Following a run in progress
Understand the three Persona Reaction phases, the editing lock, and what each retry action does.
While a Persona Reaction runs, the panel reports progress without showing an early reaction.
Follow the three phases
The progress card moves through:
- Preparing context, which freezes the persona, saved draft, and reading conditions;
- Reading the draft, while the Persona considers the text under the frozen conditions; and
- Interpreting reaction, which turns that modeled response into the finished result.
A Queued label means the run is waiting to start. While it is running, the panel shows progress rather than a provisional reaction. The result appears after the run finishes.
You never get a partial result. If unpitch cannot finish the result, the run fails.
The reading-condition stamp remains visible for a test you start in this session. It names the frozen cold assumption or the supplied reader condition. A reloaded running test shows conditions only when they are retained; completed results show their own frozen conditions. Warm and unknown reads remain scoreless; changing a saved default later does not change the running test.
Editing pauses during the read
From the time the Simulation is accepted until it finishes, the draft stays visible but cannot be edited. If you switch to another test in the panel, a notice explains that Persona Reaction is still working and offers a way back to it.
There is no cancel action while the run is in progress. Leaving the page stops you watching, but does not stop the run.
Leave and return safely
Bookmark or reload the same document URL to return to the run instead of starting another one.
If progress appears stuck, reload the current page before starting a second Simulation. This gives the app a chance to recover the run already named in the URL.
When unpitch can reuse an exact completed result for the frozen version, persona, and reading conditions, returning through Simulate reopens it without another charge.
Read the recovery card carefully
Two cards can both say Try again, but they do different things:
- Simulation complete means the result was saved but could not be loaded. Try again fetches that result again; it does not start another Simulation.
- That simulation didn’t finish is a failed run. It does not spend credits. When the card offers Try again, the action starts a new 40-credit Simulation.
Couldn’t confirm the simulation started means the initial answer was lost. Retry with the same draft and persona so unpitch can look for the run that may already exist. Changing either can create a different 40-credit run.
If the app says it lost track of the Simulation, return to persona selection and start again only when you are ready for a new run.