Because they are made in conversation and recorded nowhere durable. Six months later somebody asks why a thing works this way, nobody can find the discussion, and it is decided again — differently.
The cost is not the search. It is the second decision contradicting the first, made by people who did not know there was a first.
Pulse reads threads, meeting notes and the records they attach to. Asking when something was decided returns the message or note, its date and who wrote it — not a paraphrase.
Because conversation attaches to projects and records, the search is scoped by subject rather than by channel.
Arguments shorten. The answer to "did we agree this" is a link with a date on it.
Onboarding improves too: the reasoning behind a piece of work is reachable from the work itself, so new people stop interrupting to ask.
It will not find a decision nobody wrote down. A conversation in a corridor is invisible, and Pulse says it found nothing rather than assembling a likely story.
It also does not record meetings by default. A deliberate note is a better record than a transcript, and less intrusive.
Nothing here is an integration. Each line is two products reading the same record from different sides.
Pulse reads threads, meeting notes and the records they attach to. Asking when something was decided returns the message or note, its date and who wrote it — not a paraphrase.
Arguments shorten. The answer to "did we agree this" is a link with a date on it.
It will not find a decision nobody wrote down. A conversation in a corridor is invisible, and Pulse says it found nothing rather than assembling a likely story.
Fourteen days, every module, no card. Or half an hour with someone who will run it on your own records and tell you where it does not help.