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Map Buyer Journey
A decision coordinator takes one agreed persona and works out how people of that persona buy. Analytics reads what those buyers did in the months before they bought, a study manager asks recent buyers what they were trying to settle at each point, a search optimizer reads what people search on the subject, and a researcher collects what the people who deal with buyers get asked. The coordinator turns that evidence into a set of stages, each carrying a signal that says a buyer has entered it, and the run then records every place the buyer meets the organization and every question the buyer needs answered at each stage. A content librarian matches what is already published against those questions, and the questions with nothing behind them become the gap list. The map is agreed by the people who will plan against it, issued at a version, and handed to the agents that plan content and design campaigns. Those agents can rely on four things from a recorded map: the stages with the signal that marks each one, the touchpoints placed against a stage with the agent that owns each, the questions in the words buyers used, and the gaps ranked by how many buyers reach the question.
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a question or a contact is ruled out too few buyers answer a stage signal cannot be read the room does not agree a persona is agreed 1 Take in the Persona which persona, which purchase, what the map answers 2 Read the Behavioral Record what buyers of this persona did before they bought 3 Read the Search Demand what people search on this subject, and in what order 4 Design the Buyer Study the method, who gets asked, and every question asked 5 Clear the Sample and the … the rules scored, and legal signs before anyone is asked a person signs · never an agent 6 Talk to the Buyers recent buyers say what they were trying to settle 7 Collect the First-Hand Ac… what the people who deal with buyers get asked 8 Draft the Stages the steps a buyer moves through, and what marks each 9 Map the Touchpoints every place the buyer meets the organization 10 Collect the Questions what the buyer needs answered at each stage 11 Test the Stages against t… whether each signal can be read, and who moved that way 12 Inventory the Content aga… which published piece answers which question 13 Find the Gaps the questions with nothing published behind them 14 Settle the Map the people who plan against it agree it, or send it back a person signs · never an agent 15 Write down the Agreed Map stages, touchpoints, questions, gaps, and who agreed 16 Issue the Map as a Version the map numbered, and the agents that read it told 17 Hand over the Map each receiving agent says what it changes 18 Set the Review Conditions the review date, and what would change the answer 19 Record What Was Learned what to repeat, what to avoid the map is agreed and in use
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PROCESS: map buyer journey id: <team> /map-buyer-journey v1
from: ref/mkt/map-buyer-journey v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: a persona is agreed in <your profile process> , or the review
date on a recorded map arrives, or <what change in the market
brings the map back sooner>
watch: record=<persona> system=<your profile process>
change=<a persona is agreed at a version>
or watch: record=<recorded map>
system=<your review schedule>
change=<the review date on the map arrives>
or watch: record=<market signal>
system=<where the market change is seen>
change=<what change in the market brings the map back
sooner>
concurrency: one run at a time for the same persona and the same
purchase, because two maps of one journey leave the
planning agents with neither. Runs for different personas
overlap
goal: one agreed map of how a persona buys, carrying its stages with
the signal that marks each one, its touchpoints, the questions
buyers ask at each stage, and the questions nothing published
answers
phases:
take-in-persona - convenes briefing: which persona, which purchase,
what the map has to answer, what evidence each
agent owes, and the date it is owed
owner: decision-coordinator after: trigger
automation: <level>
read-behavior - human: what buyers of this persona did in the
months before they bought, and in what order
owner: analytics after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
read-search - human: what people search on this subject, and
which questions come early and which come late
owner: search-optimizer after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
design-study - human: the method, who gets asked, how many
responses the findings will need, and every
question in the wording it will be asked in
owner: study-manager after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
clear-study - convenes approval: the consent-manager scores the
sample and the questions against the rules in
force, and legal signs before anyone is asked
owner: <your legal role> after: design-study
by: <days> automation: never
talk-to-buyers - human: recent buyers are asked what they were
trying to settle at each point and where they
went to settle it
owner: study-manager after: clear-study
by: <days> automation: <level>
first-hand - human: what the people who deal with buyers say
they get asked, and at what point they get asked
owner: researcher after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
draft-stages - runs build-by-talent: the stages a buyer moves
through, each with the signal that says a buyer
has entered it and the signal that says the buyer
has left it
owner: decision-coordinator
after: read-behavior + read-search +
talk-to-buyers + first-hand
by: <days> automation: <level>
map-touchpoints - human: every place a buyer of this persona meets
the organization, each placed against a stage and
carrying the agent that owns it
owner: audience-manager after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
collect-questions - runs collect-and-report: what the buyer needs
answered at each stage, each question in the
words a buyer used and carrying where it was
heard
owner: study-manager after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
test-stages - system: each stage signal run over the record, to
see whether it can be read at all and how many
buyers moved the way the stages say they do
owner: statistician after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
inventory-content - runs collect-and-report: every recorded question
put to the library, and every published piece
that answers one recorded at its address
owner: content-librarian
after: map-touchpoints + collect-questions
by: <days> automation: <level>
find-gaps - human: the questions nothing published answers,
and the questions answered by something buyers
cannot find, ranked by how many buyers reach them
owner: content-librarian after: inventory-content
by: <days> automation: <level>
settle-map - convenes approval: the people who will plan
against the map agree it, and a changes-requested
goes back to the stage or the question the
signers named
owner: decision-coordinator
after: test-stages + find-gaps
by: <days> automation: never
write-map - human: the stages and their signals, the
touchpoints, the questions, the gaps, who agreed,
and who disagreed and on what
owner: decision-coordinator after: settle-map
automation: <level>
issue-version - human: the agreed map issued as a numbered
version, with the version it replaces left
readable
owner: standards-keeper after: write-map
automation: <level>
hand-over - runs decide-and-announce: every agent that plans
content or designs campaigns hears the map at
once and says what it changes because of it
owner: decision-coordinator after: issue-version
by: <days> automation: <level>
set-review - human: the date the map comes back up, and the
conditions that would bring it back sooner
owner: decision-coordinator after: hand-over
automation: <level>
record-learnings - convenes debrief: what to repeat, what to avoid
owner: decision-coordinator after: set-review
automation: <level>
run-scoped:
outstanding - runs roll-call owner: decision-coordinator
every: <cadence>
from: take-in-persona until: hand-over
handoffs:
take-in-persona -> read-behavior / read-search / design-study /
first-hand [persona-and-owings]: the persona at its version, the
purchase the map covers, what each agent owes, and the date it is
owed. Four branches read one record
read-behavior -> draft-stages [buyer-paths]: the paths those buyers
took, with the period the paths were read over and the source under
every figure
read-search -> draft-stages [search-demand]: what people search on the
subject, each term with its demand figure and the date that figure
was pulled
read-search -> collect-questions [search-terms-for-questions]: the
same list, so a question people type and a question a buyer says out
loud land in one place
design-study -> clear-study [study-design]: who is sampled, how the
sample is drawn, and every question at the version it will be asked
in
clear-study -> talk-to-buyers [cleared-study]: the sample and the
questions as they were approved. A question changed afterwards goes
back through the check before anyone is asked it
talk-to-buyers -> draft-stages [buyer-answers]: what buyers said,
attributed to the person who said it, with what each said about when
it happened
first-hand -> draft-stages [first-hand-accounts]: what the people who
deal with buyers say they get asked, attributed the same way
draft-stages -> map-touchpoints [drafted-stages]: the stages in order,
each with the signal that says a buyer entered it
draft-stages -> collect-questions [stages-for-questions]: the same
stages, so every question lands against one of them
draft-stages -> test-stages [stages-to-test]: the same stages, in the
form the record will be run over
map-touchpoints -> inventory-content [touchpoints]: every touchpoint,
its stage, and the agent that owns it
collect-questions -> inventory-content [buyer-questions]: the
questions per stage, in the words buyers used
test-stages -> settle-map [signal-readability]: whether each stage
signal can be read from a system in use, how many buyers each stage
holds, and which stages the record cannot see at all
inventory-content -> find-gaps [content-inventory]: which published
piece answers which question, each at its address and its version
find-gaps -> settle-map [gap-list]: the questions nothing answers and
the questions answered by something buyers cannot find, ranked
settle-map -> write-map [agreed-map]: the agreed map, the reasons
behind it, and anyone who disagreed and on what
write-map -> issue-version [written-map]: the map in the wording it
was agreed in
issue-version -> hand-over [versioned-map]: the map at its number, and
what changed from the version it replaces
hand-over -> set-review [adoption-answers]: what each receiving agent
said it would change, and the date it said it by
set-review -> record-learnings [review-conditions]: the review date
and the conditions that bring the map back sooner
deviations:
clear-study -> design-study [study-item-ruled-out]: consent rules out
part of the sample or a question, so the study is designed again
