Foundations
How we work
The methods and capabilities that underpin Situation Monitor and our services — language, cognition, computation, and the formal structures that keep meaning usable in a product.
We treat language, perception and shared cognitive frames as infrastructure, not as decoration around a model. The pages in this section are concise accounts of those methods, and of how they inform our product and services.
The work draws on linguistics, psychology, mathematics and related fields, brought together in a unified information-system approach. A central reference is the Information Economy Metalanguage (IEML), the lifelong work of Pierre Lévy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Methods
Why this work matters
Why language, cognitive frameworks and computability sit at the centre of the products and services we offer.
ReadInformation and uncertainty
Information theory as a method for reading news, markets and other uncertain situations.
ReadPsychophysics
Perception and stimulus measurement as a foundation for interfaces and monitoring desks.
ReadCognitive frameworks
Shared frames that shape what a group can notice, value and decide — and how products should account for that.
ReadMemory
How storage in minds and in systems conditions what can be recalled and reused in a product.
ReadLanguage as protocol
Syntax, semantics, pragmatics and convention as infrastructure for software and analysis.
ReadThe Math Protocol
Formal structure — set theory, formal languages, computability and category theory — as a method for keeping meaning rigorous.
ReadIEML
Information Economy Metalanguage as a ground for computable meaning in knowledge systems and Situation Monitor.
ReadEngineering path
UX architecture, IEML and natural language processing as the route from method to product.
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