Who did this? Ava, Autopilot, agents and Navalo
Four names can appear beside work a person did not type. What each one means, and how to read the small marks.
When something in Navalo was written, counted or changed by a machine rather than typed by a person, a small grey mark beside it says who. The mark uses one of four names, and each name means one thing.
| Name | Who it is | When it acts |
|---|---|---|
| Ava | The assistant you ask. | Only when a person asks it something or presses a button that asks it. It works inside that person's own permissions. |
| Autopilot | The project manager for one project. | On the schedule set on that project, or after a meeting on it finishes, and only as far as the autonomy level set on that project allows. |
| An agent, by its name | An agent on the Agents page, such as the Finance Controller. | On its own scope, as far as its autonomy for each kind of change allows. Every agent answers to a person, its sponsor. |
| Navalo | The app's own rules. No AI model is involved. | Whenever the page is built: counting, sorting, checking dates and budgets, or a plain summary when no AI summary was written. |
Reading the marks
- Written by Ava or Drafted by Ava: Ava wrote the words. A draft waits for a person to check it, change it and save or send it.
- Proposed by Autopilot: Autopilot suggests a change, and nothing changes until a person accepts it. At the higher autonomy levels set on a project, Autopilot also makes some changes on its own; those are named in the activity trail.
- Watched by and an agent's name: that agent keeps an eye on this. Open the agent from the Agents page to see what it noticed and why.
- Counted by Navalo or Built by Navalo: the figures or the text come from the app's rules, from records you can see. No AI wrote them.
- From a meeting, From a won deal and similar: where a suggestion came from. When you are allowed to open that meeting or record, the mark is a link to it. When you are not, it says so, for example From a meeting you cannot open, and shows nothing from it.
- Stated, Inferred and Needs input on a dossier: whether a value was said by a person, worked out, or still missing. Needs input is the only mark in amber, because it asks you to do something.
Where to look after the fact
- A project's activity trail names who made each change. A change Autopilot made on its own says so, and the people whose work it moved can Keep or Revert it.
- An agent's step log lists everything it noticed, suggested and changed, with links to the records it rests on. A record you cannot open is counted, not named.
- Changes Ava makes for you are recorded as yours, because you asked for them.
Tip
A mark is never a reason to trust something more. It tells you where to look before you accept: the meeting a suggestion came from, the figures a summary rests on, or the agent that flagged it.
For what each one is for, see Which AI does what. For setting them up, see Autopilot - setting it up and The Agents page.
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