How Your Desk Learns
Every Keep and Pass you make on Discovery teaches your desk what "a fit" actually looks like for you — not a generic AU market, yours. Work it for a couple of weeks and the queue gets quieter and more accurate on its own. Nothing it learns ever throws a lead away: the desk only ever tucks a demoted one out of sight, one click from coming back.
How feedback affects your desk
Use Keep for relevant leads and Pass for leads that do not fit this desk. Repeated feedback can refine what appears first; a single Pass is not a reason to treat every similar company as unsuitable.
Some narrower patterns can change ordering automatically. Broader changes ask you to confirm first. Read the question before approving; declining it leaves that broader change unapplied. You can review and undo accepted changes from the desk's activity.
Demoted, never hidden
A learned rule demotes a matching lead — it never deletes or hides it outright. Demoted leads drop into a fold at the bottom of Discovery labelled "Filtered by your desk (N)", collapsed by default so your main queue stays clean. Open it and the most recent demoted leads are listed, with the full count shown next to the fold's name so you always know how many are waiting even if not every one is on screen at once. A rule reflects your taste, not a disqualification — the company or role might still be worth working, you've just told the desk it's usually not what you want to see first.
Keep changes the desk's mind
If you open the filtered fold and hit Keep on a lead sitting there, you're contradicting the very rule that demoted it — and the desk listens. An automatic title rule is relaxed immediately: the next lead with that title goes straight back to your main queue.
A sector or size rule you answered Yes to is treated differently, on purpose. That's a decision you made deliberately, not something the desk inferred quietly, so a single Keep won't silently undo it behind your back — instead, open Last change on the desk header to reach the Desk Activity panel, where you'll find an Undo next to that rule whenever you want to reverse it yourself.
Why it works this way
The whole point is that an AI tool quietly hiding your leads is the thing recruiters worry about most. This system is built so that never happens: every rule comes from your own repeated actions, every rule is visible, every demoted lead is counted and stays reachable in the filtered fold, and every rule can be undone — by a Keep, by an Undo click, or just by answering a question differently next time it comes up.