Pressure-test a decision before it costs you.
The Decision Audit examines one decision across five dimensions and names the question you didn’t think to ask — then surfaces the real question underneath.
— The number you trust most here has not been independently verified — only repeated.
— The party pushing the timeline benefits from your urgency, not your diligence.
The higher number is not the larger risk. The borrowed certainty is.
Same decision. One agrees. One audits.
"I’m about to take a €3M term sheet from a strong lead who wants to close by Friday. How do I make the most of it?"
A €3M round from a committed lead is a strong position. Negotiate the valuation cap, confirm the board seat and information rights, line up your other investors to fill the round, and have your data room clean so you can close by Friday.
Move fast and stay organized — you’ll be in a great spot. Want me to draft the counter-terms?
Why Friday? You’ve accepted a deadline you didn’t set. Whose clock is it, and what do they lose if it slips a week?
A lead pushing to close fast is rushing you, not giving you time to check. Speed favors the party with more information — here, that isn’t you.
You asked how to close it. The real decision is whether the deadline itself is the warning sign.
One fills in what you asked. The other shows you what you couldn’t see. Only one changes the decision.
Five dimensions, the same way every time.
Most decisions fail in the same few places: a fact treated as settled that was never checked, an incentive you didn’t see, a person whose constraints you never modeled, a frame you did not choose, a confidence that ran ahead of the evidence. The Decision Audit examines all five, on every decision, with the discipline of an instrument rather than the mood of a conversation.
- World Model Gaps — what your picture of the situation leaves out.
- Adversarial Risk — who benefits from how you’re being persuaded.
- Theory of Mind — what every other actor actually believes and needs.
- Decision state — whether the decision is still yours, or already framed.
- Confidence vs Evidence — where your certainty exceeds what you actually know.
It ends with the Core Tension: the real decision underneath the one you brought. Not advice — examination. DAUDIT never tells you what to do. It guarantees you won’t decide with a blind spot you could have seen.
One audit is the seed of everything else.
Every audit you save feeds the longitudinal layer — the ledger remembers it, the genome learns from it, and Pattern Echo watches for it to happen again.
Bring one decision. See what you’re missing.