Banking and finance
- Intended reader:
- A team analysing or preparing a case file
- Fictional situation:
- Several versions of a case file and diverging hypotheses.
- Question:
- Which sources and hypotheses support the comparison?
- Intended functions:
- Compare explanations and make uncertainty explicit.
- Intended outcome:
- A comparison to review, with information that still needs to be checked.
- Scope:
- No credit decisions, financial recommendations or guaranteed compliance.
Forensic analysis
- Intended reader:
- A team examining documents and a chronology
- Fictional situation:
- Documents give rise to different interpretations of the same sequence of events.
- Question:
- Which facts are documented, and which interpretations remain open?
- Intended functions:
- See the relevant sources and compare explanations.
- Intended outcome:
- A structured reading of the material and the open questions.
- Scope:
- No authentication of evidence, expert assessment for court proceedings or legal conclusion has been demonstrated.
Public sector
- Intended reader:
- A team preparing a brief for a decision-maker
- Fictional situation:
- Documents of different versions and origins need to be considered together.
- Question:
- Which information is sufficiently supported to be presented?
- Intended functions:
- Make uncertainty explicit and prepare an output others can pick up.
- Intended outcome:
- A brief to discuss, stating the reservations and checks.
- Scope:
- No delegation of an administrative decision.
Pharmaceuticals
- Intended reader:
- A research team reviewing documentation
- Fictional situation:
- Reports lead to contradictory explanations.
- Question:
- What check could help distinguish between the explanations?
- Intended functions:
- Compare explanations and prepare the next check.
- Intended outcome:
- An exploratory verification plan for the team to review.
- Scope:
- No clinical advice, diagnosis, therapeutic efficacy or regulatory status is claimed.
Industry
- Intended reader:
- A team analysing test reports
- Fictional situation:
- An anomaly is described differently across tests.
- Question:
- Which explanations remain possible, and what information is missing?
- Intended functions:
- Understand the situation and revisit a conclusion when a new fact emerges.
- Intended outcome:
- A comparison of possible explanations and the information needed for the next steps.
- Scope:
- No process control or guarantee of industrial safety.
CHRONOS is in preproduction. The functions presented describe aims and intended uses. Capabilities and performance remain to be evaluated for specific uses.