19. The process of mutual understanding
The first stage is to identify people’s understanding of their own and others’ needs, expectations, capabilities, goals and conditions…
The second stage is to identify ambiguities.
AI helps determine what a person and other participants may understand differently, which questions remain unanswered, and which contradictions and dependencies exist.
The third stage is to align the necessary and sufficient details.
Participants clarify precisely those issues that are significant for understanding themselves and one another sufficiently to take further action.
The fourth stage is to form aligned commitments.
Actions, the conditions for carrying them out, interdependencies and ways of verifying the result are defined.
The fifth stage is execution and continuous renegotiation.
New information emerges and circumstances change as activity proceeds. When necessary, a person and other participants refine their understanding and revise related agreements.
These stages form a recurring process, rather than a one-time procedure.
20. An example of hidden misunderstanding
ObliNet proposes identifying differences in how commitments are understood before work begins: AI helps formulate questions, and people clarify their answers.
If, during the work, a participant needs additional help, deadlines change or new constraints appear, coordination resumes.
Aligned commitments are also linked: when one changes, it becomes clear which other agreements are affected and what needs to be renegotiated.
ObliNet is intended not only to help people communicate and understand their own and others’ positions, but also to turn that understanding into a shared, verifiable system of commitments.