What's New This Week: AI Matching, Implementation Roadmaps, and a Richer Library

Week of March 30 – April 5, 2026

A significant week across the platform. We shipped an AI-powered way to find use cases, turned saved lists into implementation planning tools, added canonical frameworks to root cause and enabler displays, and expanded the browse and discovery experience across the board.

Find Use Cases with AI

The new Find Use Cases page (/find) lets you describe a manufacturing challenge in plain language and returns the most relevant use cases from the library — ranked by semantic similarity, not keyword matching.

Type something like "Our maintenance team is reactive — we need to predict failures before they happen" or "Changeover time is killing our OEE on shared lines" and the platform finds the use cases most relevant to that problem, even if they don't share any of the same words.

Results show the use case title, department, and a summary excerpt. Signed-in users can save individual results to a list, or save the full result set as a new list in one step. Find Use Cases is available to everyone — no account required.

Saved Lists Are Now Implementation Roadmaps

Saved lists now have a dedicated page with two tabs.

Use Cases shows all the use cases you've saved, with a link to each.

Enablers shows something new: all the enablers that appear across your saved use cases, deduplicated and ranked by how many use cases in your list share them. An enabler appearing in 5 of 7 saved use cases is a strong signal that it's a foundational capability for your roadmap — one worth prioritizing. Click any enabler to filter the Use Cases tab to just the use cases in your list that require it.

This turns a saved list from a reading list into a planning tool.

Save to list buttons have also been added to browse page cards and AI finder result cards, so you can build lists from anywhere on the platform.

Root Causes and Enablers Now Show the Full Framework

Root causes and enablers on use case pages have always been organized by category. This week we added the canonical framework layer beneath that.

Root Causes (Analysis tab) are now organized within each 6M category by theme, then linked to a canonical cause — a specific, named diagnostic condition drawn from a curated library of 201 canonical causes. Lower-signal causes are collapsed behind a toggle so the most actionable information stays front and center.

Enablers (Implementation tab) now show the same canonical structure — category, theme, and canonical enabler — with intervention type badges indicating what kind of action is actually required: automating something, standardizing a process, governing a behavior, training a skill, and so on. This makes it much faster to assess what implementation actually involves.

Browse and Discovery Improvements

Several navigation and discovery upgrades shipped this week.

Two new browse pages — Root Causes (/causes) and Enablers (/enablers) — let you explore the full canonical libraries directly. Both pages use the same accordion structure: category and theme groupings with color-coded indicators. Click any cause or enabler to browse all matching use cases in the library.

The KPI Library (/kpis) now organizes metrics by the SQDCIME framework — Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Inventory, Maintenance & Reliability, and Environment — with collapsible sub-sections within each pillar. L1 goal headers and L2 accordion rows now carry color-coded visual indicators matching the goal hierarchy.

The Explore menu in the header consolidates all three libraries (KPIs, Root Causes, Enablers) alongside All Use Cases and Featured. Active filter chips on the browse page now show all active dimensions in a unified display — including cause and enabler deep-link filters.

Under the Hood

AI finder queries are logged for future analysis — no personally identifiable information beyond your user ID if signed in
Browse page cause and enabler filters are fully bookmarkable via URL params
Numerous pipeline improvements to support incremental taxonomy updates as new use cases are added