Decision intelligence for design teams
The Intent Ledger turns project conversations into a living, source-backed record of decisions, risk, and design intent.
New stair confirmed to connect directly into the existing mezzanine.
“Structure's confirmed — the stair can land directly on the existing mezzanine, no extra steel needed.”
South-facing curtain wall may still cause glare on the working studio floor without a shading strategy.
Okay, let's start with the stair — did structure get back to us on the mezzanine tie-in?
Yeah, I heard back this morning.
Structure's confirmed — the stair can land directly on the existing mezzanine, no extra steel needed.
Good, that's one less thing hanging over us.
Can we lock the north-light roof profile too? That hasn't changed since concept, right?
Correct, still holding — the roof stays as approved.
This is the third time we've flagged the glare and we still don't have a shading answer.
I know, I know. We keep saying we'll come back to it.
Let's actually get a shading concept on paper before the glazing package goes out.
Separate thing — if the café's open to the public, does it need its own entrance separate from the studio?
Good question, I don't think we've confirmed that with the client yet.
Let's flag it and follow up before the next review.
New stair confirmed to connect directly into the existing mezzanine.
Carry the confirmed stair position into the next set of coordinated drawings.
South-facing curtain wall may still cause glare on the working studio floor without a shading strategy.
New stair confirmed to connect directly into the existing mezzanine.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
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More studio floor vs. Larger review space
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1 risk · 1 unresolved
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New stair confirmed to connect directly into the existing mezzanine.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
+1 more
More studio floor vs. Larger review space
2
1 risk · 1 unresolved
1
Read the map from left to right: project context → direction and decisions → delivery and actions → commitments and outcomes.
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The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
Extend along the eastern riverbank edge rather than infill the courtyard.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
Interrupts the current flow
Risks and unresolved questions sit here because they can interrupt the project's current direction.
South-facing curtain wall may cause glare on the working studio floor.
Whether the new stair connects directly into the existing mezzanine is still open.
Read the map from left to right: project context → direction and decisions → delivery and actions → commitments and outcomes.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
Extend along the eastern riverbank edge rather than infill the courtyard.
Structural engineer to confirm loading feasibility for the mezzanine stair tie-in.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
Interrupts the current flow
Risks and unresolved questions sit here because they can interrupt the project's current direction.
South-facing curtain wall may cause glare on the working studio floor.
Whether the new stair connects directly into the existing mezzanine is still open.
Read the map from left to right: project context → direction and decisions → delivery and actions → commitments and outcomes.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
Extend along the eastern riverbank edge rather than infill the courtyard.
Update cladding specification and reissue elevations with the zinc panel module.
Structural engineer to confirm loading feasibility for the mezzanine stair tie-in.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
Interrupts the current flow
Risks and unresolved questions sit here because they can interrupt the project's current direction.
South-facing curtain wall may cause glare on the working studio floor.
Whether the new stair connects directly into the existing mezzanine is still open.
Pre-weathered zinc confirmed as the primary cladding material.
Produced a downstream action in Client Material Review.
Read the map from left to right: project context → direction and decisions → delivery and actions → commitments and outcomes.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
Extend along the eastern riverbank edge rather than infill the courtyard.
Update cladding specification and reissue elevations with the zinc panel module.
Structural engineer to confirm loading feasibility for the mezzanine stair tie-in.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
Interrupts the current flow
Risks and unresolved questions sit here because they can interrupt the project's current direction.
South-facing curtain wall may still cause glare on the working studio floor without a shading strategy.
Whether the ground-floor café use requires a separate accessible entrance is still being confirmed.
New stair confirmed to connect directly into the existing mezzanine.
The same decision the conversation scene showed forming.
The structural feasibility check-in commitment to check mezzanine loading became a real facade and programme coordination review action: “Send updated loading diagrams to the structural engineer for mezzanine tie-in sign-off.”
More studio floor vs. Larger review space
Conversations disappear.
Project memory compounds.
Project Memory
Source evidence
Every structured finding can lead back to the conversation that created it.
New stair confirmed to connect directly into the existing mezzanine.
Structural sign-off closes the question first raised at the concept kickoff — the direct connection is feasible.
"Structure's confirmed — the stair can land directly on the…"
Facade and Programme Coordination Review · March 24, 2026
High confidence
Ambiguity, preserved
When evidence genuinely pulls in two directions, The Intent Ledger keeps both positions visible instead of inventing a tidy conclusion.
Where evidence in this conversation pulls in two directions.
More studio floor
We use that floor every single day — I don't want to give up more of it than we have to.
Larger review space
Every client review we're squeezed into a corner — we actually need a proper space for this.
Leaning Larger review space
Who it’s for
01 · Design Students
Design direction shifts after every critique, and the reasoning behind it is easy to lose by the next one.
ILM keeps the design principle and the critique that shaped it, connected across every review.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
The team agreed the new studio wing should not compete visually with the original pavilion building.
02 · Junior Designers
Coordination calls produce commitments, actions, and risks that are easy to lose track of between sessions.
ILM keeps commitments, actions, and the risks behind them tied to the conversation that produced them.
South-facing curtain wall may still cause glare on the working studio floor without a shading strategy.
Raised for a third time across three sessions — still no shading strategy has been proposed or approved.
03 · Design Studios
Client decisions and approvals get scattered across meetings, emails, and messages.
ILM turns client conversations into a shared, dated record the whole studio can return to.
Pre-weathered zinc confirmed as the primary cladding material.
The client reviewed both options and confirmed zinc, resolving the earlier cladding contradiction.
Whichever of these is you, The Intent Ledger is available to start on today.
Early access · field testing
Every finding can be traced to the reviewed conversation that produced it.
The system does not fabricate a project narrative — only what was actually said.
Important findings can be opened and checked against their exact source.
Open issues stay open when they're genuinely unresolved, instead of being tidied away.
The first 3 ILM Records are free.
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“Okay, let's start with the stair — did structure get back to us on the mezzanine tie-in?”
Read the map from left to right: project context → direction and decisions → delivery and actions → commitments and outcomes.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
Extend along the eastern riverbank edge rather than infill the courtyard.
Update cladding specification and reissue elevations with the zinc panel module.
Structural engineer to confirm loading feasibility for the mezzanine stair tie-in.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
Interrupts the current flow
Risks and unresolved questions sit here because they can interrupt the project's current direction.
South-facing curtain wall may still cause glare on the working studio floor without a shading strategy.
Whether the ground-floor café use requires a separate accessible entrance is still being confirmed.
Your next real conversation could be the first entry in your record.
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