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Why“Midstage”?

On a theater stage, midstage is the strip between downstage, nearest the audience, and upstage, at the back. That's exactly where this product sits.

The audience never sees midstage work. They see the show go right.

Your team sits in the house. Zoho is downstage: it's what they see and where they work. The models, the policy and the long-running work are upstage, in your AWS account.

Midstage is the strip in between. Cues pass up through it, results come back down through it, and it holds the rules about who may do what. Nothing from upstage reaches the house except through Zoho, so the star stays the star.

The stage planUpstage is your AWS account, midstage is the connector, downstage is Zoho, and your team sits in the house. Cues travel up from Zoho; results travel back down into Zoho.UPSTAGE · YOUR AWS ACCOUNTagents · models · memory · logsMIDSTAGEcues · identity · policy · the doorsDOWNSTAGE · ZOHOCRM · Desk · Books · Analytics · CreatorTHE HOUSE · YOUR TEAM
Blocking notes

Every role ends downstage.

In theater, blocking is the plan for where each actor stands and moves. Ours has one rule. Whatever happens upstage, the role finishes downstage, in a Zoho record, where someone can see it, check it and act on it.

The mark

The stage plan, in three lines.

Three bars, drawn in perspective the way a stage looks from the house: upstage at the top, narrow and quiet; downstage at the bottom, wide and lit; and midstage in the middle, in cue-light orange, because that's where the cues are called.

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