Sustainable Catalyst Platform
Research Librarian
A site-scoped research guidance platform for finding Sustainable Catalyst knowledge, public evidence,
analytical tools, decision workflows, repositories, methodology records, and guided research paths.
Research Librarian helps visitors move from a broad question to the strongest available route. It
recommends relevant Sustainable Catalyst pages, explains why a route fits, ranks supporting source
cards, builds multi-step research paths, and creates structured handoffs to Site Intelligence,
Workbench, Decision Studio, platform modules, repositories, and Feature Suggestions.
Core boundary: Research Librarian is a site-scoped guidance and retrieval system—not a
general-purpose chatbot or professional adviser. AI-assisted answers, route confidence, source ranking,
demand signals, feedback, and proposed route changes remain advisory and subject to human review.
Live research guidance
Ask the Research Librarian
Ask a question in your own words. The current system combines deterministic routing, indexed Sustainable
Catalyst content, source-aware retrieval, confidence signals, ranked source cards, guided paths, and
destination actions. When AI retrieval is unavailable, the assistant preserves useful site-scoped
routing through its deterministic fallback layer.
AI-Powered Research Guidance
Sustainable Catalyst Research Librarian AI
Begin with a title, subject, evidence need, comparison, analytical question, research path, or decision task. The workspace retrieves verified Sustainable Catalyst records first, then presents a readable answer, evidence cards, a guided path, and controlled next actions.
Enter a site-scoped research question. Press Control or Command plus Enter to submit. Title suggestions appear after two characters.
Save, export, or review this route
Research Librarian AI
Choose a research mode, enter a question, or use an example. The workspace will keep the primary answer readable while placing verified sources, research paths, next actions, and retrieval diagnostics in their own sections.
Research Librarian v6.0.0 integrates source-aware routing, article-map guidance, Workbench and Decision
Studio actions, contextual feedback, knowledge-gap intelligence, adaptive experiences, and
regression-protected route improvement.
Integrated guidance loop
From research question to governed route improvement
Research Librarian is now a connected guidance platform rather than a single answer box. It supports
the full path from question and source discovery through analytical action, feedback, aggregate demand
review, and human-approved improvement.
Identify the strongest starting point
Interpret the visitor’s goal, detect the dominant research signal, and recommend the most specific
Sustainable Catalyst route rather than defaulting to a broad platform page.
Review evidence and build a path
Rank supporting source cards, explain route confidence and coverage, and continue into a quick,
standard, or deep multi-step research path.
Use a tool, report a gap, and strengthen the system
Carry structured context into Workbench or Decision Studio, submit route feedback or a feature
request, and route reviewed signals into human-governed improvement.
Core platform destinations
Move into knowledge, evidence, analysis, or decision support
Research Librarian chooses among four primary platform destinations before narrowing the route to a
specific article map, observatory, calculator, module, source record, repository, or workflow.
Open Knowledge Library
Use article maps, research pathways, long-form publications, references, repositories, and structured
learning routes when the first task is to understand a subject.
Site Intelligence
Use country profiles, cross-domain comparison, Earth observation, live events, thematic dashboards,
source records, briefing tools, saved views, and public observatories when the question requires
external evidence or geographic context.
Sustainable Catalyst Workbench
Use symbolic math, unit-aware calculations, Graph Studio, Engineering Mode, diagnostics, visual
analytics, validation workflows, and advanced domain tools when the question must be calculated,
modeled, compared, or visualized.
Decision Studio
Use Decision Studio when evidence, assumptions, scenarios, financial tradeoffs, claim review,
Workbench calculations, Site Intelligence context, readiness checks, and exports must be assembled
into one reviewable Decision Packet.
Public answer experience
A route, supporting sources, and a clear next action
A useful Research Librarian response should do more than name a page. It should explain the route,
reveal confidence and coverage, provide supporting source cards, and offer an appropriate next step.
Start with the strongest match
Present a specific destination, explain why it fits the question, and avoid placing broad orientation
pages above more relevant Workbench, Decision Studio, Site Intelligence, or module routes.
Show the supporting Sustainable Catalyst context
Rank relevant pages and records by route fit, prompt intent, source type, title and summary terms,
route specificity, and available retrieval evidence.
Make route quality visible
Use confidence labels, reason-code chips, source coverage notes, fallback states, and route-repair
guidance rather than presenting every answer with the same level of certainty.
Continue beyond the first page
Build quick, standard, or deep research paths with ordered steps, checkpoints, related article maps,
source review, analytical actions, and continuation targets.
