Decisions
Keep the decisions you make with AI.
The most common thing people do with AI isn’t writing — it’s thinking a decision through. You lay out the options, weigh them, and make the call. Then the decision quietly dissolves back into the chat, and a month later you’re weighing the same options again.
The decision is the part worth keeping
Asking for help deciding — what to buy, which vendor, whether to hire someone — is what people reach for AI most, and rate most useful. But the output isn’t a document you file away. It’s a conclusion: the options you considered, why you ruled some out, and what you finally chose. That reasoning is easy to lose and expensive to rebuild.
When you can’t find it, you don’t just forget the answer — you forget why it was the answer. So the doubt creeps back, and you re-open the whole question from scratch.
So you don’t decide twice
With Giraffe, once you land on something you save it to a project — the options you weighed, the call you made, and the reason behind it. If a fact changes later, you update it. When the question comes back, you open the project and see the decision standing where you left it, with its reasoning intact.
This works the same for a work decision and a personal one — a tool your team is choosing, a vendor you’re comparing, a candidate you’re weighing, or a big purchase at home. If it was worth deciding carefully, it’s worth keeping.
What that looks like
Say you’ve been working out how to replace the family car — a few evenings of comparing models, prices and trade-offs. You made the call. Here’s the project you’d keep, so you never have to reason through it again:
New car — replacing the Civic
- Current facts
- Budget up to $34k. Need three child seats to fit across the back.
- Two finalists: CR-V Hybrid and RAV4 Hybrid.
- Local dealer has the CR-V in stock; the RAV4 is a six-week wait.
- Decisions
- Hybrid, not electric — no home charger and a long commute make charging a hassle for now.
- Going with the CR-V Hybrid: the interior fits three seats better, and it’s available now instead of in six weeks.
- Open questions
- Finance through the dealer, or the credit union? Waiting on the credit union’s rate before deciding.
Six months from now, if someone asks why you didn’t go electric, the answer is right there — you don’t have to re-run the whole comparison. The one thing still open is written down too, so you know exactly what you were waiting on.
Usually, reading the project is enough. When a decision does need revisiting — the credit union rate comes in, a new option appears — you can hand the same context to an assistant and pick up from where you landed, not from zero.