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The Decision Provenance Standard

The open standard behind ProductBeacon's method — a record format for how consequential decisions get made, by humans and AI together. Originated by our founder, published independently, free for anyone to read and adopt.

Read the Standard What it is — and is not

The discipline behind the practice

Decisions you can find in thirty seconds and trust

ProductBeacon's product-leadership work rests on a simple discipline: record how a consequential decision was made — the inputs, the reviewers, the mode it ran in (human-led or AI-led), and the named human who affirmed it — so an organization can find and trust that record later instead of relitigating it every quarter. The Decision Provenance Standard is the open, independent expression of that discipline. The book teaches the operating model, the open-source Product Org OS runs it, and the Standard is the record format behind the method.

Read the normative Standard

The Charter, the two modes, the human-signature lifecycle, and conformance — the full text.

Glossary

Every load-bearing term defined once, in plain language.

How it relates to frameworks

EU AI Act, GDPR, NIST, ISO 42001, SOC 2 — as input that informs, never satisfies.

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What the Standard is — and is not

  • The records are input, not evidence.
  • The Standard informs regulatory frameworks without satisfying them.
  • Conformance is self-declared; no body certifies it.
  • It is not legal advice and not a regulatory substitute.

The Decision Provenance Standard is an independent open standard — its text under CC-BY 4.0, its reference implementation under MIT — originated by ProductBeacon's founder, Yohay Etsion, and stewarded institutionally by Etsion Brands Ltd. It is not a ProductBeacon product, and self-declared, non-certified use implies no endorsement. Jurisdiction-specific questions and any decision with material legal or regulatory consequence require review by a licensed professional.

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