Move directly into the next workflow
Open a page, begin a guided path, prepare a Workbench or Decision Studio handoff, save the route,
provide feedback, or send an unsupported need to Feature Suggestions.
Remain useful when AI is unavailable
Preserve site-scoped route selection, route explanations, core destination links, boundaries, and
missing-capability guidance even when generation or semantic retrieval cannot run.
From research guidance to public evidence
When a question needs geographic or source-aware context
Research Librarian can route a topic, country, comparison, event, environmental question, or source
inquiry into the appropriate Site Intelligence workspace without treating dashboard output as
unquestioned truth.
Country Intelligence
Review a source-aware profile across environmental, development, infrastructure, humanitarian,
human-security, economic, and institutional evidence without reducing the country to one score.
Cross-Domain Comparison
Compare two countries while preserving units, definitions, reporting periods, source methods,
missing values, delivery states, and methodological compatibility.
Public Observatories
Inspect evidence ledgers, source–method–artifact lineage, release history, verification levels,
canonical digests, and public audit packets.
Dashboard Studio
Choose among country research, comparison, Earth observation, live events, thematic analysis,
briefing, saved views, source methodology, and the Auditable Public Observatory.
Sources + Methodology
Review publishers, connector state, geographic and temporal coverage, freshness, transformation
rules, fallback behavior, feature usage, and interpretation limits.
Connected Site Intelligence Workspace
Move among maps, events, country profiles, comparisons, thematic dashboards, briefing tools,
saved views, source records, and observatory records in one public application.
Typed platform handoffs
Carry the research question into analysis or decision support
Research Librarian can prepare structured, time-limited handoff context for Workbench and Decision
Studio. The destination receives the research question, route, source references, and relevant
pathway context rather than forcing the visitor to begin again.
Turn the route into an analytical task
Carry the question into calculators, symbolic review, graphs, models, diagnostics, sensitivity
analysis, validation workflows, and exportable calculation records.
Turn the route into a Decision Packet
Carry the question, sources, assumptions, context, unresolved issues, and suggested next steps into
framing, scenario comparison, claim review, tradeoff analysis, readiness review, and briefing.
Preserve a useful destination when a handoff fails
If a destination is unavailable or cannot resolve a handoff token, the system should preserve the
route explanation and provide a direct, understandable fallback link.
Research context supports the next workflow but does not certify the source material, validate every
assumption, or authorize a professional conclusion. Destination tools retain their own review and
responsible-use boundaries.
Specialized workflow routing
Choose the module that matches the task
When a question calls for a focused workflow rather than a broad research path, Research Librarian can
recommend the most appropriate artifact-producing module and explain why it fits.
Catalyst Canvas
Best for defining a challenge, audience, assumptions, point of view, prototype, and test plan.
Catalyst Data
Best for structuring entities, indicators, sources, reporting periods, confidence, method notes,
and review status.
Catalyst Analytics R
Best for exploring assumptions, scenario values, emissions budgets, model behavior, interpretation
notes, and export logic.
Global Impact Catalyst
Best for traceable impact records with goals, indicators, baseline, current value, target, source,
confidence, and progress notes.
Narrative Risk
Best for reviewing evidence strength, uncertainty, source type, stakeholder pressure, volatility,
consequence, and communication risk.
Catalyst Finance
Best for educational NPV, ROI, payback, benefit-cost ratio, carbon cost, risk-adjusted scoring,
review flags, and decision notes.
Catalyst Grit
Best for tracking pressure, impact, energy, support, clarity, recovery actions, next steps, and
execution risk following a setback.
Feature Suggestions
When the requested route, source, topic, tool, or workflow does not exist, acknowledge the gap and
carry structured context into the public feature-suggestion process.
Feedback and governed improvement
Improve routes without allowing automated self-modification
Research Librarian can collect contextual feedback and aggregate demand signals, but route changes are
proposed, tested, reviewed, and approved through a governed editorial workflow.
Report the specific problem
Visitors can identify a wrong route, missing source, missing topic, missing tool, unclear answer, or
grounding problem without needing to understand the internal routing system.
Carry missing-capability context forward
Unsupported needs can be transferred into Feature Suggestions with route and issue context, while
duplicate protection and fallback queuing preserve a reliable submission path.
Identify repeated research and knowledge gaps
Aggregate route demand, low-confidence outcomes, missing-source clusters, missing-tool clusters,
path demand, and evaluation failures for editorial and platform planning.
