Decision Signs

Your team's decision fingerprint — built from the decisions you actually make, not a personality quiz.

A Decision Sign is a portrait of how your team makes calls, computed from your actual decision history. It's not a personality test; it's a mirror.

The platform looks at the decisions you've logged, the hypotheses you've validated or invalidated, and the actions you've taken — and turns that into a profile with two parts: an archetype and a set of reasoning traits.

Decision Signs page

What's on the Decision Signs screen

Sidebar → Decision Signs.

Hero card "YOUR ARCHETYPE" — large heading with the current archetype (e.g. "The Balanced Generalist") and a one-line description of what it implies (e.g. "Your reasoning blends evidence, horizon, and tradeoff awareness without skewing strongly.").
Stat strip — three cards:
- Recent Decisions (count)
- Validated Hypotheses (count, with ✓ icon)
- Invalidated Hypotheses (count, with ✗ icon)
Reasoning Traits panel — five progress-bar rows, each with a percentage and a one-line evidence string. For example:
- Evidence Threshold — 40% — "0 validated, 0 invalidated across 14 decisions."
- Time Horizon — 16% — "Average horizon 14 days."
- Risk Posture — 70% — "Average action confidence 50%."
- Decision Speed — 28% — "14 decisions; 0% under two weeks."
- Tradeoff Awareness — 0% — (when no tradeoffs logged yet)

The whole page is computed from your decision history. With zero decisions logged it shows an empty state instead; as decisions accumulate (~20+), the archetype and traits stabilise into a real signal.

The five traits

Every project gets scored on five reasoning traits, each 0–1:

Evidence Threshold — how often hypotheses are validated vs. invalidated. High = you don't act until the data is convincing.
Time Horizon — average horizon (in days) of decisions made. High = you plan long.
Risk Posture — inverse of average confidence. High = you take calls with less certainty.
Decision Speed — recent decision volume and what % closed within two weeks. High = you ship calls fast.
Tradeoff Awareness — average number of tradeoffs explicitly listed per decision action. High = you weigh alternatives.

These show up as a radar/spider chart and as individual cards with explanations.

The five archetypes

From the five traits, the platform picks one of five archetypes:

The Calibrated Optimizer — high evidence threshold, moderate speed, balanced horizon. The team that runs the numbers before pulling the lever.
The Patient Strategist — high time horizon, high tradeoff awareness. Plays the long game with explicit alternatives.
The Iterative Operator — high decision speed, lower evidence threshold. Ships fast, learns fast.
The Hypothesis Hunter — high evidence threshold + many hypotheses tracked. Treats every call as an experiment.
The Balanced Generalist — no extreme trait. Mixed mode.

The archetype changes as your decision history grows. Early on, the platform shows an empty state — there isn't enough signal yet.

Archetype card with traits

Why this exists

Three reasons:

Self-awareness. Knowing "we're a Patient Strategist team" helps you spot when a call doesn't fit your usual pattern. That's often a sign to slow down or get a second opinion.
Communication. A new hire can see the team's decision style in one screen, instead of inferring it from a hundred Slack threads.
Calibration. If your traits show low confidence but high speed, the platform can suggest tighter evidence in future answers.

What feeds it

The Decision Signs page reads directly from:

Decisions you've logged (from a Reasoning answer's "Save as decision" button, or written directly).
Hypotheses you've validated or invalidated.
Decision actions — the steps you committed to as part of a decision.

The more decisions you log, the more accurate the sign becomes. Don't worry about being prolific — twenty real decisions over a few months is plenty.

Where to find it