How is sensitive data protected?

All documents are encrypted with AES-256-GCM at rest and TLS 1.2+ in transit. A GDPR anonymization layer removes PII before any AI processing. Hosted on Vercel + Supabase (both SOC 2 Type II); Decision Intel’s own product-level audit is targeted for Q4 2026.

How long does integration take?

Less than 30 minutes. Upload documents directly, connect via OAuth for Slack, or use our REST API for bulk processing.

How does outcome tracking work?

Outcomes are detected automatically from follow-up documents, Slack messages, and web intelligence. You confirm with one click. Each reported outcome makes your future analyses more accurate.

How is Decision Intel different from ChatGPT or a general AI assistant?

ChatGPT gives one opinion from one model: ungoverned, untraceable, unaudited. Decision Intel is the reasoning audit platform. Most tools audit your data; we audit your reasoning — and catch the fatal blind spots in strategic memos before the committee does. It measures the noise in your reasoning the same way Kahneman did in the insurance underwriter study, simulates an AI boardroom of CEO, CFO, and board personas, runs what-if interventions against a 143-case public reference library, and compounds every confirmed outcome back into a calibrated Decision Quality Index your audit committee can defend. Not a chatbot; a reasoning audit, checkable from memo to outcome.

All workflows

For Heads of Corp Dev and Investment Committee chairs

IC memo pre-vote stress test

For Heads of Corp Dev and Investment Committee chairs

Stress-test an investment committee memo before the vote — catch Synergy Mirage, Winner's Curse, and Conglomerate Fallacy.

Situation

Your investment committee is voting on a deal next week. The memo is in everyone's inbox.

Complication

The room reads the memo as authored. The synergy claims, the comp set, the why-now: every line is a candidate for the patterns that produce 70-90% deal-failure rates per McKinsey + KPMG.

Question

Where exactly does this memo fail to defend itself? And what would the audit committee ask?

Answer

Decision Intel runs the M&A-specific overlays — Synergy Mirage detection, BCG-mandate filter on every synergy claim, Conglomerate Fallacy and Winner's Curse compound patterns — before the IC convenes. Verbatim hardening questions for the sponsor.

How it works

Upload the document

Paste the memo or drop the PDF / DOCX / spreadsheet. The 12-node R²F pipeline runs in ~60 seconds.

Review the audit

Decision Quality Index score, 22-bias R²F detection, named compound failure patterns, and verbatim evidence quotes for every finding.

Read the hardening questions

Each finding ships with an audit-committee-ready hardening question — the specific question a procurement reader would ask if they saw this memo cold.

Strengthen the reasoning

Rewrite the flagged passages with the inline co-edit panel. Get a passage-level DQI delta before re-running the full audit.

Run the Deal Fever pre-mortem

Three brutal questions anchored on the Kyle Price (Roblox) Deal Fever framework — the specific signal a sponsor must produce a number / mechanism / owner / milestone for. Pre-vote, not post-mortem.

Why this matters

IC memo failures are biased toward overcommitment + narrative coherence: the sponsor wrote the memo to close the deal, and the room reads it from the same frame. The audit is the antagonist that costs no political capital — fires before the IC memo can hide what the deal sponsor does not want to see.

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FAQ

Does this replace the deal team?

No. The audit is a structural addition to the IC workflow — it fires the same detectors on every memo, at every gate, so the deal team isn't the only line of defense against the sponsor's narrative.

How does it handle confidential / NDA-bound deals?

Documents are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM. The GDPR / NDPR anonymizer runs as the first pipeline node — counterparty names + amounts can be redacted before downstream nodes see them. Organisations can also disable Bias Genome contribution so deal data never feeds cross-org calibration.

What if the memo is a spreadsheet model, not prose?

Synergy models in Excel trigger the per-claim defensibility scorer + the BCG-mandate filter. The parser reads rows, classifies each claim (mechanism / owner / 90-day milestone), and surfaces the synergy mirage band on the DPR cover.

How long does an IC memo audit take?

Typically 60-90 seconds for an IC memo + 1-2 supporting documents (synergy model, QofE, integration plan). The cross-reference layer also runs across all attached documents to surface conflicting claims between the memo and the model.

Audit your IC memo

Other workflows

Strategic memo audit

Audit a strategic memo for cognitive bias and forecast errors in 60 seconds — before the board sees it.

Board deck pre-presentation audit

Audit a board deck before the presentation — predict the toughest questions the room will ask.

Fund investment thesis audit

Audit a fund investment thesis before the LP raise — catch Narrative Coherence, Reference-Class Blindness, and Optimism Trap.

M&A bias audit

Audit an acquisition thesis for the three named M&A failure patterns: Synergy Mirage, Conglomerate Fallacy, Winner's Curse.

Decision pre-mortem

Run a structured pre-mortem before the decision is final — surface failure modes the room cannot see from the inside.

Run the audit on a real memo.

Paste a strategic memo and see the audit run end-to-end — free, no card.

Audit your IC memo

Stress-test an investment committee memo before the vote — catch Synergy Mirage, Winner's Curse, and Conglomerate Fallacy.

Situation

Your investment committee is voting on a deal next week. The memo is in everyone's inbox.

Complication

The room reads the memo as authored. The synergy claims, the comp set, the why-now: every line is a candidate for the patterns that produce 70-90% deal-failure rates per McKinsey + KPMG.

Question

Where exactly does this memo fail to defend itself? And what would the audit committee ask?

Answer

How it works

Upload the document

Paste the memo or drop the PDF / DOCX / spreadsheet. The 12-node R²F pipeline runs in ~60 seconds.

Review the audit

Decision Quality Index score, 22-bias R²F detection, named compound failure patterns, and verbatim evidence quotes for every finding.

Read the hardening questions

Each finding ships with an audit-committee-ready hardening question — the specific question a procurement reader would ask if they saw this memo cold.

Strengthen the reasoning

Rewrite the flagged passages with the inline co-edit panel. Get a passage-level DQI delta before re-running the full audit.

Run the Deal Fever pre-mortem

Three brutal questions anchored on the Kyle Price (Roblox) Deal Fever framework — the specific signal a sponsor must produce a number / mechanism / owner / milestone for. Pre-vote, not post-mortem.

Why this matters

FAQ

Does this replace the deal team?

How does it handle confidential / NDA-bound deals?

What if the memo is a spreadsheet model, not prose?

How long does an IC memo audit take?

IC memo pre-vote stress test

Stress-test an investment committee memo before the vote — catch Synergy Mirage, Winner&apos;s Curse, and Conglomerate Fallacy.

How it works

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FAQ

Other workflows

Run the audit on a real memo.

IC memo pre-vote stress test

Stress-test an investment committee memo before the vote — catch Synergy Mirage, Winner&apos;s Curse, and Conglomerate Fallacy.

How it works

Related from the case library

FAQ

Other workflows

Run the audit on a real memo.

Stress-test an investment committee memo before the vote — catch Synergy Mirage, Winner's Curse, and Conglomerate Fallacy.

Stress-test an investment committee memo before the vote — catch Synergy Mirage, Winner's Curse, and Conglomerate Fallacy.