Decision - Ai the forum / intent timebox
At Intent level: invest more — the bottleneck is moving. At Play level: Scale or Deepen the Plays carrying the signal.
Continue does not mean autopilot. It means deliberately pouring more capacity into something that is learning fast.
What Continue means at each level of the decision hierarchy — same verb, three menus, three cadences.
The decision hierarchy on slide 54 of the v20 deck shows this verdict applied differently at each level. Each row below is one row from that table.
Key principles
✓ Continue does not mean autopilot.
✓ Pour capacity into what is learning fast.
✓ At Play level: Scale (broaden) or Deepen (intensify).
✓ Same verb, three menus, three cadences.
Change approach — the bottleneck is still worth attacking, but the current hypothesis is not generating signal.
Pivot preserves the strategic commitment while replacing the tactics around it — and is usually the most informative decision the system makes. A Pivot says: "We believe this bottleneck is worth fixing, but the way we are attacking it is not generating the signal we expected." This is distinct from Stop (which gives up on the intent entirely).
What Pivot means at each level — preserve the strategic commitment, replace the tactics around it.
The decision hierarchy on slide 54 of the v20 deck shows this verdict applied differently at each level. Each row below is one row from that table.
Key principles
✓ Preserve the strategic commitment.
✓ Replace the tactics around it.
✓ Usually the most informative decision.
✓ Says: this is still worth solving, but not this way.
Stop and reallocate — at Play level when an Abort Condition trips, at Intent level when the bottleneck has moved or the bets keep failing.
Stopping is not failure. It is how the portfolio frees capacity for what works.
Stop operates on two paths: continuous (Abort condition trips inside the Cell) and formal (ratified at the Forum or Direction Review).
The decision hierarchy on slide 54 of the v20 deck shows this verdict applied differently at each level. Each row below is one row from that table.
Key principles
✓ Stopping is not failure — it is how the portfolio frees capacity.
✓ Two paths: continuous (Abort condition) and formal (Forum).
✓ Integrity Steward has veto authority on any risk breach.
✓ The hardest discipline in the system is the willingness to stop on time.