without it
talk-to-buyers -> design-study [too-few-answers]: too few buyers
answer, so the study is designed again or what came in is reported
with the shortfall recorded against it
test-stages -> draft-stages [signal-cannot-be-read]: a stage signal
cannot be read from any system, so the stages are drafted again
around something the record can see
settle-map -> draft-stages [room-does-not-agree]: the room does not
agree on the stages, so they are drafted again with what each side
said
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for leadership, the experts who deal
with buyers, and legal>
systems: analytics platforms (read), the CRM (read), the customer and
revenue record (read), search demand and ranking data
sources (read), the site's search performance data (read),
the CMS (read), the content inventory (read), the contact
database (read), the consent record (read), the survey and
interview system (trigger), the study record (write), the
response record (write), the evidence store (write), the
decision record (write), the standards store (write), the
review schedule (write), the notification channel (write),
the meeting calendar (write, cap: <what may be set without
asking>)
data: the persona at its version, <your buying history> over <what
period>, the rules in force for contacting people, the
earlier maps of this journey at the versions they were
agreed at
policy:
every stage carries a signal that can be read from a system somebody
already runs, and a stage whose signal cannot be read is recorded
as a stage nobody can count
every question reaches the map in the words a buyer used, with the
response or the search figure it came from recorded under it
nobody is asked anything until the consent-manager has scored the
sample and the questions against the rules in force
no finding rests on fewer responses than the statistician said the
study needed, and a finding that does is marked as such before it
is written
the map is agreed by named people, and the agreement is never
delegated to an agent
the agents that plan content and design campaigns sit in the room
where the map is agreed, and a map agreed without them is not
recorded
a gap is recorded whether or not anybody intends to fill it, because
what gets made is a separate decision made in a separate process
a disagreement is recorded with the map, naming who disagreed and
what they disagreed with
a recorded map is never edited in place. A change goes in as a new
version, and the version it replaces stays readable
measures:
cycle time: <target> from the persona to the recorded map
stage coverage: <share> of the stages whose entry signal can be read
from a system already in use
question coverage: <share> of the recorded questions with a published
piece answering them, read on the review date
quality gate: no map is recorded without its evidence, its gap list,
and an answer from every agent that plans against it
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Convert the business process below into a runnable LangGraph graph:
one Python file with a TypedDict state, a StateGraph, nodes, edges,
conditional edges and a checkpointer.
The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:
https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes
Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.
Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:
https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/langgraph/interrupts
interrupt() and Command(resume=), which is how a gate stops a run
https://reference.langchain.com/python/langgraph/graph/state/StateGraph
StateGraph, add_edge, add_conditional_edges, defer
WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR
These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.
1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.
2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.
3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.
4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.
5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
looks like.
6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
belongs in the code.
7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.
8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
invent a value, a threshold or a date.
9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
reference process and which version it was generated from.
10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.
HOW THAT LOOKS IN LANGGRAPH
11. A phase is a node added with `add_node`, under the phase's own name.
12. The state is a TypedDict. Each handoff key is one field on it.
13. A join is the trap. `add_edge(["a", "b"], "c")` looks right and releases
once: when a backward edge re-enters ONE arm, the joined node never runs
again, and the run ends early reporting success rather than raising. Mark the
joined node `defer=True` and re-check inside it that both inbound handoffs
exist.
14. A gate is `interrupt()` inside the node, resumed with `Command(resume=...)`.
The platform lets anything at all call resume, so require the resumed value to
name a person and a date and refuse anything else. Say in the fidelity note
that this proves only that whoever resumed typed a name, because
`Command(resume=True)` from a scheduled job is indistinguishable from a person
signing.
15. A deviation is `add_conditional_edges` with a routing function named after
the key in brackets.
16. Pass a durable checkpointer rather than taking the in-memory default. The
gates wait days, and the default loses every paused run on restart.
17. Leave every phase body unimplemented, raising until somebody registers an
implementation. The automation level is a blank, so writing a body would
answer on the adopter's behalf whether an agent may do that work.
Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.
It has three parts.
**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.
**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.
**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.
Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.
Here is the process document.
```
PROCESS: map buyer journey id: <team>/map-buyer-journey v1
from: ref/mkt/map-buyer-journey v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: a persona is agreed in <your profile process>, or the review
date on a recorded map arrives, or <what change in the market
brings the map back sooner>
watch: record=<persona> system=<your profile process>
change=<a persona is agreed at a version>
or watch: record=<recorded map>
system=<your review schedule>
change=<the review date on the map arrives>
or watch: record=<market signal>
system=<where the market change is seen>
change=<what change in the market brings the map back
sooner>
concurrency: one run at a time for the same persona and the same
purchase, because two maps of one journey leave the
planning agents with neither. Runs for different personas
overlap
goal: one agreed map of how a persona buys, carrying its stages with
the signal that marks each one, its touchpoints, the questions
buyers ask at each stage, and the questions nothing published
answers
phases:
take-in-persona - convenes briefing: which persona, which purchase,
what the map has to answer, what evidence each
agent owes, and the date it is owed
owner: decision-coordinator after: trigger
automation: <level>
read-behavior - human: what buyers of this persona did in the
months before they bought, and in what order
owner: analytics after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
read-search - human: what people search on this subject, and
which questions come early and which come late
owner: search-optimizer after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
design-study - human: the method, who gets asked, how many
responses the findings will need, and every
question in the wording it will be asked in
owner: study-manager after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
clear-study - convenes approval: the consent-manager scores the
sample and the questions against the rules in
force, and legal signs before anyone is asked
owner: <your legal role> after: design-study
by: <days> automation: never
talk-to-buyers - human: recent buyers are asked what they were
trying to settle at each point and where they
went to settle it
owner: study-manager after: clear-study
by: <days> automation: <level>
first-hand - human: what the people who deal with buyers say
they get asked, and at what point they get asked
owner: researcher after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
draft-stages - runs build-by-talent: the stages a buyer moves
through, each with the signal that says a buyer
has entered it and the signal that says the buyer
has left it
owner: decision-coordinator
after: read-behavior + read-search +
talk-to-buyers + first-hand
by: <days> automation: <level>
map-touchpoints - human: every place a buyer of this persona meets
the organization, each placed against a stage and
carrying the agent that owns it
owner: audience-manager after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
collect-questions - runs collect-and-report: what the buyer needs
answered at each stage, each question in the
words a buyer used and carrying where it was
heard
owner: study-manager after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
test-stages - system: each stage signal run over the record, to
see whether it can be read at all and how many
buyers moved the way the stages say they do
owner: statistician after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
inventory-content - runs collect-and-report: every recorded question
put to the library, and every published piece
that answers one recorded at its address
owner: content-librarian
after: map-touchpoints + collect-questions
by: <days> automation: <level>
find-gaps - human: the questions nothing published answers,
and the questions answered by something buyers
cannot find, ranked by how many buyers reach them
owner: content-librarian after: inventory-content
by: <days> automation: <level>
settle-map - convenes approval: the people who will plan
against the map agree it, and a changes-requested
goes back to the stage or the question the
signers named
owner: decision-coordinator
after: test-stages + find-gaps
by: <days> automation: never
write-map - human: the stages and their signals, the
touchpoints, the questions, the gaps, who agreed,
and who disagreed and on what
owner: decision-coordinator after: settle-map
automation: <level>
issue-version - human: the agreed map issued as a numbered
version, with the version it replaces left
readable
owner: standards-keeper after: write-map
automation: <level>
hand-over - runs decide-and-announce: every agent that plans
content or designs campaigns hears the map at
once and says what it changes because of it
owner: decision-coordinator after: issue-version
by: <days> automation: <level>
set-review - human: the date the map comes back up, and the
conditions that would bring it back sooner
owner: decision-coordinator after: hand-over
automation: <level>
record-learnings - convenes debrief: what to repeat, what to avoid
owner: decision-coordinator after: set-review
automation: <level>
