Step / 01
Draft and scientific review
A recommendation enters as a draft with at least two alternatives, one of them doing nothing. It passes a scientific review before anyone is asked to approve it.
Platform · Decision orchestration
A recommendation is not a decision until someone owns it.
Decision orchestration moves every recommendation from draft to measured. It routes it through review and approval by people independent of its author, turns approval into an action with an owner and a due date, and writes every step to a log that is never deleted.
Step / 02
Independent approval
Approvers must be independent of the author. Approval creates an action with an owner, a due date, a rationale and its measurement contract.
Step / 03
Framed for each person
The chief of staff writes the decision for each person who approves, executes or measures it, and states which framing it used. Only the owner can mark the action done, with evidence.
Step / 04
A log that only grows
Every event is appended to the decision log and never deleted. When a readback lands far from the expected range, the chief of staff proposes a rule change for a person to approve.
The decision lifecycle
Six states, and every one recorded.
StateWhat happensWho
Draft
The recommendation, its alternatives and its measurement contract are written.
Signal and the analyst
Scientific review
Method and claim strength are checked before an approver sees it.
Decision scientist
Awaiting approval
Approvers independent of the author accept, reject or send it back.
Decision owners
Approved
An action is created with owner, due date and rationale.
The owner
Measuring
Treatment and control run until the readback date.
Signal
Measured
The effect is read back and logged. Large deviations become candidate rules.
Signal, then a person
In development: delivery through WhatsApp, email and Teams. Today actions are created, assigned and tracked inside Signal.
A recommendation in. A decision someone owns out.
It reads
- 01The recommendationWith alternatives and its contract
- 02Who decidesRoles and independence rules
- 03Who executesOwner and due date
- 04The readbackWhat actually happened
It returns
- 01An owned actionOwner, due date, rationale
- 02A brief per roleWith the framing declared
- 03An append-only logEvery approval and rejection
- 04Candidate rulesLearned only once approved
Put an owner
on it
The Value Tree ends with each opportunity assigned to an owner, with a date.