---
title: "IntelligenceLayer"
description: "one of the 28 kinds, with its mechanism, what goes in and out, what it assumes, how it fails, and the reading that would show it wrong"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/intelligencelayer
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# IntelligenceLayer

one of the 28 kinds, with its mechanism, what goes in and out, what it assumes, how it fails, and the reading that would show it wrong

[figure: IntelligenceLayer is a row at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | row |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | models |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | `text` | yes |  |
| `kind` | `text` | yes | from the register of 28 |
| `mechanism` | `one of a proxy \| a summary over the record \| deciding identity \| a derived graph \| an estimator \| a cut into groups` | yes |  |
| `goes_in` | [Kind](/concepts/kind) | yes |  |
| `comes_out` | [Kind](/concepts/kind) | yes |  |
| `assumes` | `text` | yes |  |
| `fails` | `text` | yes |  |
| `would_show_it_wrong` | `text` | yes |  |
| `state` | [Readiness](/concepts/readiness) | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns IntelligenceLayer directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.