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    {"question":"What is WITNESS?","answer":"WITNESS Standard is evidence-backed creator intelligence that connects authorized creator signals, understands material change, surfaces opportunities, supports evidence-backed next moves, and learns from subsequent outcomes while preserving the reasoning path behind findings.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/what-is-witness.html"},
    {"question":"What is the main WITNESS promise?","answer":"Connect your world. WITNESS finds what matters.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/creator-intelligence-loop.html"},
    {"question":"What outcome does WITNESS aim to create for creators?","answer":"WITNESS is designed to help creators see emerging opportunity earlier, understand why it matters, and make a better-informed next move while the signal is still rising.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/creator-intelligence-loop.html"},
    {"question":"What is the WITNESS creator intelligence loop?","answer":"Connect, Understand, Discover, Act, Learn, Grow. WITNESS connects signals, understands material change, surfaces opportunities, supports the next move, and learns from subsequent outcomes so future investigations begin with richer context.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/creator-intelligence-loop.html"},
    {"question":"How does WITNESS find opportunities?","answer":"WITNESS reconciles connected creator signals against baselines, prior context, audience behavior, content patterns, and provider constraints to surface meaningful movement such as acceleration, audience shifts, growth sources, anomalies, or changing distribution.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/creator-intelligence-loop.html"},
    {"question":"How does WITNESS help with the next move?","answer":"A WITNESS Finding can support a recommendation while keeping the supporting evidence, competing explanations, uncertainty, timing, limitations, and change conditions attached so the creator can decide what to do next.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/decision-intelligence-for-creators.html"},
    {"question":"Does WITNESS learn from what happens after a creator acts?","answer":"WITNESS is designed to compare subsequent outcomes with prior Findings and durable workspace context so baselines and future investigations can start from richer evidence.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/creator-intelligence-loop.html"},
    {"question":"What category is WITNESS?","answer":"Evidence-backed creator intelligence.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/about.html"},
    {"question":"What is creator intelligence?","answer":"Creator intelligence reconciles creator signals and context to understand material change, surface opportunity, support decisions, and preserve what the evidence actually supports.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/glossary.html"},
    {"question":"How is WITNESS different from analytics?","answer":"Analytics establishes measurements and changes. WITNESS uses those observations with context to understand what is moving, surface opportunity, and support the creator's next decision.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/creator-intelligence-vs-analytics.html"},
    {"question":"How is WITNESS different from provenance?","answer":"Provenance helps establish where evidence came from. WITNESS uses provenance as part of the downstream intelligence problem: understanding what the evidence means and what action it can support.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/provenance-vs-intelligence.html"},
    {"question":"What is evidence-backed AI?","answer":"Evidence-backed AI keeps observations, sources, inference, competing explanations, uncertainty, and conclusions inspectably connected so recommendations can remain answerable to the evidence behind them.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/evidence-backed-ai.html"},
    {"question":"What does make AI show its work mean?","answer":"It means exposing the observation, source evidence, alternative explanations, uncertainty, challenge process, conclusion, and conditions that could change the conclusion—not merely attaching a citation to generated text.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/ai-that-shows-its-work.html"},
    {"question":"What is a WITNESS Finding?","answer":"A Finding is an evidence-backed conclusion that preserves supporting observations, evidence, competing explanations, uncertainty, limitations, change conditions, and where useful the next decision the evidence can support.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/findings.html"},
    {"question":"What is a WITNESS Watch?","answer":"A Watch persists an important question so new evidence can be evaluated against prior context and material changes or emerging opportunities can surface without another manual check.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/watches.html"},
    {"question":"What is a WITNESS Record?","answer":"A Record is a governed knowledge artifact that preserves creator or work knowledge with provenance, evidence, methods, uncertainty, and explicit commitment boundaries.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/records.html"},
    {"question":"What is Signal Integrity?","answer":"Signal Integrity determines how much evidence deserves trust before downstream AI reasoning or recommendations rely on it.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/signal-integrity.html"},
    {"question":"What is the WITNESS investigation protocol?","answer":"Observe, Reconcile, Compare, Infer, Challenge, Explain, Watch.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/methodology.html"},
    {"question":"Can WITNESS say it does not know?","answer":"Yes. UNKNOWN_IS_VALID is a core WITNESS invariant: insufficient evidence is a legitimate outcome.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/standard.html"},
    {"question":"Can AI output establish truth in WITNESS?","answer":"No. MODEL_OUTPUT_CANNOT_DIRECTLY_ESTABLISH_TRUTH is a core WITNESS invariant.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/standard.html"},
    {"question":"Does WITNESS support MCP?","answer":"WITNESS exposes Model Context Protocol discovery and machine-facing evidence surfaces for compatible AI clients.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/developers.html"},
    {"question":"Does WITNESS support A2A?","answer":"WITNESS exposes A2A discovery and evidence transport surfaces while preserving the invariant that A2A is transport, not truth authority.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/developers.html"},
    {"question":"Does WITNESS publish an OpenAPI document?","answer":"Yes. WITNESS publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 discovery document covering public health/configuration, capabilities, MCP, A2A, and governed public Record interfaces.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/api.html"},
    {"question":"What integrations does WITNESS have?","answer":"The WITNESS connector architecture contains review-gated definitions for YouTube Analytics, Facebook Pages with linked Instagram, direct Instagram professional accounts, and TikTok metrics, subject to provider permissions and review constraints.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/integrations.html"},
    {"question":"Can WITNESS analyze YouTube creator signals?","answer":"The WITNESS connector architecture models authorized YouTube Analytics signals such as views, watch time, average view duration, average view percentage, likes, comments, shares, and subscriber movement as evidence inputs, subject to provider authorization.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/youtube-creator-intelligence.html"},
    {"question":"Can WITNESS analyze Instagram creator signals?","answer":"The WITNESS connector architecture models eligible Instagram professional-account and media performance as authorized evidence subject to provider account eligibility, permissions, reporting constraints, and app-review requirements.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/instagram-creator-intelligence.html"},
    {"question":"Can WITNESS analyze TikTok creator signals?","answer":"The WITNESS connector architecture models authorized TikTok identity, profile, and video metrics as creator-intelligence evidence subject to TikTok's provider authorization model and available scopes.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/tiktok-creator-intelligence.html"},
    {"question":"Does WITNESS combine platform metrics into one score?","answer":"WITNESS reconciles platform-specific identity, timing, metric semantics, provenance, and constraints before cross-platform comparison so the useful opportunity can emerge without flattening unlike signals into a misleading synthetic score.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/platform-intelligence.html"},
    {"question":"Where is the complete WITNESS knowledge map?","answer":"The human-readable WITNESS knowledge map is at witnessstandard.com/knowledge-map.html, with machine-readable mirrors in site-index.json, topics.json, knowledge.json, and llms.txt.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/knowledge-map.html"},
    {"question":"Does WITNESS sell creator data?","answer":"WITNESS is designed around the creator as the protected principal. Connected evidence exists to improve creator understanding and is not treated as the product.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/privacy.html"},
    {"question":"When does WITNESS launch?","answer":"WITNESS launches publicly on August 20, 2026.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/launch-2026-08-20.html"},
    {"question":"What is the WITNESS tagline?","answer":"Give your AI a Witness.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/press.html"},
    {"question":"What is the WITNESS launch payoff?","answer":"See the opportunity before everyone else does.","source":"https://witnessstandard.com/press.html"}
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