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Decision record example: MH370

This example shows what a useful decision record should give you: what is established, what is uncertain, what contradicts the position and what can responsibly be relied upon.

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From research to a decision record

Decision position

Material findings are separated from propositions that remain conditional, model-dependent or unresolved.

Limitations

Missing evidence, specialist dependencies and unresolved questions remain visible instead of being lost during drafting.

Reliance boundary

The record explains what can responsibly support a decision and what would go beyond the available evidence.

Illustrative situation

The company on the proposal and the company in the register

You have a proposal from a business you have not used before. The trading name on its website differs from the legal name on the contract.

Which entity would we actually contract with, and which claims belong to that entity?

What we would examine: Compare the entity identifiers, dated corporate records and supplied documents. Attribute group and subsidiary claims to the entity they actually describe.
What you could receive: A company identity brief with an entity map, source references and unresolved attribution questions.

How a finding could read, if the evidence supported it

The trading name can be connected to the contracting entity. The parent company’s operating history does not, by itself, establish the subsidiary’s history.

Why this helps: Your team can see what it knows about the actual counterparty before relying on a familiar name.

This is an illustration, not a completed client assignment or a finding about a real organisation. The actual evidence determines the result.

Research closure does not mean artificial certainty

The v0.6 closing record documents the state of the research at the evidence cut-off, including remaining gaps and the requirement for independent specialist review.

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What a client can learn from this example

How a large research record is reduced to decision-relevant findings.
How confidence, contradiction and missing evidence remain explicit.
How a conclusion is prevented from becoming stronger than its evidentiary basis.
How later evidence can trigger revision, monitoring or supersession.

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