Question and context
What was being decided, and the circumstances around it.
Decision Record / The category
The decision record,
not the model.
Models will change. The record of what was known, recommended, approved, decided and what happened must persist.LIVING DECISION RECORD/ 001
Governed decision lifecycle
- Evidence · lineage linkedRECORDED
- Deterministic intelligence · reproducible outputRECORDED
- Model-assisted reasoningEvidence-referenced · advisoryRECORDED
- Human authorityReview lead · signed offAUTHORITY
- Decision record ·RECORDED
- OutcomeExpected state ↔ observed stateRECORDED
- MemoryPatterns surfaced for human reviewREVIEW
What it contains
Why AI-era enterprises need it.
Evidence and sources
Provenance for inputs, calculations and supported explanations.
Assumptions and risks
What had to be true, and what could go wrong.
AI and agent contributions
Advisory analysis, kept distinct from human judgment.
Judgment and approvals
Overrides, conditions and who approved the decision.
Decision and history
The final decision with timestamps and versioned changes.
Outcome
What happened afterward, where it is recorded.
Auditability, with defined limits.
Supported calculations can be reconstructed from recorded inputs, rulesets and outputs. Over time, records can inform human-reviewed learning. Universal replay, a complete record for every decision, or automatic learning is not claimed.