Big Decision Brief
The personal decision written down properly — because the mind that decides at 2pm is not the mind that reviews it at 3am, and only one of them should be allowed to vote.
What it is
The move, the leaving, the buying, the committing, the walking away — handled with the rigour normally reserved for decisions that have a board behind them. Forces the real question out of the false binary, weights your criteria before you see how the options score, stress-tests the choice against reversibility, worst case, regret and a pre-mortem, and closes with a dated record and a rule for reopening it. For anyone whose choice has grown large enough to make lists at 3am.
What you receive
a written decision brief for one large personal choice — the real question unstacked and dated, criteria weighted and locked before any option is scored, the leader stress-tested for reversibility, survivable worst case, ten-year regret and pre-mortem, the information that would change your mind with the date it must arrive, and a dated decision record with a review date and a reopening rule
Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.
Supported models
- Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
- ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
- Gemini
- any capable chat model
People reach for it when
- “how to make a big life decision framework”
- “should i take the job or stay pros and cons”
- “how to decide whether to move abroad”
- “stuck between two options can't decide”
- “decision journal template personal”
Record
lineage: first-party house build
gates passed: demand-evidence · function-fit · beats-the-blank-page
status: IN THE COLLECTION
Sale-time bench runs and the fix-or-refund log attach to this record when the payment room opens.
In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.
Join the house — be written to when sales openBack to the collectionLicense
Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.