Guidelines
AI
How Flo, Ascern's assistant, shows up on screen. Flo prepares and proposes; the consultant decides. The components are on Pattern · Flo.
Guidelines
AI
How Flo, Ascern's assistant, shows up on screen. Flo prepares and proposes; the consultant decides. The components are on Pattern · Flo.
Principles
Flo proposes, you decide
Flo drafts, finds and suggests. A person approves, edits or dismisses. Flo judges people only against the job's must-haves.
Do · 3 changes for you to approve
Don't · Flo moved 3 candidates
Nothing leaves without approval
No email, CV, message or advert reaches a client or candidate until the consultant sends it. A Rule only sends on its own when a person applied it.
Do · Draft ready · Approve and send
Don't · Flo emailed Sara for you
Show the source
Every claim links to where it came from, and says what Flo checked and what it didn't. Fit is a word with its reason, never a score.
Do · Matches Go (CV, page 2)
Don't · 92% match
How Flo's work is marked
A small Flo label: the Ascern mark on a 16px green tile, then "Flo" in 12/16/500. It sits where the work appears, on the row, the field or the card. Flo uses the same ink, greys and one green as every other screen.
Flo
· proposed 10:42
Two changes for you to approve. The email goes from your own inbox once you send it.
2 changes
Deny
Approve 2
Maya Chen
· Stage
Short list
→
CV sent
Sara Lee
· Email Maya Chen's CV · draft, not sent
Do
The Flo label on Flo's own output. Ink text, grey meta, green only for the action.
Don't
Sparkle icons, gradients, glows, a purple or rainbow AI colour, or "AI-generated" badges.
Where it shows
Chat replies, proposed changes, Evaluations, drafts and Run cards: anything Flo made that a person hasn't decided on yet.
Sources and checks
Every output names its source: the CV page, the email, the meeting, the brief. Each claim says whether Flo checked it against that source or couldn't. Unchecked is said plainly, never hidden.
Flo
· Evaluation against Senior Backend Engineer, profile v3
Maya Chen
Good fit
4 of 5 met
Go, 4+ years
Great
"Five years building payment services in Go"
CV, page 2
Checked
Payments domain
Good
"Led the card-issuing team at Halcyon Bank"
Intro call notes, 3 Oct
Checked
Notice under 2 months
Unknown
Not in the CV or the notes. Ask on the next call.
Not checked
Review states
A Run is running, needs you, done or stuck: one set for chat Runs and Rule firings. What a Run makes is a draft until a person sends or applies it. States are dots and filters, not a page.
Draft
Email, CV, advert or change Flo prepared. Nobody outside sees it.
Approve and send · Edit draft
Running
Steps show as they happen; elapsed time after 5 seconds.
Stop · what was done stays
Needs you
A Handoff waits: a draft to send, a slot, a change to approve.
Approve · Deny · on Today and the Run card
Done
Each change it made is listed, with Undo where possible.
Undo · See what happened
Stuck
Flo couldn't go on. It says what failed in words and what it kept.
Carry on · Try again
Undo after apply
A change the consultant asked for is written at once with Undo. An approved change with a plain inverse keeps Undo on its card. Sent mail can't be unsent, so it always waits for approval first.
Moved Maya Chen to CV sent
Undo
Added Maya Chen to Senior Backend Engineer
Undo
Feedback
Thumbs on every reply and result. Deny or thumbs down decides in one click, then asks, optionally, why. Flo learns a preference from the answer; it never becomes a Rule unless the consultant makes one.
Thanks. Tell Flo why?
Tell Flo why
Wrong person
Missed a must-have
Wrong tone
Something else
She's on garden leave until January
Rules
Components: Pattern · Flo
1. Flo proposes, the consultant decides. Flo's copy says what it prepared and what it needs: "3 changes for you to approve", never "Flo did it".
2. Nothing reaches a client or candidate without a person's approval. Drafts say "draft, not sent" until they are.
3. Every output shows its source and marks each claim checked or not checked. Fit is a word with a reason, never a score or a percentage.
4. Four Run states only: running, needs you, done, stuck. A Run that changed records lists each change with Undo where it has a plain inverse.
5. Flo's work carries the Flo label with the Ascern mark. No sparkles, no gradients, no separate AI colour: ink, greys and one green.
6. Thumbs on every reply. A no decides in one click, then asks why, and the answer is optional.