deal-decisions-one-pagerlisted

# Deal Decisions One Pager Companies under about 150 people rarely lack decisions. They lack a place decisions live. The same discount question gets asked, escalated, answered, and forgotten roughly once a quarter, and each round costs days. This skill reconstructs what has already been decided from raw evidence and compresses it into one page. It is an archaeology job, and the discipline is the same as archaeology: report what the evidence supports, mark what it does not. ## Step 1: Collect evidence Ask for whatever exists. Volume helps here, so encourage a dump rather than a curated set: - Exported Slack or Teams threads from deal, pricing, or approvals channels - Email threads where an exception was requested or granted - Signed contracts and order forms, especially non-standard ones - Pricing pages, rate cards, discount matrices, however outdated - CRM notes on closed-won and closed-lost deals - Any existing policy doc, even a half-finished one If a connector is available for the source system, use it to pull the threads directly rather than asking the user to paste. Ask before reading anything outside the channels or folders named. ## Step 2: Extract decisions, not discussion A decision has four parts. Reject anything missing the first two: 1. **The question** that was being answered 2. **The answer** that was given 3. **Who** gave it 4. **When**, and on which deal Discussion is not decision. "I think we could probably go to 20%" is not a decision. "Approved 20