Hinsley Documentation

Getting Started

• Start With the Right Question
  How to frame effective research questions that drive meaningful analysis.

Analyses

• Creating an Analysis
  How to create a new analysis in Hinsley, what happens during initial research, and how account limits affect creation.

• The Analysis Chat
  How the AI research assistant that ships with every analysis works, what it knows, and what actions it can take.

• The Analysis Lifecycle Map
  How to use the interactive Lifecycle map to visualize and navigate the connections between scenarios, drivers, indicators, and forecasting questions in an analysis.

• Managing Active Status
  Control when your analyses run automated searches and send notifications.

Research

• Research Briefs & Updates
  How Hinsley generates an initial research brief when you create an analysis and how to run research updates.

• Source Material: Upload Your Own Sources
  Upload your own links, articles, reports, and documents to inform analysis.

• Saved Searches: Global News Monitoring
  Monitor specific sources and run targeted queries on a weekly basis.

Decompositions

• Building a Decomposition
  How to build a decomposition by adding drivers and indicators, using AI suggestions, and exploring visualizations.

• Creating Multiple Decompositions
  How to create and manage multiple decompositions to explore alternative analytical frameworks within a single analysis.

Scenarios

• Scenario Sets
  How to organize scenarios into multiple sets to explore alternative framings within a single analysis.

• Crowdsourcing Scenario Likelihoods
  How to crowdsource scenario likelihood estimates and how Hinsley aggregates them into a consensus view.

• Scenario Detailed Descriptions
  How Hinsley generates AI-powered detailed descriptions for scenarios, including cited source documents.

Forecasting

• Creating Forecasting Questions
  How to create and configure forecasting questions for human and AI forecasters.

• Submitting Forecasts
  How to submit forecasts, view aggregated results, and use AI-generated forecasts.

• Resolving Questions
  How to resolve forecasting questions and record outcomes once the forecasting period ends.

• Publishing Questions
  How to publish forecasting questions for public access and guest forecasting.

Campaigns

• Crowdsourcing Campaigns
  How to create crowdsourcing campaigns to collect forecasts and scenario assessments from participants.

Outputs

• Create & Share Written Analysis
  Transform research analysis into polished written products you can share or publish.

Collaboration

• Inviting Collaborators
  How to invite collaborators to an analysis and manage shared access.

Forecaster Networks

• What Is a Forecaster Network?
  What a forecaster network is, how it relates to the analyst workspace, and how work flows through it.

• Network Settings
  Configure a network's name, features, profile visibility, languages, terms of service, and email.

• Registration & Sign-in
  Control who can join a network and how they authenticate, including per-network single sign-on.

• Inviting & Managing Forecasters
  Invite forecasters, manage the roster, and ask them about their expertise.

• Publishing Questions to a Network
  How to publish forecasting questions and scenario sets to a network, set a request cadence, and manage them afterwards.

• Topics, Sponsors & Challenges
  Organize a network's questions by theme, attribute them to a sponsor, and give related questions their own page.

• The Forecaster Experience
  What taking part in a network looks like, from onboarding through forecasting to a scored track record.

• Moderation
  How contributors flag content and how admins review and resolve reports.

• Pages & Files
  Publish content pages and shareable files on a network's own domain.

Administration

• Account Source Material Library
  Upload private organizational documents to a shared library that the AI draws on across all analyses.

Authentication

• SAML SSO Setup
  Configure SAML Single Sign-On for your Hinsley account.
• SCIM Provisioning Setup
  Set up SCIM provisioning for automatic user management.