Tools and frameworks for leaders who govern AI and risk decisions in large, regulated, and government organizations.

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Seven sequential gates connected by a dotted line, the first gate glowing blue and positioned out of sequence, the RDS Decision Funnel approach of routing to the hardest gate first

The Cultural Implications of the RDS Decision Funnel™

Say for example a software purchase request for $75k in a government entity. To some organizations, $75k is a rounding error, so modify that amount in your perspective to whatever number you feel is a threshold to be a sizable investment, something that will be audited and require a defensible

A decision funnel illustration showing requests entering the top, most stalling or disappearing before reaching the bottom, where only one item reaches Decision / Outcome.

Where Decisions Go to Die

You're living in a risk decision system today whether you like, trust, or know it. Most organizations have two modes: nothing gets escalated to leadership, or everything does. Both are symptoms of the same problem — nobody has mapped where decisions actually go, who owns them, or where they