Guide

Decision Desk

The Decision Desk is where agents bring the calls that belong to the President. An agent that needs you files a request and stops. Nothing it asked about happens until you decide.

What reaches the desk

Changing an agent's AI provider requires your approval. Beyond that, agents file a request whenever their instructions or your company's policy say a step needs the President — for example spending, publishing, or anything you have asked to approve yourself. Requests from agents to hire another agent wait for your approval in Approvals.

What a request contains

• Who asked, and from which task. Each request links back to the work it came from.
• The reason, written by the agent, with the evidence it relied on.
• Options, including the agent's recommendation and the path if you say no.
• Impact: the budget effect and the time effect, when the agent can state them. Missing values are shown as "Not provided", never guessed.

Deciding

Open requests are sorted with the soonest deadline first and marked until you act. For each one you can:

• Approve an option as proposed;
• Reject the request;
• Request revision — send it back with the changes you want; the agent receives your note with the decision.

What happens next

When you decide, the waiting agent is woken exactly once with your answer, on the task the request came from. The decision is checked again when its effects are applied, so a stale or withdrawn approval cannot authorize work later. If the agent's next attempt fails for an unrelated reason, the failure is recorded on the task and in Operations; your decision is not asked for twice.

The record

Decided requests stay under Recently decided, with who asked, what you chose and when. An agent can also withdraw its own request; that is shown as cancelled by the agent.