references/schools/ai-mediated-discovery.md

# AI-Mediated Discovery

## Core idea

Treat discovery as retrieval across conversational, search, social, recommendation, and answer surfaces.

## Use when

- The decision depends on current discovery, commerce, media automation, creator, or measurement behavior.
- Current platform facts are verified separately from the enduring decision rule.

## Applied theories

- `ai-mediated-discovery`
- `answer-surface-retrievability`
- `conversational-intent-matching`

## Boundaries

- Treat platform capabilities as dated evidence, not timeless truth.
- Preserve commercial, brand, customer, and causal counterweights when a platform-native recommendation points elsewhere.