Most teams track outcomes. Very few track how they decided.
Execution produces updates. It does not preserve judgment. D-NAV preserves the pre-commitment record while uncertainty is still active.
A pre-commitment diagnostic for decisions that will be questioned later.
The scrutiny question
“Can you show how risk, urgency, and confidence were assessed before the vote?”
The vanishing record
As execution begins, the original reasoning blurs. Confidence gets remembered as certainty. Dissent disappears from the narrative.
The first things to vanish are:
- What confidence actually was before commitment.
- Which risks were knowingly accepted.
- Whether urgency was real or internal pressure.
- How divided or aligned the room actually was.
- How this compares to similar decisions historically.
What breaks when it disappears
This is where defensibility drops. Drift hides inside execution updates. The same mistakes repeat because outcomes are tracked, but judgment is not.
When scrutiny arrives, “we felt good about it” is not evidence.
Positioning
Keep your outcome metrics. D-NAV does not replace them. It preserves the pre-commitment judgment record that metrics cannot reconstruct later.
You make the call. D-NAV makes it reviewable later: explicit about tradeoffs, consistent across teams, and ready for scrutiny.
How it works
- Stress test one decision by scoring Impact, Cost, Risk, Urgency, and Confidence.
- Save the judgment record and read Return, Pressure, and Stability before commitment.
- Compare decisions over time, then run a pre-commitment review or audit when stakes grow.
Use it on calls that are hard to reverse: capital allocation, market entry, pricing resets, restructuring moves, key hires, and board recommendations.
Start with one stress test. Then build a record you can compare across decisions over time.
Infrastructure layer
Decision Extractor + Reports are the infrastructure layer that keeps language consistent and records organized across teams and time.
When stakes grow, escalate to a pre-commitment review or decision audit.
System grammar
RPS is the internal signal. D-NAV is the operating and consulting readout.
Merit = Impact − Cost − Risk.
Energy = Urgency × Confidence.
Return, Pressure, and Stability translate Merit + Energy into a reviewable shape.
One clear grammar from stress test to audit.
Standard
The standard is not perfect foresight. The standard is a decision record that still holds when questioned later.