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Decision Map

The Decision Map shows the decisions people took on everything you can open, over the days you choose, beside what’s still open. Open it with Map at the top of Decisions. See The Decision Map.

The picture shows the last quarter on ACME’s map, as its customer success lead sees it, with a lane for each initiative and topic where something was decided.

The Decision Map: Yours and Map, AI Overview and Conversation, the figures 270 Taken, 30 Still open, 26 Open over a week, 2 Blocking work, a filter box, Month, Quarter and Year, the days 1 Aug – 30 Oct with arrows and Today, Place, then lanes under Initiatives and Topics, each with its key and name, marks on the days, a line for today, and on the right how many were taken and are open.The Decision Map: Yours and Map, AI Overview and Conversation, the figures 270 Taken, 30 Still open, 26 Open over a week, 2 Blocking work, a filter box, Month, Quarter and Year, the days 1 Aug – 30 Oct with arrows and Today, Place, then lanes under Initiatives and Topics, each with its key and name, marks on the days, a line for today, and on the right how many were taken and are open.
  1. Map. The map. Yours holds what waits on you.
  2. AI Overview. Opens the agent’s reading of what the map shows.
  3. Conversation. Your chat with the agent, the same one as in the Inbox.
  4. The figures. Taken counts the decisions in these days. Still open counts what’s open now. Open over a week counts what has waited more than seven days. Blocking work counts what other work waits on. Click one to show only those, and again to show everything.
  5. Filter the map. Words, kinds, or Involving me (see Narrowing the map).
  6. Month, Quarter and Year. How many days the map shows (see The year).
  7. Previous, Next and Today. Move a month, a quarter or a year at a time. Today returns to the current one.
  8. Place. What the lanes are: by place, by person or by kind.
  9. A place’s name. Opens its page in Decisions: what’s to decide there, what was decided, and its AI Overview.
  10. A decision, on its day. Point at it to read it. Click it to open its own page.
  11. Something still open: a ring on today, with how long it has waited drawn behind it. Click it to open it in Decisions.
  12. The lane’s totals: how many were taken, and how many are still open. The open count turns amber when one of them holds work up or has waited over a week.

Click the arrow beside a group’s name to fold or open it. The map remembers the days and lanes you chose.

The marks

Section titled “The marks”

The key under the lanes says what each mark means.

The key under the map: Kickoff, version or change request (a diamond); Decision (a dot); Level, answer or Landscape change (a short line); Declined or set aside (a grey dot); Still open (a hatched stretch ending in a ring); Blocking work (a red ring).The key under the map: Kickoff, version or change request (a diamond); Decision (a dot); Level, answer or Landscape change (a short line); Declined or set aside (a grey dot); Still open (a hatched stretch ending in a ring); Blocking work (a red ring).

A diamond is a big call, like a kickoff. A dot is a decision. A short line is a small one, like a requirement’s level. Grey was declined or set aside. A red ring is blocking work.

Lanes by person or by kind

Section titled “Lanes by person or by kind”

Click Place above the lanes to choose what the lanes are.

The menu over the lanes: By place (picked), By person, By kind.The menu over the lanes: By place (picked), By person, By kind.

By person gives a lane to each person who decided, or whose turn it is. On the right, under Waiting, it counts only what waits on them, never how many they took. By kind gives a lane to each kind of decision. A person’s or a kind’s name opens AI Overview for that lane alone.

The map by person: under People, lanes for Ana Ruiz, Mira Holm, Tom Weber and others, each with their marks, and Waiting on the right.The map by person: under People, lanes for Ana Ruiz, Mira Holm, Tom Weber and others, each with their marks, and Waiting on the right.
  1. Click a name to open AI Overview for that person’s lane.
  2. Waiting. What waits on each person now.

Narrowing the map

Section titled “Narrowing the map”

Type in Filter the map to keep only decisions whose words match, or click it to choose from its menu.

The filter's menu: under Quick, Involving me; under Filter by, Kind.The filter's menu: under Quick, Involving me; under Filter by, Kind.
  • Involving me keeps the places you own or take part in.
  • Kind keeps one or more kinds. The kinds are change request, kickoff, version published, approach chosen, unknown decided, question answered, decision in a topic, requirement level, Landscape change and flow’s question.

Each choice appears in the box. Click its × to take it off. When the days hold more decisions than the map can draw, it draws the latest and tells you more aren’t shown.

The year

Section titled “The year”

Year shows a month’s first four weeks as squares, grouped by quarter. The darker a square, the more was decided that week. A dot marks a week in which something was raised that’s still open. Click a week to see its month in lanes.

The map's Year for 2026: four quarters, each month a row of numbered weeks; weeks in late August and early October shaded, a week with an amber dot, and this week outlined.The map's Year for 2026: four quarters, each month a row of numbered weeks; weeks in late August and early October shaded, a week with an amber dot, and this week outlined.
  1. A week with something raised in it that’s still open.
  2. A busy week. The shade says how much was decided.

Empty

Section titled “Empty”

When nothing was decided in the days shown and nothing is open, the map says “No decisions in this period, and none open.” When nothing matches the figure or the filter you picked, it says “Nothing on the map matches these filters.”

On a phone

Section titled “On a phone”

Switch between your chat and the map. Each lane shows its marks under its name.

The Decision Map on a phone: Yours and Map, AI Overview, a Conversation and Decision Map switch, the figures in two rows, the filter box, View, the days with arrows and Today, Place, and the lanes, each name with its counts and its marks below.The Decision Map on a phone: Yours and Map, AI Overview, a Conversation and Decision Map switch, the figures in two rows, the filter box, View, the days with arrows and Today, Place, and the lanes, each name with its counts and its marks below.
  1. AI Overview.
  2. Conversation and Decision Map. Switch between your chat and the map.
  3. View. Holds Month, Quarter and Year.

Access

Section titled “Access”

Everyone in the organisation has the map. It shows only decisions on what you can open. That means the topics and initiatives you see, and the Landscape. A decision on a topic nobody shared with you is never on your map, nor in what the agent reads for you.