Plain-language answer
Which strategic assumptions, evidence categories, and unspoken concerns must be tested before commitment?
Reality Audit contains three connected modes: an assumption ledger; a Story and Spreadsheet brief that separates facts, interpretations, forecasts, preferences, and human context; and a Dissent Protocol that maps missing voices and requires a response owner.
Short answer
Use evidence that can survive a second reader.
- Current means dated direct or supporting evidence is inside the review interval, has an owner, and has no contradiction or material change.
- Aging begins at 75% of the review interval.
- Exposed includes overdue, weak, undated, future-dated, unowned, or materially changed evidence.
- Expired includes contradiction, no evidence, or an overdue assumption still in use without an owner.
- Decision Brief keeps facts, interpretations, forecasts, preferences, and human context separate and flags missing countercases or reversal conditions.
- Dissent Protocol requires affected, expert, authority, and absent groups to be mapped and high-consequence concerns to receive a reason, owner, disposition, and date.
Worked example
See the decision in a fictional case.
- Statement
- Mid-market buyers choose us because implementation is faster than the alternatives.
- Decision Affected
- Whether to lead the next campaign with speed to value.
- Gap Type
- belief-truth
- Evidence Type
- direct-observation
- Evidence Age Days
- 12
- Review Interval Days
- 90
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What this answer cannot establish
- Pressure order is a work queue, not a benchmark or probability.
- Decision Brief does not verify evidence or certify a decision.
- Dissent Protocol private pre-work is not an anonymous reporting system, confidentiality guarantee, investigation, or formal HR, ethics, legal, or safety channel.