Vex Connect · Decision Suite
FOCUSED skillsAvailableDecision ConnectorInvite beta

The choice stays yours. The sums no longer have to.

Decision Companion coaches a hard business decision one question at a time. You give the weights and ratings; the Connector does the math and writes your choice into a record under your name. It never chooses for you.

  • Never chooses for you
  • Every number comes from your own ratings
  • Your choice, on the record, in your words
In your assistant · Decision CompanionStep S · Score

Honestly, I'd sign with Triagely. It's the one I know best.

Your own scores put the consortium and MediQueue ahead, mainly on clinical accuracy, the thing you weighted most.

Your weights · your ratings
  • Regional consortium85
  • MediQueue81.25
  • Triagely (his favorite)77.5

Winner holds if cost is weighted higher.

This is just your inputs added up; it doesn't choose for you.

Illustrative example from a benchmark conversation. The person, the companies and the decision are fictional.
01The problem

Good company on a hard decision. Poor coaches.

Ask an AI assistant to help with a tough business call and it usually helps you do what your gut already wanted. In our test, a standard assistant got people to the option that best fit their own priorities 47 times in 100. When their gut pointed the wrong way, it caught it 35 times in 100.

Tomas plans to sign with the vendor he knows best. He weights clinical accuracy at 40 of 100 and rates his favorite third of five on it. He has never added it up.

A standard assistant coached him well, then recorded his choice. Its own record says why it missed the problem:

“No options were scored against these.”
Tomas is a simulated decision-maker from our benchmark. His decision is made up. The pattern is not.
02FOCUSED

Seven questions, one at a time.

The coach works through them as you talk: lightly for a quick call, in full for a costly or hard-to-reverse one.

  • Frame
    “What exactly are we deciding, who decides, and by when?”
    Free skills
  • Options
    “What else could we do, including nothing?”
    Free skills
  • Criteria
    “What matters, and how much?”
    Free skills
  • Unknowns
    “What do we know, and what is still unknown?”
    Free skills
  • Score
    “How do your options compare on your own priorities?”
    Decision Connector
  • Examine
    “How does this sit with your gut?”
    Free skills
  • Decide
    “What do you choose, who owns it, and when do you look again?”
    Skills and Connector

How Decision Companion is designed to work. Not a test result.

03Two parts

Start with the coach. Add the sums when the stakes rise.

FOCUSED skills

Available

Twenty coaching skills for Claude. They coach all seven steps, one question at a time, and leave the choice with you.

Decision Connector

Invite beta

A paid service, open by invitation during the beta. You enter the weights and ratings; it does the math at Score, checks whether the winner still wins if a priority shifts, and writes your choice into a record at Decide.

Installing the skills does not give access to the Connector. Request access for the Connector.
04Evidence

What we found.

88 right calls in 100 with Decision Companion, against 47 for a standard assistant and 58 for a power-user assistant with an expert coaching prompt. Free skills alone: 77.

Right calls in 100
  • Standard assistant47
  • Power-user assistant58
  • Free skills alone77
  • Decision Companion88
Head to head (same decisions)
  • +40 against a standard assistant
  • +41 against the power-user assistant
  • +13 against the free skills alone

None of the 95% ranges crosses zero.

Our own benchmark, October 2026. 60 fictional business decisions (20 each in pharma, medtech and digital health), 940 coaching conversations, seven setups on the same model (Claude Opus). Decision-makers are simulated by AI. Decision quality was scored by AI reviewers who did not know the setup; the right-call measure is computed from each person's own weights and ratings. We built Decision Companion and ran the test.

It asks before it answers.
95% of what an excellent coach would draw out, against 76 to 82% for every alternative.
It does the sums with your numbers.
For people who cannot weigh it all in their head, right calls rise from 22% to 70 to 89% with the Connector.
It challenges where it counts.
Flags 9 in 10 clashes between gut and priorities, and talks someone out of a sound instinct about 1 in 8 times.
It never chose for anyone.
Every conversation ended with the person's own choice, in their words.

What this test cannot tell you yet

Simulated people.
They follow a script; real people volunteer, digress and change their minds.
AI reviewers, not human experts.
A review by human decision experts is still to come.
One model.
Every setup ran on Claude Opus.
"Right" means right by the person's own priorities.
Not by how things turned out later.
On new decisions the skills made something up in 10 to 23% of conversations, against 2 to 4% on the core set.
Tightening that is first on our fix list.
05The record

Your team gets a record, not a recollection.

The saved choice matched what the person chose every time.

Fewer than half the records are complete enough to sign today; saving owner, first step and a calendar review date every time is on the fix list.

Decision record · AI triageDecided by Tomas Reyes
Decision record
Decision
Whether to sign with Triagely, which quoted 1.2 million a year
Options considered
Triagely · MediQueue · an in-house open-source pilot · a regional purchasing consortium · holding off for a year
What matters (weights)
Clinical accuracy 40 · annual cost 25 · nurse workload 20 · vendor stability 15
Who sees it differently
Nurse supervisor, wants a human-first model
Chosen, in his words, with confidence
Join a regional purchasing consortium. “I hadn’t weighed accuracy properly.” Confidence: 55 percent
What would show it is wrong
An independent accuracy test on our own call recordings under 85 percent
Owner and review
Service improvement lead. Look again after the first 8 weeks of live calls
Not given yet
The signing director's name, the first step, a calendar review date
Decided by
Tomas Reyes
Illustrative example from a benchmark conversation. People and companies are fictional.
06Limits

What it does not do

07How to start

Bring your next hard decision.

  1. 1
    Add the free plugin to Claude.
  2. 2
    Bring a real decision with a deadline and more than two options, and paste the request below.
  3. 3
    When the stakes rise, add the Decision Connector. Or run a pilot: three live decisions from your team, compared with how you decide today.

Coach me through this decision with Decision Companion, step by step (FOCUSED). Ask me one question at a time. When we have my options and priorities, score them with my own ratings and check whether the winner holds if a priority shifts. Ask how the result sits with my gut. Do not choose for me, and give me the decision record at the end.

We evaluate; we never certify

Decision Companion coaches and records. The person who owns the decision makes it.