Decision Tests
Decision Tests answer "what if?" questions about your business. Describe a decision or change, and you get a structured view of likely outcomes, which direction the business shifts, and the recommended actions to take — in seconds.
How to run a decision test
You can start a decision test in two ways:
- From an advising session: click the ▶ Play it out button that appears below any advisor response
- From a health check result: click Test a Decision in the right-side navigation panel — this opens an advisor session from which you can run the test
- Describe the decision or change you are considering
- Enter a time horizon — how many months forward you want to project
- Add any additional context about the scenario (optional but recommended)
- Click Run — this costs 15 credits from your monthly subscription pool, the same pool shared with Business Health Checks, Forecasts, and Advisor messages
The test runs in seconds. When complete, you are taken to the result page.
Reading your results
Impact cards
Each card describes one likely impact of the decision — positive, negative, or neutral. Cards show the expected magnitude and the reasoning behind each projection.
Business shift
If the advising session is linked to a completed health check, the result shows how the decision is likely to shift each SWOT quadrant — which existing strengths it reinforces, which weaknesses it exposes, which new threats it introduces, and which opportunities it opens or closes.
Recommended actions
Concrete next steps to take before, during, and after the decision plays out — ordered by impact.
Assumptions
The test surfaces the key assumptions behind its projections. Review these carefully — the quality of the output depends on how realistic the assumptions are. You can edit any assumption and re-run to test different views of the future.
Confidence
An overall confidence percentage reflects how well-supported the projection is given the available context. Low confidence usually means the decision description is ambiguous or the session lacks prior business context — providing more detail improves this.
Viewing past tests
Go to Business → Decision Tests to see all tests you have run. Each entry links back to the full result page.
Tips for better results
- Run at least one health check first and link it to the advising session — the test has much richer context when health check data is present
- Be specific about what changes: "We hire 3 sales people at $80k each" is more useful than "We grow the sales team"
- Use the time horizon honestly — a 3-month horizon should reflect short-term operational impacts; 24 months should focus on strategic shifts