You handed off the work, but the questions still come to you. Decided checks in with your team every week and shows you which calls are actually yours.
"We handed off the work, but not the questions. Everyone still came to me, so I was working just as much. Now most of it gets answered without me, and I'm home for dinner." How Decided helps:
You hired managers to take work off your plate. The work moved. The questions and the follow-up stayed with you.
Your managers were promoted for being great at the work, not for managing. Decided shows where each team is stuck and who owns the next call. Most questions get answered without you.
People tell the owner what's going well. Clara asks each person, one at a time, what's blocked, and Decided compares the answers across teams. You hear about a slipping job before it eats into your margin.
Decisions from the weekly meeting get an owner and a date. At the next check-in Clara asks whether it's done, and the follow-up loop keeps it open until someone closes it. You're no longer the only one who remembers.
Decided works alongside the meetings you already run, whether that's EOS, Scaling Up or your own weekly rhythm. Clara has a short weekly voice check-in with you, your managers and other key people. She asks what changed, what's blocked and what needs a decision.
The alignment map puts your priorities for the quarter next to what each team says it's working on. Where two managers heard the same plan differently, you see it before their teams head in two directions.
The weekly leadership brief shows what changed, what's stuck, which calls wait on you and who follows up on the rest. The meeting starts with the issues, not the updates.
At the next check-in Clara asks whether the decision was made and who owns the next step. The item stays in the follow-up loop until its owner closes it, not until someone forgets it.
The account lead, the strategist and the designers each heard the client brief a little differently. Weekly check-ins caught the gap before the first draft, and revision rounds on the biggest accounts fell 40%.
Every team had its own top priority. The alignment map showed where they competed, the owner chose, and production on what was left moved 25% faster.
Every new manager adds one more person between you and the work. Put the weekly view in place while your management layer is small, and each new manager joins a company that already follows up.
Under about 30 people, or with one manager, yes. You still talk to everyone every week, and a weekly meeting does the job. Decided makes sense once you have several managers and teams that depend on each other, usually somewhere between 30 and 100 people.
Keep it. Your L10 hears what people say in the room. Clara talks to one person at a time between meetings. Decided then puts what's stuck, and what was decided but not done, in the brief you read before the meeting.
Visibility rules are agreed on before the first check-in, including what you see. Decided doesn't score or rank anyone. It shows where work is stuck and which decisions are waiting, which is what a good manager wants you to know.
No. You see patterns and the open items that need you, not raw conversations, under the rules agreed on at the start.
Start small. One question, one group, for example your managers and the people your biggest client depends on. One round of check-ins, one brief. If it didn't change a call you'd otherwise have made late, stop there.
You pick the question and the people on one call. Check-ins arrive in Google or Outlook Calendar, and there's nothing for your team to fill in or maintain.
One call to pick the question and the people. Then you see what's stuck without every answer passing through you.
