The Decision Layer™ · Working Instruments

Turn intelligence into something you can use.

The Decision Layer Working Instruments™ turn intelligence into practical tests, questions, evidence requirements and decision records.

From signal to action

Knowing the issue is not the same as knowing what to ask next.

The Decision Layer Working Instruments™ turn intelligence into practical tests, questions, evidence requirements and decision records. They are tools for making a decision clearer, faster and easier to defend.

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Decision Infrastructure Health Check™

Tests whether important decisions have clear triggers, owners, evidence, challenge, escalation and review points.

Use it when: decisions repeatedly stall between committees, functions or reporting cycles.

Run the Health Check
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AI Decision Reconstruction Test™

Tests whether a material AI decision could be reconstructed later from its trigger, evidence, challenge, authority and rationale.

Use it when: somebody may eventually ask, “Why did we decide this?”

Run the Reconstruction Test
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Audit Committee AI Challenge Card™

Ten focused questions for challenging management assertions about AI governance, evidence, accountability and uncertainty.

Use the Challenge Card
Executive instrument

Six AI Assurance Receipts™

Tests whether six critical forms of evidence exist behind a material AI decision.

Access Six AI Assurance Receipts
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AI Cloud Decision Checklist™

Tests data, model, cloud, resilience, cost, dependency and reversibility implications.

Access the Checklist
Executive instrument

Board Cyber Metrics Scorecard™

Separates activity metrics from exposure, resilience and decision signals that deserve board attention.

Access the Scorecard
Organisation instrument

Risk-to-Decision Traceability Map™

Connects business service, dependencies, scenarios, controls, residual exposure, appetite, ownership and the decision required.

Explore the Traceability Map
When the instrument finds something

Some gaps can be fixed. Others need assurance.

If an instrument exposes a question requiring organisation-specific evidence testing, independent challenge or remediation, the issue has moved into Decision Assurance.