Run it with a team
Facilitator pack
Use private pre-work, a simultaneous reveal, the pressure queue, and a 60-minute decision agenda to reduce anchoring and groupthink.
Step 1 · Inventory
Name the assumptions in use.
Use one row for each belief that could change the decision. Do not enter client names, personal data, privileged material, or confidential documents.
Story and Spreadsheet Decision Brief
Separate what is known from what is inferred or preferred.
Use role or stakeholder groups, not personal data. Strategic text remains in this browser unless you explicitly download or print it.
Dissent Protocol
Create a response loop before social pressure hardens the decision.
This is private local pre-work, not an anonymous reporting system. Do not enter allegations or information that belongs in an HR, ethics, legal, or safety channel.
Ungated artifact
Assumption ledger and pressure queue
Priority order
Pressure queue
Expired and consequential assumptions rise first. The ordering is a work queue, not a benchmark score.
| Status | Assumption | Decision affected | Why | Next evidence action | Owner | Review due |
|---|
Change since imported artifact
What changed
Carry the work forward
Workshop Pre-Read
Generate a safe summary for a Petrichor Reality Audit workshop. Strategic statements are excluded unless you deliberately include them.
When the ledger becomes a leadership problem
Resolve the contested assumptions together.
The free instrument creates one provisional ledger. The facilitated Reality Audit adds anonymous pre-work, external evidence testing, Defend/Revise/Abandon decisions, trust exposure, and a 90-day testing roadmap.
Self-serve
Run this on your own company
This scored you once. The kit is the full rubric, built to paste straight into your LLM. Feed it to Claude or ChatGPT and score everything, on your own data. Includes the paste-ready file plus the designed PDF.
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How the ledger classifies an assumption
Current
Evidence is within its review interval, sufficiently direct, owned, and unaffected by a material change or contradiction.
Aging
Evidence has passed 75 percent of its review interval. It may still be usable, but revalidation must be scheduled.
Exposed
Evidence is overdue, weak, undated, unowned, or affected by material change.
Expired
The assumption is contradicted, has no supporting evidence, or is overdue and still lacks an owner.
This tool structures a management judgment. It does not verify the evidence, certify a strategy, or replace qualified research, legal, financial, security, or governance review.
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About Reality Audit
An assumption register built for decisions, not documentation.
A strategic assumption is a belief that must be true for a decision, forecast, investment, or narrative to hold. The danger is rarely that a team has assumptions. The danger is that evidence expires while the assumption remains embedded in plans, budgets, and board language.
Reality Audit makes the review interval explicit. It also distinguishes missing evidence, weak evidence, contradiction, ownership failure, and material change. The output is a pressure queue that tells the team which belief to test first and why.
When should you use it?
Use it before a major strategy shift, budget decision, fundraise, category move, board presentation, or forecast reset. It is also useful after consecutive misses or when leadership teams explain the same market in incompatible ways.
What should not be entered?
Do not enter client names, personal information, privileged communications, contract terms, confidential source documents, or regulated data. Phrase the assumption at the decision level and keep supporting files in the approved system your organization already uses.
Questions about Reality Audit
What do I leave with?
A versioned assumption ledger, pressure queue, evidence action, owner, and review date. CSV, JSON, copy, print, and Workshop Pre-Read outputs are ungated.
Does the tool verify my evidence?
No. It classifies the evidence record you enter and explains the result. It does not inspect a source document, certify a strategy, or compare you with other customers.
Where is my strategic information processed?
The ledger runs in your browser. Local save is optional, export is under your control, and Clear removes the saved browser copy.
What are the Story and Spreadsheet and Dissent modes?
Story and Spreadsheet separates facts, interpretations, forecasts, preferences, and human context before a consequential decision. Dissent Protocol maps affected, expert, authority, and absent groups, then requires a documented response to each concern. Both modes run inside Reality Audit and can create evidence or assumption records without adding another diagnostic score.
Is Dissent Protocol anonymous?
No. It supports private pre-work and neutral concern IDs on this device, but confidentiality depends on the facilitator and the organization. It is not a reporting channel.