Is Cadenzova Decisions the same as a decision log?

A decision log is typically a flat list. Cadenzova Decisions captures the same core facts — what was decided and why — but also structures the reasoning (alternatives considered, chosen approach, expected outcome), tracks a status lifecycle through to outcome, and links related, superseding, or contradicting decisions to each other automatically.

Does Cadenzova Decisions replace our wiki or Notion?

No. Decision memory is a companion to documentation, not a replacement for it. Wikis and docs are good at storing information; Cadenzova Decisions is built specifically around the decision → reasoning → outcome structure that ordinary documentation doesn't preserve.

How is a decision captured?

Type it in a sentence, record it as a voice note, or import a screenshot of a conversation — all three go through the same extraction step, which structures the reason, alternatives considered, chosen approach, and expected outcome from your raw input.

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Decision memory is the missing layer between "we decided" and "why."

Most teams have somewhere information lives — a wiki, a doc, a channel. Almost none of them have somewhere decisions live, with the reasoning attached, searchable months later when someone asks "wait, why did we do it this way?" That's what decision memory is, and it's what Cadenzova Decisions is built around.

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Information, documentation, and decisions are not the same thing

A wiki page tells you what's true right now. A meeting transcript tells you what was said. Neither one reliably tells you what was decided, what alternatives were on the table, or why the option that won, won. That gap is where "why did we do it this way?" goes to die — usually re-litigated from scratch six months later by someone who wasn't in the room the first time.

Information: A fact that's currently true — a config value, a price, a status. No reasoning attached; it just is what it is until it changes.
Documentation: A description of how something works, meant to be kept up to date. Optimized for "what is," not "why did we choose this."
A decision: A specific choice made at a specific time, among specific alternatives, for specific reasons — with an expectation of what would happen next.
Decision memory: The record that connects a decision to its reasoning, its alternatives, its outcome, and the other decisions it relates to, supersedes, or contradicts — so the reasoning survives even after everyone who was in the room has forgotten it.

How Cadenzova Decisions builds it

Five steps, and the product is built around all of them — not just the first one.

01
Capture
Type what you decided in one sentence, record a voice note, or import a screenshot of a Slack thread or conversation. All three go through the same extraction step.
02
Structure
Second Sight turns raw input into structure: the reason, the alternatives considered, the chosen approach, and the expected outcome — instead of leaving it as an unsearchable paragraph.
03
Connect
As it's captured, the decision is checked against your recent history. Related, superseding, or contradicting decisions are proposed as links for a human to confirm or dismiss — nothing is linked silently.
04
Track
A decision stays live with a real status — new, active, waiting — instead of vanishing into an archive the moment it's written down.
05
Resolve & learn
Log what actually happened — successful, failed, reversed — with notes. That closes the loop, and every future "why did we…" question gets answered grounded only in decisions you've actually recorded.

Capture works the way decisions actually happen

Decisions don't get made in forms. So capture isn't a form either.

Typed

One sentence in plain language — "Switched to Stripe over Braintree for the lower fees and faster payout times" — is enough. No fields to fill in first.

Voice

Record a decision out loud right after you make it, while the reasoning is still fresh, and it's transcribed and structured the same way as typed input.

Screenshot

Paste or import a screenshot of the conversation where a decision actually happened — a Slack thread, a doc comment — and it's extracted directly from the image.

Search and ask, not just browse

A list of past decisions is only useful if you can find the one you need. Search blends keyword matching (reliable for exact names — a vendor, a subscription, a product) with semantic recall, so a conceptually related decision surfaces even if it doesn't share any of your search terms. Ask goes further: pose a question in plain language — "why did we choose Stripe" — and get a synthesized answer sourced only from decisions your team has actually recorded. If the answer isn't in your history, it says so. It doesn't guess.

One memory per space — personal or business

Every account starts with a personal space: private, free forever, up to 100 active decisions. Add a business space when you need shared decision memory across a team — teammates you invite see and search the same decisions, and a business space can optionally connect to your Cadenzova account so relevant activity there shows up as a pending item you review, never captured automatically without you seeing it first.

Questions people actually ask

What is decision memory?: Decision memory is a structured, searchable record of what an organization decided, why it decided it, and what happened as a result — as distinct from documentation, which records what information exists. See our full explainer at /learn/what-is-decision-memory.
Is Cadenzova Decisions the same as a decision log?: A decision log is typically a flat list. Cadenzova Decisions captures the same core facts — what was decided and why — but also structures the reasoning (alternatives considered, chosen approach, expected outcome), tracks a status lifecycle through to outcome, and links related, superseding, or contradicting decisions to each other automatically.
Does Cadenzova Decisions replace our wiki or Notion?: No. Decision memory is a companion to documentation, not a replacement for it. Wikis and docs are good at storing information; Cadenzova Decisions is built specifically around the decision → reasoning → outcome structure that ordinary documentation doesn't preserve.
How is a decision captured?: Type it in a sentence, record it as a voice note, or import a screenshot of a conversation — all three go through the same extraction step, which structures the reason, alternatives considered, chosen approach, and expected outcome from your raw input.

Where to go next

See it by team

Product teams, engineering teams, and startups each lose decision context in slightly different ways.

Compare it to what you use now

See how decision memory relates to Notion, Confluence, and meeting notes.

Read the category primer

What Is Decision Memory? goes deeper into the concept than this page does.

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