{"id":1936,"date":"2026-03-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marketingtech.pro\/blog\/?p=1936"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:00:06","slug":"decision-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketingtech.pro\/blog\/decision-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What it does<\/h3>\n<p>Automatically captures decisions from meetings, emails, and discussions into a searchable log so teams stop re-litigating settled questions.<\/p>\n<h3>Why I recommend it<\/h3>\n<p>Most teams waste hours redebating decisions because nobody remembers what was decided or why. A decision register creates institutional memory.<\/p>\n<h3>Expected benefits<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Less time re-deciding settled questions<\/li>\n<li>Clearer accountability for decisions<\/li>\n<li>Better onboarding with decision context<\/li>\n<li>Faster resolution of &#8220;didn&#8217;t we already decide this?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How it works<\/h3>\n<p>Meeting ends or decision made &rarr; AI extracts decision statements from notes\/transcript &rarr; captures who decided, what was decided, why, when &rarr; logs in searchable register &rarr; optionally links to affected tasks\/projects.<\/p>\n<h3>Quick start<\/h3>\n<p>After meetings, manually write 2-3 bullet points of key decisions in a shared doc. Date and tag them. Once habit is established, add AI extraction from notes.<\/p>\n<h3>Level-up version<\/h3>\n<p>Make register searchable by keyword or topic. Link decisions to tasks they spawned. Flag when new discussions contradict old decisions. Track decision velocity and reversals.<\/p>\n<h3>Tools you can use<\/h3>\n<p>Storage: Notion, Google Docs, Airtable<\/p>\n<p>AI: ChatGPT, Claude<\/p>\n<p>Meeting tools: Zoom, Google Meet (for transcripts)<\/p>\n<p>Automation: Zapier, Make, n8n<\/p>\n<h3>Technical implementation solution<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No-code:<\/strong> Meeting transcript or notes uploaded &rarr; AI extracts decisions &rarr; append to decision log doc &rarr; tag and date.<\/li>\n<li><strong>API-based:<\/strong> Meeting platform webhook provides transcript &rarr; AI API extracts structured decisions &rarr; database API logs with metadata &rarr; search interface queries log.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Where it gets tricky<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Distinguishing decisions from discussions<\/li>\n<li>Capturing enough context without verbosity<\/li>\n<li>Maintaining the register as single source of truth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automatically captures decisions from meetings, emails, and discussions into a searchable log so teams stop re-litigating settled questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automation-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingtech.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingtech.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingtech.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingtech.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingtech.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marketingtech.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/marketingtech.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingtech.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketingtech.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingtech.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marketingtech.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}