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 # kongruity: Signal from noise
 
-“...All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”
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 kongruity pulls in unstructured artifacts of the creative-engineering process -- to-dos, action items, agile tickets, Jira thread comments, Slack thread comments, retrospective notes -- and synthesizes them into semantically coherent, prioritized clusters that can be incorporated into implementation planning.
 
 In kongruity, the artifacts become "sticky notes." A board full of them looks chaotic.