run-scoped:
outstanding - runs roll-call owner: decision-coordinator
every: <cadence>
from: take-in-persona until: hand-over
handoffs:
take-in-persona -> read-behavior / read-search / design-study /
first-hand [persona-and-owings]: the persona at its version, the
purchase the map covers, what each agent owes, and the date it is
owed. Four branches read one record
read-behavior -> draft-stages [buyer-paths]: the paths those buyers
took, with the period the paths were read over and the source under
every figure
read-search -> draft-stages [search-demand]: what people search on the
subject, each term with its demand figure and the date that figure
was pulled
read-search -> collect-questions [search-terms-for-questions]: the
same list, so a question people type and a question a buyer says out
loud land in one place
design-study -> clear-study [study-design]: who is sampled, how the
sample is drawn, and every question at the version it will be asked
in
clear-study -> talk-to-buyers [cleared-study]: the sample and the
questions as they were approved. A question changed afterwards goes
back through the check before anyone is asked it
talk-to-buyers -> draft-stages [buyer-answers]: what buyers said,
attributed to the person who said it, with what each said about when
it happened
first-hand -> draft-stages [first-hand-accounts]: what the people who
deal with buyers say they get asked, attributed the same way
draft-stages -> map-touchpoints [drafted-stages]: the stages in order,
each with the signal that says a buyer entered it
draft-stages -> collect-questions [stages-for-questions]: the same
stages, so every question lands against one of them
draft-stages -> test-stages [stages-to-test]: the same stages, in the
form the record will be run over
map-touchpoints -> inventory-content [touchpoints]: every touchpoint,
its stage, and the agent that owns it
collect-questions -> inventory-content [buyer-questions]: the
questions per stage, in the words buyers used
test-stages -> settle-map [signal-readability]: whether each stage
signal can be read from a system in use, how many buyers each stage
holds, and which stages the record cannot see at all
inventory-content -> find-gaps [content-inventory]: which published
piece answers which question, each at its address and its version
find-gaps -> settle-map [gap-list]: the questions nothing answers and
the questions answered by something buyers cannot find, ranked
settle-map -> write-map [agreed-map]: the agreed map, the reasons
behind it, and anyone who disagreed and on what
write-map -> issue-version [written-map]: the map in the wording it
was agreed in
issue-version -> hand-over [versioned-map]: the map at its number, and
what changed from the version it replaces
hand-over -> set-review [adoption-answers]: what each receiving agent
said it would change, and the date it said it by
set-review -> record-learnings [review-conditions]: the review date
and the conditions that bring the map back sooner
deviations:
clear-study -> design-study [study-item-ruled-out]: consent rules out
part of the sample or a question, so the study is designed again
without it
talk-to-buyers -> design-study [too-few-answers]: too few buyers
answer, so the study is designed again or what came in is reported
with the shortfall recorded against it
test-stages -> draft-stages [signal-cannot-be-read]: a stage signal
cannot be read from any system, so the stages are drafted again
around something the record can see
settle-map -> draft-stages [room-does-not-agree]: the room does not
agree on the stages, so they are drafted again with what each side
said
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for leadership, the experts who deal
with buyers, and legal>
systems: analytics platforms (read), the CRM (read), the customer and
revenue record (read), search demand and ranking data
sources (read), the site's search performance data (read),
the CMS (read), the content inventory (read), the contact
database (read), the consent record (read), the survey and
interview system (trigger), the study record (write), the
response record (write), the evidence store (write), the
decision record (write), the standards store (write), the
review schedule (write), the notification channel (write),
the meeting calendar (write, cap: <what may be set without
asking>)
data: the persona at its version, <your buying history> over <what
period>, the rules in force for contacting people, the
earlier maps of this journey at the versions they were
agreed at
policy:
every stage carries a signal that can be read from a system somebody
already runs, and a stage whose signal cannot be read is recorded
as a stage nobody can count
every question reaches the map in the words a buyer used, with the
response or the search figure it came from recorded under it
nobody is asked anything until the consent-manager has scored the
sample and the questions against the rules in force
no finding rests on fewer responses than the statistician said the
study needed, and a finding that does is marked as such before it
is written
the map is agreed by named people, and the agreement is never
delegated to an agent
the agents that plan content and design campaigns sit in the room
where the map is agreed, and a map agreed without them is not
recorded
a gap is recorded whether or not anybody intends to fill it, because
what gets made is a separate decision made in a separate process
a disagreement is recorded with the map, naming who disagreed and
what they disagreed with
a recorded map is never edited in place. A change goes in as a new
version, and the version it replaces stays readable
measures:
cycle time: <target> from the persona to the recorded map
stage coverage: <share> of the stages whose entry signal can be read
from a system already in use
question coverage: <share> of the recorded questions with a published
piece answering them, read on the review date
quality gate: no map is recorded without its evidence, its gap list,
and an answer from every agent that plans against it
```
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Use this process in Microsoft Agent Framework
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Paste this into an assistant that can read the web, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It reads the specification and the current Agent Framework documentation, then writes two files: the workflow, and a note on what did not survive the translation. Read the note first. What a runtime cannot express is the part worth arguing about, and this process is a draft to argue with.
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Convert the business process below into a runnable Microsoft Agent Framework workflow:
one Python file with Executor classes, a WorkflowBuilder, typed edges,
request_info gates and durable checkpoint storage.
The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:
https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes
Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.
Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/workflows/human-in-the-loop
ctx.request_info, @response_handler, and answering a parked run later
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/workflows/checkpoints
what a checkpoint holds, and allowed_checkpoint_types
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/concepts/workflows/edges
add_edge with condition, add_fan_in_edges, add_switch_case_edge_group
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/concepts/workflows/state
ctx.set_state and ctx.get_state as they actually are today
WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR
These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.
1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.
2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.
3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.
4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.
5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
looks like.
6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
belongs in the code.
7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.
8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
invent a value, a threshold or a date.
9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
reference process and which version it was generated from.
10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.
HOW THAT LOOKS IN MICROSOFT AGENT FRAMEWORK
11. Write for Python, and read those pages before writing a line. This API has
moved: `set_shared_state`, `RequestInfoExecutor`, `RequestInfoMessage` and
`send_responses_streaming` are all in the training data and none of them exist
any more. The .NET workflow API differs in kind rather than in spelling, so a
file written for one does not port by renaming.
12. A phase is a class deriving from `Executor` whose `super().__init__(id=...)`
takes the phase name verbatim. The id is not cosmetic: a checkpoint stores a
signature over the topology and the executor ids, so an id built from a run, a
timestamp or a counter cannot be resumed into.
13. Give each phase a `@handler` method and move work on with
`await ctx.send_message(...)`. A handler that returns without sending is a dead
end: the branch stops, the run converges, and it reports success. So a phase
you are deliberately leaving unimplemented must still send a placeholder
onward. Do not stub with `raise NotImplementedError`, which fails the run
instead of leaving it runnable.
14. `after: a` is `builder.add_edge(a, b)`. `after: a + b` is
`builder.add_fan_in_edges([a, b], target)`, and the target's handler must be
annotated `list[T]`, because a fan-in delivers one aggregated list rather than
the separate messages. A handler typed for the single value is dropped as a
mismatch with nothing raised.
15. The join is the trap here, and it is the opposite of LangGraph's. The
barrier re-arms: it clears its buffer when it fires and then demands a fresh
message from every source. So a deviation that re-enters ONE arm parks the
run forever waiting for an arm that will not run again, and the workflow ends
IDLE reporting success. Wherever a deviation re-enters one arm of a join,
replace the barrier with an ordinary edge from each arm into a small executor
that records each arrival with `ctx.set_state` and only forwards when every
expected key is present, and say in a comment that putting `add_fan_in_edges`
back reintroduces the stall.
16. A phase that is both a join target and a deviation target needs two
handlers, one annotated `list[T]` for the barrier and one annotated `T` for the
backward message. Write only the list handler and every backward edge into it
is discarded as a type mismatch, silently.
17. `automation: never` is `await ctx.request_info(request_data=...,
response_type=...)` inside the phase, answered by a `@response_handler` on the
same executor whose annotations match those exact types. The run parks at
`IDLE_WITH_PENDING_REQUESTS` and the host answers with
`workflow.run(stream=True, responses={request_id: value})`. If no handler
matches the pair, the framework logs a warning and parks anyway, so the gate
reads as working right up until somebody asks why the approval did not take.