Offer prompts and surveys when they are useful
Contextual experiences can respond to low confidence, zero-source outcomes, route abandonment,
completed paths, tool demand, and destination handoffs while respecting caps and dismissal windows.
Compare proposed route changes before approval
Route-change proposals require deterministic before-and-after evaluation, minimum-evidence gates,
regression thresholds, provenance, and rollback snapshots.
Keep editorial authority with people
Feedback, AI output, demand scores, and route proposals remain advisory. Only reviewed and approved
changes enter the editorial curation registry.
Privacy, security, and governance
Useful research guidance with bounded public data
The platform is designed to improve routing and service quality without turning public interactions
into an unrestricted conversation archive or exposing protected administrative systems.
Stay within the Sustainable Catalyst system
Route questions toward Sustainable Catalyst content, sources, methods, tools, modules, and public
workflows rather than answering unrelated general-purpose requests.
Share bounded operational signals
Platform events can record route and integration states without sending raw conversation text or
requiring personal data for public guidance.
Keep provider credentials out of the public interface
API keys, administrative exports, private diagnostics, route-change controls, audit records, and
maintenance operations remain protected.
Distinguish retrieval from authority
A ranked source card can show route relevance and coverage. It does not automatically prove factual
accuracy, completeness, authenticity, or professional suitability.
Support stable operation
Bounded logs, maintenance checks, recovery snapshots, migration validation, health checks, and
release-readiness gates support reliable operation without exposing private records publicly.
Keep route rules inspectable
Editorial route overrides, source weighting, boundary patterns, corrections, and approved
improvements remain versioned and subject to accountable review.
Integrated platform status
One governed research guidance platform
The v6.0 layer unifies the major Research Librarian capabilities into one public guidance journey while
preserving specialized modules, public-safe boundaries, administrative controls, and human approval.
Source-aware research routing
Connect deterministic routing, indexed Sustainable Catalyst sources, ranked source cards,
confidence signals, article-map guidance, and guided research paths in one public experience.
Workbench and Decision Studio continuity
Carry typed research context into analytical and decision-support workflows while retaining route,
source, boundary, and fallback information.
Contextual correction and feature routing
Capture wrong routes, missing sources, missing tools, knowledge gaps, and unsupported needs without
allowing public feedback to change routing rules automatically.
Aggregate research and knowledge-gap signals
Review bounded demand patterns, low-confidence outcomes, source gaps, tool demand, and path demand
for editorial and platform planning.
Contextual prompts and surveys
Offer bounded prompts and surveys when low confidence, missing evidence, route abandonment,
completed paths, or destination actions make feedback especially useful.
Human-approved route changes
Require evidence gates, before-and-after testing, regression thresholds, provenance, approval,
versioning, and rollback before a proposed route improvement becomes active.
Responsible-use boundaries
What Research Librarian should and should not do
Research Librarian should be useful, transparent, and honest about its scope. It supports navigation,
retrieval, learning, source discovery, workflow routing, and research continuity without claiming
authority it does not possess.
- identifying the visitor’s research or workflow goal
- recommending the strongest Sustainable Catalyst starting point
- explaining why a route fits and how confident the match is
- surfacing relevant source cards, article maps, and methodology records
- building quick, standard, or deep guided research paths
- routing public-evidence questions into Site Intelligence
- preparing structured Workbench and Decision Studio handoffs
- acknowledging gaps and routing them into Feature Suggestions
- act as an unrestricted general-purpose chatbot
- invent unsupported pages, tools, sources, or capabilities
- treat source relevance as proof of factual truth
- automatically approve route or curation changes
- provide legal, financial, investment, tax, or compliance advice
- provide medical or mental-health diagnosis or treatment advice
- certify ESG, SDG, engineering, scientific, or assurance conclusions
- replace authoritative records or qualified professional judgment
The current plugin supports Gemini-backed generation and embeddings, protected provider settings,
indexed Sustainable Catalyst retrieval, and deterministic fallback routing. Provider output remains
bounded by the site scope and the same human-review requirements.
Public testing prompts
Questions that test the complete guidance experience
These prompts test route selection, source ranking, Site Intelligence routing, analytical handoffs,
decision support, missing-capability behavior, and responsible-use boundaries.
Next step
Ask, inspect the route, and continue into the right workflow
Start with a question, review the recommended route and supporting sources, then continue into a guided
path, Site Intelligence workspace, Workbench analysis, Decision Studio packet, platform module,
repository, or Feature Suggestions record.