For coaches · Pre-session decision intelligence

The Decision Intelligence Protocol.

Coaching frameworks help you ask better questions. Decision Atlas adds the layer underneath them: outcome intelligence drawn from reviewed, real-world decision outcomes. You enter an anonymous client situation; the engine matches it against the vault; you receive a structured operating brief for the session you are about to run.

Decision Atlas shows what happened to people facing similar decisions — so you can enter difficult sessions better prepared.
The Protocol · Four moves
DA · PROTOCOL v1
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Enter the situation
Anonymous decision type, age band, locale, brief context. No names, no identifying detail.
02
Match against the vault
4,000+ reviewed decision-outcome signals. A hard gate blocks any report below five matched cases.
03
Receive the brief
Pattern, risk band, evidence trail, trajectory fork, and a framework-style session spine.
04
Prepare — and stay the coach
Read before, hold during, share only the client-safe page, track 7 / 30 / 90-day movement.
Practitioner use only · Evidence layer beneath your judgement · Not AI-generated advice
The missing layer

Frameworks ask the questions.
Evidence shapes the answer.

A good coaching conversation is built on good questions. But the questions alone don't tell you which paths tend to end in regret, where pressure quietly erodes decision capacity, or what happened to people who waited. Decision Atlas adds that layer — without taking the conversation away from you.

What coaching already does well
The questioning layer
Frameworks like GROW and OSCAR give you a structure for moving a client from goal to reality to options to action. They make space, surface assumptions, and keep the session honest. This is the part only a human coach can do.
What Decision Atlas adds
The outcome layer
Matched against reviewed signals, the report shows the observed pattern, the trajectory fork, regret markers, and pressure-capacity read — so your questions land where the evidence says the risk actually sits. You stay in charge of what enters the room.
Operating posture
The coach remains the practitioner. Decision Atlas is the evidence layer beneath your expertise — not above it. Causality is never assumed; co-occurrence across observed cases is reported. You interpret. You apply. You decide.
The protocol · Before · During · With client · After

How coaches use the report
across the session lifecycle.

The report is built to be opened in four distinct moments — not read once and forgotten. Each stage draws on different pages, so the evidence is in front of you exactly when the conversation needs it.

Stage 01
Before the session
01
Read the Command Centre: pattern, risk band, reframe, and anchor question in 60 seconds.
Hold the decision rule — the single rule that governs this case.
Scan the capacity & wellbeing watch as a safety floor before you begin.
Readiness check · 5–10 minutes
Stage 02
During the session
02
Open with the featured question once — then hold the silence.
Draw from the staged question bank — one well-placed question outperforms three.
Return to the decision rule whenever the conversation drifts.
Keep the question bank within reach
Stage 03
With the client
03
Share only the client-safe summary page — plain language, no scores or labels.
Frame paths as observed patterns, never as predictions about them.
Agree a seven-day action contract: one reversible move, one review point.
Client never sees the coach-only pages
Stage 04
After the session
04
Record 7 / 30 / 90-day movement against the contract.
Use the re-score protocol to check whether the pattern is shifting.
Keep a supervision-ready evidence trail for reflective practice.
Closes the loop · feeds the next session
Confidentiality by design. No client name is ever required, and nothing identifying is entered. The client-safe page is the only part of the report intended to be shown in the room — everything else is preparation that stays with you.
Framework fit

Works alongside the
frameworks you already use.

Decision Atlas doesn't replace GROW- or OSCAR-style structures — it loads an evidence layer underneath them. Every report includes a framework-style bridge so you can drop the pattern, paths, and contract into whatever structure you already run sessions on.

