Plankton is a structured system for interrogating documents, products, businesses, policies, processes and ideas before conclusions are reached.
Everything arrives carrying conclusions.
Very little of the thinking survives.
These become visible again.
There are no preferred tools.
Only useful tools.
The problem chooses the method.
Never the other way around.
Questions create evidence.
Evidence creates better questions.
Every answer produces another interrogation.
Understanding is built through repeated cycles.
Not certainty.
Only after interrogation.
Only after evidence.
Only after challenge.
Only after reconstruction.
Only then should knowledge be compressed.
The conclusion is never the product.
The interrogation is.
Not reports.
Not opinions.
Not summaries.
Searchable. Reusable. Challengeable. Expandable.
Plankton exists to ensure that decisions are made using the most complete, interrogated and defensible information available at the time.
The objective is not certainty.
The objective is a decision that can survive interrogation.
Search finds information.
Analysis explains information.
Advice recommends action.
Plankton interrogates.
Plankton does not exist to provide advice.
Plankton exists to improve the quality and defensibility of decisions.
Every interrogation should move a decision closer to being evidence-based, challengeable and commercially defensible.
Each challenge becomes part of the evolving methodology.
No criticism is ignored.
No methodology is exempt from interrogation.
Including Plankton.
For every discipline we ask:
What problem does it solve?
Where does it stop?
What assumptions does it make?
What can Plankton learn from it?
Originality is not claimed unless supported by evidence.
A version-controlled research record. The methodology itself is never exempt from interrogation.