The Committee Asks for Sources
The conclusion is ready, but the responses and limits are scattered. The reasoning must be reconstructed before anyone can decide.
For Research, Committees & Product Teams
When someone asks ‘why this choice?’, show the responses.
The Harmate Decision File connects every finding to the responses that support it, the limits that qualify it, and the next action chosen by the team.
When the choice is challenged, you will not have to reconstruct the reasoning.
Without a file, the decision weakens as soon as the meeting ends.
The Client Challenges the Recommendation
Instead of defending a summary from memory, the team separates what was observed, what it inferred, and what remains uncertain.
The Topic Returns Three Months Later
People have changed and the context has faded. The file restores the provisional choice, its support, and the point to revisit.
A document keeps the conclusion. The file keeps what lets people challenge it.
In Meeting Notes: the Result
A fixed conclusion, often separated from the responses that produced it and the reservations raised during analysis.
In a File: the Links
Every finding remains reviewable with its supporting responses, its limits, and the hypothesis the team actually wants to test.
At the End: a Reversible Action
The team chooses the next step and keeps in view what should make it confirm, change, or abandon that choice.
What to know before getting started.
Your next decision should not depend on who was in the room.
Create an account, start from your responses, and build a file the next reader can actually review.