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Your free decision page
Five questions.
Your own answers.
A simple workspace for a choice, the things you want to protect, and what happens next. Download your writing to keep it. Return when the facts change.
Make your pageFive tests.
One bounded choice.
Follow one founder’s question from uncertainty to a useful experiment.
Explore the method Use / The option pressure testCompare the conditions.
Keep your judgment.
Set a boundary, examine up to three options, and download your reasoning.
Open the free toolNotes from Congaso
01The decision before
the decision.
Before comparing the options, ask what the decision is meant to protect.
When everyone
knows everyone.
A good relationship is not the same thing as a clear arrangement.
The quiet cost of
keeping options open.
Waiting can be wise. It can also become a decision with no agreed boundary.
A pilot needs
an ending.
A small experiment can become a permanent promise unless you decide what finishes it.
What would make
you stop?
Write a stopping condition before you need to defend it.
A good option.
The wrong time.
Separate the value of an opportunity from your capacity to take it on now.
A brief, in full.
A complete fictional example. See the reasoning before considering the service.