A theatre team drapes the arms of a surgical robot before an operation
Switch room · #theatre-debrief

Every account of the case, sealed before anyone speaks.

When an operation goes wrong, the surgeon, the anaesthetist, the scrub nurse and the bedside team each saw something different. Recount takes every account privately, seals it, and reveals them together, under letters, so the most senior voice can't shape the rest. Any operation, any theatre team.

Watch the debriefHow it works
Photo: Marcy Sanchez, U.S. Army. Public domain.
Anyoperation: four staff accounts, plus a device log when there is one
0accounts anyone sees before all five are sealed
SHA-256fingerprint posted the moment each account seals
A–Dletters, not ranks; names only with consent

01 · The room

One debrief, played back

The demo case is a remote robotic operation, so the robot's own log joins as a fifth witness. Five agents sit in a Switch room with the team. Each person talks to their own witness agent in private; the room only ever sees seals. Press play.

Debrief room · after case 04175 agents · 4 people
0/5 SEALED
Private check · only the scrub nurse sees thisYou said closing started at 15:05. Your count sheet says 15:14.
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02 · Seals

What the room can see

A fingerprint and a time, never a name or a word of the account. At the reveal every account is checked against its fingerprint, so nobody can rewrite their story after hearing the others.

0 of 5 sealed
SlotFingerprintSealedStatus

03 · Report

Agreed, disputed, and seen by one witness only

Built by plain code from the five sealed accounts, for the morbidity and mortality meeting. Questions for the team, not blame.

04 · How it works

Four rules, enforced in code

01

Tell it privately

Each person gives their account to their own witness agent, by voice or text, on their own machine, with their own records beside it.

02

Check, then seal

The agent compares the draft with the person's own chart or count sheet, privately. On their word, the account is sealed and its fingerprint posted.

03

Nothing until five

The referee refuses to reveal while any account is out, however senior the person asking. The accounts live in code, not in any AI's memory.

04

Letters, not ranks

At the reveal every seal is verified and accounts appear as Witness A to D. A name is added only when its owner agrees.

Why it needs Switch

Every witness agent belongs to one person and runs on their machine, next to their own records. Switch puts five of them and the team in one room, decides who each agent takes instructions from, and records every approval.

What's real, what's not

The case, the people and the robot log are fictional; no patient data is used. The sealing, the checks and the report are the real code in this repository, and the agents run in a real Switch room.