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Five parts take you from assessing a single decision to running every AI-involved decision in your organization.

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Part 1

Foundations

What kind of decision is this?

Start Here

Shows you how the framework fits together and helps you choose the route that suits your goals.

Decision Characteristics

Five questions on frequency, assessability, stakes, reversibility and how fully the decision can be specified, so you know what you are designing for. An AI prompt walks you through them.

Decision Roles

What people and AI each contribute inside a decision.

Decision dimensions, in Decision Characteristics
Decision dimensions, in Decision Characteristics
Part 2

Decision levels

How is the decision structured?

The 12 Decision Levels

A page for each level shows who does what at each step, who can make or stop the call, who is responsible for the result, where the level fails and the safeguard for each failure.

1High-stakes human judgment
2AI-augmented group decision
3Iterative co-reasoning
4AI decision reasoning
5AI scenario testing
6Option expansion
7Active approval
8AI with final approval
9AI with exceptions
10AI with oversight
11Autonomous within mandate
12Full AI delegation
Level 8, one of the twelve level pages
Level 8, one of the twelve level pages
Part 3

Decision enhancement

How do we get a better decision at that level?

Supporting Capabilities

The three capabilities people need at each level, and how each skill changes as AI takes on more of the decision.

Augmentation Techniques

Eight techniques that strengthen a decision at any level, including pre-mortems, stress tests, multiple lenses and a devil’s advocate.

Examining AI reasoning, in Supporting Capabilities
Examining AI reasoning, in Supporting Capabilities
Part 4

Implementation

How do we put this in place?

Strategic Framing Being added

Sets direction across your organization before you design any one decision system.

Organizational Implementation

Six steps take a decision from how it runs today to how you designed it, with a workbook for every table you fill in:

  1. Scope and current state
  2. Target design
  3. Getting agreement
  4. The decision record
  5. Making the change
  6. Rollout and instrumentation
The six steps of Organizational Implementation
The six steps of Organizational Implementation
Part 5

In practice

How do we manage and run the system?

Decision audit

Check that each AI-involved decision still works the way it was designed, with a checklist for each of the twelve levels:

  1. Set the scope
  2. Create the inventory
  3. Map each decision to its level
  4. Name the owner and check each right works in practice
  5. Run the review the decision's level specifies
  6. Test whether you can rebuild a decision from its record
  7. Record the findings
  8. Prioritize, route and close

Case library

Real-world cases of how organizations in health, government, media, finance and science divide decisions between people and AI.

Compliance guidelines Being added

How the twelve levels map onto APRA CPS 230, EU AI Act Article 27 and ISO/IEC 42001.

References

Comparable frameworks, and the research behind each claim the framework makes.

The eight steps of Running a decision audit
The eight steps of Running a decision audit

Do the work with your own AI

23 ready-to-use prompts sit beside the pages they serve, for classifying, auditing and designing your decisions with the AI tools you already use.

Design every decision at the right level

From the day you join, you can:

  • Place every decision at the right level, with the safeguards it needs
  • Name an owner for each decision you design
  • Give your board a clear account of how AI decisions are governed
  • Put the new design in place step by step
  • Use all five parts and 23 prompts, plus everything added during your year
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