Experience Envelope — your past is your decision intelligence.
Every note in Knovya is wrapped in three layers of context — similar past experiences with their outcomes, the evolution chain of your thinking, and the linked evidence around it. Decision intelligence has been an enterprise category. Until now.
Pick a decision. Watch the envelope wrap around it.
In Knovya, you don't just open a note — you open everything that's already wrapped around it. Five real-world decisions below. Tap one. The envelope opens in three layers: what you've decided like this before, how your thinking has evolved, and the evidence still attached.
What's inside every envelope.
The same three layers wrap every note you write — drafts, plans, decisions, retrospectives, even bug reports. The depth depends on your archive. The shape is always the same.
Layer 01
Past with outcomes
Same shape, your archive — surfaced.
Knovya finds notes you've completed before — same type, same shape — and shows you what worked, what didn't, and what landed somewhere in between. The cautionary precedent matters as much as the success one.
Dual-outcome — success + cautionary + partial side by side, never just the wins.
Layer 02
Evolution chain
v1 → v2 → v3 — the lineage of thought.
When you replace a note with a new version — a redrafted plan, a revised decision, a re-thought framework — Knovya remembers the lineage through the supersedes graph. Old versions don't disappear; they recede. You see exactly how your thinking moved.
Transitive supersedes (max 5 hops, cycle-guarded) — old versions stay searchable but don't pollute your active context.
Layer 03
Linked evidence
The proof still attached.
Every reference, mention, dependency, and semantic neighbor stays visible alongside the note. The decision doesn't float alone — it carries the evidence that shaped it, and the work that depends on it.
Mentions, wiki-links, dependencies, semantic neighbors — pulled into one view.
§ 4 — The Problem
Decisions repeat. Your archive is silent.
Scene 01
You're about to ship a feature. You've shipped this kind of feature three times before. What you learned then is buried under nine months of unrelated notes.
Scene 02
You're drafting a pitch. The last one got rejected. The reasons are written down somewhere — but the new draft can't see the old one's wounds.
Scene 03
You're picking an auth strategy. You picked one two years ago. How did it age? The retrospective exists. It's not in your way today.
Most note apps store decisions. Knovya wraps them in their own past — so the moment you open a note, the past it belongs to opens with it.
Where this idea comes from.
Decision intelligence isn't a Knovya invention — it's a category that took twenty years to mature, with the first formal Magic Quadrant published this January. What's new is the scale: until now, every player served enterprises.
- 1990s — 2000sDecision support systems First attempts to give analysts structured ways to model and audit decisions, mostly inside large organizations. Operations research · DSS
- 2018 — 2020Vocabulary takes shape Decision intelligence emerges as a distinct discipline — a synthesis of decision science, data analytics, and behavioral economics. Cassie Kozyrkov · Lorien Pratt
- 2022 — 2025Enterprise platforms mature Quantexa, Aera, FICO, IBM, Cloverpop. Banking, fraud detection, supply chain, KYC. Capturing past decisions to continuously improve future outcomes. Enterprise SaaS · regulated industries
- Jan 2026Gartner's inaugural Magic Quadrant Decision intelligence is officially a category. Six leaders named — Quantexa, Aera, FICO, SAS, IBM, ACTICO. Every one of them serves enterprises. Gartner · Magic Quadrant for DI Platforms
- 2026Knovya — personal scale Experience Envelope brings the same idea down to one person's work brain. Every note wrapped in your own decision history. ★ Knovya · production, every plan
§ 7 — First mover
Decision intelligence has been an enterprise category. Until now, no one made it personal.
Quantexa · Aera · FICO · IBM · ACTICO
Decision intelligence for banks, insurers, supply chains, public sector. Magic Quadrant leaders — built for sixty-billion-record corporate networks.
Notion AI · Mem.ai · Reflect.app
Note-level AI assistants. They summarize, they suggest, they search. None of them wrap the note in its past, surface dual outcomes, or track the evolution chain.
ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini
Helpful turn by turn. Forget your past decisions by next session. The decisions you made last quarter never reach this prompt.
Knovya — Experience Envelope
Your past, wrapped around every note you write. Personal-scale decision intelligence — three layers deep, dual-outcome aware, version-chain conscious.
Where the envelope shows up.
Experience Envelope isn't a screen you visit — it's a layer that opens wherever you're already working. Four places it surfaces, four shapes it takes.
Surface 01 · Inline
In the note you're reading
Open any note — a side panel reveals its envelope. Three layers, collapsible. Always there, never in the way.
Surface 02 · Agentic
For your AI agents
Connected agents — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor — call
knovya_experience through MCP and read the
envelope as structured context.
Surface 03 · Proactive
When you start something familiar
Begin a draft Knovya recognizes — a quarterly plan, a pitch, a migration — and a quiet card slides in. Never blocking, never demanding.
Surface 04 · Periodic
In your weekly Reflect
Sundays at 03:00, Knovya reflects on your week. Recurring decision shapes crystallize into evergreen references — the envelope never has to rebuild them again.
Experience Envelope doesn't work alone.
Group II — Intelligence — works as a chord. The envelope is built on top of four siblings, and each one fills in a layer.
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NoteRank Powers precedent ranking — which past notes deserve the front of your envelope.
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Hybrid search Retrieves similar past experiences across full-text, semantic, and fuzzy paths.
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Knowledge graph Hosts the linked evidence layer — every mention, dependency, and semantic neighbor.
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Reflect & Crystals Crystallizes recurring decision shapes into evergreen references the envelope reuses.
A few honest answers.
What is Experience Envelope?
It's the layer of Knovya that wraps every note in three contexts — similar past experiences with their outcomes, the evolution chain of your thinking on this topic, and the linked evidence around it. It turns decision intelligence — usually an enterprise concept — into something that works at the scale of one person's work brain.
How is it different from regular note search or AI summarization?
Search returns notes by relevance to a query. Summarization compresses what's already in front of you. Experience Envelope does neither — it surfaces the past decisions you've already made on this kind of problem, including the ones that didn't work, and shows you how your thinking has evolved version by version.
What's "decision intelligence," and why does Knovya call this personal DI?
Decision intelligence is a category Gartner formally established with its inaugural Magic Quadrant for Decision Intelligence Platforms in January 2026. The leaders — Quantexa, Aera, FICO, SAS, IBM, ACTICO — all serve enterprises: banks, insurers, supply chains, public sector. Knovya brings the same idea to the individual scale: your work brain becomes a decision-aware system, not just a notebook.
Does Experience Envelope work for new users with empty workspaces?
It scales with you. With ten notes, the envelope is thin — maybe a single related reference. With three hundred notes, it becomes substantial. With three thousand, it becomes the kind of decision support that takes enterprise teams years to build. The system never lies about what it doesn't know.
Can I disable past experience surfacing?
Yes. You can turn off proactive precedent suggestions, or keep them but only see them on demand. The envelope itself is part of how Knovya stores and connects notes — that doesn't shut off — but whether the system pushes precedents into your view is your call.
Are my decisions and past private?
Your envelope lives inside your workspace, encrypted, scoped to you. Nothing about your decisions, evolution chains, or precedents leaves the boundary unless you connect an AI agent over MCP and choose to grant it access — which you can revoke at any time.
How does Knovya know which past notes are similar?
A combination of semantic similarity, type alignment (a plan compares to plans, a decision to decisions), tag overlap, and the link graph itself. Notes that completed and shipped weight more than drafts. Notes you wrote with high confidence weight more than uncertain ones. The system always shows the qualitative reason — never raw scores.
See your envelope.
Open Knovya, write a note, and watch the past you've already built quietly fold itself around the work you're doing now. Decision intelligence, at the scale of a single person's work brain.
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