Mariete Cascade Foundation
Cascade maps the consequences of a decision before you commit. Six specialist agents — economist, sociologist, technologist, political analyst, lawyer, environmental scientist — fan out from any decision, event or policy and stream first-, second- and third-order effects in real time. Every node is reasoned and cited. This Foundation course teaches the operator side: how to brief a tree, how to read a fanned-out branch, how to run two futures side by side, and how to promote a tree into a recurring decision-review cadence.
What you'll be able to do.
- Explain cascade is in your own words.
- Brief an agent so it returns finished work.
- Reading the tree
- Workflows and cadence
4 modules. ~60 minutes total.
- 01What Cascade is~12 min
Cascade is not a forecaster, not a research tool, and not a chatbot you ask "is this a good idea?". Cascade is a consequence-tree mapper. Yo…
- 02Briefing a cascade~13 min
A good cascade brief makes the six agents fast, focused and useful. A vague brief makes the tree shallow and the branches generic. The patte…
- 03Reading the tree~12 min
When a Cascade run finishes, you get a navigable tree — six lenses fanning into three orders, 40+ nodes, each one reasoned and cited. Readin…
- 04Workflows and cadence~12 min
Cascade ships starter recipes for the decisions teams pressure-test most. They aren't separate tools — they're framings you can run as-is or…
One sample question. Click to reveal the answer.
Which statement best describes what Cascade is, according to this course?
- A probability forecaster that outputs scenario likelihoods
- A consequence-tree mapper that fans out first-, second- and third-order effects across six specialist lenses
- A research agent that answers a single sourced question
- A workflow planner that executes multi-step tasks across tools
15 questions like this. Cascade Foundation pass-mark is 75%.