Decisions
An AI that can do anything without asking is just a liability with a nice interface. Solmyr's decision framework ensures the important calls stay with you — structured, contextual, and impossible to ignore.
When the AI hits a crossroads, it doesn't guess. It packages the situation, lays out your options with pros, cons, and a recommendation, and waits. Your business, your call.
Three tiers of governance
Not every decision is created equal. A naming convention doesn't need the same ceremony as a market pivot. The tier system scales governance to the weight of the call.
Operational
Low-impact, day-to-day
Small calls the AI handles on its own — tool naming, formatting choices, minor organizational decisions. These are logged for transparency but don't require your input. The AI can resolve its own operational decisions autonomously.
Tactical
Medium-impact, needs your input
Meaningful decisions where the AI has a recommendation but wants your sign-off. Feature prioritization, approach selection, resource allocation — presented with options, pros and cons, and the AI's suggested path. You get an email notification and the decision appears in your inbox.
Strategic
High-impact, blocks until resolved
The big ones. Market pivots, major investments, fundamental direction changes. Strategic decisions block dependent tasks until you explicitly approve an option. The AI sets an idle reminder so these don't sit forgotten. Nothing moves forward until you say so.
What a decision looks like
Every decision the AI surfaces follows the same structure — enough context to decide without research, enough structure to decide quickly.
Situation
The Markdown context explaining what led to this decision point — market research, user feedback, competitive analysis, whatever the AI gathered that's relevant.
Options
What changes
What the AI will do once you pick — tasks unblocked, plan updated, workspace changes. So you know the downstream impact before you commit.
The lifecycle
Pending
AI creates the decision. It appears in your inbox and on the Decisions page.
Approved
You pick an option. Blocked tasks unblock, the AI proceeds with your choice.
Deferred
"Let me think about it." The decision stays pending for later. Nothing moves.
Superseded
The AI cancels a pending decision because circumstances changed. Replaced by a new one.
Why the AI can't approve its own work
Solmyr can create decisions, present options, and make recommendations — but for anything above operational, it cannot resolve the decision itself. This is intentional and non-negotiable.
Operational decisions (low-impact housekeeping) can be auto-resolved by the AI because the cost of a wrong call is negligible. Tactical and strategic decisions always require a human in the loop. The AI presents, you decide.
This isn't just a safety feature — it's a design philosophy. The AI is a tool, not a manager. It should make your decisions easier, not make them for you.
How decisions surface
Inbox priority
Pending decisions always float to the top of your inbox, above alerts and tasks. They show the tier badge and a "Decide" button that takes you straight to the detail page.
Email notifications
Tactical and strategic decisions trigger an email to team members with notifications enabled. Operational decisions are silent — they're logged but not emailed, because nobody wants an email about a formatting choice.
Strategic decisions also set an idle reminder — if a strategic decision sits unresolved too long, Solmyr will nudge you. Because a blocked strategic decision means blocked work, and blocked work means nothing moves.
After you decide
When you approve an option, several things happen simultaneously: the decision status flips to approved, the chosen option is recorded with any notes you added, blocked tasks are unblocked and moved to the active queue, and a follow-on event fires — which can trigger a new AI work cycle to act on your choice.
Resolved decisions don't disappear. They move to the "Resolved" section on the Decisions page, expandable anytime. This is your decision log — when you made each call, what you chose, and any notes you left. Useful for auditing, onboarding new team members, or figuring out why you pivoted to B2B six months ago.
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Memory
How Solmyr remembers everything — business context, user preferences, and learned patterns.