🔭 OFEK — User Guide

OFEK watches the news and documents about your subject, sorts the evidence for you, and turns it into pictures of the future — with a source behind every claim. This guide is for analysts and readers. You don't need any technical knowledge. Launching or running a project yourself? Read the Project Manual — ten steps.

Contents
1 · Signing in · 2 · Your workspace · 3 · Inside a project · 4 · Signals — your morning review · 5 · The Radar · 6 · The Timeline · 7 · Asking questions · 8 · Scenarios & what-ifs · 9 · Reports & simulations · 10 · Little dictionary

1Signing in

Open https://ofek.ois.co.il. Use the Google button (with the email address that received the invitation), or the email + password your administrator gave you.

Login page

2Your workspace

After signing in you land on My workspaces — one card per organization you belong to. Click yours. (Most people have exactly one.)

Workspaces page

Inside the organization you see its projects. A project is one research question about the future — for example "Haredi politics futures". Click a project to enter it.

Organization home with project list

3Inside a project

Every project has the same row of tabs. As a reader you will spend nearly all your time in four of them: Signals, Radar, Analytics (for questions) and Reports.

Project overview with tabs
Don't worry about the other tabs. Documents, Codes, Corpus Voice, Variables and Stakeholders are the workshop where the study was set up. You can look — you can't break anything by looking.

4Signals — your morning review

A signal is one piece of evidence about the future: a news article, a research paper, a government report. OFEK's robots collect them for you around the clock, read them, and fill in everything: a one-line summary (lede), an analysis, category badges, and four scores.

Your job takes two minutes a day: open Signals, look at each item marked unreviewed, and press ✓ Approve if it is real, relevant evidence — or ✗ Reject if it is noise. Only approved signals count in everything else.

Signals review queue

Click any signal title to see the full picture — the original text, the AI's summary and analysis, the scores (you may adjust them), and a link to the original source:

A single signal in detail
What the badges mean: the colored badge is the STEEP category (Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political). H1 = happening within ~2 years, H2 = mid-term, H3 = far future. The score is the average of impact, plausibility, novelty and credibility (0–5).

Found an interesting article yourself? Paste its address into the box at the top of the Signals page and press Collect signal — OFEK fetches it, reads it and classifies it in seconds.

5The Radar — everything at a glance

The Radar answers three questions in one look: what is coming, from which direction, and how soon.

Foresight Radar
  1. Each dot is one approved signal.
  2. The slice tells its direction: Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political.
  3. The distance from the center tells its time horizon: dots near the center (H1) are imminent; dots at the edge (H3) are far-future. This is about when the impact is expected, not when the article was published — an old article about something happening soon still sits near the center.
  4. Bigger dot = higher scores. A white ring means it arrived recently.
  5. Hover a dot to read its summary; click it to open the full signal.

6The Timeline — how a trend built up

The Timeline shows the approved signals in the order they happened, so you can watch a story develop. Use the topic chips at the top to see the timeline of one theme only — that is exactly how a trend is proven.

Signal timeline

7Asking questions — the corpus answers

Open Analytics → Corpus Q&A. Type any question, in Hebrew or English, and press Ask the corpus.

אפשר לשאול בעברית — למשל: "מה המגמות המרכזיות בגיוס חרדים לצבא?"

Corpus Q&A with an answered question
Why this is different from ChatGPT: OFEK answers only from the project's own evidence, and every sentence carries a citation like [doc 14] — click the source under the answer to verify it yourself. If the evidence doesn't contain the answer, OFEK says so instead of guessing.

8Scenarios & what-ifs

The Visioning tab holds the four futures the study describes — Baseline (tomorrow like today), Adjusted Equilibrium (a shock, then adaptation), Transformation (radical improvement) and Collapse (the bad path). Every paragraph cites the signals it stands on — the [sig N] links at the bottom open the evidence.

Below the scenarios you'll find the Futures Wheel (ripple effects of one force of change) and What-if cards showing how the picture changes if a force weakens ⬇ or strengthens ⬆.

Visioning tab with scenarios

9Reports & simulations

The Reports tab is where everything comes together into a document you can read from top to bottom: framing → forces of change → assumptions → scenarios → action plan → and an appendix listing every signal with its source link.

Reports list

Reports marked simulation are "possible reports": the same report rebuilt under a shock — for example "the government falls". Open one and you get a tracked-changes view: green lines are what the shock adds or strengthens, red strikethrough lines are what no longer holds, and the "Why it changed" box explains every change.

Simulation report with tracked changes

10Little dictionary

Signal — one piece of evidence (article, report) about the future.
Lede — the one-line summary of a signal.
STEEP — the five directions change comes from: Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political.
Horizon (H1/H2/H3) — how soon: imminent / mid-term / far future.
Force of change — a theme pushing the future, proven by many signals.
Scenario — an evidence-based story of one possible future.
Watch — a robot that scans the news for your keywords every day.
Simulation — a published report rebuilt under a "what if" shock.