A working outline drafted from project context, ready for my own edits.
A contact record rarely tells the whole story. Someone knows which tag starts a follow-up, which spreadsheet is checked before a handoff, and when an exception needs a person rather than another automation.
The Ascendant planning work gives this essay its starting point: discovery as the process of making those dependencies visible before a new system takes over.
To develop: walk through a specific dependency, show how it entered the requirements map, and explain what remained unresolved.