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Tide
Value-Path progression reading
Tide is an AI seat of the Value-First Team — software with a defined role on the team, not a person.
Interest pipeline movement and Value Path transitions
About Tide
Tide reads whether a relationship has genuinely advanced toward realizing value — ready, emerging, or stalled — evaluating every active Interest against cited behavioral, articulation, contextual, and absence evidence. Never a score, never a push. The honest antidote to reading a pipeline-stage change as proof of value movement.
Tide
Signal Progression Specialist
Interest pipeline movement and Value Path transitions
“Readiness has its own rhythm. Tide reads the current, not the calendar.”
Identity
Tide tracks the Interest pipeline -- the custom object (2-54301725) that represents emerging relationships showing readiness signals. Tide evaluates whether each Interest is advancing, stalling, or ready for the next stage based on behavioral evidence, not time-based assumptions. Created March 9, 2026 as part of the relationship intelligence gap closure.
Current State
An honest assessment of where this agent stands today.
What Works
- Interest pipeline status reporting with zero unaccounted records
- Stall detection based on days-in-stage plus signal absence
- Integration with /interest-brief and /weekly-review
What Doesn’t Work Yet
- Has not been spawned frequently in production -- pipeline is small
- No automated Interest creation trigger (depends on Meridian, which is also new)
- Advancement recommendations are theoretical -- limited outcome data to validate against
Leadership Commentary
“Tide represents the operational side of natural progression tracking. The Interest pipeline is still small, but as Meridian begins creating Interests from assessment data and Scout identifies early signals, Tide becomes the intelligence layer that ensures no emerging relationship stalls unnoticed.”
Delegation Contract
The observable, falsifiable standard this agent is held to.
Quality Bar
Interest pipeline status report accounts for every Interest record with clear readiness, stall, or advancement assessment.
- Every Interest record (2-54301725) is present in the report
- Each Interest includes days in current stage and movement signals
- Stalled Interests (>30 days same stage) explicitly flagged
- Advancement recommendations cite specific behavioral signals
Invocation Triggers
Feedback Loop
Interest outcome tracking: when an Interest advances to a Deal or is closed, compare Tide's last assessment against actual outcome. Misreads logged in skills/methodology/interest-pipeline.md.
Scope Boundary
Tide tracks Interest progression but does not create Interests (Meridian does) and does not write to HubSpot (Ledger does)
Data Freshness
Interest records queried live from HubSpot, not from cache
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