decision-rights-design

Start by inventorying recurring decisions, then classify each by risk and reversibility. Assign who proposes, provides input, decides, executes, and reviews, set escalation thresholds, and publish the map with a review cadence and leading indicators like decision latency.

A decision rights framework defines who has authority over each class of business decision, separating proposal, input, decision, execution, and review roles. It reduces ownership conflicts, shortens decision latency, and clarifies when escalation to executives or boards is required.

Escalate when a decision breaches hard constraints, exceeds delegated budget or risk limits, involves regulated judgments, or creates cross-functional tradeoffs beyond delegated authority. The Skill defines explicit escalation conditions and routes them to the accountable human.

No. It explicitly does not make legal, tax, clinical, safety, or other regulated determinations that require a licensed specialist. Such matters are escalated to qualified legal or compliance professionals before any action is taken.

Recommendations depend on the quality of loaded context such as company stage, maturity, and industry profile, and profile defaults are never treated as company facts. Material commitments, external communications, and irreversible actions always require human approval.