Begin with two teams that make cross-functional product decisions weekly before expanding the pilot.
Owner
Product lead
Expected outcome
Faster alignment with fewer repeated debates
Review date
September 15, 2026
Supporting evidence
Slack thread · Pilot planning · 8 messages preserved
One accountable ownerEvidence stays attachedReview the outcome later
The gap
Chat remembers the conversation. It does not preserve the decision.
Agreements disappear into threads, meeting notes, and inboxes. Weeks later, teams repeat the debate because ownership, rationale, and expected outcomes were never recorded together.
A lightweight decision habit
Capture once. Confirm clearly. Learn later.
01
Capture the moment
Start from a Slack or Teams message, an email, a meeting note, or a clean manual entry.
02
Confirm the meaning
Name the decision, owner, rationale, expected outcome, evidence, and the date it should be reviewed.
03
Revisit the result
Find the authoritative receipt later, see what changed, and check whether the decision still holds.
✓Chain Verified
A decision record should show when its history has changed.
Every saved change becomes a cryptographically linked event. Decision Receipt checks the chain when a receipt opens and anchors fingerprints to GitHub without publishing the decision text.