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Informus Flow · Process maps
Release 0.11

Process maps from conversation.

Talk through how the work runs. Flow draws it step by step, changes it when you say so, and keeps every version.

1Meet The Dude

Michael Lebowski, aka “The Dude,” runs El Duderino Security.

He named it himself. He's not into the whole brevity thing.

Business is slow, and The Dude likes it that way.

Michael Lebowski, known as The Dude, a cartoon security consultant with long wavy hair and a beard, in a knit cardigan and striped pajama pants, hands in his pockets
2A client calls

His new client is Jeffrey Lebowski. His wife has been kidnapped, and he needs The Dude to bring her home.

He's willing to do it as long as it does not interfere with league play.

Cartoon Brandt, Jeffrey Lebowski's assistant, tells the viewer her life is in your hands, dude, while a grumpy Jeffrey sits beside him in a wheelchair
3The demand

The kidnappers want a million dollars.

The Dude gets the briefcase and the job of handing it over.

How hard could it be?

The Dude reads a cut-out-letter ransom note demanding one million dollars, a silver briefcase at his feet, saying that's a bummer, man
4The plan

The whole plan lives on a bar napkin.

He sketches it on a cocktail napkin: get the money, make the drop, bring her home.

The Dude didn't use Informus Flow, so nobody checked a single step.

Seen from behind the bar, The Dude and a smiling Walter sit over a cocktail napkin with the plan money, drop, wife, as Walter says she probably kidnapped herself, dude
5Problem one

Walter has a better idea.

He swaps the ransom for a briefcase full of his dirty undies.

The handover does not go well.

A smug Walter holds open a briefcase stuffed with dirty underwear, saying they're a bunch of amateurs, dude, while The Dude clutches his face in horror
6Problem two

Then the car gets stolen.

The money was in the trunk.

So were the Creedence tapes.

The Dude stands heartbroken in an empty parking space holding a Creedence cassette, saying not the Creedence, man
7Problem three

Then the nihilists show up.

They want the money. There is no money, so things get physical.

Three nihilists in black leather, one with giant scissors, tell The Dude, Walter and Donny we vaunt zee money, Lebowski
8The cost

Donny doesn't make it.

The fight is too much for his heart.

The Dude lost a friend over a briefcase nobody ever checked.

The Dude and Walter stand on a windy cliff at sunset, Walter holding a coffee can
9The twist

There was never any money.

Every risk The Dude took was over a briefcase that was empty from the start.

The Dude stares into a briefcase holding only a phone book while Jeffrey Lebowski smirks behind him
10Rewind

Now try it with Informus Flow.

The Dude tells Flow the plan the same way he told the napkin.

Out loud, in his own words.

The Dude relaxes on his couch telling his plan to Informus Flow on his phone
11Flow maps it

Then this, then this, then this.

Flow turns the plan into a map, and every step has an owner.

One step is flagged: nobody has confirmed the money exists.

The Dude peeks around a giant phone showing his plan as a step-by-step map, with Verify the funds flagged in red
12One check

Flow asks one question before anyone moves.

Is the money verified and in escrow? It is not.

There is no money, so The Dude passes on the job.

The Dude holds up a phone showing Funds not verified next to an empty briefcase
13The payoff

No stolen car. No nihilists. Donny bowls another frame.

The Dude never wasted a week or put anyone in danger, because Flow checked the money first.

Informus Flow already does this. See how process maps work.

Donny celebrates a strike while Walter cheers and The Dude relaxes with a White Russian
You stay in control

Flow draws it. Your team agrees it.

AI never rewrites the map on its own

Talking to Flow creates a suggestion. The map only changes when someone accepts it.

Every version is kept

Drafts, accepted suggestions, and hand edits each write a new version. Restoring an old one never erases the rest.

Steps keep their number

S7 stays S7, even when steps around it move or are removed, so anyone can say exactly which step they mean.

Why it matters

The map is where the plan gets checked before anyone acts on it.

Most processes live in a few people's heads until something breaks. Drawing it from conversation takes an hour instead of a workshop series, and the agreed map is what everything after it gets built on: the fixes, the automation, and the new hire's first week.

You explain it once, out loud. Everyone works from the same map after that.

Start with the process everyone argues about.

One conversation gives you the first draft. We refine it with your team until it is the map everyone agrees on.

Process Maps from Conversation · Informus AI