Four published papers. Two foundational, two operational. The complete body of work establishing Decision Architecture as a published discipline, freely available under CC BY 4.0.
Two papers establish the foundation on which the discipline operates. The Diagnostic Layer identifies the structural conditions under which decisions fail. The Methodological Layer establishes the operational principles that the discipline applies.
The structural conditions under which decisions fail.
Identifies the structural conditions under which decisions fail in individuals and organizations. Maps the cognitive shortcuts, motivational pressures, AI participation modes, and collective failure patterns that produce flawed commitments at scale, regardless of the experience or judgment of the decision-maker.
Read on ZenodoThe operational principles the discipline applies.
Establishes the operational principles that Decision Architecture applies. Defines the structural moves available to a Decision Architect, the calibration logic for matching governance to decision magnitude, and the disciplines that produce sound decisions by design rather than by heroic individual judgment.
Read on ZenodoTwo papers govern how Decision Architecture operates in practice. The Solo Decision Architecture (SDA) governs the individual scale, the boundary between human thinking and AI participation. The Business Decision Architecture (BDA) governs the organizational scale, the conditions under which individual commitments become collective strategy.
One person. One commitment. The individual precondition for organizational alignment.
Governs the boundary between human thinking and AI participation, the moment when an individual frames a decision before bringing it to any team, meeting, or AI tool. Defines the structure for individual reasoning, the diagnostic instruments that protect it from distortion, and the decision artifact it produces.
Many minds. One strategy. The organizational scale of the discipline.
Governs the conditions under which individual commitments become collective strategy without losing accountability. From team-level commitments to enterprise-scale strategy, the framework that defines the architecture of authority, decision flow, and the matrix that distributes responsibility across the organization.
Read about Decision Architecture, the discipline these four frameworks publish, why it exists, what it claims, and what role it defines for the people who govern decisions at consequence.