GROW-style
Goal · Reality · Options · Will
Bridge included
G
Goal
Decision under review. Domain, subtype, age band, and locale framed at intake — the question the client is actually answering.
R
Reality
Evidence pattern + pressure-capacity read. Pattern detected, risk components, capacity markers, matched cases.
O
Options
Trajectory fork — three observed paths. Share, regret, and guidance per path. Used to choose the coaching move, not to forecast the client.
W
Will
Seven-day action contract. One reversible pressure-reduction move and one dated review point.
Report as Reality. Fork as Options. Contract as Will.
OSCAR-style
Outcome · Situation · Choices · Actions · Review
Bridge included
O
Outcome
Desired end-state. Held by the coach — Decision Atlas never names the outcome for the client.
S
Situation
Pattern read. The detected pattern, what it protects, what it costs, and session-by-session movement indicators.
C
Choices
Three observed paths. High-risk, coach-target, and optimal-but-rare — each with a risk trigger or go signal.
A·R
Actions · Review
Contract + dated checkpoint. Seven-day contract, four-session arc, and a re-score protocol.
Situation = pattern. Choices = paths. Actions / Review = contract + loop.
No affiliation
GROW and OSCAR are independent coaching models referenced here for compatibility only. Decision Atlas is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by their authors or any professional body. Framework names are used descriptively to help you map the report into the structure you already use.
Two report classes

Insight to orient.
Professional to operate.

Both reports are built on the same matched evidence and the same hard gate. Insight gives you the pattern and the paths. Professional adds the full operating layer for cases you'll carry across several sessions.

Class · Orient
Insight Report
Single decision
Use it to orient quickly on a one-off or early-stage decision, or to sense-check a situation before committing to deeper work.
  • Pattern read and risk band
  • Trajectory fork — three observed paths
  • Evidence trail and matched-case count
  • Framework-style bridge (Situation / Reality · Choices / Options)
  • Client-safe summary page
Scope · Pattern, paths, and evidence for a single decision situation.
Class · Operate
Professional Report
Multi-session
Use it to operate across a coaching engagement — high-stakes decisions you'll hold over several sessions and track to outcome.
  • Everything in Insight, plus the full operating layer
  • Pressure-capacity map and capacity watch
  • Staged coach question bank
  • Four-session plan and decision rule
  • Re-score protocol + supervision-ready evidence trail
Scope · The full session operating system — pre-read, in-session reference, and tracked follow-up.
Ethical boundaries

This is not AI-generated advice.
It is matched outcome evidence.

If you've been burned by tools that hallucinate, pretend to coach, or replace your judgement with a confident paragraph — read this first. We've drawn the line clearly so you know exactly what Decision Atlas is, and what it refuses to be.

Decision Atlas does not
Hard boundary
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Provide therapy, counselling, or any therapeutic intervention.
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Give legal, financial, investment, tax, or medical advice.
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Diagnose, label, or score the client as a person.
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Tell the client what to do, or generate an instruction for them.
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Predict outcomes — distributions are directional, not forecasts.
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Generate fake evidence, synthetic cases, or AI-written quotes.
Decision Atlas does
Operational scope
Match the decision situation against reviewed real-world outcomes.
Show the observed pattern and the mechanism behind each path.
Surface risks, contraindications, and clinical-boundary flags.
Give sharper preparation: anchor question, deflections, session spine.
Support structured follow-up across 7, 30, and 90 days.
Stay practitioner-facing — you decide what enters the session.
Boundary in one line
Decision Atlas is decision-support evidence, not advice. It informs how a qualified coach prepares — it does not replace professional judgement, clinical care, or regulated advice of any kind. Practitioners remain responsible for ethical use, consent, and safeguarding.
Begin

Run your next hard session
with the evidence in hand.

No client name required. No identifying data. A hard gate prevents reports below five matched cases. You stay the practitioner — Decision Atlas is the evidence layer beneath you.

Decision Atlas reports are decision-support material only · Not professional, clinical, legal, financial, investment, tax, therapeutic, or medical advice · Not affiliated with or endorsed by ICF, EMCC, AC, or any professional body · Patterns reflect co-occurrence across observed cases, not cause and effect.