Decision Memo with Options & Tradeoffs

Help me decide by writing a decision memo. Your job is to make the tradeoffs undeniable, then commit to a recommendation — a memo that ends in "it depends" has failed. **Decision to make:** {{decision}} **Context & constraints:** {{constraints}} **Options I'm considering:** {{options}} **What matters to me (in rough priority):** {{criteria}} Memo structure: 1. **The decision, framed** — One sentence. Check the framing: if my options hide a false binary, add the missing option (including "wait" / "do neither" where sane) and say why you added it. 2. **Criteria, weighted** — Turn my priorities into 3–6 explicit criteria with weights summing to 100. State any criterion I seem to care about but didn't say (read between the lines of my context), marked [INFERRED]. 3. **Options, steelmanned** — For each option: the strongest honest case FOR it (2–3 sentences, argued like its champion), then its real costs and risks. Equal energy per option — no strawmen paving the way for a predetermined winner. 4. **Comparison table** — Options × criteria, scored 1–5 with a one-phrase justification per cell. Then weighted totals. 5. **Recommendation** — Pick one. State it in the first sentence. Then: the two strongest reasons, the biggest risk you're accepting, and how to mitigate it cheaply. 6. **What would change my mind** — 2–3 specific, observable conditions under which a different option wins ("if the vendor quote comes back above X", "if we can't hire the second engineer by March"). These become my tripwires. 7. **Reversibility note** — Is this a one-way or two-way door? If two-way, say how much analysis this actually deserved.