18. A gate is only a gate if the wait survives a restart, so pass
`checkpoint_storage=FileCheckpointStorage(...)` to the builder. Checkpointing
is off by default and `InMemoryCheckpointStorage` reads as configured while
persisting nothing. Register every handoff payload type in
`allowed_checkpoint_types`, or the first restore raises. Anything an executor
keeps as an instance attribute is absent after a restore unless you export it
from `on_checkpoint_save` and read it back in `on_checkpoint_restore`, and it
comes back empty rather than missing.
19. Each line under `deviations:` is `builder.add_edge(source, earlier,
condition=fn)` with `fn` named after the key. Cycles are legal and unchecked,
but raise `max_iterations` well above its default of 100, because several live
cycles will exhaust a budget sized for a straight line and fail with a message
about convergence that reads like a broken graph. Keep the ordinary forward
edge unconditional and add each deviation beside it: a condition that returns
false is dropped with no event, so a forward path expressed as a condition
dies silently on every normal run, which is most of them.
20. Handoff values go in `ctx.set_state(key, value)` and come back from
`ctx.get_state(key)`, untyped and unchecked. A write is visible to its writer
at once and to everyone else only in the next superstep, and two writers of one
key in a superstep keep the last write. Never read a key in the same superstep
another phase wrote it.
21. There are no timers, no deadlines and no scheduled wakes. Nothing in
`run-scoped:` becomes an executor and `by:` has no expression at all, so write
them as comments naming where they start and stop, and say plainly in the
fidelity note that a run can close over an unfinished run-scoped line. Do not
fake a deadline with a sleep inside a handler, which blocks the whole superstep
barrier, and never let an expiring wait release a gate.
Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.
It has three parts.
**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.
**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.
**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.
Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.
Here is the process document.
```
PROCESS: map buyer journey id: <team>/map-buyer-journey v1
from: ref/mkt/map-buyer-journey v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: a persona is agreed in <your profile process>, or the review
date on a recorded map arrives, or <what change in the market
brings the map back sooner>
watch: record=<persona> system=<your profile process>
change=<a persona is agreed at a version>
or watch: record=<recorded map>
system=<your review schedule>
change=<the review date on the map arrives>
or watch: record=<market signal>
system=<where the market change is seen>
change=<what change in the market brings the map back
sooner>
concurrency: one run at a time for the same persona and the same
purchase, because two maps of one journey leave the
planning agents with neither. Runs for different personas
overlap
goal: one agreed map of how a persona buys, carrying its stages with
the signal that marks each one, its touchpoints, the questions
buyers ask at each stage, and the questions nothing published
answers
phases:
take-in-persona - convenes briefing: which persona, which purchase,
what the map has to answer, what evidence each
agent owes, and the date it is owed
owner: decision-coordinator after: trigger
automation: <level>
read-behavior - human: what buyers of this persona did in the
months before they bought, and in what order
owner: analytics after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
read-search - human: what people search on this subject, and
which questions come early and which come late
owner: search-optimizer after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
design-study - human: the method, who gets asked, how many
responses the findings will need, and every
question in the wording it will be asked in
owner: study-manager after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
clear-study - convenes approval: the consent-manager scores the
sample and the questions against the rules in
force, and legal signs before anyone is asked
owner: <your legal role> after: design-study
by: <days> automation: never
talk-to-buyers - human: recent buyers are asked what they were
trying to settle at each point and where they
went to settle it
owner: study-manager after: clear-study
by: <days> automation: <level>
first-hand - human: what the people who deal with buyers say
they get asked, and at what point they get asked
owner: researcher after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
draft-stages - runs build-by-talent: the stages a buyer moves
through, each with the signal that says a buyer
has entered it and the signal that says the buyer
has left it
owner: decision-coordinator
after: read-behavior + read-search +
talk-to-buyers + first-hand
by: <days> automation: <level>
map-touchpoints - human: every place a buyer of this persona meets
the organization, each placed against a stage and
carrying the agent that owns it
owner: audience-manager after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
collect-questions - runs collect-and-report: what the buyer needs
answered at each stage, each question in the
words a buyer used and carrying where it was
heard
owner: study-manager after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
test-stages - system: each stage signal run over the record, to
see whether it can be read at all and how many
buyers moved the way the stages say they do
owner: statistician after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
inventory-content - runs collect-and-report: every recorded question
put to the library, and every published piece
that answers one recorded at its address
owner: content-librarian
after: map-touchpoints + collect-questions
by: <days> automation: <level>
find-gaps - human: the questions nothing published answers,
and the questions answered by something buyers
cannot find, ranked by how many buyers reach them
owner: content-librarian after: inventory-content
by: <days> automation: <level>
settle-map - convenes approval: the people who will plan
against the map agree it, and a changes-requested
goes back to the stage or the question the
signers named
owner: decision-coordinator
after: test-stages + find-gaps
by: <days> automation: never
write-map - human: the stages and their signals, the
touchpoints, the questions, the gaps, who agreed,
and who disagreed and on what
owner: decision-coordinator after: settle-map
automation: <level>
issue-version - human: the agreed map issued as a numbered
version, with the version it replaces left
readable
owner: standards-keeper after: write-map
automation: <level>
hand-over - runs decide-and-announce: every agent that plans
content or designs campaigns hears the map at
once and says what it changes because of it
owner: decision-coordinator after: issue-version
by: <days> automation: <level>
set-review - human: the date the map comes back up, and the
conditions that would bring it back sooner
owner: decision-coordinator after: hand-over
automation: <level>
record-learnings - convenes debrief: what to repeat, what to avoid
owner: decision-coordinator after: set-review
automation: <level>
run-scoped:
outstanding - runs roll-call owner: decision-coordinator
every: <cadence>
from: take-in-persona until: hand-over
handoffs:
take-in-persona -> read-behavior / read-search / design-study /
first-hand [persona-and-owings]: the persona at its version, the
purchase the map covers, what each agent owes, and the date it is
owed. Four branches read one record
read-behavior -> draft-stages [buyer-paths]: the paths those buyers
took, with the period the paths were read over and the source under
every figure
read-search -> draft-stages [search-demand]: what people search on the
subject, each term with its demand figure and the date that figure
was pulled
read-search -> collect-questions [search-terms-for-questions]: the
same list, so a question people type and a question a buyer says out
loud land in one place
design-study -> clear-study [study-design]: who is sampled, how the
sample is drawn, and every question at the version it will be asked
in
clear-study -> talk-to-buyers [cleared-study]: the sample and the
questions as they were approved. A question changed afterwards goes
back through the check before anyone is asked it
talk-to-buyers -> draft-stages [buyer-answers]: what buyers said,
attributed to the person who said it, with what each said about when
it happened
first-hand -> draft-stages [first-hand-accounts]: what the people who
deal with buyers say they get asked, attributed the same way
draft-stages -> map-touchpoints [drafted-stages]: the stages in order,
each with the signal that says a buyer entered it
draft-stages -> collect-questions [stages-for-questions]: the same
stages, so every question lands against one of them
draft-stages -> test-stages [stages-to-test]: the same stages, in the
form the record will be run over
map-touchpoints -> inventory-content [touchpoints]: every touchpoint,
its stage, and the agent that owns it
collect-questions -> inventory-content [buyer-questions]: the
questions per stage, in the words buyers used
test-stages -> settle-map [signal-readability]: whether each stage
signal can be read from a system in use, how many buyers each stage
holds, and which stages the record cannot see at all
inventory-content -> find-gaps [content-inventory]: which published
piece answers which question, each at its address and its version
find-gaps -> settle-map [gap-list]: the questions nothing answers and
the questions answered by something buyers cannot find, ranked
settle-map -> write-map [agreed-map]: the agreed map, the reasons
behind it, and anyone who disagreed and on what
write-map -> issue-version [written-map]: the map in the wording it
was agreed in
issue-version -> hand-over [versioned-map]: the map at its number, and
what changed from the version it replaces
hand-over -> set-review [adoption-answers]: what each receiving agent
said it would change, and the date it said it by
set-review -> record-learnings [review-conditions]: the review date
and the conditions that bring the map back sooner
deviations:
clear-study -> design-study [study-item-ruled-out]: consent rules out
part of the sample or a question, so the study is designed again
without it
talk-to-buyers -> design-study [too-few-answers]: too few buyers
answer, so the study is designed again or what came in is reported
with the shortfall recorded against it
test-stages -> draft-stages [signal-cannot-be-read]: a stage signal
cannot be read from any system, so the stages are drafted again
around something the record can see
settle-map -> draft-stages [room-does-not-agree]: the room does not
agree on the stages, so they are drafted again with what each side
said
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for leadership, the experts who deal
with buyers, and legal>
systems: analytics platforms (read), the CRM (read), the customer and
revenue record (read), search demand and ranking data
sources (read), the site's search performance data (read),
the CMS (read), the content inventory (read), the contact
database (read), the consent record (read), the survey and
interview system (trigger), the study record (write), the
response record (write), the evidence store (write), the
decision record (write), the standards store (write), the
review schedule (write), the notification channel (write),
the meeting calendar (write, cap: <what may be set without
asking>)
data: the persona at its version, <your buying history> over <what
period>, the rules in force for contacting people, the
earlier maps of this journey at the versions they were
agreed at
policy:
every stage carries a signal that can be read from a system somebody
already runs, and a stage whose signal cannot be read is recorded
as a stage nobody can count
every question reaches the map in the words a buyer used, with the
response or the search figure it came from recorded under it
nobody is asked anything until the consent-manager has scored the
sample and the questions against the rules in force
no finding rests on fewer responses than the statistician said the
study needed, and a finding that does is marked as such before it
is written
the map is agreed by named people, and the agreement is never
delegated to an agent
the agents that plan content and design campaigns sit in the room
where the map is agreed, and a map agreed without them is not
recorded
a gap is recorded whether or not anybody intends to fill it, because
what gets made is a separate decision made in a separate process
a disagreement is recorded with the map, naming who disagreed and
what they disagreed with
a recorded map is never edited in place. A change goes in as a new
version, and the version it replaces stays readable
measures:
cycle time: <target> from the persona to the recorded map
stage coverage: <share> of the stages whose entry signal can be read
from a system already in use
question coverage: <share> of the recorded questions with a published
piece answering them, read on the review date
quality gate: no map is recorded without its evidence, its gap list,
and an answer from every agent that plans against it
```
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Convert the business process below into a runnable CrewAI Flow:
one Python file with a Pydantic state model, one Flow subclass, @start,
@listen, @router and a durable human feedback provider.
