The standard analytical scenario, all steps

What this part is for. Every mechanism described in Parts 1–3 and 5–7 exists to make one recurring shape of work possible: a person states an object and a purpose, the machine proposes a method, the object is broken into questions, each question is delegated and checked, and the results are brought back together into something a person can read and stand behind. This part names that shape once, in full, as nine moves — general enough to fit any study on the shelf, not only the one this book's illustrations are drawn from — and then, in its final file, shows every one of those nine moves actually happening, with real numbers, in one real session.

The one-sentence version: scope it, let the machine propose a method, break it into questions, delegate each one and check what comes back, sign off, let the machine synthesise once — and only once — everything has returned, then arrange the results into a document: nine moves, the same nine every time, whatever the study is actually about.

  1. 014.1 OverviewThe nine moves of any study on the shelf, in plain words: from the opening intention to a document a person has reviewed.
  2. 024.2 Analytical RationaleWhy this is the general shape of any small evidence-based study, not a press-release peculiarity.
  3. 034.3 Functional SpecificationThe fixed contract each move satisfies, whatever the actual questions happen to be.
  4. 044.4 Technical ImplementationThe acts and routes behind every move, and why the same nine moves fit every programme on the shelf.
  5. 054.5 Worked Reference ImplementationOne full run, start to finish, with a screenshot of where it ends up.