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 searchers, independent sponsors, and holdco operators

Owner-operator deal audit

For searchers, independent sponsors, and holdco operators

Audit your acquisition thesis before you sign the personal guarantee — catch the deal-killer your gut misses when there's no IC to check you.

Situation

You found the business. The LOI is close. You're the buyer, the operator, and the investment committee, all at once.

Complication

There's no one in the room to push back. The deals that scare you most are the ones you've already fallen in love with, and the assumption that sinks the deal is the one you can't see from inside your own thesis.

Question

Where does this thesis fail to defend itself — before you sign a personal guarantee against it?

Answer

Decision Intel runs a 22-bias Recognition-Rigor Framework audit tuned to the failure modes that kill owner-operator deals: deal fever, LOI-price anchoring, SBA debt-service optimism, winner's curse, and cultural-fit neglect. The second set of eyes you don't have.

How it works

Paste your deal memo

Paste the acquisition thesis or drop the CIM, the pro-forma, or the SBA model. The audit runs in about 60 seconds.

See what it caught

Decision Quality Index score, 22-bias detection, and the named failure modes that kill owner-operator deals, each with the verbatim line from your memo that triggered it.

Read the hardening questions

Every finding ships with the exact question a sharp investor, or a lender stress-testing your DSCR, would ask if they read this cold. The questions you'd rather hear from the audit than at the closing table.

Strengthen the thesis

Rewrite the flagged passages and re-audit to watch the score move. Walk into your next conversation having already pressure-tested the assumption they'll poke first.

Keep the record

Export the Decision Provenance Record: a hashed, tamper-evident record of how you reasoned. Your own underwriting trail, deal after deal, and the calibration record only you can build.

Why this matters

When you're the only one underwriting the deal, the failure mode is rarely a number you missed. It's the assumption you fell in love with and never made yourself defend. A fund has an investment committee to force that defense; you have an SBA loan you'll personally guarantee and a thesis you wrote from the inside. The audit is the structural second opinion the solo buyer can't supply alone, fired the same way on every deal, so the one you're sure about gets the same scrutiny as the one you're nervous about.

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FAQ

Should I run this on a live deal or one I've already closed?

Lead with a live deal you're underwriting now, that's where it earns its keep, before you sign. You can also run it on a deal you've already closed to see how your reasoning held up, which is how you build a calibration record across your deals over time.

I know my own biases and my judgment is my edge, so why would I need this?

Your judgment is the edge, and the audit doesn't replace it. It gives the edge the one thing a solo buyer doesn't have: a second set of eyes on the single assumption that costs a deal. A fund partner has an investment committee to play that role; you don't. The audit is the risk desk, not a verdict on your thinking.

Can I keep my deal private?

Yes. Documents are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, the anonymizer runs first so a counterparty name or a price can be redacted before anything downstream sees it, and on the Free and Individual tiers you're private by default. Nothing about your deal feeds anything cross-org unless you opt in.

Does it read the SBA model and the CIM, not just the memo?

Yes. Drop the pro-forma, the QofE, or the CIM alongside the thesis. The audit reads the add-backs and the debt-service assumptions, and the cross-document scan flags where the memo's story and the model's numbers don't agree, which is the gap a lender finds at the worst possible time.

Audit a live deal

Other workflows

Strategic memo audit

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

IC memo pre-vote stress test

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

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.