The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:
https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes
Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.
Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:
https://docs.crewai.com/en/concepts/flows
Flow, @start, @listen, @router, and_, or_, state, kickoff, plot
https://docs.crewai.com/en/learn/human-feedback-in-flows
@human_feedback, the provider protocol, from_pending and resume
https://docs.crewai.com/en/guides/flows/mastering-flow-state
@persist and what persistence actually promises, which is less than it sounds
WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR
These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.
1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.
2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.
3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.
4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.
5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
looks like.
6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
belongs in the code.
7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.
8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
invent a value, a threshold or a date.
9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
reference process and which version it was generated from.
10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.
HOW THAT LOOKS IN CREWAI FLOWS
11. Build a Flow, not a Crew. A Crew is a team of roles with no graph, no join,
no persistence handle and no gate, and cannot express this document at all.
Each phase is one method on a single `Flow` subclass, keeping its name with
hyphens turned into underscores. A phase that genuinely needs role-based agents
builds its own Crew inside its own method body, and the Flow stays the graph.
12. Declare the state as a Pydantic model bound as the type parameter,
`class NegotiateTheAgreement(Flow[NegotiationState])`, and read and write
`self.state.field`. Never use the untyped dict form: the handoff keys are this
process's memory, and an untyped dict turns a misspelt key into a handoff that
is silently absent. Keep the auto-injected `id` field, which is what every
resume depends on.
13. `after: a` is `@listen(a)`. `after: a + b` is `@listen(and_(a, b))`. Never
write `or_` where the document writes `+`.
14. Check every inbound handoff at the top of the method and raise if one is
missing. `@listen` says when a method may run and says nothing about what is
in hand when it does.
15. The join is the trap, and it is proven rather than theoretical. `and_()`
empties its accumulator the moment it fires, so re-entering BOTH arms works
forever, and re-entering ONE arm after it has fired leaves it holding a single
trigger and waiting for the other for good. The cascade drains, CrewAI prints
that the flow completed, and `kickoff()` returns normally. So for any joining
phase that a deviation can send work back into, do not use `and_()` at all:
make the join a `@router` that both arms trigger, which reads the state fields
and emits its label only when every inbound handoff is present. A router is
re-evaluated against durable state every time and is never suppressed by the
once-fired set.
16. Do not write a phase as `@listen(or_(and_(a, b), "some_label"))`. There is
one accumulator per listener, shared across every branch of its condition and
wiped when any branch satisfies, so the label firing while the join is half
full erases the arm that had already arrived.
17. `automation: never` is `@human_feedback(message=..., provider=...)` stacked
under the method's `@listen`, with a provider whose `request_feedback` raises
`HumanFeedbackPending`. The run then persists, returns that object from
`kickoff()`, and a different process answers later with `from_pending(flow_id,
persistence)` and `resume(text)`. Do not take the default `ConsoleProvider`,
which calls `input()`: that gate exists only while somebody is watching a
terminal, and a run started by a scheduler either hangs or takes an empty
string.
18. Silence must not approve, and the platform's default is that it does. With
`emit=[...]` set, an empty resume collapses to `default_outcome`, or to the
first label when that is unset, with no model consulted and nobody named. Treat
an empty or unrecognised answer as a refusal in your own router. And write the
approver's name and the time onto the state yourself, because
`HumanFeedbackResult` carries the text, the outcome and a timestamp but has no
field for the person, which the specification requires.
19. Each line under `deviations:` is a `@router` named after the key, returning
a label named after the same key, with the target subscribing as
`@listen(or_(normal_trigger, "the_label"))`. Route rather than listen
directly, because a router is re-evaluated on every cycle while a top-level
`or_` listener is suppressed after it first fires.
20. An exception edge is a `try` and `except` around the failing phase's body,
recording the failure on the state and emitting an exception label from a
router. Wiring it as `@listen(or_(x, y))` fires when those phases SUCCEED, so
the clearing phase would run on every healthy run.
21. An unimplemented phase is a method with the document's own sentence as its
docstring and a bare `pass`, which is safe because listeners still fire on a
`None` return. An unimplemented `@router` is not safe: returning `None` emits
no label, every phase below it disappears from the run including the gates, and
the flow reports success. A stub router must return a hard-coded label with a
TODO beside it, or raise.
22. Turn persistence on with `@persist(SQLiteFlowPersistence(...))`, then treat
every phase that performs a real act as something that will run twice.
Persistence saves the state fields and nothing else, so a restart rehydrates
the data and runs the graph again from `@start`: a flow that had already sent a
written refusal sends a second one. Guard each acting phase with a state field
it checks and sets.
23. There are no timers, no deadlines and no cadences, and `run-scoped:` has no
counterpart at all. Put each `by:` value as a named constant, name the
run-scoped lines in the module docstring as unimplemented obligations, and say
in the fidelity note that no deadline in this document is enforced by anything.
These absences produce no diagnostic whatsoever, which is exactly why they have
to be written down.
Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.
It has three parts.
**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.
**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.
**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.
Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.
Here is the process document.
