# Use the Intelligence Workspace

The Intelligence Workspace is where you validate a finding rather than take it on faith. It runs the same Attribution service every other door runs, so the figures match, but it is the surface built for following a result down to the products carrying it and checking it against what your team already knows.

## The validation flow

1. **Start from the account result.** Run the bridge and read the headline change and its legs.
2. **Drill into Item Groups and products.** Move down the hierarchy to find which items are actually carrying the movement.
3. **Inspect the connected evidence.** Open the supporting sales, traffic, advertising, inventory, and operational detail behind a row, along with any caveats the engine raised for that item.
4. **Test it against brand memory.** Check the finding against the brand context and change log your team maintains, plus what the team knows that is not written down anywhere. See [Work with brand memory](/knowledge-base/builder-platform/how-to/work-with-brand-memory).

That last step is usually where a finding turns into an explanation.

## Sign in

Use your usual MixShift login, the same one you use for the plugin. There is no separate account to set up.

## Pick a merchant

The workspace finds the accounts your login can see and lets you pick one.

## Pick periods and run

Choose the two periods you want compared, then run the bridge. The item-level grid shows what moved, and clicking into a row opens the bridge popup with the breakdown and any caveats the engine raised for that item.

## Weeks of cover windows

The Workspace is the only surface where you can change the weeks-of-cover window. Vendor Central runs on a forward forecast-demand window (9 weeks by default, 6 and 12 also available); Seller Central runs on a trailing-sales window (30 days by default, 7 and 14 also available). Through the service, the CLI, MCP, and Monthly Report Max, those windows run at the defaults. See [Limits and freshness](/knowledge-base/intelligence/reference/limits-and-freshness).

## Export

Export the result to Excel when you want to work with it outside the workspace or hand it to someone else.

## Two things worth knowing

- **Runs are not stored between deploys today.** Re-run a bridge you need rather than bookmarking it and coming back later.
- **Large accounts can take a while to list merchants the first time.** Give it a moment on the first load rather than assuming it has stalled.

[Open the Intelligence Workspace](https://hcam.mixshift.ai/)

## Related

- [Reading a bridge](/knowledge-base/intelligence/concept/reading-a-bridge)
- [What Intelligence answers](/knowledge-base/intelligence/getting-started/what-intelligence-answers)
- [Get access](/knowledge-base/intelligence/getting-started/get-access)
- [Limits and freshness](/knowledge-base/intelligence/reference/limits-and-freshness)