Every decision deserves a record that endures.
MagnaRix structures the decisions that shape your organization — capturing the reasoning, governance, and context that turn a choice into institutional knowledge.
The Decision Canvas
The Decision Canvas is the foundational unit of MagnaRix. It is a structured record designed to capture a consequential decision in full — not as a summary or a title, but as a complete artifact of organizational reasoning.
Each canvas captures the question posed, the organizational context in which it arose, the options that were evaluated, the criteria applied, the evidence consulted, the assumptions made, the authority engaged, and the rationale behind the conclusion.
A Decision Canvas is designed to be useful not only at the moment a decision is made, but six months later when a team member asks why the platform was chosen, two years later when a regulator requests a documented audit trail, and five years later when an architect is considering whether to reverse a foundational choice.
A precise articulation of what is being decided
The conditions, pressures, and history that frame the decision
All meaningful alternatives considered, with their merits and drawbacks
The explicit basis on which options were compared
Linked materials, analysis, and data that informed the reasoning
Conditions assumed true at the time, with their confidence levels
The substantive reasoning behind the final choice
Known risks associated with the decision and how they are addressed
Who held decision rights and who ratified the outcome
What this decision depends on, and what it constrains
The triggers that should prompt this decision to be revisited
Built for how decisions actually work in organizations
Structured Rationale Capture
Record not just what was decided, but why — the options considered, the evidence examined, the trade-offs weighed, and the assumptions that underpinned the choice.
Alternatives and Trade-offs
Document rejected paths alongside the chosen one. When context changes, the full option space is available for review, not buried in forgotten attachments.
Assumption Logging
Decisions are made under conditions that may not persist. MagnaRix makes those conditions explicit, so decisions can be re-evaluated when the assumptions that supported them shift.
Evidence Linkage
Attach source materials, analysis, data, and supporting documentation directly to the decision record. Context travels with the conclusion.
Decision Lifecycle
Decisions move through stages: proposed, under review, active, superseded, archived. Each state carries its own governance posture and visibility rules.
Replay and Audit
Reconstruct any decision at any point in its history. Understand what was known when, who contributed, and how the decision evolved.
Intelligent support that extends judgment, not replaces it.
MagnaRix integrates AI assistance into the decision process in a way that is designed to support disciplined reasoning, not generate false confidence or replace the human judgment that complex decisions require.
AI surfaces relevant prior decisions, identifies comparable situations in the decision record, challenges assumptions with contextual reasoning, suggests dimensions of the decision that may have been overlooked, and supports structured analysis of trade-offs.
Every AI contribution to a decision record is marked, versioned, and traceable. The reasoning chain from human intent to AI output to final decision remains fully visible and auditable.
Context retrieval
Surface the decisions, evidence, and assumptions most relevant to the decision at hand, drawn from the organizational decision record.
Assumption challenge
Identify assumptions that may be weakly supported, in tension with each other, or contradicted by prior decisions elsewhere in the record.
Option generation
Propose alternatives that may not have been considered, with structured prompts that help decision authors evaluate their completeness.
Trade-off articulation
Help decision authors think through the second-order consequences of each option in a structured, systematic way.
Rationale structuring
Support the articulation of clear, coherent rationale that accurately reflects the reasoning behind a decision.
Governance built into the process, not bolted on afterward.
MagnaRix structures the decision workflow from initiation through approval and into the decision record. Governance is not a separate compliance layer — it is how decisions move through the organization.
Collaborative Authoring
Multiple contributors can shape a decision record simultaneously, with structured roles and version control that preserves the full contribution history.
Review and Approval Flows
Define multi-stage review processes aligned with your governance model. Decisions route to the right people at the right time, with complete trail of who reviewed and approved.
Notification and Escalation
Configurable notification logic ensures that time-sensitive decisions are not delayed by manual follow-up. Escalation paths are defined, not improvised.
See the Decision Canvas in action.
We can walk you through how MagnaRix would work for the specific kinds of decisions your organization makes most frequently.