```
PROCESS: map buyer journey id: <team>/map-buyer-journey v1
from: ref/mkt/map-buyer-journey v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: a persona is agreed in <your profile process>, or the review
date on a recorded map arrives, or <what change in the market
brings the map back sooner>
watch: record=<persona> system=<your profile process>
change=<a persona is agreed at a version>
or watch: record=<recorded map>
system=<your review schedule>
change=<the review date on the map arrives>
or watch: record=<market signal>
system=<where the market change is seen>
change=<what change in the market brings the map back
sooner>
concurrency: one run at a time for the same persona and the same
purchase, because two maps of one journey leave the
planning agents with neither. Runs for different personas
overlap
goal: one agreed map of how a persona buys, carrying its stages with
the signal that marks each one, its touchpoints, the questions
buyers ask at each stage, and the questions nothing published
answers
phases:
take-in-persona - convenes briefing: which persona, which purchase,
what the map has to answer, what evidence each
agent owes, and the date it is owed
owner: decision-coordinator after: trigger
automation: <level>
read-behavior - human: what buyers of this persona did in the
months before they bought, and in what order
owner: analytics after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
read-search - human: what people search on this subject, and
which questions come early and which come late
owner: search-optimizer after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
design-study - human: the method, who gets asked, how many
responses the findings will need, and every
question in the wording it will be asked in
owner: study-manager after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
clear-study - convenes approval: the consent-manager scores the
sample and the questions against the rules in
force, and legal signs before anyone is asked
owner: <your legal role> after: design-study
by: <days> automation: never
talk-to-buyers - human: recent buyers are asked what they were
trying to settle at each point and where they
went to settle it
owner: study-manager after: clear-study
by: <days> automation: <level>
first-hand - human: what the people who deal with buyers say
they get asked, and at what point they get asked
owner: researcher after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
draft-stages - runs build-by-talent: the stages a buyer moves
through, each with the signal that says a buyer
has entered it and the signal that says the buyer
has left it
owner: decision-coordinator
after: read-behavior + read-search +
talk-to-buyers + first-hand
by: <days> automation: <level>
map-touchpoints - human: every place a buyer of this persona meets
the organization, each placed against a stage and
carrying the agent that owns it
owner: audience-manager after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
collect-questions - runs collect-and-report: what the buyer needs
answered at each stage, each question in the
words a buyer used and carrying where it was
heard
owner: study-manager after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
test-stages - system: each stage signal run over the record, to
see whether it can be read at all and how many
buyers moved the way the stages say they do
owner: statistician after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
inventory-content - runs collect-and-report: every recorded question
put to the library, and every published piece
that answers one recorded at its address
owner: content-librarian
after: map-touchpoints + collect-questions
by: <days> automation: <level>
find-gaps - human: the questions nothing published answers,
and the questions answered by something buyers
cannot find, ranked by how many buyers reach them
owner: content-librarian after: inventory-content
by: <days> automation: <level>
settle-map - convenes approval: the people who will plan
against the map agree it, and a changes-requested
goes back to the stage or the question the
signers named
owner: decision-coordinator
after: test-stages + find-gaps
by: <days> automation: never
write-map - human: the stages and their signals, the
touchpoints, the questions, the gaps, who agreed,
and who disagreed and on what
owner: decision-coordinator after: settle-map
automation: <level>
issue-version - human: the agreed map issued as a numbered
version, with the version it replaces left
readable
owner: standards-keeper after: write-map
automation: <level>
hand-over - runs decide-and-announce: every agent that plans
content or designs campaigns hears the map at
once and says what it changes because of it
owner: decision-coordinator after: issue-version
by: <days> automation: <level>
set-review - human: the date the map comes back up, and the
conditions that would bring it back sooner
owner: decision-coordinator after: hand-over
automation: <level>
record-learnings - convenes debrief: what to repeat, what to avoid
owner: decision-coordinator after: set-review
automation: <level>
run-scoped:
outstanding - runs roll-call owner: decision-coordinator
every: <cadence>
from: take-in-persona until: hand-over
handoffs:
take-in-persona -> read-behavior / read-search / design-study /
first-hand [persona-and-owings]: the persona at its version, the
purchase the map covers, what each agent owes, and the date it is
owed. Four branches read one record
read-behavior -> draft-stages [buyer-paths]: the paths those buyers
took, with the period the paths were read over and the source under
every figure
read-search -> draft-stages [search-demand]: what people search on the
subject, each term with its demand figure and the date that figure
was pulled
read-search -> collect-questions [search-terms-for-questions]: the
same list, so a question people type and a question a buyer says out
loud land in one place
design-study -> clear-study [study-design]: who is sampled, how the
sample is drawn, and every question at the version it will be asked
in
clear-study -> talk-to-buyers [cleared-study]: the sample and the
questions as they were approved. A question changed afterwards goes
back through the check before anyone is asked it
talk-to-buyers -> draft-stages [buyer-answers]: what buyers said,
attributed to the person who said it, with what each said about when
it happened
first-hand -> draft-stages [first-hand-accounts]: what the people who
deal with buyers say they get asked, attributed the same way
draft-stages -> map-touchpoints [drafted-stages]: the stages in order,
each with the signal that says a buyer entered it
draft-stages -> collect-questions [stages-for-questions]: the same
stages, so every question lands against one of them
draft-stages -> test-stages [stages-to-test]: the same stages, in the
form the record will be run over
map-touchpoints -> inventory-content [touchpoints]: every touchpoint,
its stage, and the agent that owns it
collect-questions -> inventory-content [buyer-questions]: the
questions per stage, in the words buyers used
test-stages -> settle-map [signal-readability]: whether each stage
signal can be read from a system in use, how many buyers each stage
holds, and which stages the record cannot see at all
inventory-content -> find-gaps [content-inventory]: which published
piece answers which question, each at its address and its version
find-gaps -> settle-map [gap-list]: the questions nothing answers and
the questions answered by something buyers cannot find, ranked
settle-map -> write-map [agreed-map]: the agreed map, the reasons
behind it, and anyone who disagreed and on what
write-map -> issue-version [written-map]: the map in the wording it
was agreed in
issue-version -> hand-over [versioned-map]: the map at its number, and
what changed from the version it replaces
hand-over -> set-review [adoption-answers]: what each receiving agent
said it would change, and the date it said it by
set-review -> record-learnings [review-conditions]: the review date
and the conditions that bring the map back sooner
deviations:
clear-study -> design-study [study-item-ruled-out]: consent rules out
part of the sample or a question, so the study is designed again
without it
talk-to-buyers -> design-study [too-few-answers]: too few buyers
answer, so the study is designed again or what came in is reported
with the shortfall recorded against it
test-stages -> draft-stages [signal-cannot-be-read]: a stage signal
cannot be read from any system, so the stages are drafted again
around something the record can see
settle-map -> draft-stages [room-does-not-agree]: the room does not
agree on the stages, so they are drafted again with what each side
said
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for leadership, the experts who deal
with buyers, and legal>
systems: analytics platforms (read), the CRM (read), the customer and
revenue record (read), search demand and ranking data
sources (read), the site's search performance data (read),
the CMS (read), the content inventory (read), the contact
database (read), the consent record (read), the survey and
interview system (trigger), the study record (write), the
response record (write), the evidence store (write), the
decision record (write), the standards store (write), the
review schedule (write), the notification channel (write),
the meeting calendar (write, cap: <what may be set without
asking>)
data: the persona at its version, <your buying history> over <what
period>, the rules in force for contacting people, the
earlier maps of this journey at the versions they were
agreed at
policy:
every stage carries a signal that can be read from a system somebody
already runs, and a stage whose signal cannot be read is recorded
as a stage nobody can count
every question reaches the map in the words a buyer used, with the
response or the search figure it came from recorded under it
nobody is asked anything until the consent-manager has scored the
sample and the questions against the rules in force
no finding rests on fewer responses than the statistician said the
study needed, and a finding that does is marked as such before it
is written
the map is agreed by named people, and the agreement is never
delegated to an agent
the agents that plan content and design campaigns sit in the room
where the map is agreed, and a map agreed without them is not
recorded
a gap is recorded whether or not anybody intends to fill it, because
what gets made is a separate decision made in a separate process
a disagreement is recorded with the map, naming who disagreed and
what they disagreed with
a recorded map is never edited in place. A change goes in as a new
version, and the version it replaces stays readable
measures:
cycle time: <target> from the persona to the recorded map
stage coverage: <share> of the stages whose entry signal can be read
from a system already in use
question coverage: <share> of the recorded questions with a published
piece answering them, read on the review date
quality gate: no map is recorded without its evidence, its gap list,
and an answer from every agent that plans against it
```
Take it somewhere
Use this process in Google ADK
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Paste this into an assistant that can read the web, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. It reads the specification and the current ADK documentation, then writes two files: the workflow, and a note on what did not survive the translation. Read the note first. What a runtime cannot express is the part worth arguing about, and this process is a draft to argue with.
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Convert the business process below into a runnable Google ADK workflow:
one Python file with a Workflow, nodes, routed edges, a JoinNode,
RequestInput gates and a persisting session service.
The document is a reference process written to the Agent Processes
specification. Read the specification before you start, because it defines
terms that look ordinary and are not:
https://agentcatalog.com/spec/agent-processes
Sections 6 (the phase graph), 6.5.1 (exception edges), 6.7.1 (deviations),
7 (automation) and 8 (handoffs) are the ones this conversion turns on.
