BODY OF KNOWLEDGE · OPEN AND VERSIONED

Turn data, analytics and AI into better business decisions

Learn to define the decision that matters, use evidence and context, compare options, act responsibly and learn from outcomes.

Start the learning path Choose a pattern

Stable portal v0.9.0 · Governed evidence · Approved core v0.4.0

FROM PRIORITY TO LEARNING

1. 01FramePriority and decision
2. 02GroundEvidence and context
3. 03DesignOptions and experience
4. 04ActControl and accountability
5. 05LearnOutcome and next cycle

What you will be able to do

The CDI-BoK turns interdisciplinary knowledge into practical capability. Every path ends with an artifact or criterion you can apply to a decision.

01

Frame

Define the decision, owner, alternatives, criteria, constraints and cost of waiting or being wrong.

02

Evaluate

Separate facts, calculations, inferences and hypotheses; expose quality, context and uncertainty.

03

Design

Select the interface and information sequence that best support understanding, deciding and acting.

04

Govern

Assign decision rights, permissions, boundaries, escalation and human control over AI.

05

Learn

Compare expectation with outcome, separate decision quality from luck and improve the next cycle.

Start with your problem, not the index

DECISION

“I have data, but no clear decision”

Turn a broad topic into an explicit choice and complete the PDAMR compass.

Get a decision frame → EVIDENCE

“I have a decision, but do not trust the information”

Evaluate fitness for purpose, provenance, context, uncertainty and counterevidence.

Get an evidence contract → EXPERIENCE

“I have insights, but they do not change action”

Design from attention and understanding through decision, action and feedback.

Get an experience blueprint → CONTROL

“I want AI without losing accountability”

Define what every actor may see, propose, decide, execute, stop and audit.

Get a control matrix → LEARNING

“I want to know whether the decision worked”

Separate quality, execution, time, outcome, guardrails and learning without inventing a universal score.

Get a measurement system → TEMPLATE

“I want to apply this to one decision”

Integrate the complete path on one page you can review, challenge and sign before acting.

Create a Decision Brief →

An architecture for decisions, not another technology ladder

Trusted dataContextUnderstandingOptionsDecisionActionResultLearning

Technology can support the entire chain but cannot replace purpose, judgment, authority or accountability. PULSE provides the framework of practice; CDI studies and designs conversational collaboration; the CDI-BoK organizes knowledge, sources and limits.

Understand CDI, CDI-BoK and PULSE Explore the 29 domains

Depth with traceability

CORE

Definitions and boundaries

Constitution, CDI scope, glossary and map of eight areas and 29 domains.

EVIDENCE

Research and open questions

What is established, what is PULSE synthesis, what remains debated and what must be tested.

TRUST

Verifiable governance

Owner, authority, version, sources, claims, ADRs and explicit limits for every asset.

Calibrated ambition

CDI is a proposed interdisciplinary domain of practice, and PULSE is the project's methodology and operating philosophy. The portal seeks useful, testable knowledge; it does not claim academic recognition, priority over the term or generalizable effectiveness.

Practice shows the method; it does not invent outcomes

The Practice Lab contains demonstrations and instrumentation. The current B2B case uses simulated data and remains instrumented, not executed. It shows how a decision is framed, a weak claim is blocked and a protocol is prepared; it does not demonstrate organizational impact.

Explore the Practice Lab Review the case and its limits

Knowledge that can be challenged Public repository · registered sources · calibrated claims · ADR decisions · reproducible builds · verifiable history