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Build Your Decision Fact Pack
You pull the decision, options, constraints, evidence, and confirmation details into one fact set before drafting the record.
Made for Architects
Record Your Key Design Decisions and Tradeoffs
Also useful for: Project Managers, people in Creative
30 min
Intermediate
Decisions
Make a Decision
Need to Make a Decision
Create a reusable decision record that explains what you chose, why you chose it, what you gave up, and when the choice should be reviewed.
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Make Your Play
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Keep important reasoning from disappearing into meeting notes, emails, and drawing revisions.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Generate Your Decision Record
You turn your fact pack into a structured record that explains the choice and its consequences.
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Confirm and File Your Record
You close any factual gaps, secure confirmation, and connect the record to your active project documents.
Make Your Play
Record Your Key Design Decisions and Tradeoffs
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Enter your project name or internal project number.
Name the exact design question you resolved.
Choose where your decision stands now.
State what you chose and when you chose it.
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List your realistic options and a short note about each one.
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List your program needs, site limits, code issues, budget limits, schedule needs, and stakeholder priorities.
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Provide the drawings, studies, estimates, meetings, observations, or requirements that supported your choice.
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State what your selected option improves and what you knowingly give up.
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Record who confirmed your decision, each person's role, the date, and any conditions. Note if confirmation is pending.
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Set the date, milestone, cost change, code finding, or new fact that should reopen your decision.
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Paste your supporting notes, email excerpts, or document references.
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What you'll do
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01
Build Your Decision Fact Pack
You pull the decision, options, constraints, evidence, and confirmation details into one fact set before drafting the record.
02
Generate Your Decision Record
You turn your fact pack into a structured record that explains the choice and its consequences.
03
Confirm and File Your Record
You close any factual gaps, secure confirmation, and connect the record to your active project documents.
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Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Start with one decision that has already been discussed. You can paste rough notes instead of writing polished answers. Mark anything you aren’t sure about as unknown rather than guessing.
Advanced instructions
You can use one record for each decision that could affect drawings, coordination, approvals, cost, schedule, or future changes. Add your project decision ID and link the final record to your drawing issue, model revision, meeting record, or change log.
Use this when
Use this after a major layout, system, material, code, cost, or scope decision. You can also use it when a choice has changed or needs formal confirmation.
You'll need
- Project name
- Decision topic
- Decision status
- Chosen direction
- Options considered
- Requirements and constraints
- Evidence used
- Accepted tradeoffs
- Confirmation details
- Revisit conditions
- Source notes
You'll get
- One decision statement, at least two options or a documented reason only one option was viable, the evidence used, accepted tradeoffs, confirmation status, and a clear revisit trigger
- You can trace every factual claim to your notes or mark it for confirmation.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- One decision statement, at least two options or a documented reason only one option was viable, the evidence used, accepted tradeoffs, confirmation status, and a clear revisit trigger
- You can trace every factual claim to your notes or mark it for confirmation.
Examples
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