Then read the current documentation for the primitives you will need, rather
than relying on what you remember of the API:
https://adk.dev/graphs/routes/
nodes, tuple chains, Event(route=), JoinNode, back-edges
https://adk.dev/graphs/human-input/
RequestInput and the rerun_on_resume handoff
https://adk.dev/runtime/resume/
ResumabilityConfig, resuming by invocation id, at-least-once tools
https://adk.dev/graphs/data-handling/
Event.output against state, and the selector syntax in instructions
WHAT THE DOCUMENT ASKS FOR
These hold wherever the process lands, and they matter more than style.
1. Each phase under `phases:` becomes one step, and keeps its name.
2. `after:` gives the edges. `after: a + b` is a join and waits for BOTH.
Reading it as "either" is the defect the specification calls out by name.
3. Every handoff carries a key in square brackets. Each key becomes one field
on the run's state, named exactly as the key with hyphens turned into
underscores, and the sentence beside it becomes that field's comment. The key
is the stable name; the sentence is prose that may be rewritten.
4. A phase MUST NOT begin before its inbound handoff exists. Where that is
checkable, check it in the step rather than assuming it.
5. `automation: never` is a gate a person signs. The run stops there and does
not continue until a person's decision comes back. Do not turn one into a
notification, a log line, or an automatic transition, whatever the queue
looks like.
6. Each line under `deviations:` is a backward or sideways edge, returning to
the phase named on the right. The key in brackets names it, and that name
belongs in the code.
7. A phase whose `after:` reads like "X or Y, whichever could not finish" is an
exception edge: it is entered when those phases FAIL, not when they succeed.
Do not wire it as an ordinary successor.
8. Anything in angle brackets is a blank the adopting organization fills in.
Leave each one as a named constant at the top of the file with a TODO. Do not
invent a value, a threshold or a date.
9. Record the document's `from:` line at the top of the file, so it says which
reference process and which version it was generated from.
10. Run-scoped lines under `run-scoped:` are work that runs alongside the whole
process rather than at one point in it, and a run may not close while one is
unfinished. Say in the code what you did about them, including if the answer
is that the runtime has nowhere to put them.
HOW THAT LOOKS IN GOOGLE ADK
11. Build a `Workflow` from `google.adk.workflow`, and pin `google-adk>=2.0` in
a comment. Do not use `SequentialAgent`, `ParallelAgent` or `LoopAgent`: they
are deprecated in favour of the graph, and they carry their own defects around
state and control flow. The documentation moved to adk.dev, and anything you
remember about nesting agents rather than drawing a graph is out of date.
12. Each phase is one node keeping its name. Take the node kind from how the
phase resolves rather than from taste: a `human:` or `system:` phase is a plain
Python function node, and a `runs` or `convenes` phase is an `Agent`.
13. `after:` gives the edges, written as tuple chains in `edges=[...]`, and the
trigger is the `"START"` keyword. Take the order only from `after:` lines and
never from the order the phases are listed in.
14. `after: a + b` is a `JoinNode`, and it must be guarded, because this is the
worst trap of any runtime here. The join fires when every static predecessor is
marked COMPLETED, nothing ever un-completes a node, and stored outputs are
never cleared. So after a deviation re-runs one arm, the join fires the instant
that arm finishes and hands the next phase LAST PASS'S value for every arm that
did not re-run. It does not stall, it proceeds with stale data, and nothing
logs. Stamp each arm's output with a pass counter or a content hash, and have
the phase after the join compare the stamps and refuse to run when they
disagree.
15. Each line under `deviations:` is a routed back-edge: a router after the
phase on the left returning `Event(route=...)`, named after the key in
brackets, with one arm going back to the phase on the right and one going
forward. An unconditional cycle raises at construction, which is the one place
this model checks your work. Nothing budgets a routed cycle, so add your own
count and stop rather than looping forever.
16. Give every router an explicit `DEFAULT_ROUTE` arm, and route it to a phase
that stops and asks a person. A route value matching no key writes a log
warning, ends that branch, and lets the run finish reporting success with the
rest of the process never having happened.
17. `automation: never` is a `RequestInput` node of its own, never an `Agent`
asking a question. Decorate it `@node(rerun_on_resume=False)` and yield
`RequestInput(message=..., payload=..., response_schema=...)`, so the run
stops, persists, and delivers the person's answer to the node's successor as
its typed input. A resumed workflow runs its tools at least once, so any
irreversible act needs its own duplicate guard.
18. Make the gates durable or say plainly that they are not. Wrap the graph in
`App(..., resumability_config=ResumabilityConfig(is_resumable=True))` and pass
a persisting session service, never the in-memory one. Note in the file that
the command line and the web UI cannot resume a run, so whoever releases these
gates needs an operator surface that somebody has to write.
19. Every `Agent` in the graph gets `mode="single_turn"` and no `sub_agents`.
A non-empty `sub_agents` list silently adds a transfer tool, and a model that
uses it runs a different agent in this node's place while the graph's outgoing
edge fires on schedule regardless: the topology is honoured perfectly and the
work belongs to somebody else.
20. Model failure as a route, not as an exception. A node that raises does not
propagate: the failure is caught, recorded, and shuts the workflow down without
raising to the caller. So a phase that can fail catches its own failure and
returns `Event(route="could-not-finish")`, and the exception phase hangs off
that arm.
21. Keep every blank as a named module-level constant and never interpolate one
into an `instruction=` string. Angle brackets and curly braces are ADK's own
data selector syntax inside instructions, so a blank pasted verbatim stops
being a blank and becomes a selector.
22. `by:` and `not-before:` have no expression, and `@node(timeout=)` is not
one: it is an in-process wall clock that cancels the node and, because failures
are swallowed, ends the run silently rather than recording a missed deadline.
Nothing in `run-scoped:` has an expression either, and it must not be faked as
an ordinary node, because a node has to be reached and has to finish before
anything downstream starts, which is the opposite of what those lines mean.
Leave both out of the graph and name them in the fidelity note.
Produce a second file alongside it, `FIDELITY.md`, and treat it as the more
important of the two. The code is for whoever builds this. The fidelity note
is for whoever has to decide whether this platform suits the process at all,
and that is usually a different person who will never read the code.
It has three parts.
**What came across.** Briefly: how many phases became steps, how many handoff
keys became state fields, which gates stop the run, which deviations became
edges. Counts and names, not reassurance.
**What did not, and what was done instead.** One entry per gap. For each one,
say what the document requires, what the platform can actually express, what
you did in its place, and what breaks if somebody later removes your
workaround. This last part matters most: a workaround nobody understands is a
workaround somebody deletes.
**What a person still has to decide.** The blanks are not a translation
failure, they are the point of a reference process, so list what has to be
filled in before this could run against anything real, and say which of those
choices the platform constrains.
Write it in plain English for somebody who has not read the specification, and
do not soften it. A translation of a reference process is a draft to argue
with, not a build artifact, and the honest account of what was lost is the most
useful thing you will produce.
Here is the process document.
