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Build a record of how decisions were made.
Decision history is a core part of Argumont's decision infrastructure. Most organizations remember what they chose and forget why; the history keeps the why, along with the options that lost and the evidence that settled it.
Why the reasons disappear
Memory keeps conclusions and lets go of conditions. Within a year, the team that chose a supplier remembers the supplier, but not that the choice depended on a lead time of six weeks.
When that lead time doubles, nobody notices that the decision has lost its footing, because the footing was never written down. A decision record exists to keep the conditions as carefully as the conclusion.
What each Decision keeps
The question exactly as it was asked, the options including any raised during the analysis, the criteria and their weights, and every claim with its evidence status. Then the risks, the Verdict with the conditions that would change it, any Challenge the Verdict pass, the Human Decision with its rationale and approvals, and the Outcome recorded later.
Reopening an analysis starts a new run. Earlier Verdicts and Human Decisions stay exactly where they were, so the history shows what was believed at each point rather than only the latest view.
Finding a past Decision
The Decisions list can be searched, and filtered by state (draft, in analysis, Verdict ready, awaiting Outcome, closed), by domain, by Outcome, by Decision Owner and by date.
The Outcome filter is the one to use in a review. Open every Decision that went badly, read the conditions each Verdict named, and see how many of them were ever checked after the choice was made.
Records that leave the workspace
When a record has to travel, to a board or an auditor, save a Passport version. A saved version cannot be overwritten, later changes become a new version, and anyone holding a copy can confirm its version and integrity at the verify page without seeing what it contains.
History that informs the next room
Historian checks precedent, and inside a workspace that precedent includes the team's own earlier Decisions and their recorded Outcomes. A supplier choice that went wrong last year on lead time is raised when a similar choice returns. Precedent never crosses from one workspace into another.
Reminders to record the Outcome arrive at 30, 90 and 180 days after the Decision, which is what turns a pile of old Verdicts into something a team can learn from.
Reopening a supplier decision
In March a team chose Supplier A over Supplier B for a machined part, on a Verdict that named one condition: A's lead time must stay under eight weeks. Lead time carried 25 of the 100 weight points. In September A quotes fourteen weeks. Opening the history shows the condition, the weight, and B's recorded lead time of six weeks, all without anyone recalling the original meeting. The team reopens the analysis with the new figure, and the March Verdict and Human Decision remain in the record beside the new run.
Questions
- Is my history visible to anyone outside the workspace?
- No. Decisions are private to the workspace and are never published as pages or as examples on this site.
- Can an old Verdict be edited after the fact?
- No. A new run produces a new Verdict, and the earlier one remains, so the record always shows what was believed and when.
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