A Decision Science Company

HUMAN JUDGMENT STILL HAS A JOB.

The PAVNESS method

Make the reasoning visible. Then make it usable.

A shared fictional decision gives people something concrete to discuss. The facilitated debrief turns that experience into rules your team can try at work.

Four steps from experience to application.

  1. 01

    Make a call

    Read the situation and compare advice from colleagues and AI. Form your own view before the team discussion.

  2. 02

    See what changes

    Hear colleagues and AI. Commit, then see the gain, the cost and what comes back later.

  3. 03

    Compare reasons

    Find out what people noticed, trusted or protected. Shared answers can hide different reasons.

  4. 04

    Agree what to try

    Use the facilitated debrief to draft rules for one real decision category and plan their first use.

Start with your own view.

In selected rounds, people make a private first call before hearing the table. Then they compare reasons.

Different answers are useful. So are matching answers supported by different assumptions. Agreement is a finding, not a failure of the exercise.

Later facts make earlier commitments visible. The group can discuss the decision it actually made, rather than the one it wishes it had made.

A team looking beyond the headline in a dashboard.
Illustration from the fictional Sunshine Sunday Company.

Do not jump straight from results to agreement.

Choose one recurring decision category. Draft the rule, ask someone else to apply it and see where the wording needs help.

  • Try the rule when a material condition changes.
  • Try it when the checks pass but a senior voice hesitates.
  • Hear everyone covered, record concerns and confirm authority.

Your working agreement

Four things to make explicit.

Evidence
What must be checked before we commit?
Ownership
Who makes the call? Who approves an exception?
AI’s role
What may AI do, and what must a person verify?
Pause or escalate
What change makes us stop, reopen or ask for help?

Plus a first use, a responsible person and a review point. Unresolved issues stay visible.

THINK supports the human call.

Tune In · Hypothesize First · Interrogate Everything · Narrow to the Call · Know How to Land It.

K = Know How to Land It: Understand your reasoning well enough to explain your decision, respond to challenge, and recognise when to reconsider.

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The boundaries stay clear.

Fictional KPIs describe the company, not an employee’s ability. A draft is not policy, and practice is not proof of workplace results.

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Bring us the decision category.

A 15-minute conversation to check the fit, the format and what your group should leave with.

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