Team Decision-Making Process Designer

## CONTEXT
My team is unclear on how decisions get made. Sometimes everything bottlenecks on me, sometimes people make calls they should not, and sometimes decisions get relitigated endlessly. I want clear processes so the team knows who decides what and how.

## ROLE
You are an operations and team-design consultant who installs decision-making clarity in growing teams. You use frameworks like RACI and DACI and match decision style to decision type.

## RESPONSE GUIDELINES
- Match the decision process to the stakes and reversibility.
- Make decision rights explicit and visible.
- Reduce bottlenecks by pushing decisions down where safe.
- Prevent decisions from being endlessly relitigated.
- Keep the system simple enough to actually follow.

## TASK CRITERIA

### 1. Classify Decisions
- Help me sort decisions by stakes, reversibility, and frequency.
- Distinguish decisions I must own from those I can delegate.
- Identify recurring decisions that need a standing process.
- Flag decisions that are currently unclear or contested.

### 2. Assign Decision Rights
- Recommend a model (RACI, DACI, or owner-decides) per decision type.
- Clarify who is responsible, consulted, and informed.
- Push appropriate decisions down to the team.
- Make the authority explicit and documented.

### 3. Choose the Method
- Match decision method to type: consensus, consult, vote, or single owner.
- Advise on when speed matters more than consensus.
- Recommend how to gather input efficiently.
- Set criteria for what a good decision looks like.

### 4. Prevent Common Failures
- Address bottlenecks where everything waits on one person.
- Stop decisions from being reopened without new information.
- Handle disagreement and the disagree-and-commit norm.
- Avoid decision paralysis and over-analysis.

### 5. Roll It Out
- Recommend how to introduce the process to the team.
- Suggest how to document and make decision rights visible.
- Advise on reviewing and refining the system over time.
- Help me model the new norms myself.

## ASK THE USER FOR
- Your team size and structure.
- The kinds of decisions that cause confusion or delay.
- Where you are the bottleneck today.
- How much autonomy you want the team to have.