# CX Exploration & Discovery Workshop

An **Assessment** — a reusable workshop master (see
[`docs/Assessment_Pattern_V1-00.md`](../../docs/Assessment_Pattern_V1-00.md))
— and a **live facilitation aid** for a CX discovery session, built on the
[Mercury Notebook Deliverable Pattern](../../docs/Mercury_Notebook_Pattern_V1-00.md).
Unlike the TEI business-case studies, this deliverable computes no dollars —
its "numbers" are **topic status and progress**. The Mercury stage is the
visual you share on a call or in a workshop while you work through the
questions; the question script and captured notes live backstage and export
as LLM input for the survey write-up or a downstream business case.

## What the client sees (the stage)

A calm **topic board**: each topic, its one-line scope, a status glyph, and —
for the topic under discussion — a **live sub-topic checklist**, above a
**progress bar** ("3/8 topics complete"). No wall of questions: you ask those.

![board preview](docs/board_preview.png)

You drive it from the sidebar — a **status** selector and a **notes** box per
topic, plus a **checkbox** per sub-topic. As the conversation moves you set a
topic *In progress*, tick sub-topics as you cover them, mark it *Complete* (or
*Skipped*), and jot answers. Every change re-renders the board and progress bar
(Mercury re-runs the cells below the widgets).

## What you work from (backstage)

JupyterLab and the exports carry the **facilitator question script** (all 95
prompts, grouped by topic → sub-topic) and the **captured-session appendix**
(status + notes as a markdown table and one JSON block). Neither shows on the
Mercury stage. The 8 topics / 26 sub-topics / ~110-minute agenda are the
structured form of the source survey.

## Where the content lives: in the notebook

Two tagged cells of
[`notebooks/cx_discovery.ipynb`](notebooks/cx_discovery.ipynb) carry
everything a consultant edits — **in Jupyter, never in a `.py` file**:

- **`topic-bank`** — the workshop content: every topic, sub-topic, and
  facilitator prompt. It is the study's verbatim anchor: wording tracks the
  source survey [`docs/cx_discovery_survey.md`](docs/cx_discovery_survey.md)
  (the original `cxxm.md`), and the `key` slugs are stable identities the
  sidebar widgets, captured notes, and JSON export all key off — never
  renumber or rename them casually. The cell's own comment block carries the
  full editing rules.
- **`engagement-data`** — the client facts (client, workshop date,
  facilitator, attendees). **Placeholders in this master**; filled in the
  engagement copy. The values flow to the stage board header, the export
  preamble, and the JSON appendix `meta`.

`discoverylib/` holds **code only**: the `Topic`/`SubTopic` schema, the
status vocabulary, and the session engine — every engine function takes the
bank as its first argument. The ~42 sidebar widgets are built by a runtime
loop over `TOPICS`, so board, checklist, script, gate, and export all pick up
a content edit automatically. The test suite reads the tagged cells straight
out of the notebook (no kernel) and pins content shape, so `pytest` guards
the bank exactly as shipped.

## Layout

```
notebooks/cx_discovery.ipynb   # THE deliverable — content + data + presentation
                               #   tagged cells: topic-bank · engagement-data ·
                               #   presentation ×4 · gate · data-appendix
                               #   stage shows ONLY: title · progress line · board
discoverylib/           # the engine — code only, no content
  session.py            #   Topic/SubTopic schema, status vocabulary, progress, export payload
  staging.py            #   stage/backstage detection (+ backstage_md for the appendix)
scripts/export_report.py       # execute once → exports/*.html + LLM-ready *.md
tests/                  # content + engagement pins (read from the notebook), engine pins, staging
docs/cx_discovery_survey.md    # source survey (the original cxxm.md)
exports/                # generated report sources (never committed)
```

## Run

```bash
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"

mercury --working-dir .                # serve the stage (share this screen)
jupyter lab                            # analyst / facilitator view
pytest                                 # content + engagement + engine + staging pins
jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute --inplace notebooks/cx_discovery.ipynb   # gate
python scripts/export_report.py        # exports/*.html + *.md for the LLM handoff
```

The `.md` export opens with a generated preamble (what the document is, the
engagement line, how to read it) and ends with the **Session state (JSON)**
block — the machine source of truth for the write-up. Presentation cells
(setup, the facilitator run-book, widgets, board) are stripped from it; the
HTML export keeps the full presentation for human review.

## Extending

New or reshaped discovery content is an edit to the notebook's `topic-bank`
cell in JupyterLab, then:

1. Re-run the notebook — the in-notebook **gate** recounts the bank
   (topics / sub-topics / prompts / key order / agenda minutes); update its
   pins if the change is deliberate.
2. `pytest` — `tests/test_topics.py` pins the same shape from outside the
   kernel; re-pin the counts there too.

Add a topic and the sidebar controls, board, checklist, script, gate, and
export all pick it up — they're all derived from `TOPICS` at runtime. New
*logic* (not content) goes in `discoverylib/session.py` with pins in
`tests/test_session.py`.

**Running this for a client?** Don't fill client data into this master —
follow the copy-out checklist in
[`docs/Assessment_Pattern_V1-00.md`](../../docs/Assessment_Pattern_V1-00.md):
copy the directory out of Palladium, stamp it `YYYYMM_Client_CX_Discovery`,
fill the `engagement-data` cell there, and treat the copy as confidential.