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Set up Witness Terminal for your team
Choose the places and decisions your team cares about, assign workspace roles, and check the handoff before relying on alerts.
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Start with a decision
Write down the place or route you care about, the changes that would matter, and who can act. A useful starting question is “When do we reroute deliveries if access to the warehouse changes?”
Use a place and a time window to investigate the evidence. Create a watch separately when you want Terminal to flag a future change.
Give teammates access for their work
- Admin
- Manage workspace access and set up shared delivery destinations.
- Analyst
- Investigate events, set watches and record decisions within the workspace’s permissions.
- View only
- Review records and context. Ask an admin to confirm access if an action is part of your job.
Choose context for the map
Start with the layers relevant to the decision. A port question might need firsthand reports, nearby vessel activity and news. A warehouse question might need outages and weather.
When your team needs its own context, use Sources to review the connection or import options available in your workspace. Start with a file or feed you have permission to use. Check the first items for place, time and the source label before relying on them.
Run a handoff before you rely on it
- Create a watch with a clear name.
Name it after the location and what you want to notice. Ask a teammate to confirm they can find it.
- Check delivery.
Set up the Slack, Teams or email destination your team uses. Send a test and confirm it reaches the intended people.
- Agree on the follow-up.
Decide who reviews the inbox, who owns a response, and what the handoff needs to include.