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title: "Escalate"
description: "Humorphism foundation: Escalate."
canonical_url: "https://humorphism.com/foundations/escalate"
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# Escalate

**Raise something when it can't be resolved in place.**

![Escalate](/assets/images/heros/escalate.jpg)

### Knock Knock

> There's a line outside your office. Someone urgent cuts the line, bangs on the door, and the commotion shakes you out of what you're doing.

An ambient alert interrupts your focus when something urgent arrives.

The task queue lives along the side of the screen. When something urgent arrives, the agent breaks from the queue, bangs against the edge of your workspace, and shakes your current focus just enough to pull your attention.

**Foundations:** Escalate, Communicate