# Perverse sheaves for easy stratifications

Let $X$ be a complex variety equipped with a stratification. Let us assume, that all strata are contractible and in addition, that all strata closures are smooth.

Is there an "easy" quiver description of the category of perverse sheaves in this case?

For example does this category only depend on the poset of strata?

This sounds too optimistic, so what additional information is needed?

For example if we are also given the conormal bundles of the strata closures, can one reconstruct the category from this data?

The main result 2-categorifies a theorem of MacPherson, which states that the category of perverse sheaves over a (topologically) stratified space $X$ is equivalent to the category of set-valued functors from the exit path category of $X$.
The exit path category of $X$ has all points of $X$ as objects, and morphisms are (homotopy classes of) continuous paths which we allow to ascend up to higher strata, but never descend to lower ones. Asking that all strata be contractible does not, in general, allow one to pass from the exit path category to the poset of strata without losing structure. On the other hand, if your stratification of $X$ arises from a regular CW decomposition, then the associated exit path category retracts onto the poset of cells.
Stringing all of this together, one set of sufficient conditions which guarantee that the category of perverse sheaves is recoverable from the poset of strata, is that the stratification comes from a regular CW decomposition of $X$.