Atlas Hub & Explorer
Atlas Hub & Explorer: Navigation and Discovery
Welcome to the Atlas Platform! This guide provides an overview of the two core components you'll use to navigate and discover operational expertise: the Atlas Hub and the Atlas Explorer.
Atlas Hub: Your Central Command Centre
The Atlas Hub is your main entry point and the central command centre for the entire Atlas ecosystem. From here, you can seamlessly navigate to different modules and maintain a unified overview of the platform.
The Hub's navigation bar is designed to remain always visible across all Atlas tools, ensuring you can instantly return to the command centre with a single click and maintain a seamless flow throughout your experience.
Key Hub Areas
The Hub provides a dashboard where you can see:
Blueprint Library: This is your organised collection of operational frameworks. You'll find your personal creations (My Blueprints), team-shared blueprints (Organisation), and licensed blueprints from the Atlas Explorer marketplace (Public).
Explore Preview: A quick preview area.
API Dashboard and Usage Overview: Sections that provide statistics and real-time usage updates, including quick access to system health monitoring.
Quick Access: This panel gives you rapid access to frequent operations like managing tokens, testing endpoints, and viewing analytics.
Atlas Explorer: The Marketplace for Operational Expertise
The Atlas Explorer is the global public marketplace where operational expertise becomes discoverable, accessible, and actionable. This is where you can find and license validated operational processes to accelerate your time to value, avoid common pitfalls, and leverage expertise from industry leaders—instead of having to start from zero.
The Blueprint System
Blueprints are the core of the marketplace, representing operational frameworks. Atlas offers two types of blueprints to help manage and scale expertise:
Public Blueprints: These are visible to the entire Atlas community and are designed for marketplace sharing and monetisation. You'd use these to license expertise frameworks to monetize or find high-value reusable solutions.
Private Blueprints: These are visible only to your organisation members for internal use, protecting sensitive data and intellectual property.
Finding Blueprints with Search
Explorer search functionality uses AI to understand the context and intent behind your query, not just keywords (Semantic Search). You can search by a variety of criteria, including:
Industry Name (e.g., 'Financial Services')
Operational Challenge (e.g., 'reduce cycle time')
Metric Name (e.g., 'Customer Lifetime Value')
Process Type (e.g., 'customer onboarding')
Previewing Blueprints
Before you purchase or license a public blueprint, the Preview functionality allows you to evaluate it. What you can see includes:
The general structure (without proprietary details).
A list of metrics and protocols (without the formulas).
The architecture and workflow in an overview.
The applicable use cases and industries.
What you cannot see in the preview are proprietary details, such as full protocol content, detailed metric formulas, or complete documentation.
Blueprint Interface
Blueprint Interface: Your Window to Operational Expertise
Welcome to the heart of the Atlas platform: the Blueprint. As a free user, your primary tool for consuming expertise is the Blueprint Interface, which provides a structured, clear view of validated operational processes found in the Atlas Explorer.
1. What is a Blueprint?
A Blueprint is the fundamental asset on our platform. It transforms high-value, often tacit operational knowledge into a structured framework of excellence.
Think of it as a meticulously designed operational model that turns abstract expertise (scattered in manuals or knowledge bases) into a measurable, traceable digital asset.
2. Blueprint Anatomy: The Core Value You Consume
When you access a Blueprint, you gain immediate visibility into two essential components that formalise operational excellence:
Protocols (The "How-To")
What they are: Protocols are the "sensors" that define what to do and how to do it that will unravel the underlying markers in the interactions.
Metrics (The "Performance Check")
What they are: Metrics are the aggregated indicators used to measure the performance of the Protocols against a high-level business objective (e.g., Quality, Risk, or Efficiency).
3. Discovery vs. Standards: Two Ways to Win
Every Blueprint is designed with one of two major goals, which tells you how it was intended to be used:
Standards (Validation): This philosophy ensures consistency and compliance. Blueprints built on 'Standards' are rigid—they measure how well you perform against a proven Gold Standard, a regulatory requirement, or an internal mandate. They tell you exactly where you deviate from the expected path.
