How it works

Your team’s part: one Cc, two taps.

Here’s what happens to your email, step by step, and exactly what you do at each one. The full manual is in the docs.

The four steps

  1. Your part · 1 Cc

    You Cc one address.

    Add your Decize address to the email where you make the call. No form, no tags.

  2. Automatic

    It writes the record.

    Decize drafts the title and summary, plus any owner or due date you mention, and saves it straight away.

  3. Your team’s part · 2 taps

    It asks how it went.

    About two weeks after it’s due, the owner (or you, if there isn’t one) gets an email, except in a few cases, such as a replaced decision. Tap how it went, then Save. No login.

  4. Just ask

    You get the answer.

    Ask “didn’t we try this?” with Decize on Cc. It answers you with what you decided, how it went, and the lesson.

Your team’s part: 1 Cc + 2 taps. Everything else: Decize.

Step 1Your part · 1 Cc

You Cc one address.

  • Cc your Decize address on the email you’re already sending.
  • No tags, keywords or forms. Just say what you decided.
  • Anyone on your roster can Cc it from their listed address.
  • Mail that fails your domain’s email authentication is refused, not logged.
  • Just discussion? No record is created and Decize doesn’t reply.

Decize never reads your inbox, only mail sent to its address. Once it’s on a thread, every message your team sends there, including any earlier text quoted in it, is stored. Replies from people outside your team are refused, and Decize keeps only their address and subject line.

Step 2Automatic

It writes the record.

  • Decize drafts the title and summary, plus any owner or due date you mention.
  • Name the owner in your email; Decize matches them to your roster.
  • It’s saved straight away. Nothing to review or approve.
  • Your email’s text is saved with the record. Attachments aren’t.
  • It replies with what it logged, at most once per thread a day, unless it asks you to confirm a replacement.
  • Clients on the thread? Decize replies only to you.
  • Decided this before? On all-team threads, the reply names the earlier call.

In the app you can fix the title, summary, owner and due date. A later reply on this thread with a new date or “done” updates the record by itself. A reversal, or a change from another thread, is logged as a new decision, and the reply can ask you to confirm it replaces the earlier one.

Step 3Your team’s part · 2 taps

It asks how it went.

  • About two weeks after the due date, the owner (or whoever logged it) gets an email.
  • Tap how it went, then Save. No login.
  • Or reply in a sentence, then tap and Save to confirm.
  • A note is optional. Picking how it went is enough.
  • Decize drafts a short retrospective, marked AI-generated. Its takeaway isn’t saved as your lesson.
  • With a due date, the owner (or whoever logged it) gets reminders: at most two a week, in your workspace’s working hours.
  • No overdue emails to the workspace owner unless you switch it on.

A few decisions aren’t asked, such as one marked In progress or Archived, or one that was replaced. The link in that email works for 30 days, and whoever holds it can record the outcome, so don’t forward it. Missed it? It asks again later, still within two a week.

Step 4Just ask

You get the answer.

  • Ask “didn’t we try this?” with Decize on Cc, and it answers from what you’ve logged.
  • It knows only the title, date, outcome and lesson of past decisions.
  • The answer goes to you, the person who asked.

An owner or manager can switch in-thread answers off. Browsing the log needs an account.

Your first record

Try it on your next decision.

Create a workspace, Cc your Decize address on a real decision, and see the record it writes.