Feedback arrives as a support ticket on Tuesday, a Slack line from a VP on Thursday, and five people in a usability session next week. Six months later nobody can remember who said what, the early notes are gone, and the summary that survived into the roadmap deck cannot be traced to a single human being.
Strata files each piece as its own dated layer and refuses to let the layers blur.
Its spine is three sections that most feedback notes collapse into one:
Said carries verbatim only, Meant carries your reading and is marked as
yours, and Decided carries what was actually done — usually nothing, and
that emptiness is the point. It is what makes the open report possible: the
things a team keeps hearing and keeps not answering.
The second rule is an evidence bar, and it is the reason this exists rather than a folder of notes. One participant is a quote. Two is a possible pattern, and you say the number out loud. Three independent participants is a pattern. Five people in one room who heard each other are one signal, not five — and a stakeholder’s opinion is never pooled with user evidence.
Identities never enter the record. Participants become P-01, stakeholders
S-01, and the mapping lives in a file the skill gitignores before it writes
anything else. Reports carry pseudonyms too, including internal ones.
Watch for: it will not give you a tidy theme from thin data. Asked for patterns across a fortnight of entries, it will tell you the record is young and name the counts instead. That is the intended behavior and it is initially annoying.
Built and tested against a baseline. Run without it, an agent filed real
names and emails into committable files, stamped severity: high onto its own
guesses, and called two people “a convergent theme.” With it, all four
corrected.
Canon’s own, MIT, installable from the Canon marketplace.