The ideas behind ARVEMO
Six principles explain how ARVEMO works and why it behaves as it does – people decide, one shared workspace, one voice, nothing silent, everything connected, your way of working.
If you know these six ideas, most of what ARVEMO does will not surprise you.
1. People decide, agents prepare#
The agents research, summarise, draft and follow up. But what an agent creates or changes in the workspace – items, documents, results – is a proposal. It takes effect only when a person approves it, and no document or change an agent prepares reaches a client without that step. Judgement and decisions stay with people; the agents deliver facts and proposals. The slogan on the sidebar says it in one line: AI works with you, not for you.
You decide proposals in a few places: almost everything in Approvals, text changes as suggestions in the text, memory entries on the Brain page, connections in the Explorer. The number "waiting for you" counts the first. Approving, changing, sending back and discarding work the same way in Approvals. Answers in the chat need no approval: an answer is not a change. See Approvals.
2. One workspace, two sides#
An advisor and a client work in the same workspace, but they do not see the same things. The client sees what her role allows and what the advisor has released; internal material, drafts and the advisor's private notes stay on the advisor's side. Every client engagement is its own workspace, and an organisation holds many of them. See Workspaces and roles.
3. One voice, a team behind it#
You talk to Arvemo. Behind him work specialised agents – Researcher, Analyst, Curator, PMO, Editor and Sparring – and Arvemo works as the one that fits your question. He is calm and precise: he says what he knows, what he assumes and what he checked, and he does not smooth over a contradiction between two findings. See Arvemo and the agents.
4. Nothing changes silently#
Every change leaves a trace. Documents and proposals have versions – who changed what, when, and why. When an agent changes something, it says so in the thread, and it proposes the change as a new version or a suggestion you can accept or reject. Objects have a history, comments are part of it, and agent work shows as a trace in plain words. Removing something comes with undo. See Comments and versions.
5. Everything is connected#
A goal has initiatives, an initiative has tasks, a risk threatens a goal, a decision rests on documents. ARVEMO keeps these connections. When the key facts of something change, what depends on it is marked Basis changed so you check whether it still fits. The Explorer shows what is connected to what.
6. It works the way you work#
How you write, how proactive the agents are and who approves what are settings, not fixed behaviour. They can be set per person, per workspace and per organisation. For approvals, a workspace can be stricter than its organisation, never looser. See Organisation settings.
Common questions#
Why does ARVEMO ask me to approve so much?
Because an agent's draft is only a proposal. Approving is how the decision stays with you, and it is quick: one click, with undo for a few seconds.
What does "slow intelligence" mean?
The agents are there to sharpen your thinking, not to replace it. They bring facts and proposals; you bring judgement and the decision.
Can I see what an agent did and why?
Yes. Agent work appears as a trace in words, and every change has its version and history. See What agents may and may not do.