The Conversational State Transition Model
A neurocognitive model of how conversation changes what becomes thinkable and actionable
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The Judgment Field Regulation Model
A cognitive model of how teams regulate possibility before judgment
Inside the model
Six moves. One research object.
A team can debate the wrong question brilliantly. JFRM examines the live field of possibilities that must be present, compared, and regulated before a decision can be any good.
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Before the decision
An absent contender cannot lose. If a possibility never becomes live in the room, it cannot be tested or chosen.
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The judgment field
What is present is not the same as what is live. Strength, breadth, functional dispersion, and persistence describe the field that is actually pressing on judgment.
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Regulation, not openness
More possibilities are not always better. Effective judgment widens under uncertainty, compresses as evidence concentrates, and reopens when expectation fails.
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Failure modes
The same bad decision can come from premature compression, false breadth, dominant frame lock, failed reopening, or unproductive expansion.
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The group field
A team can know everything and still consider too little. Silence is not evidence of absence. Mention is not evidence of influence.
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Judgment intelligence
Judgment intelligence is the capacity to regulate the field of live possibilities so its shape remains appropriate to uncertainty, evidence, and change.
How to read this
A starting paper. Not a hidden-state claim.
- Field conditions are latent. They can be estimated only probabilistically from observable language, timing, sequence, interaction patterns, and context.
- JFRM is a testable performance framework. It is not mind-reading, and it does not prove that one field shape is universally correct.
See it in the work
The model is only useful if it changes what a team can do next.
Start with the paper. Then look at how Piloteer turns live interaction into evidence leaders can act on while the work is still moving.