A Decision Log preserves who exercised which authority, what evidence and alternatives shaped the judgment, how AI participated, what was executed, and what outcome followed so that accountability remains continuous and reviewable.
What it is not
It is not an output log, audit log, prompt archive, meeting minute, or immutable ledger by definition.
Concept boundary
A Decision Log records the accountable decision chain; it is not limited to prompts, model outputs, system events, or a retrospective incident narrative.
Relationship to Decision Design
Decision Logs make the authority structure designed by Decision Design traceable across delegation, escalation, execution, and later review.
Evidence, alternatives, AI involvement, and rationale
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Execution, outcome, review trigger, and later changes
Practical example
For a rejected credit exception, the record connects the AI recommendation, risk officer's authority, evidence considered, final action, customer impact, and scheduled review.
Insynergy Working Paper No.003 · September 2026
Reconstructing Judgment Authority from Organizational Records: Conditional Substitution and Attribution in Conceptual Omission Tests
WP-003 examines which combinations of organizational records support reconstructing judgment authority in an internal, retrospective review. Through 20 constructed cases comprising 23 runs, it explores conditional substitution between recorded information and linked role histories, and the limits of attributing a contribution to an individual information element. These conceptual observations do not establish a universal logging schema or validate accountability, audit, or institutional memory.