Discovery (Exploration): This philosophy is about finding excellence. These Blueprints are more flexible, built to observe and analyse performance without judgment. They are designed to detect natural patterns and reveal new insights or behaviours that lead to the best outcomes.
The most sophisticated Blueprints often use a hybrid approach, ensuring non-negotiable rules are met (Standards) while identifying new practices that drive innovation (Discovery).
4. Effective Protocols: How to Identify Quality Rules
The Protocols are the semiotic structure inside a Blueprint. An effective protocol will be:
Measurable
Clear
Actionable
Context-Sensitive
5. Sharing and Access Management
Transferring Blueprint Ownership
The blueprint ownership transfer feature enables user to move complete control of their blueprints to others.
What it is: This feature allows you to change the registered owner of a blueprint from yourself to any other user or an Organisation on the Atlas platform.
Full Governance: The transfer is comprehensive, including the migration of all associated protocols, metrics, access rights, and blueprint history.
Use Cases: Ideal for formalising organisational knowledge transfer, completing a commercial transaction with a buying party, or ensuring business continuity for critical models.
Note: You must be the blueprint owner to initiate transfer and all transfers are permanent
The Atlas Explorer Marketplace
The Atlas Explorer Marketplace is the central platform where Mind Architects can publish and share their operational blueprints.
What it is: The Marketplace is a hub for the community to facilitate the distribution of validated models and provide transparent access to reproducible methodologies.
Visibility: Architects who publish can set visibility and access parameters (public, private, or password-protected) for their blueprints.
Access for Free Users: The Marketplace allows you to discover and use powerful blueprints created by others, including a selection of Free Blueprints that are open for use.
Cloning Blueprints
Cloning is the core feature that allows you to start building on proven models, making it the most important tool for free users.
What Cloning Does: Cloning duplicates the entire structure of an existing blueprint—including all its protocols, metrics, and configurations—and places a copy directly into your personal workspace.
Full Ownership: The new version created in your workspace is fully editable and independent of the original, meaning you have full control over your copy for customisation.
The Original is Safe: The original blueprint remains unchanged and publicly accessible in the Marketplace.
Availability: The ability to clone blueprints is available to you when accessing free Blueprints that are personally owned by the publishing user
API & Admin Dashboard
*Please note - this is a paid for feature - please get in touch to activate*
1. Atlas API Architecture: The Command Centre
The API Dashboard is the command centre for managing all aspects of your Atlas API integration. . It offers real-time monitoring of usage trends, quick access to token management, and system health checks. The dashboard tracks four key metrics that ensure smooth integration performance: the number of Active Tokens, the Total Requests made in the billing period, the Success Rate of API responses , and the remaining Rate Limit for the current window.
2. Authentication & Security Model: Protecting Your Expertise
Atlas secures access to all Blueprints and data using robust API Token authentication. This system is critical because it ensures that only authorised applications can interact with your organisation's intellectual property. When a paying customer creates a token, they configure it with specific permissions, scopes, and quotas. .
3. Understanding Token Types and Scope: Defining Access
The type and scope assigned to a token precisely define who can access what within the platform.
Internal Tokens are strictly scoped to internal operations, intended for systems and scripts that will remain within your organisation's boundary for tasks like internal process automation.
External Tokens are for external clients to access public endpoints. They are designed to be used in client applications where the token might be distributed or exposed outside the organisation.
4. The Admin Dashboard: Centralised Control and Management
The Admin Dashboard provides all the tools necessary for an organisation to manage its platform access, finances, and user permissions from a single location.
These are the key administrative areas available to paid customers:
User & Role Management: Control who has access to your organisation's resources and define specific roles and permissions.
Billing & Quota Management: Maintain full transparency over the platform's cost-per-use model, manage billing, and configure spending limits or quotas.
Organisation Settings: Configure high-level organisational parameters to ensure the platform operates within your company's guidelines.