Decision Option Review

When several real options compete, intuition compares them on shifting, unstated criteria that nobody can inspect. This skill makes the comparison explicit: list the options, define and weight the criteria that actually matter, score each option, surface the tradeoffs, and recommend. The output is a criteria-weighted option matrix. It is a lightweight multi-criteria review, not academic MCDA, and it deliberately shows the tradeoffs rather than hiding behind a single total: weighted scores can manufacture false precision, so soft scores are flagged and the recommendation states what would flip it.

When to Use

• Choosing among several real, distinct options.
• Objectives conflict and the tradeoffs are currently implicit.
• The decision needs to be explained or defended to others.

When NOT to Use

• Trivial or obvious choices, or one-way doors needing deeper analysis than a matrix.
• To generate options (use an ideation skill); this compares options that already exist.
• When the criteria genuinely cannot be articulated.
• As a way to make a single weighted total settle a close call (false precision).

Instructions