Decision Intake

Preamble

Decision Intake makes the decision visible before the model starts advising. It asks what kind of choice this is, what I think I am deciding, and what pressure I may be hiding inside the prompt.

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The Frame Comes First

A vague prompt can hide several decisions at once. A build-or-kill question may contain a money decision, an identity decision, a timing decision, a duty decision, and a grief process about work that needs to end. The intake should name those frames before the audit chooses one.

The Choice Has A Shape

The intake captures the decision, current recommendation, alternatives, stakes, reversibility, time horizon, owner, deadline, and trigger. A messy artifact may contain several choices. Naming that mess is more honest than forcing one clean decision too early.

Bad Intake Makes Fake Rigor

An audit can look careful while answering the wrong question. Decision Intake earns its place when it stops the model from turning a messy commitment into the nearest clean category.