Projects

Every decision in Axiom fundamentally operates within a Project. A project acts as an isolated workspace where you gather your thoughts, frameworks, options, and criteria for a specific decision you need to make.

The Anatomy of a Project

Inside any decision project, the architecture relies on three core pillars:

1. Criteria: The rules or values that define what makes an option good or bad. Criteria form the benchmark.
2. Options: The actual choices available to you.
3. Frameworks: The mathematical model used to evaluate the options against the criteria. While Standard Weighted Matrices are common, Axiom supports models like ICE or RICE.

Project Phases

Decision making in Axiom follows distinct phases to ensure rigor and resolution:

• Evaluate Phase: Where the active grading takes place. Teams add scores, run sensitivity analysis on criteria weighting, and discuss specifics.
• Decision Phase: Where final consensus is reached. Options that performed strongly are debated, stakeholder endorsements and sign-offs are collected, and the ultimate rationale and outcome are recorded.

The AI Advantage

Structuring a complex decision from scratch can suffer from "blank canvas syndrome". To alleviate this, Axiom allows you to generate projects using AI.

By providing a single descriptive prompt (e.g., "Help me decide where to host our internal company retreat next summer"), the system will automatically scaffold relevant scoring criteria, elimination criteria, and sample options, jumpstarting the structural process so your team can focus strictly on evaluation.

Transparency & Auditability

Modern business requires decisions to be auditable. Every project maintains a strict Activity Log. Any change to a criterion's weight or an option's score is explicitly tracked, providing a historical paper trail explaining exactly how a decision was reached months or years later.