The Triage Dial

One dial decides who gets read. Drag it, then fuse another source and see what confidence without information does to the queue.

The operating point · 40,000 reports/day · 25 genuine

Set the threshold. Own the trade.

Every position of the dial trades missed signals against a queue your analysts cannot finish. There is no setting that avoids the trade; there is only the setting you chose.

Threshold 0.62

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A second feed can be added at any time, and removed just as easily.

Queue today 1,752 capacity 400/day

Missed signals 4 of 25 genuine

False leads / genuine lead 82 noise per real signal read

Recall 84% of genuine signals caught

The score distribution

Where you draw the line

Noise is common and scores low; genuine signal is rare and scores high. Everything to the right of the line gets read. The green mass to the left is missed.

noise genuine ×200 threshold in queue missed

The analyst queue

What lands on the desk

The queue is almost all noise. Capacity is 400 reports a day; the striped tail is what cannot be read.

Queue: 1,752. Capacity: 400. Of the 1,752, 21 are genuine and 1,731 are noise.

Noise reduction is an operating point, not a product feature. Every position of the dial trades missed signals against a queue your analysts cannot finish, and fusing correlated sources raises confidence without adding information, which floods the queue at the same threshold. The dial is a decision, and from December 2026 automated decisions that significantly affect people are ones you must be transparent about.