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The engine as a product

Root-cause analysis your organisation can click through

Fishbone diagrams end as a slide. causa keeps the same structure, problem domains branching into causes and effects, but makes every node interactive, every claim evidence-linked, and every verdict about actionability explicit. The graph you can open on this site is the flagship reference implementation; the engine behind it is topic-agnostic.

What changes when a diagram becomes a graph

A static diagram asks the reader to trust the author. A causal graph asks the author to show the evidence: which analysis supports this mechanism, which number quantifies it, and whether anyone has yet checked. Findings your organisation has validated look different from hypotheses still under investigation, and a reviewer can tell the two apart at a glance. That audit-grade distinction is the point.

The same model, your vocabulary

How the reference graph's concepts map onto an organisation's root-cause analysis
In the reference graphIn your organisation
Policy fieldProblem domain
ClaimCausal mechanism
Aligned voiceThe experts and analyses you trust
Source blacklistYour data governance
FixabilityActionability, the thing you pay to see
Support stateValidated finding versus hypothesis under investigation

Whitelabel by design

No topic content lives in the code. Fields, claims, the roster and the blacklist are data; colours, type and spacing are one token file. A client deployment is a data import and a token swap, not a fork. One graph instance maps one topic, so each engagement gets its own graph with its own trusted voices.

What it is not, yet

There is no multi-tenancy, no user management and no hosted offering. The engine runs locally against one database and syncs its curated data to a repository. Those are known destinations, not current features, and they are listed here so the demo is not mistaken for a service.

The reference graph is the live demo: drill from a field to a cause to its effects and open the citations behind any claim.

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