Decision framing tools

Three companion tools for the framing process:

1. Metrics pyramid tool — prioritize your performance metrics into a four-level pyramid.
2. Decision prioritization tool — score each decision's impact on each pyramid-ordered metric (H / M / L / N), then reorder the decisions by their impact on the most important metrics.
3. Uncertainty prioritization tool — same idea, applied to the uncertainties that affect performance.

All the information you provide remains private. The File menu below lets you keep multiple named documents, and each contains the pyramid plus both matrices. If you would like to share your framing, hit Copy URL and paste it in an email — anyone with the link can view your framing.

New — Ask Professor Powell to draft your framing. Skip to the bottom to describe your problem in a sentence or two (or drop in a case file, or a URL) and get all three tools filled in — you edit and refine from there.

Metrics pyramid tool

Metrics quantify what you want to achieve. They come in three flavors: metrics to be maximized or minimized, along with targets you want to hit, and limits where you specify a minimum or maximum for a metric. The top metric should be in the first category.

Type performance metrics on the left (one per line), then drag each chip into a tier — most important at the top, least important at the bottom. Drag between tiers to re-order, or back to Unassigned to remove.

Decision prioritization tool

List the decisions you'd consider (one per line). The matrix below has one column per tier-assigned metric from the pyramid above, ordered top-to-bottom by tier (left-to-right within the same tier by the order the metrics appear in the metrics list). Click any cell to cycle through H (high impact) → M → L → N (none) → blank. When you're done scoring, drag any row up or down via the ☰ handle to prioritize decisions by their impact on the most important metrics.

Uncertainty prioritization tool

This tool works the same as the decision prioritization tool above. See here for help with identifying sources of uncertainty.

Ask Professor Powell

Describe a decision problem in a sentence or two, or drop in a case document (PDF, DOCX, TXT, MD) or point at a URL. The bot will draft a first-cut framing — metrics pyramid, decision matrix, uncertainty matrix, all pre-scored — and drop it into the three tools above for you to review and edit. Everything the bot produces is a starting point, not a final answer; the point of the tools is that you refine it.