Deep reviews · Manwe docs

Some decisions deserve more than one good answer: a job change, a large purchase, a hard conversation, a bet on your business. A deep review puts the question in front of a small panel that argues it through and hands you a decision you can act on.

When to use one

Use a deep review when being wrong is expensive, when the answer depends on assumptions you haven't examined, or when you notice you want to hear only one side. For everyday questions, a normal answer or second opinions are faster and usually enough.

Starting one

On the home screen or a world's start screen, pick Deep review under the composer and write the decision. In a conversation, press Deep review beside the composer, or type /review. Manwe fills in the question from your draft or your last message; adjust it and press Start Review.

Select the worlds the decision belongs to first. The panel reads their description and the approved memory and links that best fit the question, within a fixed size, plus any documents you've attached. Suggestions and drafts never go in. Public research follows your approval mode. Ask for approval shows the requests for review; Approve for me and Full access allow ordinary research within the task. If you decline research, the review continues with the evidence already available.

How the panel works

The panel has up to five lenses chosen for your question, each looking at it a different way: the numbers, the people involved, comparable cases, the system around the decision. Two roles sit on every panel:

VerificationChecks the panel's factual claims against sources and marks each one verified, unsupported, or contradicted. The report distinguishes supported findings from uncertainty rather than treating every panel claim as established.

Red TeamArgues against wherever the panel is heading. Agreement isn't evidence until it survives a serious challenge.

Panel specialists come from your persistent roster, with new agents created when expertise is missing. Each retained participant uses its own configured model and reasoning effort. The review keeps their identities, so you can return to them afterwards.

The panel works in four stages. Each stage digs one layer deeper than the one before:

Independent assessmentEach lens judges the decision alone, without seeing the others.

ChallengeThey read each other's judgments and push on the weak points.

Assumptions checkWhat has to be true for the leading view to hold?

PremortemIt's a year later and this went badly. Why?

The stages follow Causal Layered Analysis: from the facts on the surface, through the systems behind them, down to the worldviews and stories that shape the choice. Most bad decisions are made one layer too shallow.

What you get back

A card appears in your conversation as soon as the review starts, showing the progress bar, current stage, estimated time left and expandable activity details. When it's done, the card shows the recommendation, the next steps and the follow-ups. Press Open document and the full decision document opens beside the chat:

The recommendation in a sentence, with the panel's confidence in plain words ("Likely · 55–80%").
Next steps you can tick off as you go.
Why, and the risks, side by side.
How the panel tested it: what Verification checked, and Red Team's strongest objection.
Views made for this decision: a calculator, a comparison table, a timeline, whatever fits.
Manwe follows up: the check-in date and what Manwe is watching.
How the panel got here: the full record, stage by stage, if you want to read the argument.

To pass it on, use the export menu in the document's header: Share & export… makes a styled page, PDF, slide deck or link, and Copy Markdown copies the text. A world's Space can collect its decisions into one site. See Sharing and Spaces.

How long it takes

On a cloud model the panel speaks at the same time within each stage, so a review takes minutes rather than an hour. On a model running on your Mac they take turns, which is slower. The card shows the stage the panel is in and an estimate that learns from your past reviews. On a cloud model, keep chatting while it works. A model on your Mac can do one thing at a time, so chat waits until the review is done.

You can stop a review at any time, and run one per conversation at once. A review needs Manwe open: quitting stops it. If it gets interrupted, Try again picks the same question back up. When it finishes, Manwe sends a Mac notification and, if you use it, a Telegram message.

After the review

A review doesn't end when the document arrives. If the panel named a moment when you'll know how the decision went, Manwe checks in with you that morning. See Check-ins and outcomes. If it named public signals that would change the call, like a rate, a price, or an announcement, Manwe watches them and tells you when one moves.