The Cognitive Fingerprint™ glossary

A source-backed map of one person's repeated thinking, decision, and action patterns.

A repeated move that meets the evidence standard and explains a visible result.

The public model: what you know, what you do, why you do it, and how you think.

The technical model underneath the public layers: declarative, procedural, conditional, and metacognitive knowledge.

The expert's inability to see the high-value moves that became automatic through repetition.

The process of finding hidden expertise in transcripts, calls, drafts, decisions, and artifacts.

A pattern turned from atmosphere into an object someone can examine and use deliberately.

The skill an expert can no longer see in themselves. As judgment becomes fluent it automates, and the words for it fall away.

You cannot say it, you will not say it, you do not know it is rare, you cannot say it alone, or the environment swallowed it. Each kind needs a different way in.

Knowledge an expert can use fluently but cannot fully explain from memory.