```
PROCESS: map buyer journey id: <team>/map-buyer-journey v1
from: ref/mkt/map-buyer-journey v1
owner: <who> effective: <date>
trigger: a persona is agreed in <your profile process>, or the review
date on a recorded map arrives, or <what change in the market
brings the map back sooner>
watch: record=<persona> system=<your profile process>
change=<a persona is agreed at a version>
or watch: record=<recorded map>
system=<your review schedule>
change=<the review date on the map arrives>
or watch: record=<market signal>
system=<where the market change is seen>
change=<what change in the market brings the map back
sooner>
concurrency: one run at a time for the same persona and the same
purchase, because two maps of one journey leave the
planning agents with neither. Runs for different personas
overlap
goal: one agreed map of how a persona buys, carrying its stages with
the signal that marks each one, its touchpoints, the questions
buyers ask at each stage, and the questions nothing published
answers
phases:
take-in-persona - convenes briefing: which persona, which purchase,
what the map has to answer, what evidence each
agent owes, and the date it is owed
owner: decision-coordinator after: trigger
automation: <level>
read-behavior - human: what buyers of this persona did in the
months before they bought, and in what order
owner: analytics after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
read-search - human: what people search on this subject, and
which questions come early and which come late
owner: search-optimizer after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
design-study - human: the method, who gets asked, how many
responses the findings will need, and every
question in the wording it will be asked in
owner: study-manager after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
clear-study - convenes approval: the consent-manager scores the
sample and the questions against the rules in
force, and legal signs before anyone is asked
owner: <your legal role> after: design-study
by: <days> automation: never
talk-to-buyers - human: recent buyers are asked what they were
trying to settle at each point and where they
went to settle it
owner: study-manager after: clear-study
by: <days> automation: <level>
first-hand - human: what the people who deal with buyers say
they get asked, and at what point they get asked
owner: researcher after: take-in-persona
by: <days> automation: <level>
draft-stages - runs build-by-talent: the stages a buyer moves
through, each with the signal that says a buyer
has entered it and the signal that says the buyer
has left it
owner: decision-coordinator
after: read-behavior + read-search +
talk-to-buyers + first-hand
by: <days> automation: <level>
map-touchpoints - human: every place a buyer of this persona meets
the organization, each placed against a stage and
carrying the agent that owns it
owner: audience-manager after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
collect-questions - runs collect-and-report: what the buyer needs
answered at each stage, each question in the
words a buyer used and carrying where it was
heard
owner: study-manager after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
test-stages - system: each stage signal run over the record, to
see whether it can be read at all and how many
buyers moved the way the stages say they do
owner: statistician after: draft-stages
by: <days> automation: <level>
inventory-content - runs collect-and-report: every recorded question
put to the library, and every published piece
that answers one recorded at its address
owner: content-librarian
after: map-touchpoints + collect-questions
by: <days> automation: <level>
find-gaps - human: the questions nothing published answers,
and the questions answered by something buyers
cannot find, ranked by how many buyers reach them
owner: content-librarian after: inventory-content
by: <days> automation: <level>
settle-map - convenes approval: the people who will plan
against the map agree it, and a changes-requested
goes back to the stage or the question the
signers named
owner: decision-coordinator
after: test-stages + find-gaps
by: <days> automation: never
write-map - human: the stages and their signals, the
touchpoints, the questions, the gaps, who agreed,
and who disagreed and on what
owner: decision-coordinator after: settle-map
automation: <level>
issue-version - human: the agreed map issued as a numbered
version, with the version it replaces left
readable
owner: standards-keeper after: write-map
automation: <level>
hand-over - runs decide-and-announce: every agent that plans
content or designs campaigns hears the map at
once and says what it changes because of it
owner: decision-coordinator after: issue-version
by: <days> automation: <level>
set-review - human: the date the map comes back up, and the
conditions that would bring it back sooner
owner: decision-coordinator after: hand-over
automation: <level>
record-learnings - convenes debrief: what to repeat, what to avoid
owner: decision-coordinator after: set-review
automation: <level>
run-scoped:
outstanding - runs roll-call owner: decision-coordinator
every: <cadence>
from: take-in-persona until: hand-over
handoffs:
take-in-persona -> read-behavior / read-search / design-study /
first-hand [persona-and-owings]: the persona at its version, the
purchase the map covers, what each agent owes, and the date it is
owed. Four branches read one record
read-behavior -> draft-stages [buyer-paths]: the paths those buyers
took, with the period the paths were read over and the source under
every figure
read-search -> draft-stages [search-demand]: what people search on the
subject, each term with its demand figure and the date that figure
was pulled
read-search -> collect-questions [search-terms-for-questions]: the
same list, so a question people type and a question a buyer says out
loud land in one place
design-study -> clear-study [study-design]: who is sampled, how the
sample is drawn, and every question at the version it will be asked
in
clear-study -> talk-to-buyers [cleared-study]: the sample and the
questions as they were approved. A question changed afterwards goes
back through the check before anyone is asked it
talk-to-buyers -> draft-stages [buyer-answers]: what buyers said,
attributed to the person who said it, with what each said about when
it happened
first-hand -> draft-stages [first-hand-accounts]: what the people who
deal with buyers say they get asked, attributed the same way
draft-stages -> map-touchpoints [drafted-stages]: the stages in order,
each with the signal that says a buyer entered it
draft-stages -> collect-questions [stages-for-questions]: the same
stages, so every question lands against one of them
draft-stages -> test-stages [stages-to-test]: the same stages, in the
form the record will be run over
map-touchpoints -> inventory-content [touchpoints]: every touchpoint,
its stage, and the agent that owns it
collect-questions -> inventory-content [buyer-questions]: the
questions per stage, in the words buyers used
test-stages -> settle-map [signal-readability]: whether each stage
signal can be read from a system in use, how many buyers each stage
holds, and which stages the record cannot see at all
inventory-content -> find-gaps [content-inventory]: which published
piece answers which question, each at its address and its version
find-gaps -> settle-map [gap-list]: the questions nothing answers and
the questions answered by something buyers cannot find, ranked
settle-map -> write-map [agreed-map]: the agreed map, the reasons
behind it, and anyone who disagreed and on what
write-map -> issue-version [written-map]: the map in the wording it
was agreed in
issue-version -> hand-over [versioned-map]: the map at its number, and
what changed from the version it replaces
hand-over -> set-review [adoption-answers]: what each receiving agent
said it would change, and the date it said it by
set-review -> record-learnings [review-conditions]: the review date
and the conditions that bring the map back sooner
deviations:
clear-study -> design-study [study-item-ruled-out]: consent rules out
part of the sample or a question, so the study is designed again
without it
talk-to-buyers -> design-study [too-few-answers]: too few buyers
answer, so the study is designed again or what came in is reported
with the shortfall recorded against it
test-stages -> draft-stages [signal-cannot-be-read]: a stage signal
cannot be read from any system, so the stages are drafted again
around something the record can see
settle-map -> draft-stages [room-does-not-agree]: the room does not
agree on the stages, so they are drafted again with what each side
said
bindings:
roster: <who holds each role - agents claiming the abstract agents
above, and named people for leadership, the experts who deal
with buyers, and legal>
systems: analytics platforms (read), the CRM (read), the customer and
revenue record (read), search demand and ranking data
sources (read), the site's search performance data (read),
the CMS (read), the content inventory (read), the contact
database (read), the consent record (read), the survey and
interview system (trigger), the study record (write), the
response record (write), the evidence store (write), the
decision record (write), the standards store (write), the
review schedule (write), the notification channel (write),
the meeting calendar (write, cap: <what may be set without
asking>)
data: the persona at its version, <your buying history> over <what
period>, the rules in force for contacting people, the
earlier maps of this journey at the versions they were
agreed at
policy:
every stage carries a signal that can be read from a system somebody
already runs, and a stage whose signal cannot be read is recorded
as a stage nobody can count
every question reaches the map in the words a buyer used, with the
response or the search figure it came from recorded under it
nobody is asked anything until the consent-manager has scored the
sample and the questions against the rules in force
no finding rests on fewer responses than the statistician said the
study needed, and a finding that does is marked as such before it
is written
the map is agreed by named people, and the agreement is never
delegated to an agent
the agents that plan content and design campaigns sit in the room
where the map is agreed, and a map agreed without them is not
recorded
a gap is recorded whether or not anybody intends to fill it, because
what gets made is a separate decision made in a separate process
a disagreement is recorded with the map, naming who disagreed and
what they disagreed with
a recorded map is never edited in place. A change goes in as a new
version, and the version it replaces stays readable
measures:
cycle time: <target> from the persona to the recorded map
stage coverage: <share> of the stages whose entry signal can be read
from a system already in use
question coverage: <share> of the recorded questions with a published
piece answering them, read on the review date
quality gate: no map is recorded without its evidence, its gap list,
and an answer from every agent that plans against it
```
One run
A simulation of one run
The activities are on the left, whoever is doing the active one is on the right, and the record of the run builds up as it goes.
This run is built from the same rows as the diagram above: the left column is the activity list, the captions are the activity lines, the cast is the roster, and the labels on the wires are what the handoffs say actually passes.
Adoption
What you fill in
49 blanks to fill. Everything else is the process.
this process
from: ref/mkt/map-buyer-journey v1
Copy this line into your own document. It never claims this process is running anywhere; it records which draft yours started from, and it is what lets the catalog tell you when this one changes.
The header. Your own id, an owner, and the date it takes effect. One line records where it came from, and that line is what lets the catalog tell you when this reference process changes.
The roster. Which agent takes each activity, and which person takes each of the human ones. The process already names what it needs, so this is a lookup rather than a design exercise.
The numbers. Dates, budgets, cadences, and the targets in the measures block. Nothing here can be a reference value, because a target nobody chose is a target nobody meets.