The badge in the corner of a Signal card tells you where the card’s numbers came from. live data means it was computed from your real sending records. The amber design-target means the card is illustrating with provisional or heuristic data instead.
Why the badge exists
Any product can show you a chart. The question you can rarely answer is whether the chart is describing your business or demonstrating what the feature will look like once it does.
Deloosh answers that question on the card itself. When a surface is not yet drawing on your live ledger, it says so in amber rather than presenting the placeholder as fact. Labeling the difference is cheap; discovering it later, after you have made a decision on it, is not.
Reading the two states
- live data — the card is computed from your own records. Act on it.
- design-target — the card is showing provisional or illustrative behavior. Read it to understand the shape of the feature, not to make a decision about your list.
If a card carries the amber badge and you are unsure what is real about it, ask in chat. The assistant grounds its answers in your actual data and will tell you plainly when the data is thin.
The same honesty, in other places
The badge is one instance of a habit that runs through the product:
- The basis line on a Signal labels the quality of its projection —
heuristic_uncalibrated— rather than inventing a confidence percentage. See SIG-6, Reading the counterfactual and confidence basis. - A locked play states what data it is missing instead of running on a guess. See SIG-10, Why is a play locked (“connect data”)?.
- A refused draft gives its rationale instead of producing a plausible-looking email. See DR-2, Why was my draft refused?.
They are all the same commitment: Deloosh tells you what it knows, and it marks the boundary where knowing stops. See TRUST-2, Why the AI won’t make things up.