cards feed the preference engine. The reason you dismissed (for example wrong_audience or stale_topic) becomes substance-tier evidence that sharpens the next batch.

active  ->  saved        kept for later
        ->  dismissed    reason feeds the preference engine
        ->  expired      fell off the window without action

Why three

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Today is meant to feel like a short read, not a scroll. The intent is a handful of high-conviction moments you could act on, not a trending topics dump. Generation is policy-gated by a minimum confidence threshold so that on a quiet day you might see only one or two cards rather than three low-conviction ones.

The three-per-session ceiling is designed to force editorial selection at the compiler level.

See also

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