Current evidence, decisions, authority, action state, and unresolved conditions remain explicit.
Work
The undertaking must survive the conversation.
The chat may end. The model may change. The person may hand the work off. The objective, evidence, obligations, and authority cannot vanish with the interface.
The durable unit
A conversation is an interface. Work is the undertaking.
Consequential work rarely begins and ends in one prompt. It has an objective, owners, sources, decisions, exceptions, unresolved obligations, actions, and a history that must survive people, sessions, models, and time.
Indwel gives that undertaking a durable identity. Conversation can enter it. Scheduled work can continue it. Applications can project it. None of those surfaces owns the underlying state.
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Keep the obligation when the interface disappears.
Durable memory has provenance, scope, supersession, and a reason for remaining relevant.
Recurring reports, scheduled checks, and condition watches remain related to the Work that created them.
The user should not have to remember what the system promised to remember.
Many faculties
People, models, tools, and time may change. The Work does not.
A Work may begin in conversation, move into a domain application, invoke a deterministic calculation, pause for human authority, resume on a schedule, change model providers, and settle days later.
Those are changes of office and interface—not new undertakings. Indwel keeps the canonical Objective, admitted Evidence, authority, capability, and outstanding obligations coherent across the transitions.
A vendor review opens.
Evidence is requested; missing security material remains an explicit obligation.
The Work resumes with new evidence.
A different person and model can continue without reconstructing the undertaking from chat history.
Authority decides.
The recommendation remains distinct from the office that may accept the exception.
A scheduled condition is checked.
The Work remains open until the promised mitigation is observed and settled.
Apply it
Turn an existing process into durable governed Work.
Bring the process you already have. The useful starting point is not a blank workflow diagram—it is the objective, current systems, evidence, decision rights, and what must remain true over time.